Collaborative Research Strategy Research Articles

Research Ideologies among Legal Scholars and Multidisciplinary and Interdisciplinary Academic Research Approaches

This article explores the dichotomy between traditional research methodologies and modern multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches within the academic legal community in Nigeria. While disciplines such as pure science, social science, education, and arts have embraced collaborative research strategies to address complex issues, legal scholars predominantly adhere to the doctrinal style. This adherence creates a significant challenge in achieving consensus on research methodologies, data sources, and analytical techniques. The study highlights the reluctance of legal scholars and regulatory bodies like NALT to recognize the value of integrating diverse academic perspectives. By examining the current research ideologies among legal scholars, the article underscores the need for a unified approach to academic research that bridges the gap between traditional legal research and collaborative methodologies, ultimately enhancing the scope and impact of scholarly inquiry in the legal field. The research employs a qualitative design, utilizing interviews and surveys with legal students, scholars, educators, and regulatory body members to gather in-depth insights into their research practices and attitudes. Based on the findings, the article recommends promoting awareness and education on the benefits of multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research, fostering a more inclusive research culture, encouraging regulatory bodies to endorse and support collaborative research initiatives within the legal academic community and develop a Okuma-NC (hybrid) research methodology and citation formula integrating aspects of OSCOLA, NALT, and APA, enabling seamless application in socio-legal, scientific, multidisciplinary, and interdisciplinary research within legal contexts.

Hydrogen Sulfide Biomedical Research in China-20 Years of Hindsight.

Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) is an important gasotransmitter that is produced by mammalian cells and performs profound physiological and pathophysiological functions. Biomedical research on H2S metabolism and function in China began 20 years ago, which pioneered the examination of the correlation of abnormal H2S metabolism and cardiovascular diseases. Over the last two decades, research teams in China have made numerous breakthrough discoveries on the effects of H2S metabolism on hypertension, atherosclerosis, pulmonary hypertension, shock, angiogenesis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, pain, iron homeostasis, and testicle function, to name a few. These research developments, carried by numerous research teams all over China, build nationwide research network and advance both laboratory study and clinical applications. An integrated and collaborative research strategy would further promote and sustain H2S biomedical research in China and in the world.

A Collaborative Model for Lithic Shape Digitization in Museum Settings

ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic halted scientific research across the world, revealing the vulnerabilities of field-based disciplines to disruption. To ensure resilience in the face of future emergencies, archaeology needs to be more sustainable with international collaboration at the forefront. This article presents a collaborative data collection model for documenting lithics using digital photography and physical measurements taken in-situ by local collaborators. Data capture protocols to optimise standardisation are outlined, and guidelines are provided for data curation, storage and sharing. Adopting collaborative research strategies can have long-term advantages beyond the COVID-19 pandemic, by encouraging knowledge-sharing between international collaborators, decreasing emissions associated with archaeological research, and improving accessibility for those who are not able to travel for access to international samples. This article proposes that archaeology should use the COVID-19 pandemic as a catalyst for change through encouraging deeper collaborations and the development of remote models of science as a complement to in-person research.

Romanian Students’ Appraisal of the Emergency Remote Assessment due to the COVID-19 Pandemic

The response of most educational institutions to the health crisis triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic was the adoption of emergency remote teaching and assessment. The paper aims to evaluate students’ satisfaction with assessment activities in a Romanian university and to identify elements pertaining to sustainable assessment in the post-pandemic period. A collaborative research strategy was developed with students being invited as co-researchers for data collection by distributing an online questionnaire and for interpretation of the results in a focus group. The factor analysis of the responses to the survey extracted two pillars pertaining to students’ appraisal of remote assessment activities: Knowledge, and leisure and stress. The discussion in the focus group showed that the research helped participants to process and reason their experience with remote assessment activities in the summer of 2020. Students missed their academic rituals and interactions with peers and teachers. Despite their enthusiasm for technological innovation and the benefits brought by computer assisted assessment, students are inclined towards preserving human evaluators, preferably from their familiar teachers, in educational settings resembling pre-pandemic academic life. A sustainable, resilient model of education needs to be based on retaining features identified as acceptable by students as examinees.

