Geographical Expertise Research Articles

Management of Male Infertility with Coexisting Sexual Dysfunction: A Consensus Statement and Clinical Recommendations from the Asia-Pacific Society of Sexual Medicine (APSSM) and the Asian Society of Men's Health and Aging (ASMHA).

Male infertility (MI) and male sexual dysfunction (MSD) can often coexist together due to various interplay factors such as psychosexual, sociocultural and relationship dynamics. The presence of each form of MSD can adversely impact male reproduction and treatment strategies will need to be individualized based on patients' factors, local expertise, and geographical socioeconomic status. The Asia Pacific Society of Sexual Medicine (APSSM) and the Asian Society of Men's Health and Aging (ASMHA) aim to provide a consensus statement and practical set of clinical recommendations based on current evidence to guide clinicians in the management of MI and MSD within the Asia-Pacific (AP) region. A comprehensive, narrative review of the literature was performed to identify the various forms of MSD and their association with MI. MEDLINE and EMBASE databases were searched for the following English language articles under the following terms: "low libido", "erectile dysfunction", "ejaculatory dysfunction", "premature ejaculation", "retrograde ejaculation", "delayed ejaculation", "anejaculation", and "orgasmic dysfunction" between January 2001 to June 2022 with emphasis on published guidelines endorsed by various organizations. This APSSM consensus committee panel evaluated and provided evidence-based recommendations on MI and clinically relevant MSD areas using a modified Delphi method by the panel and specific emphasis on locoregional socio-economic-cultural issues relevant to the AP region. While variations exist in treatment strategies for managing MI and MSD due to geographical expertise, locoregional resources, and sociocultural factors, the panel agreed that comprehensive fertility evaluation with a multidisciplinary management approach to each MSD domain is recommended. It is important to address individual MI issues with an emphasis on improving spermatogenesis and facilitating reproductive avenues while at the same time, managing various MSD conditions with evidence-based treatments. All therapeutic options should be discussed and implemented based on the patient's individual needs, beliefs and preferences while incorporating locoregional expertise and available resources.

Geographical Expertise of Regional Digital Development Strategies: Outlines of Emerging Approaches

Geographical Expertise of Regional Digital Development Strategies: Outlines of Emerging Approaches

Assessing barriers, opportunities and future directions in health information sharing in humanitarian contexts: a mixed-method study

ObjectivesHealth information sharing continues to play a crucial yet underappreciated role in humanitarian settings, to guide evidence-based disease prevention, detection and response. We conducted a mixed-methods study to investigate and...

Ю.Г. САУШКИН И ГЕОГРАФИЧЕСКИЙ ПРОГНОЗ

Thearticleconsidersthedevelopmentofideasaboutthegeographicalforecastfromthefi publications of Yu.G. Sashkin in the late 60s of the last century to the present day. The focus is on the process of diffusion of innovations launched by Yu.G. Saushkina in geographical science. The article shows how consistently representatives of various geographical disciplines develop the ideas set by Yu. G. Saushkin in relation to the objects of their research. Separate groups of methods and approaches that are most adequate to the geographical tasks being solved are also considered. Based on the proposed KP Kosmachev‘s principles of geographical expertise show the relationship between these important areas of geographical research. Along with the analysis of ideas about forecasting tasks of leading geographers in relation to their research objects, the article gives an idea of the methodological apparatus in this fi developed abroad, which allows signifi expanding the possibilities of geographical forecasting. In particular, the technological forecast schemes proposed by X. are considered.Ozbehanom and a set of methods for predicting scientifi and technological progress according to E. Yanch. Separately, the article considers a set of forecasting methods that are widely used not only in geography, but also in many other scientifi fi The main provisions of foresight analysis with an assessment of their capabilities in relation to solving geographical predictive tasks are considered separately.

A Love Letter to the Future (from the Surgical Team of the Trans Sciences Collective)

Abstract“A Love Letter to the Future” speculatively fabulates a future that has undergone a (the?) surgery at the hands of a team of trans scientists. Explicating the how and why of decisions to remove organs of oppression, systems that engender violence, and individual nodules of violence, the letter details the scientists' work in remaking the future into a space and place where trans thrives. The letter also delineates how the trans sciences that unite the collective—experiments in building and reworking the self/body through (re-)mappings of community, ways of being in the world, and networks of care that challenge larger social orders—involve unique temporal and geographical expertise. The letter details how this unique expertise, which emerges through ongoing labors challenging the construction of trans - “modern,” identifying the work of quick and slow systemic violences, and mapping community and connectivity well outside understandings that join family with blood with the domestic, led to the collective's nomination for the surgery in the first place. Finally, the letter details processes necessary to the future's recovery and also extends love to this future, the multitudes it contains, and its emergent connectivities between trans and justice.

