The Leading Role of the Principles of Interaction between Natural Physical Factors and the Whole Organism in the Medicine of the Future

Modern zoos are increasingly taking a leading role in emergency management and wildlife recovery. In the face of climate change and the predicted increase in frequency and magnitude of catastrophic events, zoos provide specialised expertise to assist wildlife welfare and endangered species recovery. In the 2019–2020 Australian bushfire season, now called Australia’s Black Summer, a state government-directed response was developed, assembling specialised individuals and organisations from government, non-government organisations, research institutions, and others. Here, we detail the role of Zoos Victoria staff in wildlife triage and welfare, threatened species evacuation and recovery, media and communications, and fundraising during and after the fires. We share strategies for future resilience, readiness, and the ability to mobilise quickly in catastrophic events. The development of triage protocols, emergency response kits, emergency enclosures, and expanded and new captive breeding programs is underway, as are programs for care of staff mental health and nature-based community healing for people directly affected by the fires. We hope this account of our response to one of the greatest recent threats to Australia’s biodiversity, and steps to prepare for the future will assist other zoos and wildlife organisations around the world in preparations to help wildlife before, during, and after catastrophic events.

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Maximizing the Role of Digital Social Innovation in Building the Future of Social Protection Systems

Perspectives for Digital Social Innovation to Reshape the European Welfare Systems - Emerging Communication: Studies in New Technologies and Practices in Communication ◽

10.3233/stpc200018 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Aurelio Fernández López

Keyword(s):

Social Services ◽

Social Protection ◽

Social Innovation ◽

Public Authorities ◽

Leading Role ◽

Protection Systems ◽

The Future ◽

Relevant Role ◽

Social Protection Systems

Social protection systems are in a major process of transformation. Solutions from the past are no longer valid, or at least valid without important adaptations, to address future adequacy, sustainability, and quality of social protections systems. Ageing, changes in the world of work and in the evolving aspirations of citizens will impact, even more than today, on the features of the welfare of the future. Supporting a social investment approach in the agenda of modernization to be pursued, which recognize the relevant role to be played by social innovation, will be a key aspect of the reforms that are needed. ICTs would help in ensuring cost effective services, reducing fragmentation, and favouring integrated social services. This will be, no doubt, a multi-faceted and complex process, but there are choices that can make a difference in maximizing the potential that ICT, s can bring: An adequate leading role of public authorities and institutions at different territorial levels; a full involvement of all relevant stakeholders in a framework of reinforced and changing relationships; and a strategic outcome-based approach, supported by evidence-outcomes will contribute to unleash this potential. This article analyses, based on relevant successful experiences, some of the major interactions involved in the development and translation of enabling-ICTs to the fulfilment of social policy objectives.

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ПОЛЯРИЗОВАНЕ СВІТЛО У ФІЗІОТЕРАПІЇ

Medical Informatics and Engineering ◽

10.11603/mie.1996-1960.2015.4.5443 ◽

2015 ◽

Author(s):

L. D. Tondiy ◽

O. L. Tondiy ◽

I. V. Kas ◽

O. V. Zemlyanaya ◽

E. L. Zakrevskaya ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Positive Impact ◽

Polarized Light ◽

The Body ◽

Physical Factors ◽

Leading Role ◽

Physiological Processes ◽

Protection Systems ◽

Led Therapy ◽

Promising Treatment

The data on polarized light (PS) - a new promising treatment, rehabilitation and prevention, which took its deserved place among the known therapeutic physical factors and may even compete with laser radiation of low and LED therapy.It is reflected the significant contribution of domestic scientists in the study of aircraft action on the body, its introduction in the treatment, rehabilitation and prevention of grippe, ARI. These action's mechanisms of the aircraft on the electro-physiological processes in the body that have the leading role in the regulation of its life.The new moment in the study of aircraft on the body is the evidence of its positive impact on the mechanisms of self body - its different units: the disease's banning - a revitalization of the stress-protective, stress-limiting system antioxidial, detoxification and other protection systems, the formation by the body antiviral and antimicrobial specific substances (interferon and lysozyme), activation of the immune system, phagocytosis, protective functions of skin.The protective and mobilizing role of the second link is studied: which is triggered in case of occurrence of disease or preexisting diseases: PL mobilized processes of restitution, reparations, compensation, immunity and microcirculation.The authors studied the possibility of aircraft's using to enhance performance, reduce side effects of physical factors, which are often used in the treatment (electric methods, treatment by sound, fresh and mineral water, etc.).

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DEVELOPING CONCEPTUAL AWARENESS OF THE FUTURE PROFESSION IN THE STUDENTS OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS THROUGH FLT

MGIMO Review of International Relations ◽

10.24833/2071-8160-2013-4-31-323-327 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 323-327

Author(s):

L. P. Kostikova

Keyword(s):

International Relations ◽

Teaching And Learning ◽

Professional Training ◽

Educational Activity ◽

Professional Activity ◽

Language Training ◽

Student Centered ◽

Leading Role ◽

The Future

The article is devoted to the issues of professional language training of the students majoring in International Relations. Conceptual awareness of the future professional activity of a specialist in international relations is presented as a part of the new modern professional training paradigm. It is shown that there are various effective ways of preparing students for intercultural communication in professional discourse in the process of teaching and learning a foreign language. A matter of great importance is to develop for students the conceptotermino- systems in questions of international politics, economics, science and war technologies, humanitarian, ideological and international issues of culture and education. This multisided process is complex, value-determined, social, practically-oriented, culturally focused. The author proposes a system of pedagogical support for this process which is based on the integration of different kinds of educational activity: study, research and social activities. All this should work at different levels, that of an individual, group, department, university, cooperation between universities either within the country or in different countries of the world. The ideas of life-learning education should also be carefully developed in this respect. The importance of the student-centered teaching is shown. The leading role of MGIMO(U) educationalists in the professional language training development is accepted.

