Sexuality information for older people in the technological age

2004 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliette DG Goldman ◽  
Graham L Bradley
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Personal Relationships ◽  
Older Person ◽  
On Demand ◽  
The Past ◽  
Educational Structures ◽  
Technological Age ◽  
The Right ◽  
Personal Understanding ◽  
Selection Of

In this new millennium, in response to increasing knowledge and technological change, life-long education is becoming important for everyone, including older people. Life-long education also includes sexuality information. Everyone has the right to access sexuality information. In the past, this has been available for older people from sources such as books, magazines, peers, and television. The technological age upon us now provides yet another source. The Internet has a growing number of sites specifically for sexuality information for the older person. Such information is technology-derived, personal, instantaneous, on demand, accessible anytime, individualised, and not controlled by social, institutional, or educational structures. The opportunities this promotes are almost limitless for enhanced personal understanding and improved inter-personal relationships for older people. Here, a selection of relevant sites is identified and presented for their developmental, psychological and sociological appropriateness.

Sexuality education for children and pre-schoolers in the information age

2003 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliette D G Goldman
Keyword(s):  
Sexuality Education ◽  
Information Age ◽  
The Past ◽  
Developmental Appropriateness ◽  
School Programs ◽  
The Right ◽  
Personal Understanding ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Formal School ◽  
Selection Of

All children have the right to have sexuality education in order to enhance their self-understanding, their developing maturity and their self-concept. In the past, parents and some schools have provided this, usually as formal school programs. However, many children receive sexuality education informally from other sources such as peers, television, magazines and books. The technology available in the information age provides yet another source. The Internet has a growing number of sites specifically for sexuality education for children and pre-schoolers. Here, a selection of relevant sites is identified and presented for their developmental appropriateness. The opportunities these promote are almost limitless for children's enhanced personal understanding and knowledge-base upon which further development will occur in their teenage years and beyond.

scholarly journals Sustainability of ijtihad and fatwa to respond the issue of indirect contributions in matrimonial property claim

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (S4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mus’ab Yusoff ◽  
Nur Sarah Tajul Urus ◽  
Umair Yusoff ◽  
Mohamad Fauzi Md Thahir ◽  
Siti Nurul Husna Othman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
The Past ◽  
Outdoor Work ◽  
The Right ◽  
Narrative Evaluation ◽  
Collection Methods ◽  
Selection Of

The issue of sustainability of ijtihad and fatwas to elaborate on polemics of indirect contributions in matrimonial property claims has become an important issue today. The selection of the right ijtihad and fatwa will ensure that critical discussions in this matter can be photographed to a knowledgeable society. There are many findings of jurisprudence writing that stated the main methods in ijtihad and fatwas used by fuqahak of the past and contemporary to draw interesting discussions on this issue, but in the context of indirect contributions in matrimonial property claims, there is still much to be clarified. The main objective of this study is to find out the method of ijtihad and fatwa in the book of fiqh applied by the jurists in this issue. This study is qualitative in which a total of 20 books of turath have been researched and understood descriptively. The main collection methods used were in-depth reading and analysis and narrative evaluation was used to analyze the findings obtained. The results of the analysis prove that the indirect contribution related to housework and outdoor work, can be done Akad al-Ijarah for the wife is eligible to take a certain wage according to the jumhur view.

scholarly journals The Kindness of Strangers: Exploring Interdependencies and Shared Mobilities of Elderly People in Rural Japan

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 183-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fuyo (Jenny) Yamamoto ◽  
Junyi Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Older People ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Personal Relationships ◽  
Current Policy ◽  
Cultural Attitudes ◽  
The Past ◽  
Policy Debates ◽  
And Migration

For over forty years, most residents in rural areas of Japan have relied on private vehicles to meet their mobility needs. Today, however, the rapid ageing of the population, coupled with low birth rates and migration of young people to urban areas, is posing a variety of new transport challenges. Most notably, the proportion of drivers to non-drivers is getting smaller. This means that non-drivers who relied on family and neighbours for trips in the past, as well as elderly residents who give up their licenses, have fewer people to drive them. Current policy debates tend to focus on technological “solutions”, and underestimate the complex social, cultural and inter-personal relationships which underlie transport dependencies in these environments. Using a qualitative semi-structured survey, the current study explores the current mobilities of older people living in a small rural district in Shimane Prefecture, Japan. The resulting analysis reveals how cultural attitudes and social norms affect the ways in which older people manage their mobilities.

Intelligent Investment Approaches for Mutual Funds

2021 ◽  
pp. 267-281
Author(s):  
Dipankar Majumdar ◽  
Arup Kumar Bhattacharjee ◽  
Soumen Mukherjee
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Time Series ◽  
Stock Market ◽  
Mutual Funds ◽  
Learning Tools ◽  
Stock Trading ◽  
Strategic Investment ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Right ◽  
Selection Of

Investment in the right fund at the right time happens to be the key to success in the stock trading business. Therefore, for strategic investment, the selection of the right opportunity has to be executed crucially so as to reap the maximum returns from the market. Predicting the stock market has always been known to be very critical and needs years of experience as it involves lots of interleaving parameters and constraints. Intelligent investment in mutual funds (MF) can be done when various machine learning tools are used to predict future fund value using the past fund value. In this chapter, an elaborate discussion is presented on the different types of mutual funds and how these data can be used in prediction by machine learning in different literature. In this work, the NAV of a total of 17 different mutual funds have been extracted from the website of AMFI, and thereafter, ANFIS is used to forecast the time series of the NAV of the MF. They have been trained using ANFIS and thereafter tested for prediction with satisfactory results.

