Editorial

1957 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-1
Keyword(s):  
Food Production ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Applied Anthropology ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Success Story ◽  
Theoretical Terms ◽  
Theoretical Statement ◽  
The World ◽  
Human Problem

What is the meaning of the word "applied" in our pages? It seems to us that most of our articles fall in one of the following four categories: 1) The description and analysis of some social situation in largely theoretical terms. The case may be from the United States or from some other part of the world. It may deal with a group or a community or an organization. If it is a good study, it at least has implications for action. And, if it is a good study, we will be happy to publish it, but we will be even happier to publish a good theoretical statement that fits into one of the categories below. 2) The failure story. Here the researcher describes how a practitioner handled a problem and got it badly bungled up because he failed to act in terms of the principles of applied anthropology which the author points out. We will continue to print good articles along this line, yet with diminishing enthusiasm. When the mistakes have been committed, it is all too easy to recognize them, but let's not make life too easy for ourselves. (Maybe someday a practitioner will write an article for us on "Blunders I Have Seen Researchers Make.") 3) The success story. Here the author reports how the practitioner handled a human problem successfully—and analyzes the factors underlying this success. Excellent examples of this type can be found in F. L. W. Richardson's special issue on "Five Case Studies of Successful Experiments In Increasing Food Production" published in far-off 1943.

International approaches to school-based mental health: Intent of the Special Issue

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 339-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Courtney L. McLaughlin
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Health It ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
School Based ◽  
The World

This article provides an overview of the special issue on international approaches to school-based mental health. It introduces the significance of the issues associated with mental health across the world and introduces the reader to the four articles highlighting different aspects of school-based mental health. Across these four articles, information about school-based mental health (SBMH) from the United States, Canada, Norway, Liberia, Chile, and Ireland are represented. The special issue concludes with an article introducing new methodology for examining mental health from a global perspective.

Deficit Financing, Controls, and Movement of Prices in India since 1947 by A. Vasudevan. Bombay: Allied Publishers Private, Ltd., 1967. pp.239.

1968 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 499-500
Author(s):  
Frank C. Child
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Growth Rate ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Slow Growth ◽  
High Growth ◽  
The United States ◽  
High Growth Rate ◽  
Success Story ◽  
The World ◽  
Deficit Financing

Experience with the processes of inflation and growth is varied around the world and through time. In Western Europe and the United States, there has been rapid growth (or slow growth) when prices were rising and when they were not. The Japanese success story shows that more or less chronic inflation is consistent with a high growth rate; but it also shows that the growth rate is less rapid at the highest (observed) rates of inflation. Socialist countries, like Poland and Russia, have experienced (planned?) inflation in accompaniment to growth. Recent Brazilian and Mexican experience suggests that a rapid inflation is consistent with (contributed to ?) a high growth rate. Indonesia and Ghana provide examples of inflation leading to stagnation or disintegration rather than progress. Other contradictory examples add to our mixed bag of empirical evidence.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Aliverti ◽  
Mary Bosworth
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Human Mobility ◽  
The United States ◽  
Equal Treatment ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Social Hierarchies ◽  
Shared Set ◽  
Mass Migration ◽  
The World ◽  
Policies And Practices

As unprecedented levels of human mobility continue to define our era, criminal justice institutions in countries around the world are increasingly shaped by mass migration and its control. This collection brings together legal scholars from Europe and the United States to consider the implications of the attendant changes on the exercise of state penal power and those subject to it. The contributions in this special issue are united by a shared set of questions about the salience of citizenship for contemporary criminal justice policies and practices. They are specifically concerned with questions of fair and equal treatment, the changing configurations of state sovereignty, and the significance of migration on criminal justice policies and practices. Collectively, the articles show how, in grappling with mass mobility and diversity, states are devising novel forms of control, many of which erode basic criminal justice principles and reinforce existing social hierarchies.

