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This policy brief argues that the COVID-19 pandemic exposes the fractures in the contemporary global socio-technical order and offers the prospects of several different alternative futures.
Peter Wells +3 more
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Hedging Bitcoin with conventional assets
The recent 50% drop in the price of the flagship cryptocurrency Bitcoin reinforces the persistent anxiety among cryptocurrency investors. Can alternative assets hedge Bitcoin risk?
Ramzi Nekhili, Jahangir Sultan
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Cross-Hedging Portfolios in Emerging Stock Markets: Evidence for the LATIBEX Index
We consider alternative possibilities for hedging spot positions on the FTSE LATIBEX Index, the index of the only international market exclusively for Latin American firms that is denominated by the euro. Since there is not a futures market on the index,
Pablo Urtubia +2 more
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Mouthwashes: Alternatives and Future Directions
This narrative review summarises "alternative" or "natural" over-the-counter (OTC) mouthwashes not covered elsewhere in this supplement and newly emerging products, as potential mouthwashes of the future. The "natural" mouthwashes reviewed include saltwater, baking soda, coconut oil, charcoal, propolis, seaweeds, and probiotics.
Brett Duane +7 more
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Re-Imagining Alternative Futures through Empowerment
The physical conquest of European powers on the rest of the world for the imposition of an accumulation of wealth monopoly and the destruction of native societies remains the foundation of the current global economy. Despite concepts of human flourishing,
Claudia Milena Adler
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Designing Robust Prioritization Paradigm Focusing on Strategic Industries [PDF]
The conventional method for prioritizing in Futures Studies, is a methodology of key technologies in which with the attractiveness and feasibility criteria and via the expertbased process, options with greater priority are distinguished from each other ...
Mahdi Ahmadian +2 more
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Alternative with a Future [PDF]
AbstractIf you are looking for Susanna Friedel & Klaus Stolberg: Femtosecond Laser Micro Milling Using Special Trepanning Optics, Laser Tech. J. 14 (2), April 2017, pp. 24–27, please click here: 10.1002/latj.201700010.The threat of a ban on hard chrome plating of metal components from the beginning of September 2017 in Europe has led to the ...
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Visions of Alternative (Unpredictable) Futures and Their Use in Policy Analysis
The most critical task facing humanity today is the creation of a shared vision of a sustainable and desirable society, one that can provide permanent prosperity within the biophysical constraints of the real world in a way that is fair and equitable to ...
Robert Costanza
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Democratising and Anticipating Everyday Futures Through Critical Design: A Review of Exemplars
This article explores design’s relation with the future by analysing a collection of exemplars from design fiction and speculative design for their potential to democratise and anticipate visions of future everyday life in design.
Lenneke Kuijer
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The politics and imaginary of ‘autonomous vehicles’: a participatory journey
The Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs) pilot project set out to explore the alternative mobility imaginaries of participants. These imaginaries challenged the automated vision of the future presented by vehicle and technology companies.
Axelle Van Wynsberghe +1 more
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