A discussion on building technology in the 1980s - Defining new materials for the 1980s

1972 ◽  
Vol 272 (1229) ◽  
pp. 579-584
Keyword(s):  
Performance Criteria ◽  
Systematic Evaluation ◽  
New Materials ◽  
Building Science ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Building Research ◽  
Building Technology ◽  
The Future ◽  
Point Of Departure

The author’s point of departure is that building today is the early architecture of the age of science. It increasingly uses scientific methods and technologies of science. Consequently there are many pressures and necessities to innovate, but resistances exist in the form of inertia of the industry, the educational deficiencies of the professions and constructors, the demanding conditions for trouble-free design and construction, and the penalties now consequent upon trouble. In order to open the way for safe innovation there has been a shift towards regulation by performance criteria in place of the former definition by specific requirements; and in order to assess performance in advance of experience, a systematic evaluation is now available. The existence of these two developments has been made possible by the growth of building science, and they in turn define the monitoring and feed-back of experience as important functions of building research for the future. There is a need and capability developing to analyse building problems with increasing precision in several directions, and the process often defines new needs for materials and techniques. This is a centreto-periphery process, and the reverse also takes place, where product makers thrust into the market innovations which result from some matching of fresh ideas to apparent needs. In all cases the needs are defined consciously or unconsciously from the context of the subsystem within which the product or component will function. Buildings are always systems comprising many subsystems. Examples are then given of directions in which the author foresees needs for new developments being defined.

scholarly journals New Developments in the History of East Uighur Manichaeism

Open Theology ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Takao Moriyasu
Keyword(s):  
French Translation ◽  
New Materials ◽  
New Developments ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Material ◽  
Middle Persian

AbstractMost of the materials on the history of Manichaeism during the time of the East Uighur empire are Chinese sources (Chinese works and the Karabalgasun inscription) which are well known on account of its French translation with detailed notes by Chavannes and Pelliot (1911-1913). Thereafter several new materials in Middle Iranian or in Old Uighur have been published as follows: T II D 135, a colophon in Middle Persian; M 1, a colophon of the Mahrnāmag (Hymn-Book); U 1 (= T II K Bündel Nr. D 173), a fragment of an Uighur historical book about Old Turkic peoples; U 72 and U 73, an Uighur Account of Mouyu Qaγan’s Conversion to Manichaeism; U 168 II (= T II D 173 a2), the colophon of a prayer appended to a Uighur Manichaean scripture in 795. Also just recently Peter Zieme has discovered new material: 81TB10: 06-3a. I have tried to reconstruct the history of Manichaeism during the time of the East Uighur empire synthesizing all materials mentioned above.

scholarly journals E-GOVERNMENT IN BULGARIA – STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES FOR DEVELOPMENT AND RESULTS FROM IMPLEMENTATION OF PROJECTS

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (Suppl.1) ◽  
pp. 76-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Daskalova
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Future Development ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Strategic Objectives ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
The Future ◽  
Research Problems ◽  
The Republic

The development of e-Government is the main priority in the strategic documents of the Republic of Bulgaria during the programme period 2014-2020. The projects financed under Operational Programme “Good Governance” are of key significance both for the attainment of the strategic objectives and of the expected results input in them. The purpose of the publication is to analyse the conformity between the strategic documents and the projects implemented in the sphere of e-Government in the country. A desk analysis, an empirical analysis and other scientific methods are applied for the attainment of the purpose in the research. Problems in their development are identified as a result of the analysis of the current projects and alternatives are proposed for their elimination. Perspectives are outlined for the future development of the e-Government in Bulgaria in conclusion.

A Means to an End

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alberto Prieto
Keyword(s):  
Wealth Distribution ◽  
Roman History ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Ancient Slavery

Can data-driven approaches help researchers reconstruct Roman history? Scientific methods are now being used to reexamine ancient slavery, wealth distribution, health, and the costs of trade. Such approaches are demonstrated in The Science of Roman History: Biology, Climate, and the Future of the Past, edited by Walter Scheidel. But Alberto Prieto finds not enough of the book’s data to be Roman.

Future Research Directions in E-Tourism Studies

Big Data ◽  
2016 ◽  
pp. 2368-2387
Author(s):  
Hajime Eto
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Tourism Studies ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
And Behaviors ◽  
Public Voice

As this book has the limited numbers of chapters and pages, many important issues remain unanalyzed. This chapter picks up and roughly discusses some of them for the future analyses in more analytical ways. The focuses are placed on how to apply the data scientific methods to the analyses of public voice, claims and behaviors of tourists, customers and the general publics by using the big data already acquired and stored somewhere.

Crossing the Chasm

2012 ◽  
pp. 280-289
Author(s):  
Theresa M. Vitolo
Keyword(s):  
Complex Systems ◽  
Serious Games ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Serious Game ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Current State ◽  
Gaming Technology ◽  
The Future

Serious games are technology with unrealized potential as an innovation for reasoning about complex systems. The technology is enticing to technologically-savvy individuals, but the acceptance of serious games into mainstream processes requires addressing several systemic issues spanning social, economic, behavioral, and technological aspects. First, deployment of gaming technology for critical processes needs to embrace statistical and scientific methods appropriate for valid, accurate, and verifiable simulation of such processes. Second, identifying the correct instance and application breadth for a serious game within an organization needs to be articulated and supported with research. Third, funding for serious-games initiatives will need to be won as the funding will displace monies previously allocated and championed for other projects. Last, the endeavor faces the problem of negative connotations about its appropriateness as a viable technology for mainstream processes rather than for entertainment and diversion. The chapter examines the chasm serious games must traverse by examining the issues and posing approaches to minimize their effect on the adoption of the technology. The histories of other technologies that faced similar hurdles are compared to the current state of serious games, offering a perspective on the hurdle’s resolution. In the future, the hurdles can be minimized as curricula are developed with the solutions to the issues incorporated in the content.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Gustavo Procopio Furtado
Keyword(s):  
Documentary Film ◽  
Film Studies ◽  
Literal Sense ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Film Archives ◽  
Point Of Departure

The introduction offers an overview of the documentary in contemporary Brazil and discusses the significance of archive concepts for the documentary in general and for Brazilian documentaries in particular. The archive has been undervalued as a heuristic concept in documentary film studies, which have tended to discuss it only in the literal sense of film archives and to speak of repurposed footage. The documentary, however, has an inherent affinity with the concept of the archive that becomes crucial in the work of many filmmakers. Taking Eduardo Coutinho’s Cabra marcado para morrer (Man Marked For Death/Twenty Years Later, 1964–1985) as a point of departure, the introduction argues that the documentary has a Janus-faced relationship with the archive, at once producing lasting records for the future and de-archiving materials from the past, returning what was hidden and stored away to the present.

Cyborg Mantras, Technologies, and the Temporalities of Tradition

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 144-148
Author(s):  
Tina K. Ramnarine
Keyword(s):  
The Future ◽  
Point Of Departure

AbstractThis article takes it point of departure from conversations with Gumbula that centred on the transmission of tradition and British imperial histories. It focuses on examples from India and its diaspora, discussing the mantra, in particular. This is a traditional genre evoking cultural and spiritual heritages, but it is also connected with cyber technologies. The discussion concludes with observations on post-national thinking and predictions from physicists on the future of humanity as a multi-planet species.

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