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Connecting past, present and future
• Analysis of past technological change shows that people adopt new innovations but mostly use them to maintain existing features of their lives. • Present and future policy in many areas would benefit from greater awareness of how technological change has interacted with individual and familial practices in the past
Playing in Northampton: Connecting Past, Present and Future
Northampton is a key centre of toy design and distribution in the UK. This chapter looks at the industry from Bassett Lowke in 1890's through to John Crane toys today
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Monsoon Responses to Climate Changes—Connecting Past, Present and Future
Purpose of Review: Knowledge of how monsoons will respond to external forcings through the twenty-first century has been confounded by incomplete theories of tropical climate and insufficient representation in climate models. This review highlights recent insights from past warm climates and historical trends that can inform our understanding of monsoon evolution in the context of an emerging energetic framework.
Recent Findings: Projections consistent with paleoclimate evidence and theory indicate expanded/wetter monsoons in Africa and Asia, with continued uncertainty in the Americas. Twentieth century observations are not congruent with expectations of monsoon responses to radiative forcing from greenhouse gases, due to the confounding effect of aerosols. Lines of evidence from warm climate analogues indicate that while monsoons respond in globally coherent and predictable ways to orbital forcing and inter-hemispheric thermal gradients, there are differences in response to these forcings and also between land and ocean.
Summary: Further understanding of monsoon responses to climate change will require refinement of the energetic framework to incorporate zonal asymmetries and the use of model hierarchies
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Past, Present, and Future: Connecting to the Holocaust through Literature
The Eastern Goochland Greenway: Connecting Goochland\u27s Past, Present, and Future
The Eastern Goochland Greenway Plan proposes a shared-use trail that is nested within the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation’s (DCR) conceptualization of a statewide trail system called the James River Heritage Trail (JRHT). The JRHT includes shared use bicycle and pedestrian facilities as well as water trail access points that would connect pre-existing trail systems to new proposed trails that are parallel with and in close proximity to Virginia’s James River corridor and all of the natural, cultural, and historic resource opportunities that the surrounding areas offer. Specifically, the Eastern Goochland Greenway aims to serve two major purposes; to safely and sustainably connect the natural, cultural, and historic resources along the River Road West (Virginia State Route 6) and James River corridors in eastern Goochland County through providing a shared use trail for recreational enthusiasts, casual users, and commuters alike, and to contribute to ancillary benefits related to human health, economic impact, and environmental health that shared use recreational trails can provide
Connecting Past and Future Educational Practice: A Post-COVID-19 Present
The challenges of supporting learners at a distance are enduring. But the nature of these challenges is changing, and this change has been particularly notable since the beginning of the pandemic and the rapid worldwide move to distance and online learning. A brief look is taken at the evolving nature of the distance-student experience under the theme of “Time is the new distance”. This is complemented with four papers in this issue, each of which is concerned with an aspect of meeting the challenges of supporting distance learners. Hartline et al. draw attention to the importance of the teacher’s presence in decreasing student anxiety. Forbes explores the effectiveness of asynchronous communication as an effective learner support. Cameron et al. share a national perspective from a wider international study, concluding that clear communication by institutions and other authorities can reduce uncertainty for students and is necessary to mitigate the negative effects of future disruptions to study. And finally, Adebisi and Olatunji round off the set of articles with findings that the key psychosocial experience of students revolves around the flexibility and cost of distance learning, work–life pressures, and the availability of faculty
Creating momentum for digital transformation without a burning platform
To drive your digital transformation, you need to become skilful in connecting the past, present and future in a compelling story, write Verena Stingl, Marcus Lantz and Josef Oehme
When knowledge is insufficient: Wisdom in a complex world
How to manage uncertain and unpredictable situations has been a major challenge facing managers and academics for decades. The development of practice and theory in knowledge management has been one important response. In this paper, however, we argue that knowledge and knowledge management may not be sufficient when dealing with emergent and unforeseen situations as knowledge tends to be past-oriented in terms of its formative components, while emergent situations are future-oriented, which may or may not be rooted in the past. In this paper, therefore, we explore this past-present-future conundrum by explaining how mere reliance on the past may restrict organizations’ ability to deal with emergent situations in the future. Finally, the role of innovation and wisdom will be introduced as a bridge connecting current past-oriented knowledge to unknown and unpredictable future-oriented events
Medical School Watercooler Newsletter - July 9, 2017
This is the July 9, 2017 edition of the Frederick P. Whiddon College of Medicine\u27s Newsletter - Watercooler.
Contents Include:
July Med School Café - ‘Managing Burn Injury: Past, Present and Future\u27
USA Residents, Medical Students Connecting the World Through Medicine
USA Medical Students Present Research at ACEP Conference
Mark Your Calendar: 44th Annual Medical Student Research Day
USA Welcomes Dr. Percy Crocke
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