Chronic total occlusion (CTO) revascularization a comparison from Japanese and European expert CTO operators registries

Abstract Background Development of different strategies and devices improved CTO revascularization. However, technical and procedural success might be influenced by several factors including geographical expertise. Methods A total of 4412 CTO coronary treated lesions (Japan 1531 Europe 2881) (mean age 64.5±10.7, male 85.2%, JCTO score 2.09±1.24) were analyzed in European and Japanese registries during the year 2016. The primary endpoint was to assess technical success rate of CTO-PCI cases and procedural outcomes. Results Primary Antegrade approach and success rate were 71.5% and 90.8% respectively in Japan while 77.0% and 94.1%, respectively in Europe, (p<0001). Primary Retrograde approach and success rate were 28.5% and 84.0% respectively in Japan, while 22.6% and 69.2%, in Europe (p<0001). There were no differences in technical success rate between Japan and Europe (89.9% vs 88.5%, p=0.13). Procedural time was higher in Japan than in Europe 156.3±1.8 vs 107.1±1.3 mins (p<0.001), but contrast media volume resulted the opposite 209.6±3.2 ml vs 267.5±2.4 ml, (p<0.001). Procedural complications were higher in Japan than Europe (death: 0.4% vs 0.07%, p=0.024, myocardial infarction: 1.2% vs 0.57% p=0.045, coronary artery occlusion: 0.26% vs 0.07% p=0.026, coronary perforation: 4.22% vs 3.04% p=0.045). A multivariate analysis showed that independent predictors of failed procedure were both for Japan and Europe unsuccessful retrograde crossing channel, severe lesion calcification and occlusion length>20mm. Conclusions Technical success rate was similar between Japan and Europe, but more retrograde approach was common in Japan. Unsuccessful retrograde crossing channel, severe lesion calcification and occlusion length>20mm were independent predictors of failed procedures for both countries. Procedural complications were higher in Japan probably because of longer procedural time and higher frequency of retrograde approach. Funding Acknowledgement Type of funding source: None

Imagining and mapping the end of an empire: Oskar Spate and the partition of India and Pakistan

In July 1947, the British government of India convened two boundary commissions for the purpose of partitioning the colony into two independent nation states: India and Pakistan. Despite the volume of scholarly work on partition, little attention has been paid to its geographies. This paper addresses this lacuna in two ways: first, by inserting a geographical account into wider historiographical narratives of partition through cartographic-visual analysis and the application of geographical literature. Second, by bringing some of the themes and theoretical contributions from literature on partition into a geographical framework by highlighting the ways in which technical geographical terminology and boundary making practices were used for the political purpose of claiming territory. The paper pursues both of these aims through a biographical approach, examining in detail the unexamined papers of the British geographer Oskar Spate and his minor yet revealing involvement in the Punjab Boundary Commission hearings of July 1947. The paper argues that a territorial divide was unable to resolve the tensions that lay at the heart of the process of partition. This was not simply because geographical expertise was disregarded, but because geographical knowledge and analysis could not provide an adequate solution to the problem of overlapping yet ideologically distinct imagined territorial homelands. The paper thus points to the varied and ambiguous role that maps and mapping played in post-war sites and projects of decolonisation.

Economic geography, to what ends? From privilege to progressive performances of expertise

