scholarly journals The Current Status of People’s Mediation System in Ethnic Minority Areas—Taking the City B of Province A as an Example

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xizhen Chen
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Mediation System ◽  
The City

scholarly journals PubMed-indexed neurosurgical research productivity of Iraq-based neurosurgeons

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 223
Author(s):  
Samer S. Hoz ◽  
Zahraa F. Al-Sharshahi ◽  
Ignatius N. Esene ◽  
Ali A. Dolachee ◽  
Ali M. Neamah ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Research Output ◽  
Case Reports ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Academic Productivity ◽  
Central Component ◽  
Article Type ◽  
Number Of Publications ◽  
Vascular Neurosurgery ◽  
Article Citation ◽  
The City

Background: Research is a central component of neurosurgical training and practice and is increasingly viewed as a quintessential indicator of academic productivity. In this study, we focus on identifying the current status and challenges of neurosurgical research in Iraq. Methods: An online PubMed Medline database search was conducted to identify all articles published by Iraq-based neurosurgeons between 2003 and 2020. Information was extracted in relation to the following parameters: authors, year of publication, author’s affiliation, author’s specialty, article type, article citation, journal name, journal impact factor, and topic. This data were then tabulated and analyzed. Results: Between 2003 and 2021, a total of 52 PubMed indexed papers were published from Iraq. All publications have been clustered in the period of 2012–2020. From 2012 to 2016, only four papers were published, one per year. The number of publications increased from 2017 to 2021, with an average of 12 publications per year. The most common article type was “case reports” (n = 14). Neurotrauma (n = 10) and vascular neurosurgery (n = 10) were the two most common topics. Most of the studies came from the city of Bagdad (n = 46), with just nine studies coming from peripheral governorates. The Neurosurgery Teaching Hospital in Bagdad was the neurosurgery center with the highest research output (n = 38). Conclusion: The number of publications per year has been showing a, relatively, promising trend since 2012. However, to promote sustained growth in academic productivity, a strategic plan that acknowledges the political, financial, and health-system-related challenges are urgently needed.

Selective Memories, Identities and Places: Everyday Security Practices of the Mughat Lyulis in Osh

2020 ◽  
pp. 91-116
Author(s):  
Hafiz Boboyorov ◽  
Shavkat Atakhanov
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Small Community ◽  
Waste Products ◽  
Security Practices ◽  
The City

The Uzbeks were not the only ethnic minority that suffered from the violent rampages throughout Osh in 2010. The small community of Lyuli or, more precisely, Mughat people on the outskirts of the city also became targets of ethnic hatred. Up to this day, they are treated with great suspicion by the Kyrgyz majority and continue to be frequently threatened and attacked. The chapter focusses on the securityscapes of female Mughat collectors of alms and waste products, who are the main bread-winners in their community. They need to be highly mobile, yet this mobility comes with great risks as, for instance, sexual assault is a very real threat when moving through the city or the country. The contribution examines the various creative tactics that female collectors apply in order to attain a degree of security, usually involving continuous adaptations to shifting circumstances.

scholarly journals Ethnic Minority Youths’ Encounters With Private Security Guards: Unwelcome in the City Space

2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 128-143
Author(s):  
Elsa Saarikkomäki ◽  
Anne Alvesalo-Kuusi
Keyword(s):  
Procedural Justice ◽  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Private Security ◽  
Security Guards ◽  
City Space ◽  
The City ◽  
Being Moved ◽  
Net Widening

An increasing amount of literature is suggesting that ethnic minorities perceive their relations with the police as negative and procedurally unjust. There is, however, a distinctive lack of research on the relations between ethnic minorities and private security agents. This study uses the qualitative interviews of 30 ethnic minority youths living in Finland to explore their interactions with security guards. The findings suggest that perceptions of discrimination, suspicion, being moved on, and exclusion from city space were common. The study advances the theorizations of the changes in policing and procedural justice and incorporates these into the discussions on policing the city space. It argues that net-widening of policing means that city spaces are becoming more unwelcoming for ethnic minority youths in particular, limiting their opportunities to use city spaces.