Researchers perception regarding socio-technical approaches implementation in their own research. Thermal energy storage researchers as example

The enhancement and the understanding of the societal dynamics in the energy systems within transition entails the inclusion of innovative policy and research strategies. This inclusion raises several questions that change profoundly the nature of the research and innovation endeavour, questions that have not been sufficiently explored in the literature. These questions are, among others, the complexities an scope of socio-technical integration or the emergence of new roles and patterns such as user-inspired innovations or community innovations. Based on the assumptions of the responsible-based approaches advocating to energy system actors to collaborate sharing responsibility and the benefits that perspectives integration brings in the development of proactive and archivable energy and climate policies, this study analyses a group of researchers within the field of thermal energy storage (TES) for renewable energy applications, for the purpose of evaluating their perception regarding to the inclusion of alternative policy proposals and collaborative research strategies. The proposed methodology was based on the use of the common theoretical backgrounds of socio-technical transition for the construction of an responsibility-based approach and the proposal of a survey tool for gathering the empirical evidence from researchers opinions. The survey data was collected from a representative group of researchers (33 countries, 215 targeted researches completing the surveys at 31% with a final N = 72). Findings shows willingness to include citizens as beneficiaries but not as participants of research decisions, the prevalence of the use of social sciences to increase the acceptance of technology and remarkable unawareness regarding collaborative research strategies. This paper brings an important contribution for the selected researchers that can be extrapolate to other energy communities since illuminates the possibility of adapting and asses TES to include new patterns and new governance strategies based in RRI.

Cultural Adaptation and Validation of the Movers Scale in a French-Canadian Population

The purpose of this paper is to present the results of a study that draws upon a collaborative research strategy and has two main objectives: 1) Translating and adapting into French the Measure of Victim Empowerment Related to Safety (MOVERS scale) (Goodman et al. Psychology of Violence, 5(4), 355-366, 2015a); 2) Validating the French version of the MOVERS scale in a population of French-Canadian women receiving shelter services. The French-Canadian MOVERS (FCM) was administered to 189 women receiving shelter services in the province of Quebec (Canada). The factorial structure, reliability and validity of the FCM were tested. This paper highlights that the FCM replicates the three dimensions found in the original version (Goodman et al. Psychology of Violence, 5(4), 355-366, 2015a), displays significant correlations with measures of depression, anxiety and stress, self-esteem, perceived social support, satisfaction with life and self-efficacy, and has overall good reliability estimates. The FCM is a valid and reliable scale to assess safety-related empowerment among women receiving shelter services. Furthermore, the scale provides interesting opportunities to shelter workers, which will be discussed in the paper.

A Demographic Framework for the 1932–1934 Famine in the Soviet Union

ABSTRACT Research on the 1932–1934 famine in the Soviet Union (or Famine) has reached the point where some analytical and theoretical synthesis is needed. We present a framework that provides a structure for organizing demographic research of the Famine within a broader demographic-historical context. Elements of the framework are: (a) definitions of critical concepts (Famine, Holodomor, Famine losses); (b) population reconstruction methodology as a basis for estimating Famine losses; (c) a formal structure that facilitates comparative research of the Famine among different subpopulations; (d) elements of an integrated demographic-historical research strategy; (e) recommendations for quantification in historical research. The presentation of the framework is preceded by: (a) examples of the versatility of the population reconstruction methodology; (b) analysis of what is probably a unique characteristic of the Famine, i.e. the surge in rural mortality during the first half of 1933 in regions of Ukraine and Russia, resulting in about seventy to eighty per cent of all Famine losses concentrated in that period; (c) formulation of an analytical model of this surge as an example of an application of the framework. We show significant differences in the rural mortality surges between Ukraine and Russia, e.g.: (a) in two oblasts of Ukraine the number of losses in June 1933 is fourteen to fifteen times higher than in January of that year, compared to a maximum factor of eight in only one region of Russia; (b) the average number of daily losses at the peak of the Famine in Ukraine, June 1933, is 28,000, while the respective number in Russia is 12,000 in July 1933. Standardizing by population size, we have 12.4 daily losses per 1,000 population in Ukraine and 1.4 in Russia. Several examples illustrate the advantages of a collaborative demographic-historical research strategy.

Global Collaboration Research Strategies for Sustainability in the Post COVID-19 Era: Analyzing Virology-Related National-Funded Projects

In the post-COVID-19 era, virology-related research, which not only depends on the governments as its main source of funding but also requires international and interdisciplinary collaborations, is recognized as an essential defense for sustainability. Few published studies have examined the trend, but only for certain viruses before the mid-2010s. Moreover, it is challenging to define generally accepted virology-related research fields due to its broad spectrum. Thus, it is time that we confront the unprecedented pandemic to understand the status of nationally supported projects in developed nations to establish international collaborative research strategies from an interdisciplinary perspective. In this study, 32,365 national-funded projects were collected from the US, EU, and Japan and assigned to five scientific fields to conduct a cluster analysis. Then, an expert-based approach was utilized to define an individual cluster. Moreover, a comparative analysis between nations was carried out to determine if there was a competitive edge for collaboration. As a result, a framework for virology-related research areas was constructed to provide the status quo and differences between nations’ research capabilities, thereby eliciting practical global research and development (R&D) cooperation to achieve a common agenda and a direction for goals in the post-COVID-19 era. These findings have implications for viral response R&D, policy, and practice for future pandemics. A systematic approach based on scientific evidence and an R&D collaboration strategy between industry and academia is essential to resolve the interdisciplinary barriers between countries and promote sustainable virus R&D collaboration.

