A Comparative Examination of Private Equity in the U.S. and Europe: Accounting for the Past and Predicting the Future of European Private Equity

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandros Seretakis
Keyword(s):  
Private Equity ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Comparative Examination ◽  
The U.S

Excavating the Future

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shawn Malley
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Cultural Study ◽  
Homeland Security ◽  
War On Terror ◽  
Adaptive Responses ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
The U.S

Well-known in popular culture for tomb-raiding and mummy-wrangling, the archaeologist is also a rich though often unacknowledged figure for constructing ‘strange new worlds’ from ‘strange old worlds’ in science fiction. But more than a well-spring for scenarios, SF’s archaeological imaginary is also a hermeneutic tool for excavating the ideological motivations of digging up the past buried in the future. A cultural study of an array of popular though critically neglected North American SF film and television texts–spanning the gamut of telefilms, pseudo-documentaries, teen serial drama and Hollywood blockbusters–Excavating the Future treats archaeology as a trope for exploring the popular archaeological imagination and the uses to which it is being put by the U.S. state and its adversaries. By treating SF texts as documents of archaeological experience circulating within and between scientific and popular culture communities and media, Excavating the Future develops critical strategies for analyzing SF film and television’s critical and adaptive responses to contemporary geopolitical concerns about the war on terror, homeland security, the invasion and reconstruction of Iraq, and the ongoing fight against ISIS.

scholarly journals Fetal citizens? Birthright citizenship, reproductive futurism, and the “panic” over Chinese birth tourism in southern California

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean H. Wang
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Southern California ◽  
Fourteenth Amendment ◽  
The Past ◽  
Birthright Citizenship ◽  
The Future ◽  
The U.S

In September 2012, residents of Chino Hills, California—a wealthy suburb of Los Angeles—exposed a maternity hotel in their city. Subsequently, controversy erupted as protesting residents argued that Chinese birth tourism is an immigration loophole, where foreigners took advantage of jus soli birthright citizenship guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. This paper uses this controversy as a springboard to explore how temporalities—both the past and the future—come to shape politics in the present. Considering reproductive futurism in the contexts of citizenship and migrations, this paper argues that the figure of the fetal citizen emerges as the defining site of struggle between preserving, or exposing, the fantasy of a national future. Reports of panic over Chinese birth tourism, then, show how “backwards” racialized citizenship is continually brought to this present struggle, especially vis-a-vis discourses of the “worthy immigrant” and “anchor babies”, to determine who may give birth to citizens in the U.S.

scholarly journals The National, All-crops Plant Breeding Coordinating Committee

HortScience ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 991C-991
Author(s):  
Linda Wessel-Beaver ◽  
Ann Marie Thro
Keyword(s):  
Plant Breeding ◽  
Recent Progress ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Committee Membership ◽  
National Workshop ◽  
The U.S

The Plant Breeding Coordinating Committee will be a forum for leadership regarding issues, problems, and opportunities of long-term strategic importance to the contribution of plant breeding to national goals. The committee will create the only regular opportunity to provide such leadership across all crops. The nature of plant breeding as an integrative discipline par excellence will be reflected in multidisciplinary committee membership. The past decade has brought major changes in the U.S. national plant breeding investment. In order for administrators and other decisionmakers to understand the implications of the changes and respond most effectively for the future, there is need for a clear analysis of the role of plant breeding for meeting national goals. Although recent changes in investment are the impetus for this committee, the need to articulate the role of plant breeding in meeting national goals is likely to be on-going, regardless of immediate circumstances. This presentation will describe recent progress on organizing this committee, and will ask all plant breeders to begin thinking about the questions to be addressed at the upcoming national workshop.