(Re)scaling identities: Embodied others and alternative spaces of identification

Ethnicities ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 623-642 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lasse Koefoed ◽  
Kirsten Simonsen
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Ethnic Minority Groups ◽  
Imagined Community ◽  
Full Member ◽  
Pakistani Origin ◽  
Alternative Spaces ◽  
Spatial Formations ◽  
The City

This article draws attention to life as an ‘internal stranger’ in the city, the nation and other spatial formations. It explores the habitability of the different spatial formations and the possibilities of identification for ethnic minority groups. Drawing on research on citizens in Copenhagen of Pakistani origin, the study employs theoretical ideas of estrangement, identification and recognition in order to obtain a thorough understanding of the complexity and the contradictory character of their spatial identities and affiliations. A turning point in the double processes of estrangement and identification is ambivalence in affiliation to the Danish nation expressing the discrepancy between feeling Danish and not being recognized as a full member of the Danish imagined community. This emotional ambivalence gives rise to what we call jumping scale in identification and a search for alternative spaces of identity.

A Gift of a Pagoda, the Presence of a Prominent Citizen, and the Possibilities of Hospitality

10.1068/d347t ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wun Fung Chan
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
Ethnic Differences ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Ethnic Community ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Gift ◽  
Economic Vitality ◽  
The City

To counter accusations that ethnic minorities in Britain are a problem, there is an emerging discourse that has begun to celebrate diversity as an asset, which contributes towards the nation's cultural and economic vitality. However, although this reevaluation of ethnic differences has proved to be a useful defence of the presence of ethnic minorities, the types of contributions and their significance have been left unexplored. In this paper I closely examine one such contribution, a Chinese pagoda, which was given to the City of Birmingham by an ethnic entrepreneur. By carefully analysing the views of the gift giver, planning documents, and public discourse on the pagoda, I argue that the different narratives—which encompass the themes of representing an ethnic community, hospitality, and gift giving—are discontinuous. In doing so, I illustrate some of the limits to Birmingham's hospitality and mark out a series of informal obligations of citizenship that are written into Birmingham's public space. I conclude by suggesting that if a gift of hospitality is to be given it is necessary to consider the other of the ethnic minority as an asset, citizenship, and presence.

scholarly journals Treating ethnic minority adults with anxiety disorders: Current status and future recommendations

2012 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 488-501 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele M. Carter ◽  
Frances E. Mitchell ◽  
Tracy Sbrocco
Keyword(s):  
Anxiety Disorders ◽  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Current Status

scholarly journals O LEGADO DA COPA E SEU IMPACTO NO FUTURO DA CIDADE DE SÃO PAULO

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 164-197
Author(s):  
Marcos Vinicius Cardoso ◽  
João Manuel Malaia ◽  
Fernando A Fleury
Keyword(s):  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Sporting Events ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
World Cup ◽  
The Public ◽  
High Opportunity Cost ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Many ◽  
The City

Legacies – structures that are built for events and which remain after the same - are one of the major positive aspects paraded by mega sporting events organizers. This study´s purpose is to analyze the current situation of legacies promised by the many governmental instances for the city of São Paulo - host city of Fifa´s 2014 World Cup – and prospect which legacies will become effective in the city. Preliminary assessments may raise construction concerns, alert the public to keep an eye on undertaken obligations and encourage official actions (Mangan, 2008, p. 1,871). Data was obtained from National Audit Court (TCU) reports, Ministry and United Nations documents, in addition to testimonials and information gathered from some of Brazil´s major press media. Data analysis was conducted by classifying legacies according to tangible and intangible legacy concepts (Kaplanidou and Karadakis, 2010) followed by an analysis of promised legacies versus current status during the period of analysis. Finally, discussions as to most probable to come about legacies were presented. Results indicate that a portion of promised legacies stand a fair chance of achievement. On the other hand, other projects lag behind schedule or have been cancelled. Preliminary surveys suggest full completion of promised legacies is not possible, there has been an overuse of public resources as opposed to that planned, and provide indicatives as to the investment´s high opportunity cost.

