scholarly journals The new nutrition science project

2005 ◽  
Vol 8 (6a) ◽  
pp. 673-694 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Cannon ◽  
Claus Leitzmann
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Economic ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
First Century ◽  
Science Project ◽  
Current Definition ◽  
Nutrition Science ◽  
Food And Nutrition ◽  
Continuous Text ◽  
Life On Earth

AbstractObjectiveTo show that nutrition science, with its application to food and nutrition policy, now needs a new conceptual framework. This will incorporate nutrition in its current definition as principally a biological science, now including nutritional aspects of genomics. It will also create new governing and guiding principles; specify a new definition; and add social and environmental dimensions and domains.MethodA narrative review of nutrition science, its successes and achievements, and its dilemmas, paradoxes, shortcomings, dissonances and challenges. Reference is made to 16 associated papers. Equal use is made of continuous text and of boxed texts that extend the review and give salient examples.ResultsRecent and current interrelated electronic and genomic discoveries and linked sequential demographic, nutritional and epidemiological shifts, in the context of associated and interlinked global social, cultural, environmental, economic, political and other developments, altogether amount to a world in revolution, requiring all disciplines including that of nutrition science to make comparably radical responses.ConclusionNutrition in principle and practice should be a biological and also an environmental and social science. This new broad integrated structure brings much recent and current progressive work into the centre of nutrition science, and in some ways is a renewal of the period when nutrition science had its greatest impact. It amounts to a map charting well-known and also new worlds. The new nutrition science is concerned with personal and population health, and also with planetary health – the welfare and future of the whole physical and living world of which humans are a part. In this way the discipline will make a greater contribution to the preservation, maintenance, development and sustenance of life on Earth, appropriate for the twenty-first century.

scholarly journals The principles, definition and dimensions of the new nutrition science

2005 ◽  
Vol 8 (6a) ◽  
pp. 695-698 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Beauman ◽  
Geoffrey Cannon ◽  
Ibrahim Elmadfa ◽  
Peter Glasauer ◽  
Ingrid Hoffmann ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Population Health ◽  
Environmental Science ◽  
Biological Science ◽  
Great Width ◽  
Planetary Health ◽  
Nutrition Science ◽  
Food And Nutrition ◽  
Life On Earth ◽  
Agreed Definition

AbstractObjectiveTo specify the principles, definition and dimensions of the new nutrition science.PurposeTo identify nutrition, with its application in food and nutrition policy, as a science with great width and breadth of vision and scope, in order that it can fully contribute to the preservation, maintenance, development and sustenance of life on Earth.MethodA brief overview shows that current conventional nutrition is defined as a biological science, although its governing and guiding principles are implicit only, and no generally agreed definition is evident. Following are agreements on the principles, definition and dimensions of the new nutrition science, made by the authors as participants at a workshop on this theme held on 5–8 April 2005 at the Schloss Rauischholzhausen, Justus-Liebig University, Giessen, Germany.ResultNutrition science as here specified will retain its current [classical] identity as a biological science, within a broader and integrated conceptual framework, and will also be confirmed as a social and environmental science. As such it will be concerned with personal and population health, and with planetary health – the welfare and future of the whole physical and living world of which humans are a part.

scholarly journals Fortellinger om 1814: Forestillingen om det eksepsjonelle norske demokrati

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mari Kristine Jore
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Popular Sovereignty ◽  
National Narratives ◽  
Science Project ◽  
School Project ◽  
Classroom Conversations ◽  
Immigration Regulation

The focus of this article is an educational encounter during a social science project at a junior high school in Norway. The topic of the school project was the Norwegian Constitution of 1814. In this Constitution, many of the ideas of the French and American revolutions had been adopted, e.g. popular sovereignty and the separation of power. Nevertheless, the Constitution also reflected intolerant ideas, especially with regards to the so-called Jews-paragraph, whereby Protestantism was proclaimed, and Jews were excluded from the Norwegian state. In the educational encounter analyzed in this article, I argue that the notion of an exceptional Norwegian democracy affects the narrative constructed about the Norwegian Constitution. This notion serves to exclude the Jews-paragraph from the narrative. The postcolonial concept of Nordic exceptionalism constitutes an important theoretical framework for the analyses of the educational encounter. In the contemporary Norwegian society, immigration regulation by laws again has relevance. This article, therefore, discusses the critical classroom conversations thematizing the Jews-paragraph could have led to, by pointing at different historical and present-day topics of relevance. The discussion implicates the importance of recognizing the role and impact state-led control, violations and exclusion of minorities have in Norwegian history. Not recognizing these aspects of history can lead to the production and reproduction of idealized and exceptional national narratives.

Transfer or Translation? Rethinking Traveling Technologies from the Global South

2022 ◽  
pp. 016224392110722
Author(s):  
Miao Lu ◽  
Jack Linchuan Qiu
Keyword(s):  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Global South ◽  
First Century ◽  
Technical Approach ◽  
Narrow Focus ◽  
New Space ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Human Actors

Technology flows are becoming increasingly diverse in the twenty-first century, calling for an update of concepts and frameworks. Reflecting on the inherent tensions of technology transfer, including its technocratic dreams, insensitivity to technological materiality, and narrow focus on certain human actors, we propose technology translation as a complementary conceptual framework to understand traveling technologies. Taking a socio-technical approach, technology translation views artifacts as socially shaped with distributed agency, which makes technology flows unstable and unpredictable. In so doing, we develop a typology to explain five technology flow scenarios, shedding new light on the mechanisms of technology traveling by foregrounding the role of translators. Last, we discuss the politics of translation and elaborate how technology translation opens new space to engage with the complexity and uncertainty of technology flows, especially in the Global South.

An Improved Method of Automated Nonparametric Content Analysis for Social Science

2022 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Connor T. Jerzak ◽  
Gary King ◽  
Anton Strezhnev
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Nonparametric Estimation ◽  
Population Characteristics ◽  
Improved Method ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Direct Estimation ◽  
Text Features ◽  
Test Sets ◽  
Continuous Text

Abstract Some scholars build models to classify documents into chosen categories. Others, especially social scientists who tend to focus on population characteristics, instead usually estimate the proportion of documents in each category—using either parametric “classify-and-count” methods or “direct” nonparametric estimation of proportions without individual classification. Unfortunately, classify-and-count methods can be highly model-dependent or generate more bias in the proportions even as the percent of documents correctly classified increases. Direct estimation avoids these problems, but can suffer when the meaning of language changes between training and test sets or is too similar across categories. We develop an improved direct estimation approach without these issues by including and optimizing continuous text features, along with a form of matching adapted from the causal inference literature. Our approach substantially improves performance in a diverse collection of 73 datasets. We also offer easy-to-use software that implements all ideas discussed herein.

scholarly journals MAPPING LEGAL RESEARCH

2012 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 651-676 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mathias M. Siems ◽  
Daithí Mac Síthigh
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
General Result ◽  
Law Schools ◽  
Legal Research ◽  
The Us ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Relationship

This article aims to map the position of academic legal research, using a distinction between “law as a practical discipline”, “law as humanities” and “law as social sciences” as a conceptual framework. Having explained this framework, we address both the “macro” and “micro” level of legal research in the UK. For this purpose, we have collected information on the position of all law schools within the structure of their respective universities. We also introduce “ternary plots” as a new way of explaining individual research preferences. Our general result is that all three categories play a role within the context of UK legal academia, though the relationship between the “macro” and the “micro” level is not always straight-forward. We also provide comparisons with the US and Germany and show that in all three countries law as an academic tradition has been constantly evolving, raising questions such as whether the UK could or should move further to a social science model already dominant in the US.

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