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THE ROLE OF SELF-REGULATION AND LIFE-MEANING ORIENTATIONS AT DIFFERENT STAGES OF ADULTHOOD

RSUH/RGGU Bulletin Series Psychology Pedagogics Education ◽

10.28995/2073-6398-2021-1-114-127 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 114-127

Author(s):

Sergei I. Konzhin ◽

Keyword(s):

Self Regulation ◽

Early Adulthood ◽

Life Meaning ◽

Qualitative And Quantitative ◽

Leading Role ◽

The Future ◽

Cognitive Semantic ◽

Active Implementation ◽

Quantitative Assessments

The results of a theoretical and empirical study of the image of the future, its functions are presented, predictors of the image of the future are identified, which are associated with its formation, they are conscious self-regulation associated with the image of the future through procedurality and active implementation of the planned, as well as life-meaning orientations that act as cognitive semantic fullness of the modus of the future. Their role in the formation of the image of the future, the influence on its qualitative and quantitative assessments at the stages of early and middle adulthood is determined. The hypothesis is verified that at the stages of early adulthood there is a reorientation, the specificity of life-meaning orientations and their stability are formed. It is shown that a high orientation towards the future, the relevance of self-determination, as well as a situation of uncertainty in front of the future remain, in this regard, self-regulation plays a leading role in the formation of the image of the future. At the stage of middle maturity, the consolidation and implementation of life meanings and plans, the active embodiment of the image of the future, are already taking place, while self-regulation fades into the background. It was found that the qualitative and quantitative assessments of the image of the future at different stages of adulthood are specific.

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Empress Dowager Cixi’s Imperial Pedagogy: The School for Female Nobles and New Visions of Authority in Early Twentieth Century China

NAN Nü ◽

10.1163/15685268-00202p04 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 20 (2) ◽

pp. 256-284

Author(s):

Daniel Barish

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

The State ◽

Late Qing ◽

Leading Role ◽

Politics And Culture ◽

The Future ◽

International Standing ◽

Global Norms ◽

New Institutions

AbstractAfter the 1861 coup that brought her to power, Empress Dowager Cixi mobilized a variety of traditions of imperial education to cultivate the persona of a classical ruler and cement her place at the center of Qing governance. At the turn of the twentieth century, however, her enemies launched a propaganda campaign that portrayed Cixi not as a legitimate ruler but as the enemy of progress. In response, Cixi herself began a project to refashion the Qing throne, placing new institutions of imperial education for women at the center of efforts to reestablish her domestic authority and reclaim the Qing’s international standing. After reviewing Cixi’s strategies of legitimation from 1861 to 1898, this paper focuses on the Empress’s twentieth-century attempt to construct an educational apparatus to invent and train a group of female nobles who were intended to play a leading role in reforms around the country. In advocating for the role of these women and institutions, Cixi placed herself and a cosmopolitan cohort of women at the center of plans for China’s future. This future was predicated on a refashioned Qing imperial ideology that grounded the legitimacy of the state in part in its participation in global norms and practices of governance. Although the future Cixi imagined for herself and the Qing never materialized, an examination of the project helps shed new light on the politics and culture of the late Qing and beyond.

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Design during COVID-19: agents and allies in the role of designer, digital fabrication and distributed production

Strategic Design Research Journal ◽

10.4013/sdrj.2021.141.20 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

pp. 236-251

Author(s):

Pablo C. Herrera ◽

Cristina Dreifuss-Serrano ◽

Benito Juarez

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

Case Studies ◽

Digital Fabrication ◽

Specific Situation ◽

Local Networks ◽

Leading Role ◽

The Future ◽

Traditional Manufacturing ◽

Distributed Production

During COVID-19 global emergency, designers proposed solutions at different scales, as quick responses to demands from different agents. In the same way, we critically analyzed the emergence of allies, protocols and tools, which allowed the optimization of fabrication, from traditional manufacturing into distributed co-production. The analyzed local networks produced global co-design experiences, with involvement of FabLabs and users from different disciplines. Through case studies and the evaluation of surveys and testimonials from users and makers, we analyze the global panorama, to finally explore the specific situation in Latin America. This establishes a relationship between medical demand and digital fabrication, which allows evidence of positive and negative situations to be consider as new, significant aspects for the design in the future. The leading role acquired by the ecosystem surrounding digital fabrication during the pandemic, could enhance its processes in the search for greater positioning, changing society from within the different communities.

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Challenges of Fear Conditioning Research in the Age of RDoC

Zeitschrift für Psychologie ◽

10.1027/2151-2604/a000303 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 225 (3) ◽

pp. 189-199 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Tina B. Lonsdorf ◽

Jan Richter

Keyword(s):

Fear Conditioning ◽

Clinical Diagnosis ◽

Research Domain Criteria ◽

Major Focus ◽

The Future ◽

Definition Of ◽

Methodological Considerations ◽

Research Domain

Abstract. As the criticism of the definition of the phenotype (i.e., clinical diagnosis) represents the major focus of the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) initiative, it is somewhat surprising that discussions have not yet focused more on specific conceptual and procedural considerations of the suggested RDoC constructs, sub-constructs, and associated paradigms. We argue that we need more precise thinking as well as a conceptual and methodological discussion of RDoC domains and constructs, their interrelationships as well as their experimental operationalization and nomenclature. The present work is intended to start such a debate using fear conditioning as an example. Thereby, we aim to provide thought-provoking impulses on the role of fear conditioning in the age of RDoC as well as conceptual and methodological considerations and suggestions to guide RDoC-based fear conditioning research in the future.

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