scholarly journals Current status of the programs for detection of hearing loss in children younger than six months in Cali

2012 ◽  
pp. 73-81
Author(s):  
Laura González ◽  
Julia María Fernández de Soto ◽  
Martha Inés Torres
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Early Detection ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
Valle Del Cauca ◽  
One Year ◽  
Universal Hearing Screening ◽  
The City

Background: Data is scarce in Colombia when dealing with the current circumstances of programs for detecting hearing loss in children younger than six months and, therefore, statistical data is limited on congenital or earlyacquired deafness. Studies have been conducted in the country on detection and prevention of hearing problems in the healthcare institutions in Antioquia, Quindío, Cauca, Valle, and Risaralda. All these studies were carried out between 1993 and 1995 and included children older than one year of age, which shows evidence of the lack of knowledge about the importance of early detection in the hearing-communicative health of children. Objective: To identify the current procedures and protocols to detect hearing loss in children younger than six months in Cali through a descriptive research in different healthcare institutions of the city. Methods: A descriptive study was carried out with a population of 722 private, public and/or mixed Health Service Providing Institutions from the city of Cali, registered in the database of the Department of Health of Valle del Cauca, Colombia in February 2007. A list was filled out to determine which of these institutions had services like delivery room and/or growth-development programs and/or audiology services and it was found that these aspects were met in 151 institutions that constituted the research sample. Thereafter, a survey was applied in these institutions to identify the procedures utilized for hearing loss detection, the health professionals that carry this out, and the follow up and the speech-language treatment performed to the children detected. Results: 95% of the healthcare institutions surveyed (144 institutions) do not perform procedures to detect hearing loss in children younger than six months. Only six of the private-sector institutions in Cali performed such procedures. The procedures used by these six institutions are all performed with equipment and protocols for objective tests. Conclusions: No public entity in the city of Cali has programs for early detection of hearing loss. It is necessary to implement strategies to train institutions, and associations of government institutions involved in healthcare, so that they can apply programs of universal hearing screening for neonates, while they disseminate such programs at regional and national levels.

scholarly journals Edge Computing and IoT Analytics for Agile Optimization in Intelligent Transportation Systems

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (19) ◽  
pp. 6309
Author(s):  
Mohammad Peyman ◽  
Pedro J. Copado ◽  
Rafael D. Tordecilla ◽  
Leandro do C. Martins ◽  
Fatos Xhafa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intelligent Transportation Systems ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Intelligent Transportation ◽  
Transportation System ◽  
Transportation Systems ◽  
Edge Computing ◽  
Analytical Models ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Ride Sharing ◽  
The City

With the emergence of fog and edge computing, new possibilities arise regarding the data-driven management of citizens’ mobility in smart cities. Internet of Things (IoT) analytics refers to the use of these technologies, data, and analytical models to describe the current status of the city traffic, to predict its evolution over the coming hours, and to make decisions that increase the efficiency of the transportation system. It involves many challenges such as how to deal and manage real and huge amounts of data, and improving security, privacy, scalability, reliability, and quality of services in the cloud and vehicular network. In this paper, we review the state of the art of IoT in intelligent transportation systems (ITS), identify challenges posed by cloud, fog, and edge computing in ITS, and develop a methodology based on agile optimization algorithms for solving a dynamic ride-sharing problem (DRSP) in the context of edge/fog computing.These algorithms allow us to process, in real time, the data gathered from IoT systems in order to optimize automatic decisions in the city transportation system, including: optimizing the vehicle routing, recommending customized transportation modes to the citizens, generating efficient ride-sharing and car-sharing strategies, create optimal charging station for electric vehicles and different services within urban and interurban areas. A numerical example considering a DRSP is provided, in which the potential of employing edge/fog computing, open data, and agile algorithms is illustrated.

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