Long History Of Collaboration Research Articles

XXX

The United States and Canada have a long history of collaboration when managing maritime charting items. For decades, the two nations have had formal hydrographic survey and charting collaborative programs. Working together allowed in-depth discussions about similar challenges and supported innovative ideas. It has allowed these two countries to become strong supportive members of the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO).

Natural and Artificial Intelligence: A brief introduction to the interplay between AI and neuroscience research

Neuroscience and artificial intelligence (AI) share a long history of collaboration. Advances in neuroscience, alongside huge leaps in computer processing power over the last few decades, have given rise to a new generation of in silico neural networks inspired by the architecture of the brain. These AI systems are now capable of many of the advanced perceptual and cognitive abilities of biological systems, including object recognition and decision making. Moreover, AI is now increasingly being employed as a tool for neuroscience research and is transforming our understanding of brain functions. In particular, deep learning has been used to model how convolutional layers and recurrent connections in the brain’s cerebral cortex control important functions, including visual processing, memory, and motor control. Excitingly, the use of neuroscience-inspired AI also holds great promise for understanding how changes in brain networks result in psychopathologies, and could even be utilized in treatment regimes. Here we discuss recent advancements in four areas in which the relationship between neuroscience and AI has led to major advancements in the field; (1) AI models of working memory, (2) AI visual processing, (3) AI analysis of big neuroscience datasets, and (4) computational psychiatry.

Feedlot Cattle Antimicrobial Use Surveillance Network: A Canadian Journey.

Antimicrobial drugs are important tools for maintaining human and animal health. Globally, antimicrobial use (AMU) in food-producing animals is under increasing scrutiny due to its potential to promote antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Historically, comprehensive Canadian data related to the types of antimicrobial drugs used, extent of use, common indicators of use and the demographics of the cattle populations receiving antimicrobial drugs have been limited, in part due to segmentation in the cattle industry and fragmentation of the drug distribution system. Appropriate AMU estimates are required to understand AMU practices, to interpret AMR levels and patterns, to meaningfully assess associated public health risks, and to inform stewardship activities. The Canadian beef cattle industry has a long history of collaboration in AMU and AMR research. Prior research projects identified both opportunities and challenges in the collection of AMU data. Cornerstone projects provided insight into the complexity of collecting AMU data in Canada's feedlot sector. This paper will discuss how the lessons learned from past work have contributed to the formation of a Canadian fed-cattle antimicrobial surveillance program that was initiated in 2019. This important surveillance program will allow feedlot cattle AMU to improve management decisions and support AMU best practices in the evolving Canadian AMR landscape.

Students as Partners in the Academic Library: Co-Designing for Transformation

Across the sector, universities are transforming the student experience by reconceptualising the ways in which they partner with students. The academic library is at the heart of the university experience and libraries have a long history of collaboration and engaging with their communities. As such academic libraries are the perfect next frontier within which to embed the ‘students-as-partners’ approach. This paper proposes a broadening of partnership with students to improve the governance, operations and design of the academic library. Taking La Trobe University Library as a case study, the authors explore a series of examples in action across six domains: space transformation, library governance, service excellence, research, resource design and collection renewal. Within these domains the paper provides insights into how the relationship between the academic library and its community might be shifted to foster critical student/staff partnerships.

Reframing the Wilderness Concept can Bolster Collaborative Conservation

Indigenous territories represent ~45% of land categorized as wilderness in the Amazon, but account for <15% of all forest loss on this land. At a time when the Amazon faces unprecedented pressures, overcoming polarization and aligning the goals of wilderness defenders and Indigenous peoples is paramount, to avoid environmental degradation.

Tribe-state collaboration and the future of arctic cooperation: Moderating Inter-State Competition through Collaborative Multilevel Governance, from Yesterday’s Trading Posts to Today’s Arctic Council, ‘Arctic Exceptionalism’ is Here to Stay

ABSTRACT A long history of collaboration between the indigenous peoples and the sovereign states of Arctic North America has helped the Arctic region become one of the world’s most stable and cooperative regions, dating as far back as the colonial era’s chartered companies and the network of northern trading posts they established, and continuing into contemporary times with the introduction of new institutions for self-governance at the domestic level, and for diplomatic collaboration at the international level through the Arctic Council. This stability has yielded a widely recognised spirit of international collaboration often referred to as ‘Arctic Exceptionalism.’ This exceptionalism has come under new pressures from the recent shift towards great power competition in the Arctic, as articulated in revised diplomatic and strategic policies of numerous states with Arctic interests and/or aspirations, in notable contrast to prior decades of an explicit mutual commitment to Arctic collaboration. This long history of economic integration and globalisation, dating back to the days of the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) and Russian America Company (RAC), has established an enduring foundation for the region’s continued stability, sustained by the dynamic and increasingly frequent interactions between indigenous peoples and sovereign states, from the very first trading posts to today’s globalised mix of multinational and native-owned corporations borne of the Arctic land claims experience.

