Books: 'Collaborative research network'

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Heron, Tara. Trent Focus Collaborative Research Network data survey: Second questionnaire responses. Trent Focus Group], 1999.

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Gupta, Modadugu V. International Network on Genetics in Aquaculture: A global forum for collaborative research and training in applied fish breeding and genetics. International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management, 1999.

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Wu liu xin xi wang luo ren wu xie tiao ji zhi: Research on task collaborative mechanism of logistics information network. She hui ke xue wen xian chu ban she, 2009.

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Collaborative knowledge in scientific research networks. Information Science Reference, an imprint of IGI Global, 2015.

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Leite, Denise, and Isabel Pinho. Evaluating Collaboration Networks in Higher Education Research. Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45225-8.

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Tom, Blundell. Academia industry research networks for the future. University of Southhampton, 1998.

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How to teach collaborative strategic reading: Classroom-ready materials to create better readers in mixed-ability classrooms. Jossey-Bass, 2012.

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Testing: Academic & Industrial Conference--Practice and Research Techniques (5th 2010 Windsor, Berkshire, England). Testing-- practice and research techniques: 5th international conference, TAIC PART 2010, Windsor, UK, September 4-6, 2010 : proceedings. Springer, 2010.

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Ennals, J. R. (John Richard), 1951-, ed. Creating collaborative advantage: Innovation and knowledge creation in regional economies. Gower, 2011.

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Guttmann, Christian. Collaborative Agents - Research and Development: International Workshops, CARE@AI09 2009 / CARE@IAT10 2010, Melbourne Australia, December 1, 2009 and Toronto Canada, August 31, 2010, Revised Selected Papers. Springer-Verlag GmbH Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.

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Kuzilwa, J. A. MU/AUC Entrepreneurship and Business Development Research Cluster in collaboration with the African Research Network on Clothing and Footware: Footware chain and participation of micro and small entreprises in Tanzania : examination of their coping strategies. Entrepreneurship and Business Development Research Cluster, Mzumbe University, 2005.

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Collaborative vegetable research network in southern Africa: A proposal. Southern Africa Centre for Cooperation in Agricultural Research, 1989.

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J, Densock Robert, Luce Mark E, and National Institute of Standards and Technology (U.S.), eds. National Advanced Manufacturing Testbed: A distributed testbed enabling collaborative research between scientists and engineers at remote locations. U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Technology Administration, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 1999.

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National Advanced Manufacturing Testbed: A distributed testbed enabling collaborative research between scientists and engineers at remote locations. U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Technology Administration, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 1999.

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J, Densock Robert, Luce Mark E, and National Institute of Standards and Technology (U.S.), eds. National Advanced Manufacturing Testbed: A distributed testbed enabling collaborative research between scientists and engineers at remote locations. U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Technology Administration, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 1999.

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CONVERDS, the collaborative network for vegetable research and development in the southern African region: Joint project proposal. SACCAR, 1991.

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Egna, Hillary S. Network analysis of international aquaculture research and development efforts in Rwanda: Tracing the flows of knowledge and technology in a USAID-funded collaborative research support program. 1998.

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Kowal, Torsten Mark, and Edgardo Padilla. Collaborative Links Between Research and Extension Organisations: Lessons from the CONSEFORH Projest Experience in Farm Forestry with Intermediary Agencies (Rural Development Forestry Network Paper). Overseas Development Institute, 1995.

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Willig, Michael R., and Lawrence R. Walker, eds. Long-Term Ecological Research. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199380213.001.0001.