Public Policy and World Anthropologies

2006 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 2-3
Author(s):  
Josiah Heyman ◽  
Evelyn Caballero ◽  
Alaka Wali
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Applied Anthropology ◽  
Modest Contribution ◽  
The World ◽  
The Many

Anthropology has long been involved with public policy, both in its formulation and its implementation, though often we have ignored our direct and indirect involvement. The historiography of anthropology and power has focused mainly on three core nations, Great Britain, France, and the United States (see Asad 1973, Hymes 1972, and Vincent 1990). Other parts of the world appear in these accounts as colonial possessions, or not at all. Attention is now turning to the many, diverse national traditions in anthropology, including both scholarly and applied anthropology (Baba and Hill 1997, Hill and Baba 2006, Ribeiro and Escobar 2006). This special set of papers in Practicing Anthropology is a modest contribution in this direction, examining the interactions of anthropology and public policy in three national settings: Peru, the Philippines, and Mexico.

scholarly journals The vaccination against COVID-19 in Morocco: a success story in progress

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
The United States ◽  
Success Story ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
First Case ◽  
The World ◽  
Novel Coronavirus

Coronavirus disease 2019 is a respiratory sickness that may spread between persons. It is caused by a novel coronavirus that produces an outbreak in Wuhan, China and spread all over the world to become a pandemic. From the appearance of the first case of the new coronavirus in Morocco, Moroccan authorities has spared no effort to promote the health of Moroccans, ahead of that of the country’s economy. On 22 January 2021, 2 million doses, of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine were delivered to Morocco, with a view to vaccinating 1 million Moroccans in a first phase. On 28 January, the campaign started and the King of Morocco was the 1st Moroccan to be vaccinated against the coronavirus. On 27 February 2021, Morocco has received 1 million doses from the Chinese laboratory Sinopharm and 6 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine allowing Morocco to vaccinate several audiences and the general public over the age of 60, and the most vulnerable. Thereafter, the COVID-19 vaccine doses administered per 100 people in 31 March 2021 were 115.89 in Israel, 84.01 in the United Arab Emirates, 52.53 in the United Kingdom, 44.93 in the United States, 45.04 in Bahrain, 21.66 in Morocco, 16.44 in Germany, 8.32 in China, 4.72 in India, and 0.44 in South Africa. Also, the population fully vaccinated against COVID-19 in 01 April 2021 were 55.51% in Israel, 22.12% in the United Arab Emirates, 20.08% in Chile, 16.77% in USA, 15.25% in Serbia, 15.14%in Bahrain, 10.21% in Morocco, 8.94% in Hungary, 8.23% in Turkey, 7.29% in UK, 3.07% in Russia, 2.39% in Brazil, 1.70% in Uruguay, 0.70% in India, and 0.45% in South Africa. This allows Morocco to figure in the top 10 countries fully vaccinated against COVID-19 despite the lack of resources and belonging to developing countries. Finally, our study gives an example to other countries to benefit from the Moroccan experience. Nevertheless, vaccination is only one element of a comprehensive COVID-19 strategy, it must be accompanied by measures to reduce circulating infection and keep them low.

scholarly journals Editorial for the Special Issue on “Nanoalloy Electrocatalysts for Electrochemical Devices”

Nanomaterials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 132
Author(s):  
César A. C. Sequeira
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Research And Development ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
The United States ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Materials Synthesis ◽  
Exciting Field ◽  
The World ◽  
Electrochemical Devices ◽  
Nanoscale Science

Nanoscale science and technology dealing with materials synthesis, nanofabrication, nanoprobes, nanostructures, nanoelectronics, nano-optics, nanomechanics, nanodevices, nanobiotechnology, and nanomedicine is an exciting field of research and development in Europe, the United States, and other countries around the world [...]

