scholarly journals New Geoinformatics - Towards new research frontiers

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 37-38
Keyword(s):  
New Research ◽  
Research Frontiers

Africa's Platform and the Shared Economy

2021 ◽  
pp. 231-251
Author(s):  
Immanuel Ovemeso Umukoro
Keyword(s):  
Growth Trajectory ◽  
Inclusive Development ◽  
Technological Innovations ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Enabling Environment ◽  
New Research ◽  
Research Frontiers ◽  
Platform Economy ◽  
Insight Into

As African economies make efforts to compete with the rest of the world's economies, technological innovations are critical towards attaining inclusive development. Platforms remain one of the innovations that are shaping the growth trajectory of many African countries, and while they seem to offer diverse benefits and opportunities to leapfrog development, there are also attendant challenges that need to be addressed if African economies seek to maximize the opportunities of the platform and shared economy. This chapter provides insight into some of the benefits of the platform and shared economy and further argues that to address the challenges of the platform economy, there is need for evidence-based research. The chapter further proposes new research frontiers in the platform and shared economy that require immediate attention as first step to providing the required evidence for building a market enabling environment for Africa's platform and shared economy.

Conclusion

2019 ◽  
pp. 335-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon R. Lindsay ◽  
Erik Gartzke
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Nuclear Weapons ◽  
Strategic Choice ◽  
Deterrence Theory ◽  
Naval Power ◽  
Cross Domain ◽  
Economic Statecraft ◽  
New Research ◽  
Research Frontiers

This concluding chapter provides an analytical summary of insights that emerge across the chapters, highlighting the ways in which the characteristics of different instruments of coercion examined in this book—nuclear weapons, operations on land, at sea, in the air, in space, and in cyberspace, and engineered migrations—can improve or undermine deterrence. By and large, the contributors to this book find that the notion of cross-domain deterrence is useful and can reveal novel insights that traditional deterrence theory obscures. Deterrence in history has often occurred across domains, combining land and naval power as well as force, diplomacy, and economic statecraft, but the logic of strategic choice has not been articulated. Deterrence theory as we know it may actually be a subset of cross-domain deterrence, an account of coercive bargaining that takes means as seriously as ends. Means matter because different tools and combinations of tools have different consequences for the costs, credibility, and consequences of deterrence. These insights opens up new research frontiers for international relations.

New research frontiers in sustainability

Omega ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 66 ◽  
pp. 183-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chialin Chen ◽  
Sean Zhou ◽  
Joe Zhu
Keyword(s):  
New Research ◽  
Research Frontiers

Focus Group Research

2014 ◽  
pp. 314-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Kamberelis ◽  
Greg Dimitriadis
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Group Work ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Focus Group Research ◽  
Group Research ◽  
New Information ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
New Research ◽  
Research Frontiers

This essay is both historical and conceptual, first highlighting the origins, tensions, and continuities/discontinuities of focus group research, then arguing for how such research embodies three primary, related functions: inquiry, pedagogy, and political. The quasi-unique potentials or affordances of focus group work are explored, including mitigating the researcher’s authority; disclosing the constitutive power of discourse; approximating the natural; filling in knowledge gaps and saturating understanding; drawing out complexity, nuance, and contradiction; disclosing eclipsed connections; and creating opportunities for political activism. Contemporary threats to focus group work are described, and new research frontiers are proposed, especially in relation to new information technologies. The essay integrates historical, conceptual, and practical perspectives to fully explain the potentials of focus group research, with the goal of advancing a set of understandings about focus group work that attends to its relatively unique potentials for conducting qualitative inquiry across a wide range of topics and disciplinary contexts.

Trait-based models of complex ecological networks

2020 ◽  
pp. 134-142
Author(s):  
Ulrich Brose
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Functioning ◽  
Species Traits ◽  
Metabolic Rates ◽  
Network Approach ◽  
Spatial Processes ◽  
New Research ◽  
Research Frontiers ◽  
Individual Body ◽  
Average Individual ◽  
Natural Communities

Over many decades, modelling natural communities of higher diversity and complexity has been hampered by the necessity to provide reasonable parameters for all processes at the level of populations and interactions. Trait-based approaches such as allometric scaling allow to use general species traits such as their average individual body mass to estimate the parameters of populations (e.g., metabolic rates) and interactions (e.g., attack rates). This chapter describes this trait-based network approach and illustrates its potential for understanding the structure and dynamics of complex networks using the examples of i) intrinsic community stability and ii) consequences of global change (e.g., warming). Finally, new research frontiers are illustrated that include spatial processes in meta-networks, the constraints of ecological network structure on ecosystem functioning, and non-trophic interactions.

scholarly journals Insights into Pathogenic Interactions Among Environment, Host, and Tumor at the Crossroads of Molecular Pathology and Epidemiology

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuji Ogino ◽  
Jonathan A. Nowak ◽  
Tsuyoshi Hamada ◽  
Danny A. Milner ◽  
Reiko Nishihara
Keyword(s):  
Data Science ◽  
Digital Pathology ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Transdisciplinary Education ◽  
Molecular Pathological Epidemiology ◽  
Exogenous Factors ◽  
New Research ◽  
Exemplary Model ◽  
Research Frontiers

Evidence indicates that diet, nutrition, lifestyle, the environment, the microbiome, and other exogenous factors have pathogenic roles and also influence the genome, epigenome, transcriptome, proteome, and metabolome of tumor and nonneoplastic cells, including immune cells. With the need for big-data research, pathology must transform to integrate data science fields, including epidemiology, biostatistics, and bioinformatics. The research framework of molecular pathological epidemiology (MPE) demonstrates the strengths of such an interdisciplinary integration, having been used to study breast, lung, prostate, and colorectal cancers. The MPE research paradigm not only can provide novel insights into interactions among environment, tumor, and host but also opens new research frontiers. New developments—such as computational digital pathology, systems biology, artificial intelligence, and in vivo pathology technologies—will further transform pathology and MPE. Although it is necessary to address the rarity of transdisciplinary education and training programs, MPE provides an exemplary model of integrative scientific approaches and contributes to advancements in precision medicine, therapy, and prevention.

scholarly journals Exploring new research frontiers in offshoring knowledge and service processes

2007 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Youngdahl ◽  
Kannan Ramaswamy ◽  
Rohit Verma
Keyword(s):  
New Research ◽  
Research Frontiers
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