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The Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Program is, in a sense, an experiment to transform the nature of science, and represents one of the most effective mechanisms for catalyzing comprehensive site-based research that is collaborative, multidisciplinary, and long-term in nature. The scientific contributions of the Program are prodigious, but the broader impacts of participation have not been examined in a formal way. This book captures the consequences of participation in the Program on the perspectives, attitudes, and practices of environmental scientists. The edited volume comprises three sections. The first section includes two chapters that provide an overview of the history, goals, mission, and inner workings of the LTER network of sites. The second section comprises three dozen retrospective essays by scientists, data managers or educators who represent a broad spectrum of LTER sites from deserts to tropical forests and from arctic to marine ecosystems. Each essay addresses the same series of probing questions to uncover the extent to which participation has affected the ways that scientists conduct research, educate students, or provide outreach to the public. The final section encompasses 5 chapters, whose authors are biophysical scientists, historians, behavioral scientists, or social scientists. This section analyzes, integrates, or synthesizes the content of the previous chapters from multiple perspectives and uncovers emergent themes and future directions.

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Cloete, Nico, Ian Bunting, and François van Schalkwyk. Research Universities in Africa. African Minds, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.47622/9781928331872.

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From the early 2000s, a new discourse emerged, in Africa and the international donor community, that higher education was important for development in Africa. Within this zeitgeist of converging interests, a range of agencies agreed that a different, collaborative approach to linking higher education to development was necessary. This led to the establishment of the Higher Education Research and Advocacy Network in Africa (Herana) to concentrate on research and advocacy about the possible role and contribution of universities to development in Africa. This book is the final publication to emerge from the Herana project. The project has also published more than 100 articles, chapters, reports, manuals and datasets, and many presentations have been delivered to share insights gained from the work done by Herana. Given its prolific dissemination, it seems reasonable to ask whether this fourth and final publication will offer the reader anything new. This book is certainly different from previous publications in several respects. First, it is the only book to include an analysis of eight African universities based on the full 15 years of empirical data collected by the project. Second, previous books and reports were published mid-project. This book has benefited from an extended gestation period allowing the authors and contributors to reflect on the project without the distractions associated with managing and participating in a large-scale project. For the first time, some of those who have been involved in Herana since its inception have had the opportunity to at least make an attempt to see part of the wood for the trees. Different does not necessarily mean new. An emphasis on the newness of the data and perspectives presented in this book is important because it shows that it is more than a historical record of a donor-funded project. Rather, each chapter in this book brings, to a lesser or greater extent, something new to our understanding of universities, research and development in Africa.

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West, Joel, and Jonathan Sims. How Firms Leverage Crowds and Communities for Open Innovation. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198816225.003.0004.

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There are many similarities in how firms pursuing an open innovation strategy can utilize crowds and communities as sources of external innovation. At the same time, the differences between these two network forms of collaboration have previously been blurred or overlooked. In this chapter, we integrate research on crowds and communities, identifying a third form—a crowd–community hybrid—that combines attributes of both. We compare examples of each of these three network forms, such as open source software communities, gated contests, crowdsourcing tournaments, user-generated content, and crowd science. We then summarize the intrinsic, extrinsic, and structural factors that enable individual and organizational participation in these collaborations. Finally, we contrast how these collaborative forms differ regarding their degree of innovativeness and relevance to firm goals. From this, we identify opportunities for future research on these topics.

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Jaclyn, Fowler-Frey, and Educational Resources Information Center (U.S.), eds. ESL online action research: A collaborative venture between the ESL Program Division of Pennsylvania Association for Adult Continuing Education and Lancaster Lebanan Intermediate Unit 13's Adult Education Program : final report, project year: 1995-96. U.S. Dept. of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, Educational Resources Information Center, 1996.

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Collaborative Networked Organizations: A research agenda for emerging business models. Springer, 2004.

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Luis, Camarinha-Matos, and Afsarmanesh Hamideh, eds. Collaborative networked oganizations: A research agenda for emerging business models. Kluwer Academic, 2004.

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Halvorsen, Tor, and Jorun Nossum, eds. North-South Knowledge Networks Towards Equitable Collaboration Between. African Minds, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.47622/978-1-928331-30-8.

