Introduction

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future

Water and the processes driven by water are often essential in defining how we identify different regions, as well as issues across the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Water in Kentucky: Natural History, Communities, and Conservation is about the past, present, and some aspects of the future of water in the commonwealth. The volume’s overall objective is to explore the variety of ways water shaped and continues to shape life in Kentucky through telling both the biophysical and the historical and con temporary stories of water’s impact. By reading this book, you should gain an improved understanding of the role water had and continues to play in each of our daily lives....

Das Museum für zeitgenössische Natur

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2020) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emanuele Coccia
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Art Museums ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Art And Society

Im letzten Jahrhundert hat sich das Museum von einer Institution, die sich auf die Vergangenheit und ihre Bewahrung konzentriert, zu einem Instrument der Wahrsagerei über die Zukunft von Kunst und Gesellschaft gewandelt. Der Aufsatz schlägt vor, ebenso die Museen für Naturgeschichte zu transformieren und für das Konzept einer Zeitgenossenschaft der Natur mit den entsprechenden Untersuchungsinstrumenten zu öffnen, sodass sie sich zu neuen Museen für zeitgenössische Natur entwickeln können. During the last century, art museums evolved from institutions focussing on the past and its preservation to instruments of soothsaying about the future of art and society. This article suggests transforming museums for natural history in the same way, introducing them to the concept of a contemporaneity of nature via proper investigative tools in order to help outdated museums transforming into modern institutions, showcasing contemporary nature.

Past, Present, and Future of Artificial Intelligence in Library Services

2022 ◽  
pp. 91-114
Author(s):  
Ambar Yoganingrum ◽  
Rulina Rachmawati ◽  
Koharudin Koharudin
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Systematic Review ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Intelligent Machines ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Over Time

In the past, human imagination about intelligent machines was only found in the science fiction of storybooks and films. Today, artificial intelligence (AI) can be found in people's daily lives. Various professions should prepare to face the automation era in the future. Libraries may be one of the slowest institutions to develop AI. Gradually, the institution adopts it for their services. Many papers focus on AI development in libraries, but the opportunities and challenges for librarians to face the era of automation are essential to discuss. This chapter provides insights into the professions that librarians can offer. First, this chapter provides information on the history and development of AI in library services. Then, based on bibliometric analysis, this chapter discusses AI trends in library services. Next, this chapter conducts a systematic review and presents the types of AI developed over time for library services. Finally, this chapter discusses the types of jobs, expertise, and skills that librarians can develop in the robotics era in the future.

Collaboration with the Past, Collaboration for the Future: Joseph Neparrŋa Gumbula’s Makarr-garma Exhibition

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 115-132
Author(s):  
Rebecca Conway
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Indigenous Research ◽  
Cultural Objects ◽  
Australian Research Council ◽  
Research Fellowship ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
The University

AbstractThe Yolŋu elder and academic Joseph Neparrŋa Gumbula curated the exhibition, Makarr-garma: Aboriginal Collections from a Yolŋu Perspective (Makarr-garma), staged at the University of Sydney’s Macleay Museum from 29 November 2009 to 15 May 2010. This article describes this exhibition’s development and curatorial rationale. A product of his 2007 Australian Research Council (ARC) Indigenous Research Fellowship at the University, Makarr-garma reflected Gumbula’s Yolŋu philosophies as applied to collections in the Gallery, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) sector. Employing artworks, cultural objects, historic photographs, natural history specimens and his own manikay (songs), he framed this show as a garma (open) ceremonial performance that spanned an archetypal Yolŋu day. The exhibition was immersive and “culturally resonant” (Gilchrist, Indigenising), and provides intellectual and practical insights for the GLAM sector’s representation and management of Indigenous collections.

scholarly journals Promoting Buddhism through Modern Sports: The Case Study of Fo Guang Shan in Taiwan

2011 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junwei Yu
Keyword(s):  
Mainland China ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Rescue Team ◽  
The Future ◽  
Humanistic Buddhism

