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‘Fit for change’: A preliminary exploration of the relationship between academic literacy practitioners and disciplinary specialists as a complex system

Perspectives in Education, 2013
At tertiary institutions in South Africa and internationally, academic literacy practitioners and disciplinary specialists have traditionally functioned as separate communities of practice.
Karin Cattell
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Healthy eating and active living policy, systems, and environmental changes in rural Louisiana: a contextual inquiry to inform implementation strategies

International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 2023
Background Healthy eating and active living policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) changes are implemented across the United States through Cooperative Extension.
Bailey Houghtaling, Laura Balis, Nila Pradhananga, Melissa Cater, Denise Holston   +4 more
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Measuring Nutrition Security Using the Consumer Food Data System Datasets

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Nutrition security is an emerging concept lacking a consensus definition, conceptualization, or standardized measure. This perspectives manuscript synthesizes findings from two previously published analyses to assess the feasibility of using available measures of key dimensions of nutrition security from two Consumer Food Data System (CFDS ...
Vibha Bhargava, Jung Sun Lee, Travis A. Smith   +2 more
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Citizen participation in local energy communities: a meta and weight analysis

Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy
Given their strong potential to mitigate environmental problems and contribute to the decarbonization of energy systems, researchers and practitioners are demonstrating increasing interest in local energy communities.
Catarina Neves, Tiago Oliveira, Fernando Santini   +2 more
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Community-acquired MRSA: a practitioner's guide [PDF]

Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2006
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is usually considered a hospital-acquired (HA) organism. As highlighted elsewhere in this issue of CMAJ , infections with community-acquired (CA) strains of MRSA are being noted more frequently.
openaire   +2 more sources

The Power of Unity: Collective Action and Smallholder Agricultural Performance in West Africa

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We analyze the impact of collective action through farmer‐based organizations (FBOs) on smallholders' farm performance and income inequality in Ghana, Benin, The Gambia, and Mali. We find that FBO membership increases cereal yield in Ghana and The Gambia, legume yield in Mali, ruminant numbers in Benin and The Gambia, and total farm income in ...
Emmanuel Donkor, Bright Owusu Asante, David Boansi, Victor Owusu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Language (Technology) is Power: A Critical Survey of "Bias" in NLP

, 2020
We survey 146 papers analyzing "bias" in NLP systems, finding that their motivations are often vague, inconsistent, and lacking in normative reasoning, despite the fact that analyzing "bias" is an inherently normative process.
Barocas, Solon, Blodgett, Su Lin, Daumé III, Hal, Wallach, Hanna   +3 more
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AI in chemical engineering: From promise to practice

AIChE Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) in chemical engineering has moved from promise to practice: physics‐aware (gray‐box) models are gaining traction, reinforcement learning complements model predictive control (MPC), and generative AI powers documentation, digitization, and safety workflows.
Jia Wei Chew, Ronnie Andersson, Thomas Bierweiler, Patrik Ryttestal, Torsten Wik   +4 more
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Artificial Intelligence for Bone: Theory, Methods, and Applications

Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) offer the potential to improve bone research. The current review explores the contributions of AI to pathological study, biomarker discovery, drug design, and clinical diagnosis and prognosis of bone diseases. We envision that AI‐driven methodologies will enable identifying novel targets for drugs discovery. The
Dongfeng Yuan, Haicang Zhang, Liping Tong, Di Chen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Intimate partner abuse among Rohingya in Malaysia: assessing stressors, mental health, social norms and help-seeking to inform interventions

Intervention Journal of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Conflict Affected Areas, 2019
Intimate partner abuse (IPA) is one of the most common forms of gender-based violence worldwide. Risk for IPA can increase during periods of displacement, especially for refugees and other forced migrants.
Courtney Welton-Mitchell, Noor Arifah Bujang, Hasnah Hussin, Sharifah Husein, Fajar Santoadi, Leah Emily James   +5 more
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