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Since the 1990s, internationalisation has become key for institutions wishing to secure funding for higher education and research. For the academic community, this strategic shift has had many consequences. Priorities have changed and been influenced by new ways of thinking about universities, and of measuring their impact in relation to each other and to their social goals. Debates are ongoing and hotly contested. In this collection, a mix of renowned academics and newer voices reflect on some of the realities of international research partnerships. They both question and highlight the agency of academics, donors and research institutions in the geopolitics of knowledge and power. The contributors offer fresh insights on institutional transformation, the setting of research agendas, and access to research funding, while highlighting the dilemmas researchers face when their institutions are vulnerable to state and donor influence. Offering a range of perspectives on why academics should collaborate and what for, this book will be useful to anyone interested in how scholars are adapting to the realities of international networking and how research institutions are finding innovative ways to make North�South partnerships and collaborations increasingly fair, sustainable and mutually beneficial.

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Leite, Denise, and Isabel Pinho. Evaluating Collaboration Networks in Higher Education Research: Drivers of Excellence. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

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Leite, Denise, and Isabel Pinho. Evaluating Collaboration Networks in Higher Education Research: Drivers of Excellence. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

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(Editor), Peter Goodyear, Sheena Banks (Editor), Vivien Hodgson (Editor), and David McConnell (Editor), eds. Advances in Research on Networked Learning (Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Series). Springer, 2004.

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Song, Yang, João Leitão, Peter A. Gloor, and Francesca Grippa. Collaborative Innovation Networks: Latest Insights from Social Innovation, Education, and Emerging Technologies Research. Springer, 2019.

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Paulus, Paul B., and Jared B. Kenworthy. Overview of Team Creativity and Innovation. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190222093.003.0002.

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In this chapter, we present an overview of some major topics and themes explored in the research on team creativity. We discuss the strengths and limitations of some primary methodological approaches to the study of creativity in teams, including short-term team settings, long-term team settings, and case studies. We also explore some of the major theories of collaborative creativity, which to varying degrees focus on contextual and organizational factors, as well as motivational, cognitive, and social processes involved in enhancing innovation in teams. We evaluate the sometimes conflicting findings from research on team size, participative safety, conflict, affective processes, and supportive versus constrained environments. At a broader level, we discuss interteam and network dynamics as they impact team innovation. Finally, we summarize some areas of research that seem to have conflicting or paradoxical effects, suggesting areas of future research focus.

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Ringe, Nils, Jennifer Nicoll Victor, and Wendy Tam Cho. Legislative Networks. Edited by Jennifer Nicoll Victor, Alexander H. Montgomery, and Mark Lubell. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190228217.013.19.

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Legislatures are naturally interactive institutions. Creating laws, engaging in representation and oversight, and serving constituents are social processes. Legislators have many connections with each other, some preexisting or natural and some created while in office. This chapter explores various ways to understand legislative politics through a relational lens. Legislators rely on networks for a variety of functions, including collaboration, information diffusion, policy coordination, coalition building, and voting. Relationships are a fundamental aspect of how legislators, and those who interact with them, function. The chapter examines the history of how networks have been studied in legislatures and describes various challenges this field of study has recently overcome, as well as other challenges yet to be solved in studying legislative politics using networks. It relays the dominant existing applications and methods in this subfield and suggests several fruitful avenues for future research.

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1962-, Dumova Tatyana, and Fiordo Richard 1945-, eds. Handbook of research on social interaction technologies and collaboration software: Concepts and trends. Information Science Reference, 2009.

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Caldas, Alexandre Paulo Fernandes Varela Simões. The structure of electronic scientific communication: Electronic networks, research collaboration and the discovery of digital knowledge bases. 2004.

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Régnier, Philippe. Toward a New Political Economy of Critical Editions. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252038402.003.0010.

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This chapter analyzes the political economy of digital critical editions and the development of research networks, as well as the ecological environment and the concrete human resources in digital critical edition. The first part builds on the scope of scholarly editing's “political economy in a pre-digital era,” and describes the human resources context that has followed the migration of critical edition to the digital world. Meanwhile, the second part discusses the impacts of collaborative work, human networks, open software ideology, and resource sharing on the new political economy of digital scholarly edition. Particular attention is given to the role of institutions such as publishers, research organizations and universities, and scientific networks in this new production environment.

