In November 2017, the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) celebrated its fiftieth anniversary at its headquarters outside Palmira, Colombia. As an important research center of the ...so-called Green Revolution in agricultural science and technologies, CIAT emphasizes its contributions to sustainability, food security, gender equity, inclusive markets, and resilient, climate-smart agriculture. Yet these terms hardly describe the Cauca Valley where CIAT is physically located, a place that has been transformed into an industrial monoculture of sugarcane where thirteen Colombian corporations oversee the vast majority of this valley's famously fertile soil. This exemplifies the paradox Timothy W. Lorek describes in Making the Green Revolution : an international research center emphasizing small-scale and sustainable agricultural systems sited conspicuously on a landscape otherwise dominated by a large-scale corporate sugarcane industry.
Utilizing archives in Colombia, Puerto Rico, and the United States, Lorek tracks the paradoxical but intertwined twentieth-century processes that produced both CIAT and sugar in the Cauca Valley. This history reveals how Colombians contributed to the rise of a global Green Revolution and how that international process in turn intersected with a complex and long-running rural conflict in Colombia.
Introduction: Minority youth are underrepresented in diabetes technology trials. An ongoing pilot study is recruiting 20 publicly insured, insulin pump naive youth ages 8-12 with T1D who identify as ...NHB or Latinx with recent HbA1c >8% to participate in a study using SMAs to improve T1D self-management and sustained CGM use. We aimed to identify the most successful recruitment strategies.
Methods: Potentially eligible youth are identified through weekly review of diabetes appointments. Families are then contacted in-person at a clinic visit, by phone, or text-message. We reviewed the number of in-person, phone, and text-message attempts for all eligible participants, as well as the number of youth who enrolled, refused, or who have not yet been successfully contacted.
Results:79 youth were identified as potentially eligible. 56% (n=44, 16±13 contact attempts) have been successfully contacted; 18% (n=14, 6±4 contact attempts) enrolled. 64% (n=9/14) of enrolled and 18% (n=12/65) of non-enrolled were approached at a clinic visit, 14% (n=2/14) of enrolled and 40% (n=26/65) of non-enrolled via phone, and 50% (n=7/14) of enrolled and 46% (n=30/65) of non-enrolled via text-message (p<0.001). 38% (n=6/16) of those who scheduled an enrollment visit after being contacted by phone/text attended the visit versus 63% (n=10/16) contacted at a clinic visit (p<0.001). 38% (n=30, 10±9 contact attempts) refused to participate; 27% (n=9) did not want to travel to the study site, 17% (n=5) refused CGM, and 53% (n=16) declined research participation. 46% (n=35, 12±5 contact attempts) have not yet been successfully contacted.
Conclusions: Historically marginalized youth enrolling in this SMA study required an average of 6 contact attempts for study participation. Purposeful in-person recruitment strategies, being mindful of the low rates of technology use among this community and mistrust in the healthcare system, is needed to promote diversity and inclusion in T1D research.
Disclosure
J.Grundman: Research Support; American Diabetes Association, Dexcom, Inc. S.Majidi: None. A.G.Perkins: Research Support; Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc., Dexcom, Inc. R.Streisand: None. M.Monaghan: Employee; National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Research Support; American Diabetes Association. B.E.Marks: Research Support; Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc., Dexcom, Inc., Medtronic.
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American Diabetes Association (7-21-PDFHD-09 to J.G.)