Fifty years ago: ‘Parameters of occupational health in America’

2020 ◽  
pp. 94-95
Author(s):  
H. Beric Wright
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Short Supply ◽  
The Past ◽  
High Standards ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Right ◽  
Selection Of

This series provides a selection of articles from the past. In Fifty years ago: ‘Parameters of occupational health in America’ H. Beric Wright briefly explores the short supply of occupational specialists in the UK and America, how to attract and train the right doctors, and how to progress in the field and maintain high standards.

Viewpoint Modelling with Emotions: A Case Study

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 25-53
Author(s):  
Maheswaree Kissoon Curumsing ◽  
Antonio Lopez-Lorca ◽  
Timothy Miller ◽  
Leon Sterling ◽  
Rajesh Vasa
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Older People ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Software Design ◽  
Early Phase ◽  
Alarm System ◽  
Emotional Needs ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Right

In modern software development, considering the viewpoints of stakeholders is an important step in building the right system. Over the past decade, several authors have proposed solutions to capture and model these viewpoints. While these solutions have been successful, one viewpoint they have largely ignored is the emotional viewpoint of stakeholders. Considering the emotional needs of stakeholders is important, because users' perceptions of a product are influenced by emotion as much as cognition. Building on their recent work in modelling the emotional goals of stakeholders, the authors extend an existing viewpoint framework to capture emotional viewpoints, and to carry these from early-phase requirements to detailed software design. They demonstrate this with a case study of an emergency alarm system for older people, presenting the entire suite of models for this case study.

Innovations in on-demand audio education

Neurology ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 94 (14) ◽  
pp. 621-624 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Ratliff ◽  
Jason Crowell ◽  
Stacey L. Clardy ◽  
Ted Burns
Keyword(s):  
Inflection Point ◽  
Initial Step ◽  
Daily Routine ◽  
Technological Evolution ◽  
On Demand ◽  
The Past ◽  
Technological Age

The evolution of broadcast audio has been rapidly changing over the past 10–15 years with the advent of podcasts in the early 2000s. As with other media, podcast audio has been adapted for use within medical and specifically neurology education in the form of the Neurology Podcast since 2007. As podcasts were an initial step in the field of on-demand media, further technological evolution has resulted in increasing customization of a listener's audio experience. We believe a historical inflection point has been reached with the increasingly mainstream adoption of virtual assistant technology which allows for consumption of brief on-demand self-curated audio productions. As editors of the Neurology Podcast, we have introduced a new audio product to this technological landscape, the Neurology Minute. In doing so, we hope that curated on-demand educational audio will become a part of the daily routine of many practicing neurologists as we move into this new technological age.

scholarly journals Kelestarian Ijtihad dan Fatwa Bagi Menyantuni Isu Sumbangan Tidak Langsung Dalam Tuntutan Harta Sepencarian:Satu Penilaian Kritis Fiqh Harta

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-192
Author(s):  
Mus'ab Yusoff ◽  
Nur Sarah Tajul Urus ◽  
'Umair Yusoff ◽  
Mohamad Fauzi Md Thahir ◽  
Siti Nurul Husna Othman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Islamic Law ◽  
Family Law ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
Property Ownership ◽  
The Past ◽  
Outdoor Work ◽  
The Right ◽  
Narrative Evaluation ◽  
Collection Methods ◽  
Selection Of

