Quality of Life: Systems Approaches (eBook)

Proceedings of the International Congress on Applied Systems Research and Cybernetics

G.E. Lasker (Herausgeber)

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2014 | 1. Auflage
606 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-1-4831-9004-4 (ISBN)

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Applied Systems and Cybernetics covers the proceedings of the International Congress on Applied Systems Research and Cybernetics. The book presents several studies that cover the application of systems research and cybernetics in improving the quality of life. Majority of the materials in the text tackle various aspects of quality of life in relation to systems and cybernetics, such as living space, future prospects, work, education, politics, law, ethics and values, culture and ethnicity, and social systems. The selection also presents articles that cover the elemental properties of quality of life, such as the concept, views, indicators, and dimension. The book will be of great interest to any scientists regardless of disciplines, since it covers the main purpose of science, the improvement of quality of life.

Inhalt

Front Cover 1
Applied Systems and Cybernetics 4
Copyright Page 5
Table of Contents 
10 
PREFACE 20
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 28
ALPHABETICAL LISTING OF AUTHORS 31
INDEX OF MAJOR SUBJECT AREAS 33
Part I: INAUGURAL ADDRESSES 34
Chapter 1. Systems, Cybernetics, and Subjectivity 34
KEYWORDS 34
Chapter 2. Intelligent Machines: They Are Coming 38
ABSTRACT 38
KEYWORDS 38
REFERENCE 42
Chapter 3. Personal Cybernetics as a System for Self Realization of the Individual in Industry 
43 
EFFECT OF THE ENVIRONMENT 44
THE ORIGIN OF THE IDEA OF "LIFE PLANNING" 45
EXPANSION OF THE LIFE PLANNING IDEA 45
MAN'S LIFE PLANNING 49
MY OWN PLAN FOR 1959 50
MY OWN ONE YEAR PLAN FOR BETTER WORK 
51 
Part II: QUALITY OF LIFE: CONCEPTS & VIEWS
Chapter 4. Quality of Life: The Process of Development of Legitimate Goals 53
ABSTRACT 53
KEY WORDS 53
INTRODUCTION 53
EMERGENCE OF SUPERORDINATE GOALS DISCERNED THROUGH TRADITION RESEARCH 
54 
EMERGENCE OF SOCIAL GOALS, ROLES AND STRUCTURE 58
RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT 60
REFERENCES 61
Chapter 5. An Engineer's View of the Quality of Life 62
ABSTRACT 62
KEYWORDS 62
INTRODUCTION 62
1. IS OUR CIVILISATION SLIDING TOWARDS DISASTER? 62
2. CONDITIONS FOR A STABLE WORLD 63
3. THE WAY OUT 65
4. THE CREATIVE SOCIETY 66
AN ENGINEER'S VIEW OF THE QUALITY OF LIFE 67
REFERENCES 
72 
Chapter 6. Progress, Stratification and Quality of Life: A View from Anthropology 68
REFERENCES 72
Chapter 7. Quality of Family Life as Perceived by Student Teachers 73
ABSTRACT 73
KEYWORDS 73
INTRODUCTION 73
METHODOLOGY 73
REVIEW OF LITERATURE: TERMINOLOGY 74
DISCUSSION 75
CONCLUSIONS 78
REFERENCES 78
Part III: QUALITY OF LIFE: DIMENSIONS AND INDICATORS 79
Chapter 8. Subjectivity and Objectivity as Co-Essential Dimensions of the Quality of Life 79
ABSTRACT 79
KEYWORDS 79
Chapter 9. Subjective and Objective Factors in Social Indicator and Quality of Life Models 84