National Neuroinformatics Framework for Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging (CCNA).

The Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) launched the “International Collaborative Research Strategy for Alzheimer's Disease” as a signature initiative, focusing on Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and related neurodegenerative disorders (NDDs). The Canadian Consortium for Neurodegeneration and Aging (CCNA) was subsequently established to coordinate and strengthen Canadian research on AD and NDDs. To facilitate this research, CCNA uses LORIS, a modular data management system that integrates acquisition, storage, curation, and dissemination across multiple modalities. Through an unprecedented national collaboration studying various groups of dementia-related diagnoses, CCNA aims to investigate and develop proactive treatment strategies to improve disease prognosis and quality of life of those affected. However, this constitutes a unique technical undertaking, as heterogeneous data collected from sites across Canada must be uniformly organized, stored, and processed in a consistent manner. Currently clinical, neuropsychological, imaging, genomic, and biospecimen data for 509 CCNA subjects have been uploaded to LORIS. In addition, data validation is handled through a number of quality control (QC) measures such as double data entry (DDE), conflict flagging and resolution, imaging protocol checks1, and visual imaging quality validation. Site coordinators are also notified of incidental findings found in MRI reads or biosample analyses. Data is then disseminated to CCNA researchers via a web-based Data-Querying Tool (DQT). This paper will detail the wide array of capabilities handled by LORIS for CCNA, aiming to provide the necessary neuroinformatic infrastructure for this nation-wide investigation of healthy and diseased aging.

Fuzzy TOPSIS analytic hierarchy process based cooperative development of cultural soft power

In order to improve effectiveness of the problem about collaborative development and research on traditional sports of national minorities and cultural soft power of national fitness, a kind of collaborative development and research strategy for cultural soft power based on fuzzy TOPSIS analytic hierarchy process (AHP) was proposed. Firstly, index selection principle was considered; index weight principle, and qualitative and quantitative combination principle, and other principles were determined at the time of establishing comprehensive appraisal and analyzing model for traditional sports of national minorities and cultural soft power of national fitness. Based on that, theoretical model for comprehensive appraisal system of traditional sports of national minorities and cultural soft power of national fitness was established; then, AHP was used to determine weight of indexes in different levels; appraisal objects for traditional sports of all national minorities and cultural soft power of national fitness were endowed with different weights. FUSSY method was used to conduct quantitative treatment for qualitative index; comprehensive ranking of appraisal result was realized based on TOPSIS method. Finally, effectiveness of algorithm is verified through simulation example.

Searching for Tomorrow—South Sudanese Women Reconstructing Resilience through Photovoice

Constricted definitions of resiliency have limited application to refugees who typically negotiate complex interpersonal, intercultural, historical, and geopolitical factors in order to overcome the challenges of flight, exile, forced migration, and resettlement. Researchers were approached by eight South Sudanese refugee women resettled in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, who were interested in exploring alternative notions of resilience through reflection, dialogue, and action. Participatory action research methodology was chosen to co-create knowledge as an alternative to Western-centric resiliency discourse. This approach prioritizes under-represented voices through democratic co-participation, reflecting the lived experiences of refugees through collaborative research strategies and maximizes the capacity of this minority population to meaningfully contribute to the academic discourse. Using Photovoice, a technique that employs still photography and text captions, participants used aesthetic expression to deconstruct and reconstruct notions of resilience. Six, monthly 3-h focus groups were conducted on topics pertaining to resilience during which still images were reviewed. Adopting a grounded theory approach, line-by-line coding and thematic analysis of the focus group transcripts were completed in order to respond to the research question. Faith and spirituality, circles of support, and the global community were the key overarching themes describing participants’ resilience process which enabled participants to survive their past foster support in the present and harness hope for the future. At each stage, supporting and protective factors and threats undermining resiliency were identified. In conclusion, recommendations for an enhanced conceptualization of resilience were made for resettlement service providers and those engaging with refugee populations.

