Insurgent Collaboration

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 106-110
Author(s):  
Linda E. Sánchez ◽  
Susan Bibler Coutin
Keyword(s):  
Central America ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
Immigrant Communities ◽  
Research Model ◽  
Research Initiatives ◽  
Do So

Scholarship regarding those who are categorized as undocumented can put sanctuary principles into practice in research settings. To do so, scholars can conduct research in collaboration with immigrant communities, reject essentializing terminology, develop modes of sociality that challenge exclusion, and document the unofficial forms of sanctuary devised by members of immigrant communities. This research model is grounded in principles of accompaniment that were followed by 1980s activists who offered sanctuary to those fleeing wars in Central America. Examples of research initiatives and educational programs that follow such principles are presented.

In Celebration of the New “Journal of Disaster Research”

2006 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-5
Author(s):  
Joseph Penzien ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Economic Loss ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Human Suffering ◽  
Disaster Prevention ◽  
Disaster Research ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Do So

It is indeed a pleasure for me to express my congratulations on the establishment of the new “Journal of Disaster Research” which will provide valuable information toward disaster prevention and mitigation. In recent years, global societies have experienced many natural and human-caused disasters, such as those produced by earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, tornadoes, cyclones, floods, design and construction deficiencies, and terroristic acts, thus producing great human suffering and economic loss. As populations continue to grow, the risks associated with such disasters will likewise continue to grow, unless effective measures are developed and implemented to mitigate their effects. To do so will require coordinated multi-disciplinary efforts involving researchers, educators, practicing engineers and architects, city and regional planners, specialists of finance and economics, construction managers, social workers, and health officials. Recognizing this need for coordinated efforts, multi-disciplinary research centers are beginning to emerge, educational programs are broadening in scope, journals are expanding topic coverage, and practicing professionals are modifying their activities accordingly. The new “Journal of Disaster Research” can have a very positive influence on such changes by publishing timely research papers, articles on professional advances in technological development and application, and other disaster related materials. In closing, let me again express my congratulations on the establishment of the “Journal of Disaster Research” and extend my very best wishes for its success.

scholarly journals Recognition and screening for Chagas disease in the USA

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 204993612110460
Author(s):  
Rachel Marcus ◽  
Andrés F. Henao-Martínez ◽  
Melissa Nolan ◽  
Elizabeth Livingston ◽  
Stephen A. Klotz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Central America ◽  
Chagas Disease ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
Medical Community ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Cardiac Complications ◽  
Public Health Concern ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Maternal Fetal Transmission

Chagas disease (CD), caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, is a public health concern, mainly among countries in South and Central America. However, despite the large number of immigrants from endemic countries living in the USA, awareness of CD is poor in the medical community, and therefore it is significantly underdiagnosed. To avoid the catastrophic cardiac complications of CD and to prevent maternal–fetal transmission, widespread educational programs highlighting the need for diagnosis are urgently needed.

Geography and Foreign Policy, II

1938 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas J. Spykman
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Central America ◽  
The Other ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
Large Power ◽  
Regional Location ◽  
Conditioning Effect ◽  
Balkan States ◽  
Do So

In the first part of this article, we analyzed the effect of size and world location on the international relations of states and the problems of foreign policy. But more immediate in its conditioning effect is regional location—location viewed with reference to the immediate vicinity.Like world location, regional location is a question of facts plus the significance of those facts at any given historical period. Just as it was found necessary to consider world location in relation to two systems of reference, the geographic and the historical, so the full meaning of regional location becomes apparent only after considering both the geography and the historical and political significance of a state's immediate surroundings.Regional location determines whether neighbors will be many or few, strong or weak, and the topography of the region conditions the direction and nature of contact with those neighbors. The man who once formulated the foreign policy of Manchuria had to do so with one eye on Japan and the other on Russia; every international gesture of Belgium is conditioned by the fact that she lies between France and Germany and across the Channel from Great Britain; and the states of Central America can never for a moment forget that the territory north of them is occupied by one large power and not by several whom they might play off one against the other as their European counterparts, the Balkan states, have been able to do from time to time with their northern neighbors.

scholarly journals But are they actually healthier?