ABSTRACT 84
KEYWORDS 84
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 89
REFERENCES 89
Chapter 10. Social Positions, Social Inequality and Subjective Well-Being 91
ABSTRACT 91
KEYWORDS 91
INTRODUCTION 91
SAMPLE 93
APPROACH 93
RESULTS 94
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS 99
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 100
REFERENCES 100
Chapter 11. The Management of Human Resources in Business Systems: An Influential Variable in the Quality of Life 102
ABSTRACT 102
KEYWORDS 102
INTRODUCTION 102
THE INFLUENCE OF MANPOWER COST IN THE PROFITABILITY OF INVESTMENT PROJECTS. CONSIDERATIONS ABOUT THE SPANISH CASE 103
FINAL REMARKS 105
REFERENCES 106
Chapter 12. Simplicity: A Perspective on the Quality of Life 107
ABSTRACT 107
KEYWORDS 107
INTRODUCTION 107
THE MONEY PRINCIPLE 108
ACQUISITIVENESS 109
THE POSSESSIONS PRINCIPLE 110
SIMPLICITY PRINCIPLE 111
REFERENCES 113
Part IV: IMPROVING QUALITY OF LIFE: METHODOLOGICAL CONCEPTS 114
Chapter 13. A Framework of Reference to Improve the Quality of Life 114
ABSTRACT 114
KEYWORDS 114
SYSTEMIC IMPROVEMENT OF THE QUALITY OF LIFE 114
INTRINSIC LOGIC 115
CULTIVATION OF VALUE 118
SUB-SYSTEM OR SUB-SERVIENT SYSTEM 122
REFERENCES 125
Chapter 14. Speeding Up Improvement 126
ABSTRACT 126
KEYWORDS 126
PROBLEMFORMULATION 126
METHOD 128
EXAMPLE 129
REFERENCES 130
APPENDIX 130
Chapter 15. Is it Possible to Model Quality of Life? 131
1.- OUR POSITION AMONGST OTHER RESEARCHES 131
2 .- REALITY 132
3.- LAW OF THERMO-DYNAMTCS 133
4 .- SEMIOTICS 133
5.- HIERARCHY WITHIN THE INFORMATION SYSTEM 134
CONCLUSIONS 136
Chapter 16. Creation of Employment, Territorial Distribution and Environment Protection: Multiple Criterion for the Short Term Programming of Industrial Estates 138
I. QUALITY OF LIFE 138
II. INDUSTRIAL ESTATES 139
III. PLANNING SCHEME FOR INDUSTRIAL ESTATES PROGRAMME 141
IV. MULTICRITERIAL ALGORITHM FOR EVALUATION 142
V. APPLICATIONS TO THE INDUSTRIAL ESTATES PROGRAMME FOR MEXICO 145
Part V: THE HUMAN SYSTEM AND THE QUALITY OF LIFE 147
Chapter 17. The Quality of Life and Emerging Directions of Change in Our Conception of Human Systems 147
ABSTRACT 147
KEYWORDS 147
INTRODUCTION 147
THE PERSONAL DIMENSIONS 148
SYSTEMIC DIMENSIONS 149
TWO CLOSING THOUGHTS 151
REFERENCES 151
Chapter 18. The Human System, Its Ecological Niche and the Quality of Life: A Field of Study 152
ABSTRACT 152
KEYWORDS 152
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 156
REFERENCES 
156 
Chapter 19. Human Systems: Needs, Requirements, Environments and Quality of Life 157
ABSTRACT 157
KEYWORDS 157
HUMAN SYSTEMS AND HUMAN ENVIRONMENTS 
157 
QUALITY OF LIFE 158
HUMAN NEEDS AND REQUIREMENTS 158
SOCIETAL REQUIREMENTS 159
MANKIND REQUIREMENTS 160
QUALITY OF LIFE AS AN UNIFYING CONCEPT FOR HUMAN NEEDS, DEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENT 
160 
IMPLICATIONS 161
ACKNOWLEDGMENT 161
REFERENCES 161
Chapter 20. General Systems Theory in the Conscious Evolution of Mankind 162
ABSTRACT 162
KEYWORDS 162
INTRODUCTION 162
DOES MAN REALLY EVOLVE ? 