Recent Exchanges have focused on economic geography’s purported ‘decline’ and its patriarchal and generational privilege, asking ‘who speaks’ for the subdiscipline. This Exchanges piece asks another kind of existential question: what ends does economic geography serve? And how is economic geographical expertise marshalled and performed towards such ends – especially beyond the British context, where much of the debate has focused? Drawing briefly upon collaborative research experiences in Sydney, Australia, I offer thoughts on progressive contributions arising from grounded empirical research within cities subject to profound transformation from speculative real estate, and hypercharged by global finance. Amid unsolicited plans for massive rezoning of industrial spaces and accompanying displacement of manufacturing, repair and cultural industries, credible economic geographical data assisted activists and sympathetic local decisionmakers by bringing to light the significance of existing spaces of work (especially in industrially zoned land) subject to rezoning plans. Contestation over massive real estate proposals continues in Sydney, but empirical research targeted at public debate has nevertheless already shifted the narrative. While academic privilege and expert status warrants intra-disciplinary critique, what also matters is whether, how and where economic geographers deploy expertise productively towards progressive ends. Hence, critically engaged economic geography flourishes in different forms beyond the discipline's imagined ‘core’ places, even via quite ‘dry’ empirical studies that on the surface do not declare radical intents. Economic geographers are key intermediaries circulating knowledges, active agents in making concrete manifestations of the economy known. And that is a crucial point of intervention.

The Space of the Courtroom and the Role of Geographical Evidence in the Punjab Boundary Commission Hearings, July 1947

This paper examines the geographies of Partition through an analysis of the Punjab Boundary Commission hearings of July 1947. The paper asks: what happens when geographical expertise is transported from ‘the field’ to courtrooms and government offices? I argue that geography was transformed, and was managed and limited by the legal framework that judged evidence according to its own rules. Examining select records of the Punjab Boundary Commission, I argue that the courtroom created certain assumptions about the nature and role of evidence in boundary-making negotiations. Rather than applying evidence to create a workable boundary, evidence was put to work in often contradictory ways in order to lend competing political claims an air of geographical authority.

«Geographical expertise is, first of all, an examination of spatial representations and concepts as such». Interview with V.L. Kagansky

«Geographical expertise is, first of all, an examination of spatial representations and concepts as such». Interview with V.L. Kagansky

Lost in Transition? Directions for an Economic Geography of Urban Sustainability Transitions

Socio-technical transitions towards more sustainable modes of production and consumption are receiving increasing attention in the academic world and also from political and economic decision-makers. There is increasing demand for resource-efficient technologies and institutional innovations, particularly at the city level. However, it is widely unclear how processes of change evolve and develop and how they are embedded in different socio-spatial contexts. While numerous scholars have contributed to the vibrant research field around sustainability transitions, the geographical expertise largely has been ignored. The lack of knowledge about the role of spatial contexts, learning processes, and the co-evolution of technological, economical, and socio-political processes has been prominently addressed. Bridging approaches from Transition Studies and perspectives of Economic Geography, the paper presents conceptual ideas for an evolutionary and relational understanding of urban sustainability transitions. The paper introduces new perspectives on sustainability transitions towards a better understanding of socio-spatial contexts.

Robert H. Kargon; Karen Fiss; Morris Low; Arthur P. Molella. World’s Fairs on the Eve of War: Science, Technology, and Modernity, 1937–1942. viii + 206 pp., illus., bibl., index. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015. $34.95 (cloth).

Robert H. Kargon; Karen Fiss; Morris Low; Arthur P. Molella. <i>World’s Fairs on the Eve of War: Science, Technology, and Modernity, 1937–1942</i>. viii + 206 pp., illus., bibl., index. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015. $34.95 (cloth).

Reimagining the Arctic Atmosphere: McGill University and Cold War Politics, 1945-1970

Along with the increased exploration and militarization of the Canadian Arctic during the Cold War came a push for civilian and military research. For the most part, new knowledge and views of the Arctic were shaped through an increased presence in the field. This paper, however, turns its attention to the Arctic atmosphere as a scientific ‘space’ that emerged thanks to its strategic importance in the Cold War and thanks to new data and technologies — weather stations, aircraft and computers — that allowed the region to be studied in situ and remotely by meteorologists and climatologists. In Canada, much of this research between 1945 and 1970 was being done on the campus of McGill University, where various institutional configurations fostered the development of both Arctic and meteorological research. In particular, the study of weather and climate at McGill was borne out of a focus on radar and on ‘stormy weather’, expanded to include broad range of geographical expertise, and led to the creation of the Arctic Meteorology Research Group. Taking advantage of favourable conditions at the national, continental and local levels, scientific elites including geographer Kenneth Hare advanced a research agenda focused on the weather and climate of the Arctic. This high-altitude, high-latitude ‘region’ became not only a scientific object in itself, but also the catalyst for a range of Northern and atmospheric research at McGill.