“This Other Method”

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 389-422 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carsten Reinhardt
Keyword(s):  
New Technology ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Success Story ◽  
X Ray ◽  
X Ray Crystallography ◽  
History Of ◽  
Reductionist Approach

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy has been and continues to be one of the most widely spread research techniques in the physical and life sciences, including medicine, since the technique’s invention in 1945. There is no basis, however, to account for a linear success story. Although NMR was used for decades in biochemistry and molecular biology, it had not contributed substantially to solving the big scientific problems in these areas. The goal set by its early proponents—to find out about the dynamics and functions of large biomolecules—was not successfully tackled until the 1980s, when new technology became available. Much of the pre-1980s history of NMR is arguably a history of the dependence of NMR on a rival method, x-ray crystallography. In this paper I will discuss the epistemic and social processes that made the continuation of NMR as a dependent research method possible, perhaps even inevitable. Following a comparison of x-ray crystallography and NMR in the structural elucidation of large biomolecules, the paper analyzes three examples of the practices of biochemical and biomedical research using NMR from the 1950s to the 1970s in the United States: first is a fundamental, almost reductionist approach with a basis in physics and goals in technology; second, a pragmatic one with a strong bent toward biological problems; and third, a methods-oriented program, involving issues of the former two and proving the most fruitful in the long term. This essay is part of a special issue entitled THE BONDS OF HISTORY edited by Anita Guerrini.

American Perspectives and Blind Spots on World Politics

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 300-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeff D Colgan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
International Relations ◽  
The United States ◽  
World Politics ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
The World ◽  
Survey Experiments ◽  
Previous Scholarship ◽  
Blind Spots

AbstractScholars of international relations (IR) from the United States, like any country, view the world with particular perspectives and beliefs that shape their perceptions, judgments, and worldviews. These perspectives have the potential to affect the answers to a host of important questions—in part by shaping the questions that get asked in the first place. All scholars are potentially affected by national bias, but American bias matters more than others. This special issue focuses on two issues: attention and accuracy in IR research. While previous scholarship has raised principally normative or theoretical concerns about American dominance in IR, our work is heavily empirical and engages directly with the field's mainstream neopositivist approach. The collected articles provide specific, fine-grained examples of how American perspectives matter for IR, using evidence from survey experiments, quantitative datasets, and more. Our evidence suggests that American perspectives, left unexamined, negatively affect our field's research. Still, the essays in this special issue remain bullish about the field's neopositivist project overall. We also offer concrete steps for taking on the problems we identify, and improving our field's scholarship.

scholarly journals Introduction to the Special Issue “A Systemic Perspective on Urban Food Supply: Assessing Different Types of Urban Agriculture”

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 3798
Author(s):  
Martina Artmann ◽  
Kathrin Specht ◽  
Jan Vávra ◽  
Marius Rommel
Keyword(s):  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Integrative Assessment ◽  
Urban Food Production ◽  
The Impact

The production of food within cities through urban agriculture can be considered as a nature-based solution and is argued to be an important response to the current COVID-19 pandemic as well as to climate change and other urban challenges. However, current research on urban agriculture is still fragmented, calling for a systematic and integrative assessment of different forms of urban agriculture and the drivers and constraints for their effective realization. In this context, the Special Issue presents conceptual and empirical research articles from around the world on the impact and implementation potential of various types of urban agriculture. The studies of this Special Issue cover a broad range of impact and implementation dimensions, asssessment methods and geographical backgrounds that can support future studies to develop a systemic perspective on urban food production.

scholarly journals A Brief Answer: Why is China's Aquaculture Industry so Successful?

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samantha D. Farquhar ◽  
Sebastian M. Sims ◽  
Shu-Jiao Wang ◽  
Kiera S. Morrill
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Government Support ◽  
Success Story ◽  
The World ◽  
Aquaculture Industry ◽  
The U.S

As wild capture fisheries continue to be exhausted worldwide, aquaculture is being looked as the sustainable solution to meet the global fisheries demand. China is one of the most successful countries in the world when it comes to aquaculture. They produce more fish than they catch, simultaneously providing for their own country and the rest of the world. By contrast, the United States imports over 90% of its fisheries; its aquaculture industry meeting only 5% of the country’s total demand of fish. While the United States prides itself on being a world leader in several fronts, aquaculture is certainly not one of them. This makes anyone question: why is China’s aquaculture so successful? This manuscript works to answer this question briefly by identifying and exploring three notable characteristics of China’s aquaculture industry: (1) history; (2) size and diversity; and (3) government support and research. It goes on to suggest how the U.S. can improve it aquaculture industry based on the Chinese success story.

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