Foupana Concrete Bridge Repair Case Study - Stakeholders Integrated Analysis

INCREaSE 2019 ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 1016-1030
Author(s):  
Roberto Laranja ◽  
Miguel José Oliveira ◽  
Elisa M. J. Silva ◽  
Fernando Barata
2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonie M.E.A. Cornips ◽  
Vincent de Rooij ◽  
Irene Stengs

This article aims to encourage the interdisciplinary study of ‘languaculture,’ an approach to language and culture in which ideology, linguistic and cultural forms, as well as praxis are studied in relation to one another. An integrated analysis of the selection of linguistic and cultural elements provides insight into how these choices arise from internalized norms and values, and how people position themselves toward received categories and hegemonic ideologies. An interdisciplinary approach will stimulate a rethinking of established concepts and methods of research. It will also lead to a mutual strengthening of linguistic, sociolinguistic, and anthropological research. This contribution focuses on Limburg and the linguistic political context of this Southern-Netherlands region where people are strongly aware of their linguistic distinctiveness. The argument of the paper is based on a case study of languaculture, viz. the carnivalesque song ‘Naar Talia’ (To Italy) by the Getske Boys from the city of Heerlen.


PLoS ONE ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. e0174090 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Campobello ◽  
J. Lindström ◽  
R. Di Maggio ◽  
M. Sarà

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2012 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
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L. MacGregor ◽  
S. Bouchrara ◽  
J. Tomlinson ◽  
U. Strecker ◽  
J. Fan ◽  
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2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 52-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaeseong Oh ◽  
Sojeong Yi ◽  
Namyi Gu ◽  
Dongseong Shin ◽  
Kyung-Sang Yu ◽  
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2009 ◽  
Vol 96 (9) ◽  
pp. 148-153
Author(s):  
Thiem Jenngamkul ◽  
Chakree Bamrungwong ◽  
Kitti Manokhoon ◽  
Putthipong H'wattana ◽  
Walawat Binuma ◽  
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2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 844 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johannes Halbe ◽  
Claudia Pahl-Wostl

Abstract: Sustainability transitions require societal change at multiple levels ranging from individual behavioral change to community projects, businesses that offer sustainable products as well as policy-makers that set suitable incentive structures. Concepts, methods and tools are currently lacking that help to initiate and design transition governance processes based upon an encompassing understanding of such diverse interactions of actors and intervention points. This article presents a methodological framework for the initiation and design of transition governance processes. Based upon a conceptualization of sustainability transitions as multilevel learning processes, the methodological framework includes participatory modeling, a systematic literature review and governance system analysis to identify social units (learning subjects and contexts), challenges (learning objects) and intervention points (learning factors) relevant for initiating case-specific transition governance processes. A case study on sustainable food systems in Ontario, Canada is provided to exemplify the application of the methodological framework. The results demonstrate the merit of combining stakeholder-based and expert-based methods, as several learning factors identified in the participatory process could not be found in the general literature, and vice versa. The methodological framework allowed for an integrated analysis of the diversity of existing initiatives in the case study region and specific intervention points to support place-based sustainability innovations. Initiators of transition governance processes can use the results by designing targeted interventions to facilitate and coordinate existing initiatives or by setting new impulses through purposeful action.


2008 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. CIN.S633 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li-Xuan Qin

Background MicroRNAs are believed to play an important role in gene expression regulation. They have been shown to be involved in cell cycle regulation and cancer. MicroRNA expression profiling became available owing to recent technology advancement. In some studies, both microRNA expression and mRNA expression are measured, which allows an integrated analysis of microRNA and mRNA expression. Results We demonstrated three aspects of an integrated analysis of microRNA and mRNA expression, through a case study of human cancer data. We showed that (1) microRNA expression efficiently sorts tumors from normal tissues regardless of tumor type, while gene expression does not; (2) many microRNAs are down-regulated in tumors and these microRNAs can be clustered in two ways: microRNAs similarly affected by cancer and microRNAs similarly interacting with genes; (3) taking let-7f as an example, targets genes can be identified and they can be clustered based on their relationship with let-7f expression. Discussion Our findings in this paper were made using novel applications of existing statistical methods: hierarchical clustering was applied with a new distance measure–the co-clustering frequency–to identify sample clusters that are stable; microRNA-gene correlation profiles were subject to hierarchical clustering to identify microRNAs that similarly interact with genes and hence are likely functionally related; the clustering of regression models method was applied to identify microRNAs similarly related to cancer while adjusting for tissue type and genes similarly related to microRNA while adjusting for disease status. These analytic methods are applicable to interrogate multiple types of -omics data in general.


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