The issue of sustainability of ijtihad and fatwas to elaborate on polemics of indirect contributions in matrimonial property claims has become an important issue today. The selection of the right ijtihad and fatwa will ensure that critical discussions in this matter can be photographed to a knowledgeable society. There are many findings of jurisprudence writing that stated the main methods in ijtihad and fatwas used by fuqahak of the past and contemporary to draw interesting discussions on this issue, but in the context of indirect contributions in matrimonial property claims, there is still much to be clarified. The main objective of this study is to find out the method of ijtihad and fatwa in the book of fiqh applied by the jurists in this issue. This study is qualitative in which a total of 20 books of turath have been researched and understood descriptively. The main collection methods used were in-depth reading and analysis and narrative evaluation was used to analyze the findings obtained. The results of the analysis prove that the indirect contribution related to housework and outdoor work, can be done Akad al-Ijarah for the wife is eligible to take a certain wage according to the jumhur view. It relates to the limited amount that is still pending payment and is included in the matrimonial property. The study also found that indirect contributions related to outdoor work as well, can be done Akad Syarikat al-Abdan according to the view of the school of al-Hanafiyyah and can be associated with the amount of profits that grow and put into matrimonial property. In addition, the Islamic Family Law Enactment also does not specify in detail the conditions of property ownership as determined by Islamic law. This study suggests that a guideline can be translated into the minds of the Muslim community in Malaysia continuously to ensure that this polemic can be clarified and the benefits to be fought for can be maintained. Abstrak Isu kelestarian ijtihad dan fatwa untuk merungkai polemik dan menyantuni permasalahan sumbangan tidak langsung dalam tuntutan harta sepencarian telah menjadi isu penting pada hari ini. Pemilihan ijtihad dan fatwa yang tepat akan memastikan perbincangan secara kritis dalam hal ini dapat dipotretkan kepada masyarakat yang cakna ilmu. Terdapat banyak dapatan penulisan ilmu fiqah yang menyatakan kaedah utama dalam ijtihad dan fatwa yang digunakan fuqahak zaman silam dan kontemporari untuk melakar perbincangan yang menarik dalam isu yang diketengahkan ini, namun begitu dalam konteks sumbangan tidak langsung dalam tuntutan harta sepencarian, masih banyak yang perlu diperjelaskan. Objektif utama kajian ini ialah untuk mengetahui kaedah ijtihad dan fatwa di dalam kitab fiqah yang diaplikasikan oleh para fuqahak dalam isu ini. Kajian ini berbentuk kualitatif di mana sejumlah 20 buah kitab turath telah diteliti dan difahami secara deskriptif. Kaedah pengumpulan utama yang digunakan ialah pembacaan dan analisis mendalam dan penilaian naratif telah digunakan untuk menganalisis dapatan yang diperoleh. Hasil analisis membuktikan bahawa sumbangan tak langsung yang berkait dengan hal ehwal rumah dan diluarnya, boleh dilakukan Akad al-Ijarah untuk si isteri layak mengambil upah tertentu mengikut pandangan jumhur. Ia berkaitan dengan jumlah terhad yang masih tertangguh pembayarannya dan dimasukkan ke dalam harta sepencarian. Kajian juga mendapati bahawa sumbangan tak langsung yang berkait dengan kerja luar rumah juga, boleh dilakukan Akad Syarikat al-Abdan mengikut pandangan mazhab al-Hanafiyyah dan boleh dikaitkan dengan jumlah keuntungan yang berkembang dan dimasukkan ke dalam harta sepencarian. Selain itu, Enakman Undang-Undang Keluarga Islam juga tidak mengkhususkan secara terperinci syarat-syarat pemilikan harta yang ditentukan oleh hukum syarak. Kajian ini mencadangkan supaya satu garis panduan dapat diterjemahkan dalam minda masyarakat Islam di Malaysia secara berterusan untuk memastikan polemik yang berkecamuk ini dapat diperjelaskan dan terjaga kemaslahatan yang ingin diperjuangkan.  

Integrated FAHP-VIKOR model for green supplier selection in a Nickle coating SME

2020 ◽  
pp. 133-139
Author(s):  
Sanatan Ratna ◽  
B Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Staff Training ◽  
Supplier Selection ◽  
Fuzzy Ahp ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Supplier Evaluation ◽  
Green Supplier Selection ◽  
The Past ◽  
Coating Industry ◽  
Sustainability Issue ◽  
Selection Of

In the past few decades, there has been lot of focus on the issue of sustainability. This has occurred due to the growing concerns related to climate change and the growing awareness about environmental concerns. Also, the competition at global level has led to the search for the most sustainable route in the industries. The current research work deals with the selection of green supplier in a Nickle coating industry based on certain weighted green attributes. For this purpose, a hybrid tool comprising of Fuzzy AHP (Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy) and VIKOR (VlseKriterijumska Optimizacija I Kompromisno Resenje) is used. The Fuzzy AHP is used for assigning proper weights to the selected criteria for supplier evaluation, while VIKOR is used for final supplier selection based on the weighted criteria. The three criterions for green supplier selection are, Ecological packaging, Corporate socio-environmental responsibility and Staff Training. The outcome of the integrated model may serve as a steppingstone to other SMEs in different sectors for selecting the most suitable supplier for addressing the sustainability issue.

COMMONWEALTH Forum: The Politics of Science or the Science of Politics

Commonwealth ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
John Arway
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Factual Information ◽  
The Past ◽  
Difference Of Opinion ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Right ◽  
Scientific Facts ◽  
Environmental Agency ◽  
Laws And Regulations

The challenges of including factual information in public policy and political discussions are many. The difficulties of including scientific facts in these debates can often be frustrating for scientists, politicians and policymakers alike. At times it seems that discussions involve different languages or dialects such that it becomes a challenge to even understand one another’s position. Oftentimes difference of opinion leads to laws and regulations that are tilted to the left or the right. The collaborative balancing to insure public and natural resource interests are protected ends up being accomplished through extensive litigation in the courts. In this article, the author discusses the history of environmental balancing during the past three decades from the perspective of a field biologist who has used the strength of our policies, laws and regulations to fight for the protection of our Commonwealth’s aquatic resources. For the past 7 years, the author has taken over the reins of “the most powerful environmental agency in Pennsylvania” and charted a course using science to properly represent natural resource interests in public policy and political deliberations.

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