162 
THE SOURCE OF A FALSE CONCEPT OF EVOLUTION 163
CONCLUSION 163
Chapter 21. Improving Human Consciousness 164
ABSTRACT 164
KEYWORDS 164
INTRODUCTION 164
KNOWING OURSELVES INWARDLY 165
VALUES FOR LIVING AND LEGISLATION 167
EPILOGUE 168
REFERENCES 168
Part VI: QUALITY OF LIFE AND THE INDIVIDUAL PERSON 169
Chapter 22. The Human Knowledge Process as a System Forming General System 169
ABSTRACT 169
KEYWORDS 169
INTRODUCTION 169
PREMISES 172
REFERENCES 175
Chapter 23. Development of Knowledge and the Quality of Life 177
ABSTRACT 177
KEYWORDS 177
INTRODUCTION 177
CONCLUSION 183
REFERENCES 183
Chapter 24. The Impact of the Development of Personality on the Concept of the Quality of Life 185
ABSTRACT 185
KEYWORDS 185
Bibliography 
190 
Chapter 25. The Quality of Life in the Context of a Basic Person-Environment System 191
ABSTRACT 191
KEYWORDS 191
A BASIC PERSON-ENVIRONMENT SYSTEM 191
REFERENCES 195
Chapter 26. The Quality of Life in Relation to the Changing Image of Man 196
ABSTRACT 196
KEYWORDS 196
INTRODUCTION 196
A THEORY OF CULTURAL CHANGE 197
THE QUALITY OF LIFE IN RELATION TO THE IMAGE OF MAN 199
CONCLUSION 200
Chapter 27. Setting Changes and the Quality of Human Life 201
ABSTRACT 201
KEYWORDS 201
INTRODUCTION 201
METHODS AND PROCEDURES 203
RESULTS 204
SUMMARY 207
REFERENCES 207
Chapter 28. Satteas: The Quality of Life Chain Through Regional Development 
208 
ABSTRACT 208
KEYWORDS 208
INTRODUCTION 208
THE HUMAN NEEDS 209
THE PROCESSING SYSTEM (PS) 210
THE HUMAN PROCESSING SYSTEM (HUPS) 211
THE LIFE CHAIN 212
QUALITY OF LIFE 213
CONCLUSIONS 213
REFERENCES 215
Part VII: SOCIAL SYSTEMS AND THE QUALITY OF LIFE 216
Chapter 29. The Myopia of Social Systems 216
ABSTRACT 216
KEY PHRASES 216
KEY WORDS 216
INTRODUCTI0N 216
REFERENCES 222
Chapter 30. Quality of Interaction and Participation: On Model Power in Industrial Democracy and Computer Networks 
224 
ABSTRACT 224
KEYWORDS 224
INTRODUCTION 224
A LAW REFORM AND SYSTEMS PREDICTIONS 225
Systems Predictions and Political Expectations 227
THE MODEL POWER THESIS AS PART OF DIALOGICAL SYSTEMS THEORY 228
IMPLICATIONS CONCERNING COMPUTER NETWORKS 232
REFERENCES 233
Chapter 31. Cybernetics for the Quality of Society 234
KEYWORDS 235
REFERENCES 235
Chapter 32. Information Automation, Human Service Delivery, and Quality of Life 236
ABSTRACT 236
KEYWORDS 236
INTRODUCTION 236
HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE 236
CHANGES IN THE HSDS DUE TO INFORMATION AUTOMATION 237
IMPACT OF SYSTEM CHANGES ON QUALITY OF LIFE 237
CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS 239
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 240
REFERENCES 240
Chapter 33. Working Toward Quality of Life: Primary Prevention of Drug Abuse 241
KEYWORDS 241
I. SYSTEMS APPROACHES TO QUALITY OF LIFE 241
II. SOCIAL ECOLOGY: A SYSTEMS APPROACH 242
III. A SOCIAL ECOLOGICAL APPROACH TO PRIMARY PREVENTION 243
REFERENCES 244
Chapter 34. Sociolinguistic Analysis and Organizational Change, the Linguist's Potential for Improving the Quality of Modern Life 246
ABSTRACT 246
KEY WORDS 246
INTRODUCTION 246
THE ORGANIZATION IN MODERN SOCIETY 246
A SYSTEMS CONCEPT OF MODERN ORGANIZATION 248
SOCIOLINGUISTIC ANALYSIS IN ORGANIZATIONS 249
CONCLUSION 249
REFERENCES 249
Part VIII: SOCIAL VALUES, ETHICS AND LIFESTYLES IN QUALITY OF LIFE 251
Chapter 35. Functionality, Values Ordering and Decision in Social Systems 251
ABSTRACT 251
KEYWORDS 251
REFERENCES 259
