Context-specific Knowledge Is the “Key” to Salsa Music

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Laura M. Getz ◽  
Scott Barton ◽  
Lynn K. Perry
Keyword(s):  
Specific Knowledge ◽  
Salsa Music ◽  
Context Specific

Traditional water knowledge: challenges and opportunities to build resilience to urban floods

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rumana Asad ◽  
Iftekhar Ahmed ◽  
Josephine Vaughan ◽  
Jason von Meding
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Water Use ◽  
Global South ◽  
Ecological Knowledge ◽  
Specific Knowledge ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Context Specific ◽  
Water Values

Purpose Urban flooding in developing countries of the Global South is growing due to extreme rainfall and sea-level rise induced by climate change, as well as the proliferation of impervious, built-up areas resulting from unplanned urbanisation and development. Continuous loss of traditional knowledge related to local water management practices, and the de-valuing of such knowledge that goes hand-in-hand with globalised aspirations, is inhibiting flood resilience efforts. This paper aims to address the need to include traditional water knowledge (TWK) in urban living and development processes in the Global South. Design/methodology/approach This paper commences with a review of existing frameworks that focus on natural resource management, critically assessing two existing frameworks of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK). The assessment of the existing approaches contributes to this paper’s development of a novel framework to promote TWK with regard to resilience and risk reduction, specifically for developing flood adaptive strategies, which is the second stage of this paper. Finally, the paper explains how the framework can contribute to the field of urban design and planning using examples from the literature to demonstrate challenges and opportunities related to the adaptation of such a framework. Findings The framework developed in this paper reveals three proposed vertices of TWK, named as place-based landscape knowledge, water use and management and water values. This framework has the potential to produce context-specific knowledge that can contribute to flood-resilient built-environment through urban design and practices. Research limitations/implications The framework developed in this paper reveals three proposed vertices of TWK, named place-based landscape knowledge, water use and management and water values. This framework has the potential to produce context-specific knowledge that can contribute to flood-resilient built-environment through urban design and practices. Originality/value Within the field of TEK research, very few researchers have explored the field of developing flood resilience in an urban context. The proposed TWK framework presented in this paper will help to fill that gap.

Concept Science

2017 ◽  
pp. 103-116
Keyword(s):  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Learning Objects ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
Conceptual Content ◽  
Specific Knowledge ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Unstructured Text ◽  
Meaning Equivalence ◽  
Context Specific ◽  
The University

This chapter describe the evolution of Concept Science that gave rise to Concept Parsing Algorithms (CPA). Concept Science developed ways to clarify conceptual content encoded in unstructured text that communicate context-specific knowledge in a sublanguage within a discipline. It was developed and tested since the early 1990s at the University of Toronto and Ryerson University in Toronto (Shafrir and Etkind, 2010). Concept Science lead to Pedagogy for Conceptual Thinking with Meaning Equivalence Reusable Learning Objects (MERLO) that offer a powerful tool for engaging and motivating students, and enhancing learning outcomes. This chapter describe some of Concept Science-based tools that provide new ways to discover, encode, and manage knowledge in large digital libraries of unstructured text in educational, governmental, NGO, and business organizations.

Knowledge Sharing in Consulting Companies: Opportunities and Limitations of Knowledge Codification

2005 ◽  
Vol 04 (03) ◽  
pp. 201-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Snejina Michailova ◽  
Akshey Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Common Belief ◽  
Specific Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Codification ◽  
Knowledge Requirements ◽  
The Common ◽  
Knowledge Intensive ◽  
Context Specific ◽  
Organisational Level

This paper is a study of the knowledge-sharing difficulties experienced by three departments in a knowledge-intensive firm. The case organisation is a global consulting firm that has been on the forefront of knowledge management and has won several knowledge management related international acclaims. Our analysis shows that there are strong disincentives in place for departments to share knowledge. We found that the nature of the businesses of the departments was very different and so were their knowledge requirements and their preferred ways to seek knowledge. Additionally, confidentiality agreements with clients and lack of cross-departmental interaction inhibited knowledge sharing outside departmental boundaries. Contrary to the common belief in the organisation, we found that one single IT system could not satisfy the context-specific knowledge-sharing needs of the different departments. We suggest that some very recent breakthrough technologies could be applied to facilitate cross-departmental knowledge sharing provided they are implemented at the strategic organisational level.

scholarly journals Identification of Context-Specific Knowledge as a Tool for Biogas Facilitators and Their Quality Involvement—Using Vietnamese Practice as an Example

