Fund for Shared Insight: 2015 Grantee Interview Themes [PDF]
, 2015 In October 2015, ORS Impact interviewed representatives from the 14 organizations that received grants from the Fund for Shared Insight. The purpose of these interviews was to capture insights from the experiences of grantees in their work to date, with ...
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Midwestern specialty crop impacts on the environment and health: a scoping review
Agriculture & Food SecurityIntroduction The United States food system mainly relies on monoculture farming, leading to negative impacts on human and environmental health. Transitioning to specialty crop production (fruits, vegetables, and tree nuts) could alleviate challenges. The
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Personalisation schemes in social care: are they growing social and health inequalities?
BMC Public Health, 2019 Background The connection between choice, control and health is well established in the literature on the social determinants of health, which includes choice and control of vital health and social services.
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The Power of Advocacy: Advancing Vision for Everyone to Meet the Sustainable Development Goals
International Journal of Public Health, 2022 Advocacy is instrumental to achieving significant policy change for vision. Global advocacy efforts over the past decades enabled recognition of vision as a major public health, human rights, and development issue.
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Impactitis: The impact factor myth syndrome
Indian Journal of Dermatology, 2009 In the early 1960s, Eugene Garfield and Irving Sher created the journal impact factor to help select journals for the Science Citation Index (SCI). Today it has become a widespread subject of controversy even for Garfield, the man who created it who is quoted saying "Impact Factor is not a perfect tool to measure the quality of articles but there is ...
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Podcasts of over 1,000 LSE lectures available to download through iTunes U, including lectures from the LSE Impact Conference [PDF]
, 2011 Over 1,000 podcasts of the London School of Economics and Political Science’s public lecture programme are available to download from the iTunes online store, LSE on iTunes U, LSE announced this ...
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Assessing impacts of agricultural research for development in countries of the South [PDF]
, 2019 Source Agritrop Cirad (https://agritrop.cirad.fr/594337/)International ...
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Investment incentive reduced by climate damages can be restored by optimal policy
Nature Communications, 2021 Climate change is likely to damage economies worldwide. Here the authors show that this strongly reduces incentives to invest causing additional losses, whereas if investors include climate-change mitigation in their action portfolio they can avoid ...
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Event 22 February 2012: The Impact Agenda [PDF]
, 2012 The Impact Agenda – an ESRC-funded seminar series – will host speakers at Seminar 5: New Frontiers of Impact on Wednesday, 22nd February 2012 from 9.00am until 5.00pm at Manchester Business School ...
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2040 greenhouse gas reduction targets and energy transitions in line with the EU Green Deal
Nature CommunicationsThe European Green Deal aims to guide the European Union towards achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by implementing a comprehensive set of policy initiatives and legislation.
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