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Oliveira, Edinamar Rezende de, and Sônia M. Gomes Sousa. Atendimento Psicossocial às Crianças Vítimas de Abuso sexual. Brazil Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.31012/978-65-5861-412-8.

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This work is the result of a Stricto Sensu Graduate Program research study in psychology at the Pontifical Catholic University of Goiás (PUC Goiás). It aimed to capture the methodologies used and the meanings experienced by psychology professionals while performing psychosocial work on child victims of sexual abuse. In this scenario, the referred research was developed seeking to provoke reflections, expressions and co-production of meanings in relation to this theme. This study is based on the vigotskian socio-historical conception and bibliographical, documentary and empirical research was used as methodological support for data collection. The study concluded that, in several aspects of the psychosocial care offered by Creas, there are numerous challenges for the professionals involved, such as: lack of training for the expected performance, lack of physical structure for most units, lack of diverse resources, lack of specialized materials and lack of collaboration between the different parties within the child care and protection network of the city. Failure in family adherence is an obstacle in treatments according to psychologists. In addition, there are insufficient materials, space and human resources to provide quality care. Finally, the collaboration in the network is pointed as a crucial key for efficiency in treatment.

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Georgeff, Michael, Frank Dignum, and Christian Guttmann. Collaborative Agents - Research and Development: International Workshops, CARE@AI09 2009 / CARE@IAT10 2010Melbourne, Australia, December 1, 2009Toronto, Canada, August 31, 2010Revised Selected Papers. Springer, 2011.

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Halvorsen, Tor, Hilde Ibsen, and Vyvienne RP M’kumbuzi. Knowledge for a Sustainable World: A Southern African-Nordic contribution. African Minds, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.47622/9781928331049.

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The search for answers to the issue of global sustainability has become increasingly urgent. In the context of higher education, many universities and academics are seeking new insights that can shift our dependence on ways of living that rely on the exploitation of so many and the degradation of so much of our planet. This is the vision that drives SANORD and many of the researchers and institutions within its network. Although much of the research is on a relatively small scale, the vision is steadily gaining momentum, forging dynamic collaborations and pathways to new knowledge. The contributors to this book cover a variety of subject areas and offer fresh insights about chronically under-researched parts of the world. Others document and critically reflect on innovative approaches to cross-continental teaching and research collaborations. This book will be of interest to anyone involved in the transformation of higher education or the practicalities of cross-continental and cross-disciplinary academic collaboration. The Southern African-Nordic Centre (SANORD) is a network of higher education institutions from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Botswana, Namibia, Malawi, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Universities in the southern African and Nordic regions that are not yet members are encouraged to join.

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Jessop, Bob. Putting Civil Society in Its Place. Policy Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447354956.001.0001.

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This book interprets civil society both as a shifting horizon of action and as an ensemble of governance arrangements with diverse agents rather than as a fixed reality with a definite substance. Its focus is not so much on civil society as it is on governance, metagovernance, and their forms of failure. These phenomena are examined from a governance theoretical viewpoint concerned with the coordination through self-organizing networks, partnerships and other forms of reflexive collaboration and, relatedly, in terms of an alleged ‘shift from government to governance’ in the polity and similar shifts from hierarchical authority to networked or ‘heterarchical’ coordination in many other social fields. After exploring these themes, the book presents the two phases of the WISERD civil society research programme and locates it in terms of Marx, Gramsci, and Foucault. The book then presents Bob Jessop’s own case studies of the role of governance in tackling economic and social problems and the limits and failures of economic and social policy in various styles of governance. It concludes with remarks on the struggle to integrate civil society into governance, and the power of social networks and solidarity within civil society. It thereby provides a comprehensive review of the factors that influence their success and identifies lessons for future social innovation.