From the Field | Field Notes From Jail: How Incarceration and Homelessness Impact Women’s Health

A multi-disciplinary team explored the journey they took with female inmates to develop a collaborative research strategy among the university, community organizations, and the correctional facility. The team consisted of academic researchers, inner city physicians, social workers, nurses, Aboriginal art therapists, Aboriginal cultural consultants, correctional healthcare administrators, and inner city chaplains from non-profit organizations. This paper describes how the team reflected on the journey to determine the impact of incarceration and/or homelessness on the health of female inmates, as they (the team) patiently waited for ethics boards and administrative approval; negotiated correctional center lockdowns; and became exhausted from trying to reconnect with women who were released from incarceration. The researchers discovered what kept them passionate about helping female inmates work through multiple hurdles that included housing, child custody, employment, probation appointments, and counseling. These administrative and operational challenges strengthened the team’s resolve to support these vulnerable women.

Report on the Program “Fluid-mediated particle transport in geophysical flows” at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UC Santa Barbara, September 23 to December 12, 2013

The Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics (KITP) program held at UC Santa Barbara in the fall of 2013 addressed the dynamics of dispersed particulate flows in the environment. By focusing on the prototypes of aeolian transport and turbidity currents, it aimed to establish the current state of our understanding of such two-phase flows, to identify key open questions, and to develop collaborative research strategies for addressing these questions. Here, we provide a brief summary of the program outcome.

Journal Rankings, Collaborative Research and Publication Strategies: Evidence from China

The primary focus of our paper is on the potential for in-house journal ranking lists to create friction between international collaborating researchers due to differences in how particular journals are rated on different lists. Using a questionnaire distributed to Chinese accounting researchers, we identify a number of potential friction points between Chinese and UK researchers. We find that almost all of our Chinese respondents use their own school's in-house ranking list as the primary or exclusive reference point for assessing journal quality, and 73% of respondents acknowledge that this has caused problems when working with scholars from other universities because of differences in how their institutions rank journals.

Impact analysis of domestic and international research collaborations: a Malaysian case study

This paper presents a comparative impact analysis on collaborative research in Malaysia. All analyses were conducted using ISI-indexed journal articles published in the 10-year period spanning the years 2000–2009. The publication growth and distribution of domestic versus international Malaysian-addressed collaborative articles was examined. Then, a three-pronged approach was used to compare the research performance between international and domestic research for the top ten high-productivity subject categories. Firstly, the potentiality of collaborative research impact is determined using the Mann–Whitney–Wilcoxon and Bootstrap Kolmogorov–Smirnov tests. Then, the Hirsch and Egghe indices were computed for each subject category to estimate the distance needed to bridge the gap between international and domestic research. Lastly, the composition of researchers was measured using the internationality index. We discuss how the findings of our methodology help advise collaborative research strategies that will contribute to better research performance in the leading scientific categories.

‘Becoming molecular girl’: transforming subjectivities in collaborative doctoral research studies as micro-politics in the academy

In the context of Swedish reforms of postgraduate and doctoral education in a global knowledge economy, this article aims to theorise on the documented processes of doing collaborative analysis during elective graduate course-work on deconstructive methodologies in the social sciences, with 10 doctoral students over a period of seven months. I re-engage with the documentations of our collaborative processes six years later, to read and analyse them diffractively with Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s philosophy, and with feminist post-constructivist theories, such as Rosi Braidotti, Claire Colebrook, Elisabeth Grosz and Patti Lather. In the course-work, we actively aimed – by engaging in different collaborative strategies of deconstructive writing and talking, sharing and re-analysing each other’s research data and analyses – to resist “doing philosophy” as an independent, intellectual, disembodied and masculine-coded endeavour. This process made us aware of the tactile embodiment of collaborative deconstructive research strategies, and how they came to transform our subjectivities as researchers. I suggest the “molecular girl” as a metaphor for this transformation as researchers, and claim that the practices we developed constitute a “micro-politics” that contests contemporary transnational trends in knowledge economies, but which might also be understood to work in alignment with such trends.

Positioning theory and practice question(s) within the field of management learning

In this paper we argue that management learning, as a field of study, has different choices to make than mainstream management research in its conceptualization and treatment of theory/practice. We believe that management learning as a field of practice – and as a journal – has both the opportunity, and a special responsibility, to consider theory and practice in ways that do not reduce the debate to disembodied actors and their assumed different occupational needs. Recent theoretical shifts in management learning have emphasized the relational, site and context specific conception of knowledge and practice and engaged with individuals (whatever their role) in exploring how they come to experience and develop new ways of being and acting in the world. We argue that management learning, when it looks at its existing practice through the epistemic practice perspective, will appreciate the contribution it is already making to advancing theory/practice understanding in management without needing to develop additional collaborative research strategies.