Frontiers of Legal Information: The U.S. Law Librarians of the Future*

2015 ◽  
Vol 43 (2_3) ◽  
pp. 411-433 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jootaek Lee
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Search Algorithms ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Legal Information ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
The U.S

It is necessary to guess a new probable future for law libraries and librarians. A future that is based on history, yet accounts for new contemporary backgrounds and data. A future that not only considers the widespread accessibility to the Internet and the incredible development of search algorithms for legal information retrieval on user-friendly platforms, but one that also considers the tremendous increase in the amount of digitized materials available to the average patron. Here, I will take an opportunity to look at the past and present and offer what I foresee as the future for U.S. law libraries and librarians.

scholarly journals Microscopy Yesterday, Today and the Future

1999 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 8-11
Author(s):  
John A. Reffner
Keyword(s):  
Scanning Probe Microscopy ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Scanning Probe ◽  
X Ray ◽  
The Past ◽  
Quantitative Image ◽  
The Future ◽  
Ft Ir ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Made In

With the approach of a new century everyone is getting nostalgic; we just can't resist reflecting on the past and envisioning the future. This struck me with renewed passion on 26 January 1999 when my latest patent (with co-inventor Steven H, Vogel) on a new Confocal Microspectrometer System was issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark office, What resonated in my mind was the sage advice I received from an admired and distinguished scientist nearly forty years ago, The learned professor opined, "Why do you want to be a microscopist? That's old stuff. No scientific discoveries can be made in microscopy; it is just not a research field. Microscopists never amount to more than glorified technicians". Since then I have seen Professor Dr, J, S, Ploem develop Epf Fluorescence, which revolutionized cytology and expanded the way we think of fluorescence microscopy, I have seen the introduction of the scanning electron microscope, energy dispersive x-ray spectrometers, ESCA, Auger, acoustic microscopes, scanning probe microscopy, confocal microscopy, quantitative image analysis, video-microscopy, FT-IR microspectrometry and many more.

scholarly journals Fluctuating Anti-Americanism and the Korea-U.S. Alliance

2004 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-40
Author(s):  
Nae-Young Lee ◽  
Han Wool Jeong
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
North Korea ◽  
Public Attitude ◽  
Security Threats ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Opinion Polls ◽  
The U.S

Rising anti-Americanism in the winter of 2002 despite the increasing security threats from North Korea, has led some to call the situation a crisis in the ROK-U.S. alliance. However, the opinion polls from June 2003 and February 2004 show that anti-Americanism in South Korea has substantially waned The main aim of this paper is to examine whether the recent wave of anti-Americanism has the content and intensity to threaten the legitimacy of the ROK-U.S. alliance. By analyzing the changes in public attitude and perception towards the U.S. over the past two years based on three survey data, this paper argues that anti-Americanism in South Korea has not posed any real threat to the alliance. However, the polarized public opinion towards the U.S. remains a potentially serious threat to the future of the ROK-U.S. alliance.

Negotiating the Future of Taiwan

Worldview ◽  
1972 ◽  
Vol 15 (9) ◽  
pp. 9-12
Author(s):  
O. Edmund Clubb
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
The U.S

Now that Chiang Kai-shek and the American strategy of “containment” of Asian communism have grown old together, and the dream of the Nationalist reconquest of the Mainland has faded into nothingness with President Nixon's February meeting with Chinese Communist chieftain Mao Tse-tung and Premier Chou En-lai, there stirs a question that has lain largely dormant over the past two decades: What of the future, of Taiwan (Formosa)? More specifically, should not the United States, sworn protector of Taiwan, (make provision for the Taiwanese to have a voice in determining their own future destiny?The U.S. professes to believe that people may properly be governed only with their consent. It supports the doctrine of self-determination of nations.

scholarly journals Fetal citizens? Birthright citizenship, reproductive futurism, and the “panic” over Chinese birth tourism in southern California

2016 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 263-280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean H Wang
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Southern California ◽  
Fourteenth Amendment ◽  
The Past ◽  
Birthright Citizenship ◽  
The Future ◽  
The U.S

In September 2012, residents of Chino Hills, California—a wealthy suburb of Los Angeles—exposed a maternity hotel in their city. Subsequently, controversy erupted as protesting residents argued that Chinese birth tourism is an immigration loophole, where foreigners took advantage of jus soli birthright citizenship guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. This paper uses this controversy as a springboard to explore how temporalities—both the past and the future—come to shape politics in the present. Considering reproductive futurism in the contexts of citizenship and migrations, this paper argues that the figure of the fetal citizen emerges as the defining site of struggle between preserving, or exposing, the fantasy of a national future. Reports of panic over Chinese birth tourism, then, show how “backwards” racialized citizenship is continually brought to this present struggle, especially vis-a-vis discourses of the “worthy immigrant” and “anchor babies”, to determine who may give birth to citizens in the U.S.

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