Energies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 1326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hynek Roubík ◽  
Jana Mazancová
Keyword(s):  
Transition Process ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Target Area ◽  
Specific Knowledge ◽  
Extension Services ◽  
Current State ◽  
Central Vietnam ◽  
Biogas Plants ◽  
Context Specific ◽  
Quality Assessments

In Central Vietnam, two key actors are involved in the extension performance of biogas technology: The owners of biogas plants and facilitators. Facilitators as the immediate providers of advice and services are in direct contact with local farmers and belong to the Vietnamese national extension network. This paper aims at identifying the current state of extension services and creating proper recommendations for further processes of training in the target area through the identification of context-specific knowledge (CSK). CSK can serve as a tool for facilitators and their quality involvement and for the improvement of current training practices in the area. It also provides performance indicators (PIs) for facilitators’ quality assessments. PIs should be consistent parts of the educational process for the evaluation of knowledge transmission success. More research in terms of facilitator’s impacts on the knowledge transition process towards the biogas owners should be done to prove the sustainability of the extension services.

scholarly journals Syrian refugees perspectives on substance use

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (Supplement_3) ◽  
Author(s):  
J Lindert ◽  
Ingo Schäfer
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Syrian Refugees ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Specific Knowledge ◽  
The Past ◽  
Tailored Interventions ◽  
Ecological Understanding ◽  
Audio Recordings ◽  
Professional Treatment ◽  
Context Specific

Abstract Background Little is known about Syrian refugees ‘perspectives on substance use. Syrians have been the largest groups of refugees in Germany since 2014. To investigate Syrian refugees’ perspectives on substance use we applied a qualitative study design. Methods Five semi-structured focus group discussions with a total of 19 refugees were conducted in 2019 among the difficult to reach population of Syrian refugees. Audio recordings were translated and transcribed, and inductive thematic was analysis conducted. Results The following common themes were identified: (a) perception that substances are widely accepted and available in Germany; (b) availability of substances is linked to rules and norms in Germany which are different in Syria, (c) and to the intention to escape not only the past (d) but the present and finally that (e) mental health professional treatment for substance use is associated with shame. Conclusions Findings support Syrian refugees ‘perspectives of substance use as a way of escaping past and present in a socio-ecological understanding which includes past and present exposures. Understanding the explanatory model of Syrian refugees can inform future interventions to prevent substance abuse and design tailored interventions. Further studies with Syrian refugees in more countries are needed to better understand resettled refugees’ perspectives on substance use. Messages The intention to escape past and present elucidates links between the context of using substances and context of feeling rejected. Context specific knowledge of substance use is necessary which includes past and present factors.

Exploiting Codified User Task Knowledge to Discover Services at Design-Time

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 30-66
Author(s):  
Konstantinos Zachos ◽  
Angela Kounkou ◽  
Neil A. M. Maiden
Keyword(s):  
Service Discovery ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Specific Knowledge ◽  
Codified Knowledge ◽  
Task Knowledge ◽  
Design Time ◽  
User Tasks ◽  
Context Specific

Most techniques for engineering service-based applications do not explicitly exploit knowledge about users and their tasks. In this paper the authors hypothesize that codified knowledge about user tasks can improve service discovery at design-time. It reports the extension of an existing service discovery algorithm to match service queries to user task models then reformulate the service queries with task-specific knowledge in order to improve discovery precision and recall scores. An empirical investigation of the extended algorithm revealed that, in order to deliver significant benefits, user task models need to describe more context-specific knowledge with which to extend service queries.

scholarly journals Learning “To Be” Kinyarwanda in Postgenocide Rwanda: Immersion, Iteration, and Reflexivity in Times of Transition

2015 ◽  
Vol 30 (02) ◽  
pp. 277-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bert Ingelaere
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Transitional Justice ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Research Activity ◽  
Specific Knowledge ◽  
Basic Tenet ◽  
Justice Process ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Context Specific ◽  
Court Process

Abstract The research activity generating data in times of transition is subject to politicization and needs to deal with widespread distrust due to the legacy of violence or atrocity. This article discusses the main principles of a research design that took into account these hindrances by making prudence its basic tenet. The objective was to generate understanding of the functioning of Rwanda’s gacaca court process through a heightened awareness in data collection. In doing so, this article calls attention to the importance of a reflective and adaptive research process in times of transitional justice. Two research principles are discussed in detail: immersion and iteration. The latter were adopted to facilitate the generation of context-specific knowledge on both breadth and depth of the transitional justice process. This article demonstrates how a pragmatic stance that draws on a variety of epistemologies and methodological approaches facilitates data collection as well as navigation of the field of study. It will be argued that data collection and the activity of navigating the field while collecting data reciprocally produce knowledge.

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