Ethnographies of Drug Dealers

2021 ◽  
pp. 426-445
Author(s):  
Ric Curtis ◽  
Popy Begum
Keyword(s):  
Survey Data ◽  
Research Funding ◽  
Community Studies ◽  
Apparent Increase ◽  
Funded Research

This chapter examines how ethnographers and qualitative researchers have described drug dealers. Written as an interview, the chapter touches on many of the themes and tropes that have characterized the literature about drug dealers, including their propensity to violence, their hedonism, the apparent increase in the number of women in the business, their problematic family lives, and their lack of attachment to the workforce. The chapter explains how research funding that prioritized drug dealers at the bottom of the economic hierarchy and overlooked those at the top has sometimes led to peculiar characterizations of drug dealers and particular kinds of explanatory frameworks that are often rooted in thin subcultural soil. Ethnography about drug dealers in the service of government-funded research has transformed the field from ones dominated by individuals who conducted community studies to one where ethnographers work as part of a team to produce narrow findings that supplement, contextualize, and help explain survey data. Going forward, the ethnography of drug dealers will benefit from greater awareness of the importance of reflexivity in the field and from partnerships that enrich our understanding and act as a corrective to our individual myopic perspectives.

Experience-based guidelines for the implementation of telemedicine services

2005 ◽  
Vol 11 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 3-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
J A Brebner ◽  
E M Brebner ◽  
H Ruddick-Bracken
Keyword(s):  
Research Funding ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Work Practices ◽  
Exit Strategy ◽  
Technical Problems ◽  
Partial Failure ◽  
Funded Research ◽  
Successes And Failures

Many telemedicine projects fail to survive beyond the funded research phase. A review of seven Scottish telemedicine services was conducted to identify successes and failures. Qualitative interviews were conducted with key individuals in each project. All projects were partly successful. The main reasons associated with partial failure were: the service was not needs-driven; there was no commitment to provide the service; there was no suitable exit strategy after research funding expired; there was poor communication; there was a lack of training; there were technical problems; work practices were not updated; the protocols for use were poor or non-existent. Based on this, guidelines that might improve the chances of success in future projects were drawn up.

The Government and Pharmaceutical Innovation: Looking Back and Looking Ahead

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bhaven N. Sampat
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Research Funding ◽  
Pharmaceutical Innovation ◽  
Public Research ◽  
Publicly Funded ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Funded Research ◽  
The Government ◽  
Looking Back

AbstractCurrent debates about the roles of the public and private sectors in pharmaceutical innovation have a long history. The extent to which, and ways in which, the public sector supports drug innovation has implications for assessments of the returns to public research funding, taxpayer rights in drugs, the argument the high prices are needed to support drug innovation, and the desirability of patenting publicly funded research.

Community satisfaction, sense of community, and social well-being in China

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (11) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Zhixia Chen ◽  
Shuo Liu ◽  
Yanghang Yu ◽  
Thomson Raphael Bwanali ◽  
Veomanyphet Douangdara
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Community Studies ◽  
Community Satisfaction ◽  
Research Attention ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
The Impact

Social well-being in communities has received little research attention, particularly regarding the impact of community satisfaction on social well-being. Thus, we examined the link between community satisfaction and social well-being in the Chinese cultural context, and investigated whether sense of community mediates this relationship. We collected survey data from 572 residents living in various communities in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, and used regression analysis to test the hypotheses. Results reveal that community satisfaction was positively related to social well-being, and sense of community played a mediating role in this relationship. Our findings provide a culture- and location-specific perspective of community satisfaction and social well-being in China and highlight the importance of social well-being in community studies.

National Standards for Public Involvement in Research: missing the forest for the trees

2018 ◽  
Vol 44 (12) ◽  
pp. 801-804 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew S McCoy ◽  
Karin Rolanda Jongsma ◽  
Phoebe Friesen ◽  
Michael Dunn ◽  
Carolyn Plunkett Neuhaus ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Biomedical Research ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Research Funding ◽  
Public Involvement ◽  
National Standards ◽  
The Public ◽  
Funded Research ◽  
Research Organisations ◽  
The Uk

Biomedical research funding bodies across Europe and North America increasingly encourage—and, in some cases, require—investigators to involve members of the public in funded research. Yet there remains a striking lack of clarity about what ‘good’ or ‘successful’ public involvement looks like. In an effort to provide guidance to investigators and research organisations, representatives of several key research funding bodies in the UK recently came together to develop the National Standards for Public Involvement in Research. The Standards have critical implications for the future of biomedical research in the UK and in other countries as researchers and funders abroad look to the Standards as a model for their own policy development. We assess the Standards and find that despite offering useful suggestions for dealing with practical challenges associated with public involvement, the Standards fail to address fundamental questions about when, why and with whom public involvement should be undertaken in the first place. We show that presented without this justificatory context, many of the recommendations in the Standards are, at best, fragments that require substantial elaboration by those looking to apply the Standards in their own work and, at worst, subject to potentially harmful misapplication by well-meaning investigators. As funding bodies increasingly push for public involvement in research, the key lesson of our analysis is that future recommendations about how public involvement should be conducted cannot be coherently formulated without a clear sense of the underlying goals and rationales for public involvement.