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristina Baines
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
World Health ◽  
Social Boundaries ◽  
Immigrant Communities ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Ethnographic Data ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Do So

A holistic definition of ‘health’ remains difficult to operationalize, despite decades of attempts by medical anthropologists and the World Health Organization to do so. Anthropologists routinely reject dichotomous notions – belief vs. knowledge, wellness vs. health, mental vs. physical, environment vs. self – yet demands for physiological evidence of ‘health’ persist. In this article, I ask what evidence would sufficiently demonstrate health, and explore the possibility of measures that move beyond the physiological. Using ethnographic data collected in indigenous Maya communities in Belize and in immigrant communities in New York City, I argue that ecological heritage practices can provide a lens through which to locate and collect evidence of health, holistically defined. Developing a framework of ‘embodied ecological heritage’ (EEH), I discuss how communities and individuals communicate and measure health as part of everyday ecological activities, which they describe as ‘traditional’ or ‘heritage’ practices. Theorizing unexpected links and feedback loops, which cross temporal, spatial, and social boundaries, I assert that health is connected to practice through tangible, embodied experience and that ethnography thus provides powerful evidence to understand and define it.

Social variables and Turkish subject pronoun use in New York City: The effect of language contact

2016 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Didem Koban Koç
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Central America ◽  
York City ◽  
Language Contact ◽  
Immigrant Communities ◽  
Social Variables ◽  
Personal Pronouns ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Subject Pronoun

AbstractOver recent years a great deal of attention has been paid to the influence of social variables on the usage of subject personal pronouns (SPP) in South and Central America as well as in immigrant communities in the USA (

Modeling the Experience of Emotion

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joost Broekens
Keyword(s):  
Computational Modeling ◽  
Affective Computing ◽  
Computational Models ◽  
Appraisal Theory ◽  
Content Change ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
Computational Models Of Emotion ◽  
Research Initiatives ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Do So

Affective computing has proven to be a viable field of research comprised of a large number of multidisciplinary researchers, resulting in work that is widely published. The majority of this work consists of emotion recognition technology, computational modeling of causal factors of emotion and emotion expression in virtual characters and robots. A smaller part is concerned with modeling the effects of emotion on cognition and behavior, formal modeling of cognitive appraisal theory and models of emergent emotions. Part of the motivation for affective computing as a field is to better understand emotion through computational modeling. In psychology, a critical and neglected aspect of having emotions is the experience of emotion: what does the content of an emotional episode look like, how does this content change over time, and when do we call the episode emotional. Few modeling efforts in affective computing have these topics as a primary focus. The launch of a journal on synthetic emotions should motivate research initiatives in this direction, and this research should have a measurable impact on emotion research in psychology. In this article, I show that a good way to do so is to investigate the psychological core of what an emotion is: an experience. I present ideas on how computational modeling of emotion can help to better understand the experience of motion, and provide evidence that several computational models of emotion already address the issue.

Should We Incorporate the Work of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross in Our Current Teaching and Practice and, If So, How?

2019 ◽  
pp. 003022281986539
Author(s):  
Charles A. Corr
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Terminal Illness ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
Active Listening ◽  
Life Threatening Illness ◽  
Historical Importance ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Alternative Theories ◽  
Do So

This article acknowledges the historical importance of the work of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and her five stages model. Because her name and this model appear in many textbooks, professional educational programs, and popular culture, should we incorporate these subjects in responsible ways in our current teaching and practice? The answer proposed here is that we should incorporate these subjects, but only if (a) we focus on her recommendations on behalf of active listening and learning from persons diagnosed with a terminal illness, (b) we limit ourselves to her descriptions of the individual reactions and responses experienced by her interviewees, (c) we acknowledge criticisms of the five stages model as a framework for understanding coping with life-threatening illness and dying, (d) we draw instead on alternative theories of coping with dying, and (e) we recognize dangers in applying this model to issues involving loss, grief, and bereavement and do not do so.