Chapter 36. Basic Needs, Ethics, and Quality of Life 261
ABSTRACT 261
KEYWORDS 261
INTRODUCTION 261
BASIC NEEDS AND SYSTEMS THEORY 261
ETHICAL THEORY AND SYSTEMS THEORY 263
ETHICAL THEORY AND BASIC NEEDS 265
BASIC NEEDS AND THE QUALITY OF LIFE 265
CONCLUSION 266
REFERENCES 266
Chapter 37. Values, Lifestyles and Basic Beliefs as Influences on Perceived Quality of Life 268
ABSTRACT 268
KEYWORDS 268
INTRODUCTION 268
A PILOT STUDY 270
FINDINGS FROM THE PILOT STUDY 271
CONCLUSION 274
REFERENCES 274
Chapter 38. Scientific Thought and the Problem of Steering Societies 275
ABSTRACT 275
KEYWORDS 275
INTRODUCTION 275
LOGICAL DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL SYSTEMS 275
SCIENTIFIC IDENTITY ANTICIPATING SOCIAL STRUCTURE 277
AN ANTICIPATING SYSTEM OF VALUES AND META–VALUES 
278 
REFERENCE 279
Chapter 39. A Calendar of Human Change 280
ABSTRACT 280
KEYWORDS 280
Part IX: QUALITY OF LIFE: CROSS-NATIONAL AND CROSS-CULTURAL ANALYSIS 285
Chapter 40. Income, Energy Consumption and State Social Quality of Life in U.S.A. 1960, 1970 and 1978 285
ABSTRACT 285
KEYWORDS 285
INTRODUCTION 285
ENERGY, INCOME, AND SOCIAL QOL VALUES 288
REFERENCES 290
Chapter 41. Energy, Economic Growth and Quality of Life: A Cross-National Trend Analysis 291
ABSTRACT 291
KEYWORDS 291
INTRODUCTION 291
COUNTRIES, VARIABLES AND DATA SOURCES 294
RESULTS AND IMPLICATIONS 295
REFERENCES 297
Chapter 42. Quality of Life Indicators The Happiest Americans 
298 
ABSTRACT 298
KEY WORDS 298
Chapter 43. Transportation Impacts of Rationing on Individual Travel Decisions in a Quality of Life Context 302
ABSTRACT 302
KEYWORDS 302
INTRODUCTION 302
THE PROBLEM AND HYPOTHESES 303
ANALYSIS 303
1974–1980 RESPONSE DIFFERENCES 304
INDIVIDUAL/GOVERNMENT/INDUSTRY ROLES 305
CONCLUSIONS 306
REFERENCES 306
Chapter 44. Culture, the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, and Quality of Life in the Black Belt Region of the Southeastern United States 307
ABSTRACT 307
KEYWORDS 307
BACKGROUND: THE OBJECTIVE SITUATION 307
THE HYPOTHESES 310
SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE 311
AN AGENDA OF RESEARCH AND ACTION 316
REFERENCES 318
Chapter 45. Quality of Life in Two Cultures: Springfield, Illinois and Aix-en-Provence, France 321
ABSTRACT 321
INTRODUCTION 321
DATA COLLECTION 321
SURVEY RESULTS 322
DISCUSSION 326
REFERENCES 326
Chapter 46. Underlying Dimensions in the Change of Perceived Quality of Life: Results from the Edmonton Area Studies 1975 – 1979 
327 
ABSTRACT 327
KEYWORDS 327
PURPOSE 327
THEORY 328
THE STUDY 329
FINDINGS 329
CONCLUSION 331
REFERENCES 331
Chapter 47. Perception of Well Being: A Comparison of Puerto Rican and Colombian Sugar Cane Workers 332
ABSTRACT 332
KEYWORDS 332
INTRODUCTION 332
WELL BEING 333
REFERENCES 336
Part X: LAW AND THE QUALITY OF LIFE 337
Chapter 48. Law and the Quality of Life -- a Human Rights Perspective 337
ABSTRACT 337
KEYWORDS 337
Chapter 49. Environmental Law and the Quality of Life 343
ABSTRACT 343
KEYWORDS 343
INTRODUCTION 343
THE UNCERTAINTY OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS VS. THE CERTAINTY OF THE LEGAL SYSTEM 
344 
THE NATURE OF AVAILABLE LEGAL INSTRUMENTS 345
THE NATURE OF OUR POLITICAL SYSTEM 346
THE LIMITATIONS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 347
CONCLUSION 347
Chapter 50. International Organization and the Protection of the Human Environment: From the Stockholm Conference into the Eighties 348
ABSTRACT 348
KEYWORDS 348