Issues in Networking and Research Funding for the European Association of Health Law

2008 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 307-317
Author(s):  
Anne-Marie Duguet ◽  
David Townend
Keyword(s):  
Research Funding ◽  
European Association ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Academic Life ◽  
Health Law ◽  
External Funding ◽  
Funded Research ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Special Expertise

AbstractAll academics, perhaps with the exception of those who are hermits with independent private means, are concerned with questions of networking and research funding. The nature of academic life is to search out new ideas and revisit old ones, and to discuss these ideas with others. This requires networks of colleagues and funding to provide the basic resources of time and literature. This may be at the local level, but increasingly the expectation is that these activities should become more and more elaborate; our networks are now international, and our time and resources cost ever increasing amounts which, for many if not most academics, must be found outside the general budget of the home University. Our success as academics is measured, in increasing part, on our ability to show our networking and external funding credentials. There is a more resounding reason to pursue both networking and externally funded research: through such projects the experience of each individual can be increased such that the result is far greater than one could achieve alone. Networking and external funding are not ends in themselves, but they can and should be a great enhancement to academic life and contribution. None of this is news or a novel claim; it is simply today's environment.This paper considers some opportunities for how networking and externally funded research might help the EAHL to realise its aims in developing the discipline of health law. We, as authors, do not claim any special expertise in the area, and readers are quite justified in thinking “who are they to talk to us about what we clearly know much more about?” However, we were asked to start a discussion at the inaugural conference of the Association, and the thoughts that we present now were designed to do that. It is a discussion which will form one of the early activities of the Association. Here the paper is divided first issues concerning networking, and second those concerning research funding from sources external to one's home University. We draw upon our own experiences, and would be grateful to hear of better examples, and particularly about contradictory experiences.

Energy Distribution in Electron Beams

1972 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 568-569
Author(s):  
Tamotsu Ohno
Keyword(s):  
Electron Beam ◽  
Energy Distribution ◽  
Cross Section ◽  
Integral Curve ◽  
Electron Beams ◽  
Electron Gun ◽  
Angular Divergence ◽  
Apparent Increase ◽  
Integral Width ◽  
The Cross

The energy distribution in an electron; beam from an electron gun provided with a biased Wehnelt cylinder was measured by a retarding potential analyser. All the measurements were carried out with a beam of small angular divergence (<3xl0-4 rad) to eliminate the apparent increase of energy width as pointed out by Ichinokawa.The cross section of the beam from a gun with a tungsten hairpin cathode varies as shown in Fig.1a with the bias voltage Vg. The central part of the beam was analysed. An example of the integral curve as well as the energy spectrum is shown in Fig.2. The integral width of the spectrum ΔEi varies with Vg as shown in Fig.1b The width ΔEi is smaller than the Maxwellian width near the cut-off. As |Vg| is decreased, ΔEi increases beyond the Maxwellian width, reaches a maximum and then decreases. Note that the cross section of the beam enlarges with decreasing |Vg|.

Is the Personal Always Political?

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 133-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danny Osborne ◽  
Yannick Dufresne ◽  
Gregory Eady ◽  
Jennifer Lees-Marshment ◽  
Cliff van der Linden
Keyword(s):  
Survey Data ◽  
National Survey ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Openness To Experience ◽  
Political Sophistication ◽  
Knowledge Based

Abstract. Research demonstrates that the negative relationship between Openness to Experience and conservatism is heightened among the informed. We extend this literature using national survey data (Study 1; N = 13,203) and data from students (Study 2; N = 311). As predicted, education – a correlate of political sophistication – strengthened the negative relationship between Openness and conservatism (Study 1). Study 2 employed a knowledge-based measure of political sophistication to show that the Openness × Political Sophistication interaction was restricted to the Openness aspect of Openness. These studies demonstrate that knowledge helps people align their ideology with their personality, but that the Openness × Political Sophistication interaction is specific to one aspect of Openness – nuances that are overlooked in the literature.

Accuracy of provider-supplied human resources survey data.

1984 ◽  
Vol 39 (12) ◽  
pp. 1485-1486 ◽  
Author(s):  
David J. Knesper ◽  
David J. Pagnucco
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Survey Data
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