Show Me the Cash: Direct Benefits Transfer in India

This descriptive qualitative study explored Latinx mothers’ acceptance of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine for their adolescent children. Data were collected through individual, semi-structured interviews and analyzed using a hybrid method of thematic analysis that incorporated deductive and inductive approaches. Twenty-two ( n = 22), mostly foreign-born, Latinx mothers of male and female adolescents participated in the study. Three main themes and nine subthemes emerged from the analyses. Findings identified the need for increased efforts to raise awareness and knowledge among Latinx mothers of the direct benefits of the HPV vaccine for sons, including stressing prevention of HPV-associated cancers in males. Findings also underscore the need for improved health care providers’ communication and recommendation of the HPV vaccine for Latinx adolescent males. Future research should intervene upon the study’s findings to address barriers that remain and affect Latinx mothers’ acceptance and uptake of the HPV vaccine for their children, in particular their sons.

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Large scale land investments and food security in agropastoral areas of Ethiopia

Food Security ◽

10.1007/s12571-020-01131-x ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Adugna Eneyew Bekele ◽

Liesbeth Dries ◽

Wim Heijman ◽

Dusan Drabik

Keyword(s):

Food Security ◽

Food Intake ◽

Large Scale ◽

Living Standard ◽

Additional Food ◽

The World Bank ◽

Direct Benefits ◽

Large Scale Land ◽

Household Food Consumption ◽

Positive Effect

AbstractIn Ethiopia, large scale land investments have been expanding into pastoral regions. However, little is known about the consequences of these investments on the food security of the pastoral community. Using Living Standard Measurement Survey data of the World Bank, we find that, on average, about 32% of the respondents from the (agro-)pastoral regions are food insecure. After controlling for confounders, proximity to large scale land investments is associated with additional food intake of up to 745 kcal per day per adult compared to the households located farther away from a large scale land investment. Proximity to large scale land investment has no significant effect on the coping strategies based food security. For households located in proximity to a large scale land investment, food intake significantly increases with access to roads and markets. Proximity to a large scale land investment has a positive effect on household food consumption not necessarily because of direct benefits from large scale land investments, but due to land and soil quality near the large scale land investments.

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Vehicular Crowdsourcing for Congestion Support in Smart Cities

Smart Cities ◽

10.3390/smartcities4020034 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 662-685

Author(s):

Stephan Olariu

Keyword(s):

Smart City ◽

Large Scale ◽

Smart Cities ◽

Traffic Signal Control ◽

Signal Timing ◽

Adaptive Traffic Signal Control ◽

Traffic Conditions ◽

Direct Benefits ◽

Traffic Signal Control Systems ◽

Computational Resources

Under present-day practices, the vehicles on our roadways and city streets are mere spectators that witness traffic-related events without being able to participate in the mitigation of their effect. This paper lays the theoretical foundations of a framework for harnessing the on-board computational resources in vehicles stuck in urban congestion in order to assist transportation agencies with preventing or dissipating congestion through large-scale signal re-timing. Our framework is called VACCS: Vehicular Crowdsourcing for Congestion Support in Smart Cities. What makes this framework unique is that we suggest that in such situations the vehicles have the potential to cooperate with various transportation authorities to solve problems that otherwise would either take an inordinate amount of time to solve or cannot be solved for lack for adequate municipal resources. VACCS offers direct benefits to both the driving public and the Smart City. By developing timing plans that respond to current traffic conditions, overall traffic flow will improve, carbon emissions will be reduced, and economic impacts of congestion on citizens and businesses will be lessened. It is expected that drivers will be willing to donate under-utilized on-board computing resources in their vehicles to develop improved signal timing plans in return for the direct benefits of time savings and reduced fuel consumption costs. VACCS allows the Smart City to dynamically respond to traffic conditions while simultaneously reducing investments in the computational resources that would be required for traditional adaptive traffic signal control systems.

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Direct benefits explain interspecific variation in helping behaviour among cooperatively breeding birds

Nature Communications ◽

10.1038/s41467-017-01299-5 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Sjouke A. Kingma

Keyword(s):

Interspecific Variation ◽

Breeding Birds ◽

Direct Benefits ◽

Cooperatively Breeding ◽

Helping Behaviour

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The Effects the Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer for Children Demonstration has on Children’s Food Security

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy ◽

10.1093/aepp/ppw030 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 39 (3) ◽

pp. 516-532 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Jacob Alex Klerman ◽

Anne Wolf ◽

Ann Collins ◽

Stephen Bell ◽

Ronette Briefel

Keyword(s):

Food Security ◽

Benefits Transfer ◽

Electronic Benefits Transfer

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Countryside within the City: A Motivating Vision behind Civic Green Area Stewardship in Warsaw, Poland

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su12062313 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (6) ◽

pp. 2313 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Joanna Sanecka ◽

Stephan Barthel ◽

Johan Colding

Keyword(s):

Sense Of Community ◽

Shared Vision ◽

Theory Approach ◽

Motivating Factors ◽

Global Sustainability ◽

Green Area ◽

Direct Benefits ◽

Inner World ◽

The City ◽

Grounded Theory Approach

In the midst of the epoch of the Urban Anthropocene, citizen engagement is an important step on the path of creating local and global sustainability. However, the factors that motivate civic urban dwellers to become voluntary stewards of nature environments inside cities need research. This is an empirical study based on deep interviews and a grounded theory approach focused on the “inner world” of people in Warsaw, Poland, that engage in green area stewardship. Our approach reveals a commonly shared vision as the prime motivator powering agency in green area stewardship. This vision was articulated as creating a countryside within the city characterized by a stronger sense of community, a shared sense of place and an enhanced connection with nature. While other studies have found inner values or direct benefits as motivating factors for engaging in urban stewardship, we instead found a green vision for re-designing what the “urban” could be like as the prime motivator for transformation—a vision with potential global sustainability implications.

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