Investigation on the Factors Determining Consumers' Use of Online Intermediated Shopping (OIS)

2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Zhang ◽  
Xue Yang ◽  
Quansheng Wang ◽  
Chengde Zheng ◽  
Choon Ling Sia
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Intention ◽  
Perceived Risk ◽  
Behavioral Control ◽  
Perceived Behavioral Control ◽  
Research Model ◽  
Consumer Experience ◽  
Perceived Benefit ◽  
Moderating Role ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Do So

While consumers have increasingly exploited online intermediated shopping (OIS) to facilitate electronic shopping through the assistance of online intermediaries, many remain hesitant to do so for various perceptual reasons. This paper thus applies agency theory, the theory of planned behavior (TPB), perceived risk, and trust, to propose a research model for consumers' behavioral intention in using OIS. Empirical data was collected through a survey and analyzed using regression models. Results showed that constructs of perceived benefit, trust, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control are related to behavioral intention to engage in OIS; consumer experience has a moderating role. Theoretically speaking, this study enriches and extends the original TPB by relating it to the emerging phenomenon of OIS behavior from the consumer's perspective. This study also offers important practical implications for OIS intermediaries and platforms that aim to better attract and serve existing and potential consumers.

The Challenge of Garveyism Studies

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 399-418
Author(s):  
Adam Ewing
Keyword(s):  
Central America ◽  
Mass Movement ◽  
Immigrant Communities ◽  
Age Of Revolution ◽  
Universal Negro Improvement Association ◽  
The Past ◽  
Pan African ◽  
Marcus Garvey ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Temporal Dimensions

The past two decades have witnessed a resurgence of work on Marcus Garvey, Garveyism, and the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in the American academy. Building on a first wave of Garveyism scholarship (1971–1988), and indebted to the archival and curatorial work of Robert A. Hill and the editors of the Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, this new work has traced the resonance of Garveyism across a staggering number of locations: from the cities and farms of North America to the labor compounds and immigrant communities of Central America to the colonial capitals of the Caribbean and Africa. It has pushed the temporal dimensions of Garveyism, connecting it backward to pan-African and black nationalist discourses and mobilizations as early as the Age of Revolution, and forward to the era of decolonization and Black Power. It has revealed the ways that Garveyism, a mass movement rooted in community aspirations, ideals, debates, and prejudices, offers a forum for excavating African diasporic discourses, particularly their contested gender politics. It has revealed that much more work remains to be done in Brazil, West Africa, Britain, France, and elsewhere.

scholarly journals Analysis Of The Variables Of Intention Of The Adoption And Acceptance Of Artificial Intelligence And Big Data Tools Among Leaders Of Organizations In Morocco: Attempt Of A Theoretical Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (29) ◽  
pp. 106
Author(s):  
Moudni Yousra ◽  
Chafik Khalid
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Business Performance ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Research Model ◽  
Current State ◽  
Behavioral Variables ◽  
Industry Sectors ◽  
Do So

Artificial intelligence and big data are two emerging technologies that is now gaining ground among organizations. Their added value and their impact on business performance differ from one industry to another. Due to increased competitiveness, and in order to survive in the market, companies are led to adopt these new technologies that will enable them to be more performant and offer customers goods or services that meet their real needs since this approach is based on data collected from outside the company's environment. To do so, it is important to know and analyze beforehand the factors and variables that impact the adoption and acceptance process in order to manage them. This paper focuses on establishing a synthetic literature review to find out the current state of researches on the problems of AI and Big data adoption and acceptance, and it also argument the empirical sector’s choice. The findings of this study show that agricultural and chemical industry sectors are the two most promising sectors for AI in Morocco. As a result, a comparative analysis will be conducted after the development of the research model on these two fields in order to analyze the variables of adoption and acceptance of AI. Also, the most influential variables according to the literature were detected in this paper, which are grouped into four (4) types: technological, organizational, environmental, and behavioral variables.

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