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Arya, Ved. Towards a Relationship of Significance: Lessons from a Decade of Collaboration Between Government and NGOs in Rajasthan, India (Agricultural Research and Extension Network (AgREN) Paper). Overseas Development Institute, 1999.

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Kehoe, Rebecca R., Blythe L. Rosikiewicz, and Daniel Tzabbar. Talent and Teams. Edited by David G. Collings, Kamel Mellahi, and Wayne F. Cascio. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198758273.013.23.

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We provide an integrative review of extant research related to talent (i.e., stars) in the team context. Beginning with a focus an the influences of stars on teams, we review research on stars’ roles as boundary spanners, in which stars may leverage their favorable network positions to enhance their teams’ access to external resources. We then examine stars’ interpersonal influences within teams, which can be positive (e.g., collaboration and mentoring) or negative (e.g., imposing constraints on colleagues’ opportunities). In the second section, we focus on the effects of the team context on stars. Here, we examine how characteristics of the team environment influence the value of stars’ contributions. We then examine the effects of complementarity and redundancy resources on stars’ behavioral propensities and performance outcomes. Finally, we draw on patterns of findings in the extant research we reviewed to identify critical directions for future research on stars and teams.

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M, Mbwika J., East Africa Root Crops Research Network., Southern Africa Root Crops Research Network., et al., eds. Proceedings of the regional workshop on improving the cassava sub-sector : convened by East Africa Root Crops Research Network (EARRNET) in collaboration with Post Harvest and Marketing Research Network for Eastern and Central Africa (FOODNET) Southern Africa Root Crops Research Network (SARRNET) and East and Central Africa Programme for Agricultural Policy Analysis (ECAPAPA) : held at International Centre for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF) Nairobi, Kenya on 8th-12th, April 2002. s.n., 2002.

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Wiruchnipawan, Fon, and Roy Y. J. Chua. Intercultural Relationships and Creativity. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190455675.003.0009.

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In the global economy, individuals have to engage in cross-cultural interactions when tasked to develop creative new products or services. Research on the effects of cultural diversity on creativity, however, has been equivocal. One stream of research champions that cultural diversity in relationships broadens ideas and resources for creative thinking, whereas skeptics counter that intercultural tensions and conflicts hurt rather than help. This chapter discusses both sides of the argument. We examine the effects of intercultural relationships on creativity from three perspectives: (a) how a culturally diverse social environment (including social networks) influences individuals’ creativity; (b) how individuals can successfully engage in intercultural dyadic creative collaboration; and (c) how intercultural relationships influence creativity of multicultural teams. In addition, we investigate the underlying mechanisms and boundary conditions of how intercultural relationships impact creative performance. We conclude by integrating ideas from existing research and proposing new research directions.

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Engineering, National Academy of, ed. The Impact of academic research on industrial performance. National Academies Press, 2003.

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Barwich, Doris, John You, Jessica Simon, Louise Hanvey, and Cari Hoffman. Advance care planning in Canada. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198802136.003.0019.

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This chapter describes how advance care planning (ACP) is being implemented in Canada. It highlights the use of an organizing National Framework for Advance Care Planning and a recent conceptual framework of end-of-life communication and decision making. A feature of the Canadian landscape are networks of collaboration and partnerships including research and non-governmental organizations, and examples of regional and national initiatives are presented in the boxes. A summary is provided of barriers, facilitators, the cultural milieu, and future opportunities for ACP in Canada. Implementation of ACP in Canada has followed a multi-faceted approach, with significant national leadership, key stakeholder participation and consumer engagement strategies, with important outcomes demonstrated.

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Cummings, Jeffrey L., and Jagan A. Pillai, eds. Neurodegenerative Diseases. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190233563.001.0001.