Chapter 51. The Role of Law in the Development of Lesser Developed Countries 353
ABSTRACT 353
KEYWORDS 353
FOOTNOTES 359
Part XI: QUALITY OF LIFE EDUCATION 360
Chapter 52. Quality of Life Education: A Challenge to the Systems Inquiry Community 360
ABSTRACT 360
KEY WORDS 360
INTRODUCTION 360
A DEFINITION OF QUALITY OF LIFE 361
A SYSTEMS INQUIRY APPROACH TO QUALITY OF LIFE EDUCATION 362
REFERENCES 365
Chapter 53. Education: The Key to the Transition from a Consuming Society to a Conserving Society 366
Chapter 54. System Management Workbooks -- Tools for Quality of Life Education 369
ABSTRACT 369
KEYWORDS 369
Chapter 55. Potentialities for 'Quality of Life' Improvement via High Technology-Integrated Learning/Information/Telecommunication Systems 372
ABSTRACT 372
KEYWORDS 372
INTRODUCTION 372
REFERENCES 376
Chapter 56. Learning to Meet Nutritional Needs: A Global Perspective 378
ABSTRACT 378
KEYWORDS 378
PROBLEMATIQUE 378
SENSE OF PURPOSE: WHAT DO WE WANT TO DO? 379
THE DESIGN OF RELEVANT ACTION: THE NEED FOR A GOOD THEORY 380
THE DESIGN OF A LEARNING SYSTEM 381
EDUCATION FOR QUALITY OF LIFE: THE ANALYSTS' ROLE 382
Chapter 57. Canadian Multiculturalism and the Teaching of the Non-Official Languages in Manitoba 383
ABSTRACT 383
KEY WORDS 383
INTRODUCTION 383
ROYAL COMMISSION ON BILINGUALISM AND BICULTURALISM 383
MULTICULTURAL POLICY 384
THE OTHER PARTIES 384
SECOND LANGUAGE TEACHING IN MANITOBA 384
MULTICULTURALISM IN MANITOBA 385
THE FUTURE OF MULTICULTURALISM AND ETHNIC LANGUAGES 387
REFERENCES 387
Chapter 58. Community Educational Planning in Mexico 389
ABSTRACT 389
KEYWORDS 389
THE PROBLEM 389
THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK 390
A POSSIBLE SOLUTION 391
RESEARCH DESIGN 392
CONCLUDING REMARKS 393
REFERENCES 393
Chapter 59. Integrating Education and Work 394
ABSTRACT 394
KEYWORDS 394
SEPARATION OF SCHOOL AND WORK 394
SCHOOL-BASED PRODUCTIVE ENTERPRISE 396
EDUCATION FOR INTRINSICALLY MOTIVATING WORK 397
REFERENCES 398
Part XII: QUALITY OF LIFE IN POLITICAL PERSPECTIVE 399
Chapter 60. Protecting the Quality of Life: The Role of Government in Reconciling Man-Made and Naturally Evolving Systems 399
ABSTRACT 399
KEYWORDS 399
QUALITY AS AN INDIVIDUAL PERCEPTION AND SOCIAL PURPOSE 399
CAN QUALITY BECOME AN OPERATIVE INTEGRATIVE CONCEPT? 403
REFERENCES 403
Chapter 61. Perceived Quality of Life and Political Activity 404
ABSTRACT 404
KEYWORDS 404
INTRODUCTION 404
PERCEIVED QUALITY OF LIFE 405
POLITICAL ACTIVITY 405
A LINKAGE MODEL 407
INTERPRETATION: THE INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL FIELDS 410
ADVANTAGES OF COMPLEXITY 410
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 411
REFERENCES 411
Chapter 62. The Quality of Life and Public Confidence in Government 412
ABSTRACT 412
Chapter 63. Political Economy and the Quality of Life: Toward a Cybernetic Approach 416
ABSTRACT 416
KEYWORDS 416
INTRODUCTION 416
CLASSICAL THEORY AND NEW REALITIES 416
TOWARD A CYBERNETIC ECONOMIC THEORY 418
CONCLUSION 421
REFERENCES 421
Part XIII: QUALITY OF WORKING LIFE 422
Chapter 64. A New Model for the Quantitative Measurement of the Quality of Working Life 422
ABSTRACT 422
INTRODUCTION 422
NEW MODEL FOR QWL MEASUREMENT 422
CONCLUSION 425
ACKNOWLEGEMENT 425
Chapter 65. Measuring the Quality of Working Life: A Pilot Investigation 426
ABSTRACT 426
KEYWORDS 426
INTRODUCTION 426
METHODS OF MEASURING QUALITY OF WORKING LIFE (QWL) 426
FINDINGS USING THE BEHAVIOURALLY ANCHORED RATING SCALE 429
