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Digitize Me, Visualize Me, Search Me

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The introduction to Digitize Me, Visualize Me, Search Me takes as its starting point the so-called ‘computational turn’ to data-intensive scholarship in the humanities. The phrase ‘the computational turn’ has been adopted to refer to the process whereby techniques and methodologies drawn from computer science and related fields – including science visualization, interactive information visualization, image processing, network analysis, statistical data analysis, and the management, manipulation more...

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D C on January 08, 2012

World Community Grid

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MissionWorld Community Grid's mission is to create the world's largest public computing grid to tackle projects that benefit humanity.The World Community Grid staff has developed the technical infrastructure that serves as the grid's foundation for scientific research. Our success depends upon individuals collectively contributing their unused computer time to change the world for the better.World Community Grid is making technology available only to public and not-for-profit organizations to more...

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John Daly on April 23, 2012

Governance Frameworks for Climate Change IDPs

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This paper evaluates how development induced displacement and resettlement (DIDR) and disaster induced displacement models can apply to the specific challenges of climate change displacement. A new model is offered which integrates the previous two. The Climate Change Displacement and Resettlement (CCDR) model seeks to reframe climate change based forced migration using the instruments already available in other genres. It will provide a bridge between the current migration literature and this more...

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Andrea Berringer on April 18, 2012

Introduction to Qualitative Research Methodology

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A new manual to support self-training and teaching of qualitative research methods has been launched by the Evidence for Action research consortium. The manual is aimed primarily at non- social scientists working in low- and middle-income settings. It provides an accessible, interesting, and clear guide to using qualitative research methods in applied health settings.The manual is organised around three main goals: To introduce qualitative thinking in research; To assist in more...

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Annabelle South on December 12, 2011

The misunderstanding of memes: Biography of an unscientific object

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When the “meme” was introduced in 1976, it was as a metaphor intended to illuminate an evolutionary argument. By the late-1980s, however, we see from its use in major US newspapers that this original meaning had become obscured. The meme became a virus of the mind. (In the UK, this occurred slightly later.) It is also now clear that this becoming involved complex sustained interactions between scholars, journalists, and the letter-writing public.The meme, in The Selfish Gene, was a thought more...

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D C on March 14, 2012

Social innovation requires quantum-leap thinking

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Social innovation fosters resilience and it benefits the whole rather than just the individual. Microfinancing is one such social innovation. Speaking in Montreal last fall, Nobel Prize winner and Grameen Bank founder Muhammad Yunus urged us to pick a problem and create a business with the sole intent of solving that problem. Calling it “social business,” he emphasized measurability, sustainability and cross-cultural collaboration.Another development in the social innovation field is socially more...

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D C on July 14, 2011

Community Mapping in Tsunami Affected Areas in Aceh, Indonesia

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A touching 10-minute video production on how community mapping has been used in post-Tsunami Aceh, Indonesia.The documentary has been jointly produced by the Indonesia Community Mapping Network or Jaringan Kerja Pemetaan Partisipatif (JKPP), and the Center for people Economic Development or Yayasan Rumpun Bambu Indonesia (YRBI).

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Giacomo Rambaldi on February 08, 2010

ResearchGate

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ResearchGate is a social networking site designed especially for people conducting research.It is designed to allow users to network with the largest global community dedicated to science and research: to help them to expand their contacts, to share knowledge and to find potential research partners.ResearchGate profiles are designed to let others know what participants are working on: listing their education and experience, their research interests and sharing publications that should make more...

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John Daly on February 14, 2012

A Comment on the Ethics of Research: A Role for UNESCO

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Research and technology development is a complex global enterprise, which involves increasing amounts of international collaboration. Many questions must be resolved correctly to assure the ethical conduct of research. UNESCO as the United Nations agency that focuses on broad issues of both science and ethics is uniquely placed to play a key role in promoting the ethical conduct of research. This blog posting recommends that UNESCO play an important role:as a forum for the discussion of more...

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John Daly on September 03, 2010

Impact 2.0 iGuide: New mechanisms for linking research and policy

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The "Impact 2.0 iGuide: New mechanisms for linking research and policy" is designed to help researchers identify the right Web 2.0 tools for establishing links with policy makers, for building their online presence and credibility and for effectively communicating their research. The iGuide contains a brief introduction to Web 2.0 tools and a general overview of strategies for using these tools to link research, policy and advocacy. The second part of the guide includes a matrix of Web 2.0 more...

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bruce girard on March 17, 2011

Opportunities, Challenges and Good Practices in International Research Cooperation between Developed and Developing Countries

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The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD) Global Forum on Development has recently published a report looking at international research collaboration.Opportunities, Challenges and Good Practices in International Research Cooperation' (PDF 3601KB) looks at examples of good practice in research collaborations between developing and industrialised countries.The report was written due to the growing policy-level discussions both nationally and internationally of global more...

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John Daly on February 09, 2012

SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING INDICATORS 2012

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A broad base of quantitative information on the U.S. and international science and engineering enterprise. This is the 2012 edition of a major report published every other year by the U.S. National Science Foundation.ContentsOVERVIEWElementary and Secondary Mathematics and Science EducationHigher Education in Science and EngineeringScience and Engineering Labor ForceR&D: National Trends and International ComparisonsAcademic Research and DevelopmentIndustry, Technology, and the Global more...

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John Daly on March 09, 2012

Extended deadline for INCORE 13th International Summer School Applications 18th April 2012

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****APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 18th APRIL 2012****INCORE (International Conflict Research Institute) at the University of Ulster wishes you to invite you to the 13th International Summer School. The 2012 International Summer School will run from 18th-22nd June 2012. The Summer School will be based on the historic Magee Campus in the city of Derry/Londonderry, on the shores of Lough Foyle in the north west of Northern Ireland, easily accessible by road, rail and air.For more information more...

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Julie McSorley on February 13, 2012

Research for development : a World Bank perspective on future directions for research

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This paper provides an overview of the history of development research at the World Bank and points to new future directions in both what we research and how we research. Six main messages emerge. First, research and data have long been essential elements of the Bank's country programs and its contributions to global public goods, and this will remain the case. Second, development thinking is in a state of flux and uncertainty; it is time to reconsider both the Bank's research priorities and more...

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John Daly on January 22, 2011

Research Opportunities" IDB Visiting Research Scholar Program

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The IDB is now accepting applications for the newly established Visiting Research Scholars Program.The program was created to address a growing demand to further strengthen policy- oriented and operationally-relevant knowledge in the public sector, governance, and capacity building, with a particular focus on Latin America and the Caribbean.The positions are open to applicants with a keen intellectual interest and demonstrated academic or professional excellence in one or more of the following more...

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John Daly on February 06, 2012

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