scholarly journals Future Directions, Challenges and Opportunities in Nuclear Energy

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andy Klein ◽  
Jack Lance
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Energy ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities

Interventions for Mental Health Problems in Later Life

2010 ◽  
pp. 810-837
Author(s):  
Jason M. Holland ◽  
Dolores Gallagher-Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Clinical Psychologist ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Worldwide Population ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Post Traumatic

Older adults are increasingly making up a larger segment of the worldwide population, which presents both challenges and opportunities for the clinical psychologist in the 21st century. In this chapter, we address some of the unique aspects of working with this population, focusing on general guidelines for tailoring interventions for older adults, specific treatments for particular problems commonly faced in later life, as well as issues of diversity and how they might impact psychotherapy with older clients. We also outline several areas in geropsychology that are in need of further investigation, namely the use of technology, post-traumatic stress, and family therapy, and offer some recommendations for future directions in this field of study.

A Technology-driven Overview on Blockchain-based Academic Certificate Handling

2020 ◽  
pp. 197-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno Rodrigues ◽  
Muriel Figueredo Franco ◽  
Eder Scheid ◽  
Salil S. Kanhere ◽  
Burkhard Stiller
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Significant Influence ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Job Market ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Technical Aspects ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Certificate Management ◽  
Application Requirements ◽  
The Relationship

Academic certificates have a significant influence on the job market, proving a particular competence or skill of a recipient. However, the ability to verify the authenticity of certificates does not follow its relevance in the labor market, causing several companies to exploit this inefficiency to falsify information or even to make fake certificates. In this context, several proposals based on blockchain appear as a technological alternative to increase the transparency and the ease of verification of these certificates. This chapter discusses the main proposals toward the handling of academic certificates from a technological point of view, discussing the technical aspects that may influence the relationship between confidentiality and transparency as well as application requirements such as performance and reliability in contrast to the blockchain characteristics. Finally, this chapter summarizes the key challenges and opportunities based on this discussion outlining future directions for academic certificate management.

Women in the history of linguistics

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Wendy Ayres-Bennett ◽  
Helena Sanson
Keyword(s):  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Central Section ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
The Past ◽  
Early Stages ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
History Of Linguistics ◽  
History Of ◽  
Role Of Women

This Introduction outlines the need for a ‘true history’ (Lerner 1976) of the role of women in the history of linguistics, which considers them on their own terms, and challenges categories and concepts devised for traditional male-dominated accounts. We start by considering what research has already been conducted in the field, before exploring some of the reasons for the relative dearth of studies. We outline some of the challenges and opportunities encountered by women who wished to study the nature of language and languages in the past. The geographical and chronological scope of this volume is then discussed. In a central section we examine some of the major recurring themes in the volume. These include attitudes towards women’s language, both positive and negative; women and language acquisition and teaching; and women as creators of new languages and scripts. We further explore women as authors, dedicatees, or intended readers of metalinguistic texts, as interpreters and translators, and as contributors to the linguistic documentation and maintenance. We consider how women supported male relatives and colleagues in their endeavours, sometimes in invisible ways, before reviewing the early stages of their entry into institutionalized contexts. The chapter concludes with a brief section on future directions for research.

Culture, Context, and Development

2019 ◽  
pp. 187-208
Author(s):  
Harry W. Gardiner
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural Psychology ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Cultural Psychology ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Contextual Influences ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Future Path

Cross-cultural psychology and human development are currently experiencing an exciting period of growth. Segall, Lonner, and Berry have noted that when all psychology finally takes into account the effects of culture on human behavior (and vice versa), terms like cross-cultural and cultural psychology will become unnecessary. At that point, all psychology will be truly cultural. In this chapter, the author defines cross-cultural human development; theoretical perspectives and models; emerging themes, such as contextual influences; applications to social issues; and future directions. As the author has earlier stated, tremendous challenges and opportunities lie ahead and speculating about the future path of cross-cultural psychology is difficult.

scholarly journals Biomedical informatics meets data science: current state and future directions for interaction

JAMIA Open ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 136-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip R O Payne ◽  
Elmer V Bernstam ◽  
Justin B Starren
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Data Science ◽  
Clinical Decision Making ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Biomedical Informatics ◽  
Scientific Discovery ◽  
Topic Area ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Current State ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities

Abstract There are an ever-increasing number of reports and commentaries that describe the challenges and opportunities associated with the use of big data and data science (DS) in the context of biomedical education, research, and practice. These publications argue that there are substantial benefits resulting from the use of data-centric approaches to solve complex biomedical problems, including an acceleration in the rate of scientific discovery, improved clinical decision making, and the ability to promote healthy behaviors at a population level. In addition, there is an aligned and emerging body of literature that describes the ethical, legal, and social issues that must be addressed to responsibly use big data in such contexts. At the same time, there has been growing recognition that the challenges and opportunities being attributed to the expansion in DS often parallel those experienced by the biomedical informatics community. Indeed, many informaticians would consider some of these issues relevant to the core theories and methods incumbent to the field of biomedical informatics science and practice. In response to this topic area, during the 2016 American College of Medical Informatics Winter Symposium, a series of presentations and focus group discussions intended to define the current state and identify future directions for interaction and collaboration between people who identify themselves as working on big data, DS, and biomedical informatics were conducted. We provide a perspective concerning these discussions and the outcomes of that meeting, and also present a set of recommendations that we have generated in response to a thematic analysis of those same outcomes. Ultimately, this report is intended to: (1) summarize the key issues currently being discussed by the biomedical informatics community as it seeks to better understand how to constructively interact with the emerging biomedical big data and DS fields; and (2) propose a framework and agenda that can serve to advance this type of constructive interaction, with mutual benefit accruing to both fields.

Age-friendly cities and communities: a review and future directions

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Torku ◽  
Albert Ping Chuen Chan ◽  
Esther Hiu Kwan Yung
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Ageing Population ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Vast Number ◽  
Research Themes ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Development Assessment

Abstract The unprecedented increase in the ageing population, coupled with urbanisation, has led to a vast number of research publications on age-friendly cities and communities (AFCC). However, the existing reviews on AFCC studies are not sufficiently up-to-date for AFCC researchers. This paper presents a thorough analysis of the annual publication trend, the contributions of authors and institutions from different countries, and the trending research themes in the AFCC research corpus through a systematic review of 98 publications. A contribution assessment formula and thematic analysis were used for the review. The results indicated a growing AFCC research interest in recent times. Researchers and institutions from the United States of America, Canada, United Kingdom and Hong Kong made the highest contribution to the AFCC research corpus. The thematic analysis classified the AFCC research corpus into four main themes: conceptualisation; implementation and development; assessment; and challenges and opportunities. The themes indicate the current and future research patterns and issues to be considered in the development of AFCC and for interested researchers to make proposals for future research. Future directions are proposed, including suggestions on adopting new assessment methods and instruments, collaboration and cross-nation comparative research, considering older adults as place-makers and conducting a prior participatory analysis to maximise the participation of older adults.

scholarly journals Challenges and opportunities to reduce uncertainty in projections of future atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub>: a combined marine and terrestrial biosphere perspective

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 2083-2153 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Dalmonech ◽  
A. M. Foley ◽  
A. Anav ◽  
P. Friedlingstein ◽  
A. D. Friend ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Performance Metrics ◽  
Model Performance ◽  
Atmospheric Co2 ◽  
Climate Projections ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
The One ◽  
Earth System Models ◽  
Made In

Abstract. Atmospheric CO2 and climate projections for the next century vary widely across current Earth system models (ESMs), owing to different representations of the interactions between the marine and land carbon cycle on the one hand, and climate change and increasing atmospheric CO2 on the other hand. Several efforts have been made in the last years to analyse these differences in detail in order to suggest model improvements. Here we review these efforts and analyse their successes, but also the associated uncertainties that hamper the best use of the available observations to constrain and improve the ESMs models. The aim of this paper is to highlight challenges in improving the ESMs that result from: (i) uncertainty about important processes in terrestrial and marine ecosystems and their response to climate change and increasing atmospheric CO2; (ii) structural and parameter-related uncertainties in current land and marine models; (iii) uncertainties related to observations and the formulations of model performance metrics. We discuss the implications of these uncertainties for reducing the spread in future projections of ESMs and suggest future directions of work to overcome these uncertainties.

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