Treatment of Alzheimer Disease: The Past, the Present, and the Future

Can J Psychiatry. 2011;56(10):577-578. Many thanks to the editor-in-chief for this timely opportunity to provide the readers of The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry (The CJP) with an update on the fast-moving field of Alzheimer disease (AD). As detailed in the reviews by Dr Fadi Massoud and Dr Gabriel C Leger1 and by Dr Clive Ballard and colleagues2 in this issue of The CJP, the current symptomatic drugs are only 1 0 years old, cognitive training is still under development, and disease-modifying drugs are under study. This past spring alone you will have seen the publication, in Alzheimer 's & Dementia: the Journal of the Alzheimer 's Association, of revised diagnostic criteria for AD probable at the traditional dementia stage,3 for AD at the predementia stage,4 and even for AD in the presymptomatic stage,5 in Brain, of cognitive training-related plasticity in people with mild cognitive impairment,6 and in The Lancet, of a seminar on the epidemiology and pathophysiology of AD.7 How is Canada doing in the field of AD? The Canadian Study on Health and Aging8 gave us a good head start, with incidence and prevalence figures across the country for the late 1980s against which we will compare later this decade. When Cholinesterase inhibitors (ChEIs) first became available, family doctors were allowed to prescribe these medications and they are following evidence-based guidelines for diagnosis and treatment common to all interested physicians, the latest revision being done in 20069 and the next one scheduled for 2012. A network of specialized memory clinics was created in the early 1990s to facilitate randomized clinical trials for AD in Canada: the Consortium of Canadian Centres for Clinical Cognitive Research (commonly referred to as C5R). This network is 1 of 5, worldwide, currently planning for global prevention studies.10 More recently, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research initiated the International Collaborative Research Strategy for Alzheimer's Disease (commonly referred to as ICRSAD), including partnership with the United States in the Alzheimer Disease Neuro-Imaging (commonly referred to as ADNI) program, with Germany, the United Kingdom, and other European countries in biomarkers and other technical platforms, and with China for 5-year studies. The Alzheimer Society of Canada has been a strong supporter of AD research in Canada, particularly in training young people from different disciplines. The less positive side of treatment of AD in Canada has been the difficulty in obtaining reimbursement for AD medications across the country. The rivastigmine patch is reimbursed only in 1 province, despite the evidence for better tolerability than the oral formulation, which allows 1 0 mg (current maximal dose), compared with 1 5 mg dosing, in a randomized study about to be concluded. Memantine is reimbursed in only 2 provinces, despite the evidence for benefit on agitation and speech impairment, and even in that 1 province memantine is reimbursed only as monotherapy; for example, not with a ChEI, despite growing evidence for the value of combining the 2 drug classes.1112 In the United States and France, these 2 classes of drugs are routinely combined in the moderate stage of AD. There are even greater challenges ahead: if and when treatments become available to significantly slow down disease progression, how will we convince payers to reimburse them? We need to do a better job of finding responders to treatment during phases II and III of drug development: age at onset of symptoms and severity of symptoms may modify which drug to use, apoE genotype and possibly other genes - the pharmacogenomics of AD.13 Clear start and stopping rules will have to be established. It is conceivable that reimbursement will be conditional on positive biomarkers, such as amyloid deposition measured by positron emission tomography scanning or abnormal beta-amyloid and tau protein levels in cerebrospinal fluid. …

Introducing the Korean Oligonucleotide Therapeutics Society

Nucleic Acid TherapeuticsVol. 21, No. 3 Articles from the Korean Oligonucleotide Therapeutics Society (K-OTS)Guest EditorialIntroducing the Korean Oligonucleotide Therapeutics SocietySeong-Wook LeeSeong-Wook LeeSearch for more papers by this authorPublished Online:29 Jun 2011https://doi.org/10.1089/nat.2011.1500AboutSectionsView articleView Full TextPDF/EPUB Permissions & CitationsPermissionsDownload CitationsTrack CitationsAdd to favorites Back To Publication ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail View article"Introducing the Korean Oligonucleotide Therapeutics Society." , 21(3), p. 123FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Volume 21Issue 3Jun 2011 InformationCopyright 2011, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.To cite this article:Seong-Wook Lee.Introducing the Korean Oligonucleotide Therapeutics Society.Nucleic Acid Therapeutics.Jun 2011.123-123.http://doi.org/10.1089/nat.2011.1500Published in Volume: 21 Issue 3: June 29, 2011PDF download

働きながら学ぶ現職教師のための遠隔大学院における研究指導の方法 一「実践研究」を展開する大学院セミナーの実践事例分析一

働きながら学ぶ現職教師のための遠隔大学院における研究指導の方法 一「実践研究」を展開する大学院セミナーの実践事例分析一