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With an increasingly aging population, neurodegenerative diseases-such as Alzheimer’s disease, Lewy body dementia, frontotemporal dementia, and Parkinson’s disease-are becoming more prevalent in the world. This is an area of rapidly growing high-impact research as these neurodegenerative diseases are a huge burden for individuals, families, and societies both in quality of life and in healthcare costs. Finding novel therapeutic targets for neurodegenerative diseases is the premier medical challenge for this century. Classically each of these diseases has been viewed as a distinct entity with well-delineated clinical and pathological features. Recent research findings have revealed multiple commonalities across them; proteomic, genetic, cellular, and network mechanisms across neurodegenerative diseases. This conceptual revolution in our understanding of these neurodegenerative diseases as sharing unifying features is underpinned by underlying protein misfolding dysfunction and its consequences over time. As we search for new therapies and management of these neurodegenerative diseases, this book provides an effective source book of insights from experts that have played key roles in this conceptual revolution. Our goal is to enable better care of patients and to help build collaboration across research in multiple specializations that could help advance future insights and facilitate novel therapeutics.

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Clark, David. Specialty recognition and global development. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199674282.003.0006.

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The growing number of doctors working in hospices began to seek formal recognition for the specialist nature of their work. Discussions began with the Royal Colleges about how this could be achieved. There were workforce issues to be considered, as well as matters of training, development, and accreditation. The creation of specialist journals to disseminate research and clinical practice, the endorsement of the World Health Organization, and the growth of international networks of collaboration, all began to define a new field of activity. Formal recognition for palliative medicine happened first in the United Kingdom—100 years after the publication of Munk’s classic work. In time, other countries followed suit. This chapter shows how the field was now poised for an expanding role, with global dimensions. However, at the same time it faced challenges about boundaries, definition, and focus.

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Beaudry, Catherine, Johann Mouton, and Heidi E. Prozesky. The Next Generation of Scientists in Africa. African Minds, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.47622/978-1-928331-93-3.

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Young scientists are a powerful resource for change and sustainable development, as they drive innovation and knowledge creation. However, comparable findings on young scientists in various countries, especially in Africa and developing regions, are generally sparse. Therefore, empirical knowledge on the state of early-career scientists is critical in order to address current challenges faced by those scientists in Africa. This book reports on the main findings of a three-and-a-half-year international project in order to assist its readers in better understanding the African research system in general, and more specifically its young scientists. The first part of the book provides background on the state of science in Africa, and bibliometric findings concerning Africa's scientific production and networks, for the period 2005 to 2015. The second part of the book combines the findings of a large-scale, quantitative survey and more than 200 qualitative interviews to provide a detailed profile of young scientists and the barriers they face in terms of five aspects of their careers: research output; funding; mobility; collaboration; and mentoring. In each case, field and gender differences are also taken into account. The last part of the book comprises conclusions and recommendations to relevant policy- and decision-makers on desirable changes to current research systems in Africa.

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Levin Rojo, Danna A., and Cynthia Radding, eds. The [Oxford] Handbook of Borderlands of the Iberian World. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199341771.001.0001.

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This collaborative Oxford Handbook of Borderlands in the Iberian World integrates interdisciplinary approaches to illustrate the historical processes that produced borderlands in the Americas and connected them to global circuits of exchange and migration in the early modern world, extending from the fifteenth to the nineteenth-centuries. It brings together specialists in the Spanish and Portuguese imperial spheres, their geographic and cultural borderlands in both South and North America, and their maritime networks across the Caribbean, Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Its objectives emphasize (1) scholarship published in Latin America as well as new research published in diverse academic communities; (2) transdisciplinary research in fields such as ecology, archaeology, art history, geography, musicology, and anthropology that inform the current field of borderlands scholarship; (3) accessible language and imagery to make this work appeal widely to students, teachers, and scholars. “Borderlands” as a concept and a field of academic inquiry has opened new dimensions of interdisciplinary and critical thought in the last quarter-century at the same time that ethnohistorical approaches to imperialism and colonialism have produced critical analyses of European imperial spheres in the Americas and other world regions. This Handbook offers new research on environmental change, powerful indigenous federations in both North and South America, gendered histories in the mixed and volatile social fabrics of borderlands, indigenous enslavement and the complex degrees of difference between freedom and bondage, Afro-descendant populations in the Spanish and Portuguese borderlands, interethnic relations, and cultural productions in the arts and sciences.