Promoting Buddhism through Modern Sports: The Case Study of Fo Guang Shan in TaiwanIn the past, traditional Buddhism in China focused on chanting and meditation that detached itself from the society. However, after generations of strenuous efforts to promote ‘Humanistic Buddhism’, several Masters have been encouraging religion to engage more in daily lives. One of the proponents was Master Hsin Yun, who was born and raised in mainland China and subsequently moved to Taiwan along with the ‘Monk Rescue Team’. It was in Taiwan that Master Hsin Yun founded Fo Guang Shan, one of the most sacred Buddhist sites on the island. At the beginning, he started the place from scratch, setting up basketball courts for the followers to take part in basketball games. Upholding the notion that Buddhism needs to engage the public, Master, therefore, has a unique way of combing religion with modern sports in an attempt to let more people get in touch with religion. Accordingly, basketball, soccer, gymnastics, and other sports were promoted and sponsored under the auspices of Fo Guang Shan, which certainly topples public stereotypes around sedentary Buddhism. In the end, Master hopes that, in the future, sports can unite healthy Fo Guang followers worldwide and bring honor to Taiwan.

Bodies, Books, Histories

2020 ◽  
pp. 83-98
Author(s):  
Susanna Elm
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
City Of God ◽  
Know How ◽  
The Past ◽  
Pliny The Elder ◽  
The Future ◽  
The One ◽  
The Way

In his City of God, Augustine intermittently discussed extra-ordinary bodies, such as persons with one eye in the centre of their forehead or only one cubit tall called pygmies. Taking his cues from Pliny the Elder and Solinus, who include such bodies to discuss the marvellous in natural history, Augustine, this chapter argues, used such bodies to discuss what history means: what do such bodies tell those who know how to read them about history, the present, and the future, especially on those occasions when the one history Augustine considers universal, Scripture, is silent? Bodies carry great heuristic weight in Augustine’s oeuvre and these extra-ordinary bodies are no exception. Indeed, the way that Augustine thinks about such bodies, those of the past, the present and the future, illuminates how he seeks to ‘create’ new bodies for a new Christian Rome.

scholarly journals Future-making in Burkina Faso: ordering and materializing temporal relations in the Bagré Growth Pole Project

2021 ◽  
Vol 76 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-175
Author(s):  
Janine Hauer
Keyword(s):  
Burkina Faso ◽  
Temporal Relations ◽  
Alternative Futures ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Growth Pole ◽  
The Past ◽  
Path Dependencies ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
Made In

Abstract. Visions for the future drive current practices and shape daily lives. Recently, the future has also become a ubiquitous theme in the social sciences. Starting from the observation that the future serves as an explanation and legitimization for the doings and sayings of different groups of actors involved in the Bagré Growth Pole Project in Burkina Faso, this paper offers an analysis of two instantiations of future-making. Based on 9 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Burkina Faso, I examine how the future is addressed and made by ordering and materializing temporal relations. In the first part, I focus on how the past–present–future triad is constantly cut, the past blanked and the future prioritized. I argue that this imperative of the future serves to silence contestations and conflicts from which possibly alternative futures could be derived. In the second part, I turn to the material dimension of future-making through infrastructure construction and maintenance. Infrastructuring in Bagré permanently alters landscapes and creates “as-if” spaces, thereby producing path dependencies that will channel future possibilities of living in the area. Shedding light on how specific futures are (un)made in practice provides a lens which may inform discussions about alternative and eventually more just futures.

On the assembly and structural modulation of lens fiber junctions

1984 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 110-113
Author(s):  
E.L. Benedetti ◽  
I. Dunia ◽  
Do Ngoc Lien ◽  
O. Vallon ◽  
D. Louvard ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Weight ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Intercellular Junctions ◽  
Eye Lens ◽  
Membrane Domains ◽  
Functional Polymorphism ◽  
Lens Fiber ◽  
The Past ◽  
Structural Modulation ◽  
Biochemical Difference

In the eye lens emerging molecular and structural patterns apparently cohabit with the remnants of the past. The lens in a rather puzzling fashion sums up its own natural history and even transient steps of the differentiation are memorized. A prototype of this situation is well outlined by the study of the lenticular intercellular junctions. These membrane domains exhibit structural, biochemical and perhaps functional polymorphism reflecting throughout life the multiple steps of the differentiation of the epithelium into fibers and of the ageing process of the lenticular cells.The most striking biochemical difference between the membrane derived from the epithelium and from the fibers respectively, concerns the presence of the 26,000 molecular weight polypeptide (MP26) in the latter membranes.

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