"With thousands of years of accumulated knowledge you must wonder if we builders really have anything new to learn. In the mid-1900s space flights, technologically advanced weapons systems and the ...computer industry began to run large and complex projects. New tools and techniques to succeed in complex projects were developed, primarily by NASA, the U.S. military and the IT-industry. Clients began to require some form of knowledge for Project Managers, who would manage a complex project. Needs and requirements for certification of Project Managers began to emerge. Actually, it is equally obvious that a Project Manager shall have a basic knowledge of how to run a 3 million dollars project , as it is to require a driving license for someone driving a motorcycle. Project management is a profession that requires specific knowledge and skills Local certification has existed for some time, but has not been widely practiced"--
Foregrounding African women's ingenuity and labor, this pioneering case study shows how women in rural Mali have used technology to ensure food security through the colonial period, environmental ...crises, and postcolonial rule. By advocating for an understanding of rural Malian women as engineers, Laura Ann Twagira rejects the persistent image of African women as subjects without technological knowledge or access and instead reveals a hidden history about gender, development, and improvisation. In so doing, she also significantly expands the scope of African science and technology studies. Using the Office du Niger agricultural project as a case study, Twagira argues that women used modest technologies (such as a mortar and pestle or metal pots) and organized female labor to create, maintain, and reengineer a complex and highly adaptive food production system. While women often incorporated labor-saving technologies into their work routines, they did not view their own physical labor as the problem it is so often framed to be in development narratives. Rather, women's embodied techniques and knowledge were central to their ability to transform a development project centered on export production into an environmental resource that addressed local taste and consumption needs.
Accelerating time to impact is a serious and important challenge for today's organizations. This paper combines the literatures of project acceleration and benefit management to inquire into the ...possibilities of accelerating time to impact. Specifically, it explores a practitioner-driven Danish initiative targeted at increasing the speed at which project benefits are attained, and it analyzes why some projects were able to achieve benefits faster than others. The initiative functions as a major social experiment, where the same project methodology was implemented in several Danish project-based organizations. We analyze five of these organizations. We identified reasons for the differences and grouped them in a conceptual model: the ‘house of time to impact’ with three areas: valuing speed, owning speed and entraining speed in the organization. The paper's contribution is the bridge between the literatures on benefit and time management, bringing two pressing issues together. The contribution to practice lies in the considerations and stories of other organizations attempting to reconcile the increasing need for effectiveness.
•Accelerating the ‘time to impact’ of a project is a serious and important challenge for organizations.•The study analyses a practitioner-driven initiative to accelerate time to impact in five organizations.•Factors driving or hampering acceleration: valuing, owning, and entraining speed•Speed is not necessarily valued, the value attributed to speed is contextual.
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The implementation of public projects by organizations requires professionalization of their evaluation methods. The research objective is to identify the key criteria for project evaluation that go ...beyond the “project triangle.” The following problem was formulated: whether
evaluation of the project taking into account parameters of the “design triangle” is not an oversimplification in the context of uniqueness of design solutions that significantly affect civilization and technological development of societies in terms of global. The study was conducted in two stages. In the first stage, 109 completed projects were evaluated using the quantitative method. The quantitative method was used to evaluate the projects. In the second stage, on the basis of the project-evaluation results, the key criteria for
evaluation of project implementation were analyzed using the Hellwig’s correlation method. It was shown that for the proper
evaluation of project implementation, it is necessary to supplement criteria with strategic and societal effects.
This paper is motivated by the intention to contribute to a contextual understanding of projects. More specifically, the analysis starts from the assumption that essential processes of creating and ...sedimenting knowledge accrue at the interface between projects and the organizations, communities, and networks in and through which projects operate. By adopting such a contextual perspective, the chief aim of the present study is to unfold a conceptual framework for analyzing processes of project-based learning. This conceptual framework is built around the notion of the project ecology. By consecutively disentangling the constitutive layers of project ecologies — the core team, the firm, the epistemic community, and the personal networks — the basic organizational architecture of project ecologies is revealed. This architecture is employed as a theoretical template for an exploration of learning processes in two ecologies which are driven by opposing logics of creating and sedimenting knowledge. In this comparative analysis, the cumulative learning logic of the software ecology in Munich is confronted with the disruptive learning regime in the London advertising ecology.
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Jia‐Yu Liao
Angewandte Chemie International Edition,
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The most important quality of a mentor is to arouse students’ interest and curiosity in their research projects … I'm always in a good mood when I come up with new ideas and discuss them with my ...students. …“ Find out more about Jia‐Yu Liao in his Introducing … Profile.
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