Diversification of Tourism Offer as a Means of Socio-economic Development of Peripheral Regions – Case Study of Kupres

Many modern countries have significant problems with disparities in development between core and periphery. Municipality of Kupres in Bosnia and Herzegovina is one typical example of peripheral area, which is located within the sparsely populated region of Dinaric Karst Highland. It is taken for the case study in this paper, because it shows certain signs of economic activation in the field of tourism. However, its mainstream tourism offer is of seasonal character, and it is not sufficient for sustainable economic growth and significant progress in socio-economic sense. That is why tourism offer need to become more diversified. Methodology in this paper is focused on analysis of all potentials and motives that wider area of Kupres possesses, which can be valorized through systematic approach of institutions and local community. It is intended to emphasize a significance of geographical expertise in these kinds of problematic. Field research and GIS analysis are used for exploration of study area.

American Geographers and World War II: Spies, Teachers, and Occupiers

This article reviews the military duties of a number of U.S. geographers during World War II. It divides those duties into three kinds: spies, teachers, and occupiers. In each case, a specific form of geographical expertise was deployed—instrumental to achieving a particular military end. In particular, the article examines the roles of geographers: first, in the analysis of military intelligence at the Office of Strategic Services; second, in the provision of geographical courses for the university-based Civil Affairs Training School and the Army Specialized Training Program; and, finally, as agents of occupation in Japan once World War II ended.

Non-certified environment and geography subject expertise in Chilean rural educators

ABSTRACTIn this paper, environmental and geographical subject expertise is explored, based on the notion of expertise as rooted both in subject knowledge and knowledge of teaching and as acquired through experience. The research questions that guided this study focused on the importance of understanding how teachers negotiate their assumptions and what sources of knowledge support their claims. As such, teachers' knowledge was investigated as a step towards the professionalisation of their practices. In terms of methodology, 21 teachers were interviewed in the context of a larger research project currently being conducted on Chilean teachers' thought processes. Semi-structured interviews were designed to elicit data on teachers' practices and conceptualisations. Data analysis involved codification of these same practices and conceptualisations, and defining categories that encapsulated teachers' expertise. The key findings from analysing teacher narratives included the observation that their practices and notions of subject expertise were identified as experience-based. Teachers' uncertified expertise in areas where they had had no formal training could be understood as mechanisms they have developed during their professional career. These elements could be seen as an implicit self-generated supporting system for teachers' practices.

The Geopolitics of International Reconstruction: Halford Mackinder and Eastern Europe, 1919–20

This paper aims to reassess the role played by Sir Halford Mackinder (1861–1947) in the reconstruction of Eastern Europe after the First World War, highlighting a key issue behind the formation of his popular geopolitical ideas about the Eurasian ‘heartland’. Influenced by the democratic spirit of the early inter-war years, Mackinder used his geographical expertise in support of a loose federal reorganisation of the vast region between Germany and Russia, hoping to create a new, balanced international system capable of guaranteeing freedom and stability on the European continent. In 1919–20, this ambitious design became the basis of a short diplomatic mission to South Russia, where Mackinder tried to create a large regional defensive alliance against the Bolshevik regime externally supported by the Western powers. But the military weakness of local anti-Bolshevik forces and the political inconsistency of the British government led to the complete failure of this great imaginative project, revealing all the strategic limits and ideological flaws of Mackinder's geopolitical views on Eastern Europe.

Geographical expertise of primary and lower secondary Social Studies teachers and their practices

Geographical expertise of primary and lower secondary Social Studies teachers and their practices

Geographical Expertise in International Boundary Cases

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Whose regional expertise? Political geographies of knowledge in the European Union

This article examines the production of geographical expertise inside the European Union (EU) bureaucracy in Brussels. My question is not what EU policy professionals know, but how they deploy specific knowledge claims as expertise. Drawing from 62 interviews with 42 policy professionals, mostly in Brussels, I focus empirically on one facet of one policy: the eastern direction of the European Neighbourhood Policy and the efforts of the ‘new’ or post-2004 member states to project regional expertise about the eastern neighbourhood within EU institutions. In conceptual terms, I investigate the intellectual and social technologies by which expert authority is accomplished. The article illuminates the ways in which policy professionals script political space in terms of particular kinds of places to be dealt with by specific agents in specific kinds of ways. The interview material enables me to examine such processes of knowledge production in greater detail than is allowed by the conventional ‘big picture’ analyses of European integration.