CONCLUSIONS 430
REFERENCES 430
Chapter 66. The Marriage of the Social Scientist and Industrial Engineer 431
ABSTRACT 431
Chapter 67. Sociotechnics of Autonomous Work Groups as Social Systems 436
ABSTRACT 436
KEYWORDS 436
INTRODUCTION 436
THE SOCIOTECHNICAL DIRECTIVES 438
CONCLUSIONS 440
SOURCES 441
Chapter 68. Information, Identity, and the Role of Work 
442 
ABSTRACT 442
KEYWORDS 442
INTRODUCTION 442
EDUCATION 443
WORK AS GOAL-DIRECTED BEHAVIOUR 444
INFORMATION AND IMAGE 445
SUMMARY 446
REFERENCES 447
Chapter 69. Productivity and Quality of Life Improvement 448
ABSTRACT 448
KEYWORDS 448
INTRODUCTION 448
THE MODEL 450
DISCUSSION 451
CONCLUSION 451
REFERENCES 452
Chapter 70. Improving the Quality of Working Life (QWL) Through Information Systems Development 453
ABSTRACT 453
KEYWORDS 453
INTRODUCTION 453
QWL: A LEGITIMATE CONCERN FOR ISD? 454
THE ANATOMY OF FORMAL METHODOLOGIES 455
INCORPORATING THE QWL DESIGN IDEAL INTO FORMAL ISD METHODOLOGIES 456
TOWARDS AN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION PROGRAM 460
BIBLIOGRAPHY 461
Part XIV: HUMAN KINETICS, SPORT AND QUALITY OF LIFE 463
Chapter 71. Sport and Quality of Life 463
REFERENCES 471
Chapter 72. Sport's Contribution to the Quality of Life: Capacity Versus Current Practices in Cross-National Perspective 472
ABSTRACT 472
KEYWORDS 472
INTRODUCTION 472
CURRENT DEVIANT PRACTICES IN SPORT 473
CAPACITY OF SPORT TO ENHANCE POSITIVE HUMAN VALUES 474
CHANGING THE STATUS QUO 475
CONCLUSION 478
REFERENCES 478
Chapter 73. Sports Events in Cultural Perception of "The Good Life" 481
ABSTRACT 481
KEYWORDS 481
INTRODUCTION 481
FRAMING OF A SPORT EVENT 482
REASONS SPECTATORS ATTEND SPORTS EVENTS 482
CROWD BEHAVIOR AS CONFORMITY 483
A FOCUSED GATHERING AS INTERACTION 483
POSITIVE BENEFITS PERCEIVED BY SPORTS EVENTS' SPECTATORS 
484 
SUMMARY 486
REFERENCES 486
Chapter 74. Ludus, Leisure Time, and the Quality of Life 489
ABSTRACT 489
KEYWORDS 489
REFERENCES 492
Chapter 75. Automatic Control Systems for Management of Training Process of Soviet Olympic Teams 493
ABSTRACT 493
KEYWORDS 493
REFERENCES 495
Chapter 76. EMG and Computer Programming to Improve the Quality of Life: Lower Back Pain 496
ABSTRACT 496
KEYWORDS 496
INTRODUCTION 496
METHODS AND PROCEDURES 497
RESULTS 500
DISCUSSION 501
REFERENCES 502
Chapter 77. L'Education Permanente Via L'Activite Physique Au Troisieme Age 
503 
QUELQUES RESULTATS DE RECHERCHE 505
REFERENCES 508
Part XV: QUALITY OF LIFE AND THE FUTURE 510
Chapter 78. The Impact of Emerging Technologies on the Quality of Life in the Future 510
ABSTRACT 510
KEYWORDS 510
INTRODUCTION 510
TECHNOLOGIES 511
SUMMARY 513
REFERENCES 514
Chapter 79. The Future Role of Interactive Simulation as a Device to Improve Household Quality of Life Decisions: Where Dynamic Forecasting is Going. 515
ABSTRACT 515
KEYWORDS 515
HOUSEHOLD DECISIONS 515
STABILITY OF HOUSEHOLD ENVIRONMENT 517
A PATH TO HOUSEHOLD CONTROL OVER ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES 518
REFERENCES 519
Chapter 80. The Futurist Literature and the Emergence of a 'New Paradigm' Implications for Building More Humane Kinds of Social-Political Institutions Emphasizing The Quality of Life 520
ABSTRACT 520
INTRODUCTION 521
REFERENCES 526
Chapter 81. Level Five Prognostication 527
ABSTRACT 527
KEYWORDS 527
INTRODUCTION 527
A FIVE LEVEL, GLOBAL PROGNOSTICATION SCHEME 528
CONCLUDING REMARKS 532
REFERENCES 532
Chapter 82. Television and the Future of Quality of Life 534