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Halvorsen, Tar, and Peter Vale. One World, Many Knowledges: Regional experiences and cross-regional links in higher education. African Minds, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.47622/978-0-620-55789-4.

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Various forms of academic co-operation criss-cross the modern university system in a bewildering number of ways, from the open exchange of ideas and knowledge, to the sharing of research results, and frank discussions about research challenges. Embedded in these scholarly networks is the question of whether a global template for the management of both higher education and national research organisations is necessary, and if so, must institutions slavishly follow the high-flown language of the global knowledge society or risk falling behind in the ubiquitous university ranking system? Or are there alternatives that can achieve a better, more ethically inclined, world? Basing their observations on their own experiences, an interesting mix of seasoned scholars and new voices from southern Africa and the Nordic region offer critical perspectives on issues of inter- and cross-regional academic co-operation. Several of the chapters also touch on the evolution of the higher education sector in the two regions. An absorbing and intelligent study, this book will be invaluable for anyone interested in the strategies scholars are using to adapt to the interconnectedness of the modern world. It offers fresh insights into how academics are attempting to protect the spaces in which they can freely and openly debate the challenges they face, while aiming to transform higher education, and foster scholarly collaboration. The Southern African-Nordic Centre (SANORD) is a partnership of higher education institutions from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Botswana, Namibia, Malawi, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe. SANORDs primary aim is to promote multilateral research co-operation on matters of importance to the development of both regions. Our activities are based on the values of democracy, equity, and mutually beneficial academic engagement.

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McGreavy, Bridie, and David Hart. Sustainability Science and Climate Change Communication. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228620.013.563.

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Direct experience, scientific reports, and international media coverage make clear that the breadth, severity, and multiple consequences from climate change are far-reaching and increasing. Like many places globally, the northeastern United States is already experiencing climate change, including one of the world’s highest rates of ocean warming, reduced durations of winter ice cover on lakes, a marked increase in the frequency of extreme precipitation events, and climate-mediated ecological disruptions of invasive species. Given current and projected changes in ecosystems, communities, and economies, it is essential to find ways to anticipate and reduce vulnerabilities to change and, at the same time, promote sustainable economic development and human well-being.The emerging field of sustainability science offers a promising conceptual and analytic framework for accelerating progress towards sustainable development. Sustainability science aims to be use-inspired and to connect basic and applied knowledge with solutions for societal benefit. This approach draws from diverse disciplines, theories, and methods organized around the broad goal of maintaining and improving life support systems, ecosystem health, and human well-being. Partners in New England have been using sustainability science as a framework for stakeholder-engaged, interdisciplinary research that has generated use-inspired knowledge and multiple solutions for more than a decade. Sustainability science has helped produce a landscape-scale approach to wetland conservation; emergency response plans for invasive species that threaten livelihoods and cultures; decision support tools for improved water quality management and public health for beach use and shellfish consumption; and the development of robust partnership networks across disciplines and institutions. Understanding and reducing vulnerability to climate change is a central motivating factor in this portfolio of projects because linking knowledge about social-ecological systems with effective policy action requires a holistic view that addresses complex intersecting stressors.One common theme in these varied efforts is the way that communication fundamentally shapes collaborative research and social, technical, and policy outcomes from sustainability science. Communication as a discipline has, for more than two thousand years, sought to understand how environments and symbols shape human life, forms of social organization, and collective decision making. The result is a body of scholarship and practical techniques that are diverse and well adapted to meet the complexity of contemporary sustainability challenges. The complexity of the issues that sustainability science aspires to solve requires diversity and flexibility to be able to adapt approaches to the specific needs of a situation. Long-term, cross-scale, and multi-institutional sustainability science collaborations show that communication research and practice can help build communities and networks, and advance technical and policy solutions to confront the challenges of climate change and promote sustainability now and in future.

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