ABSTRACT 534
KEYWORDS 534
INTRODUCTION 534
REFERENCES 540
Part XVI: QUALITY IN LIVING SPACES 542
Chapter 83. Quality in Living Spaces A Comprehensive Analysis of Two City Planning Systems 
542 
ABSTRACT 542
KEYWORDS 542
INTRODUCTION 542
PLANNING FOR QUALITY– A POLITICAL OBJECTIVE 
543 
CONCLUSION 545
REFERENCES 546
Chapter 84. The Architecture and the Quality of Life: A Systems Approach to Design 547
ABSTRACT 547
KEYWORDS 547
INTRODUCTION 547
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN AS A SYSTEM 547
THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW DESIGN CRITERIA 551
BIBLIOGRAPHY 551
Chapter 85. The Impact of Technology on the Physical Growth and Social Development of Cities Within the German Democratic Republic 552
ABSTRACT 552
KEYWORDS 552
INTRODUCTION 552
DEVELOPMENT PHASES IN SOCIALIST PLANNING AND BUILDING TECHNOLOGY 553
IMPACTS ON THE POPULATION AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT 559
OUTLOOK AND CONCLUSION 561
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 562
REFERENCES 562
Part XVII: ENERGY PROBLEMS AND QUALITY OF LIFE 563
Chapter 86. Nuclear Power and 'Unconventional' Energy Sources: Canada, the Past, Present and Future 563
ABSTRACT 563
KEYWORDS 563
INTRODUCTION 563
CANADA: WHERE WE ARE TODAY 564
CANADA: GROWTH OF NUCLEAR POWER INDUSTRY 565
ENERGY 'PICTURE' FOR THE 21 ST 
566 
SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS AND 'QUALITY OF LIFE' 569
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 570
REFERENCES 570
Part XVIII: PEACE AND QUALITY OF LIFE THROUGH CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT 572
Chapter 87. Aims and Structure of the Sociocultural Organization 572
ABSTRACT 572
KEYWORDS 572
INTRODUCTION 572
STATE FROM THE EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE 573
DEVELOPMENT 577
PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT CONTEXT 578
CONCLUSIONS 578
REFERENCES 579
Chapter 88. The Significance of Meaning in Violence and Nonviolence 580
ABSTRACT 580
KEYWORDS 580
INTRODUCTION 580
THE IMPORTANCE OF MEANING 581
MEANING AND VIOLENCE AND NONVIOLENCE 582
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MEANS AND ENDS: PARADIGMS AND NONVIOLENCE 584
REFERENCES 585
Chapter 89. An Anthropological Understanding of Non-Aggressive Social Systems 586
ABSTRACT 586
KEYWORDS 586
INTRODUCTION 586
REFERENCES 590
Chapter 90. Adaptive Regulation in Contemporary Society - A Systems Approach 
591 
ABSTRACT 591
KEYWORDS 591
INTRODUCTION 591
HISTORY IN BRIEF 592
MODERN TRENDS 593
ADAPTIVE REGULATION 594
Chapter 91. Synergetic Games: A Contribution to the Abolition of War 596
ABSTRACT 596
KEYWORDS 596
INTRODUCTION 596
THE GENES OF HUMAN CULTURE 597
TOWARD A METATHEORY OF VALUE 598
SYNERGETIC GAME THEORY 599
THE GAME OF VENGEANCE! 600
REFERENCES 601
Chapter 92. Peace and Quality of Life 602
ABSTRACT 602
KEYWORDS 602
EDWARD SAPIR AND RUTH BENEDICT 602
SYNERGY AND HUMAN WELL-BEING 603
THE LESSON OF ALTRUISM 604
ORDER-CREATING PROCESSES AND HUMAN SYSTEMS 605
REFERENCES 607

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• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.5.2014
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Theorie / Studium
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
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• ISBN-10: 1-4831-9004-8 / 1483190048
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4831-9004-4 / 9781483190044