“La coopération, c’est clé”: Montreal’s urban governance in times of austerity

ABSTRACTThis paper presents an investigation of local politics in an age of austerity in Montreal. Based on detailed interviews with actors in the local state, the municipal sphere and civil society, we analyzed a broad spectrum of political options between resistance and collaboration that characterizes the landscape of “austerian realism” in the Quebec metropolis. While Montreal has had a long history of collaboration at the local level, the municipality’s operation and institutions have come under stress lately as more aggressive austerity policies have been downloaded to the city from the province. We aim to understand what the consequences for local actors have been. The paper is subdivided in four parts. First, we revisit the notion of urban governance, building on a definition of the state as “cultural practice.” Second, we introduce the main components of past local state restructuring in Montreal, paying attention to the main rationalities supporting austerity measures. Third, we look at the main categories of actors involved in collaborative governance around issues of austerity measures and policies. Fourth, we consider activism within civil society. We conclude that emerging forms of cooperation remain key to the understanding of welfare state restructuring in Montreal.

Challenges of creative collaboration in geographical research

There is a long history of collaboration between artists and geographers, with creative forms of research and dissemination of findings taking shape as artworks. In addition, there has been significant push from academia for researchers to maximise their research in ways that cater to, and engage with, broader public audiences. Art and creative practices tap into this through formats such as exhibitions, performances and participatory workshops which draw upon arts-based research methodologies with which geographers are becoming increasingly engaged. However, with this enthusiasm to adopt art practices for research dissemination purposes, tensions can arise in determining the levels of collaboration and authorship between artists and geographers, especially when the artist is employed as a research assistant on the project. In this ‘In Practice’ article, we explore the tensions and challenges that creative collaborations produce with respect to copyright and authorship, specialist skills and the delicate balance of doing creative research as part of a research team. We argue that geographers and artists need to address these issues from the outset and revisit them throughout the research process, and we offer some suggestions for how art–geography research collaborations might best be negotiated.

Music and Movement, Ragas and Dances: Orientalism, “Jugalbandhi,“ and the Shankar Brothers

ABSTRACT There is a long history of collaboration within the Indian performing arts, blurring the spaces between their performance and reception. The careers of the Shankar brothers illuminate this intimacy; Ravi the sitarist and Uday the dancer represent two sides of the same coin. Both achieved success at moments of heightened Western interest in Oriental culture yet were criticized by Indian nationalists for adapting performances to suit Western tastes. While Uday could not overcome these critiques in the troubled political circumstances of the 1940s, Ravi’s relationships with popular American musicians helped him become an authority in Western and Indian classical music.

Bioengineering in women's health: part I

This theme issue of Interface Focus is the first of two sets of articles on the topic of bioengineering in women's health. Although there is a long history of collaboration between engineers and medical professionals in orthopaedics and cardiovascular medicine, there has been growing interest in the last decade for interdisciplinary collaborations in other areas of medical science. This growth is particularly true in the case of women's health, a traditionally underserved area of research in the scientific community where fundamental knowledge of female physiology is still needed. Women's health is a broad category encompassing reproduction, fertility, maternal health, normal and abnormal pregnancy and the sequelae associated with a difficult childbirth. Women's health also includes sex-associated pathology associated with cancer, pain, cardiac disease, osteoporosis and other diseases. This list is not exhaustive with new scientific frontiers developing based on the evolving discourse of medicine for all. This first issue in the series focuses on bioengineering advances in the study of the non-pregnant woman, and the articles highlight important developments in pelvic floor disorders, biomedical devices, fertility, breast implant failure and breast cancer. The second issue in the series focuses on pregnancy.

Introduction : a cooperative and transversal research experience between law and the social sciences

The purpose of this introduction to the collection is not merely to present the contributions, after tracing the development of draft. At the final stage of publication, the modalities of its production were sufficiently singular to merit a reflection on its particular features. The project did not arise out of a consortium convened for the occasion. It has benefited from a long history of collaboration between its instigators, lecturers and researchers in law and the social sciences. The or...

Russia–UK Collaboration in Paleontology: Past, Present, and Future

There is a long history of collaboration between Russia and the United Kingdom in paleontology. This began, arguably, in 1821, with the seminal work by William Fox-Strangways, who produced a geological map of the area around St Petersburg. Most famously, Roderick Murchison carried out extensive surveying and observations throughout European Russia in 1840 and 1841, and published a major monograph on geology and paleontology of European Russia in 1845. Since then, and continuing today, there have been many fruitful collaborations on Precambrian life, Paleozoic marine organisms, terrestrialization of plants and vertebrates, the Permian–Triassic mass extinction, fossil mammals, human evolution, and conservation paleobiology.

The role of state grants in the Armenian-Russian scientific ties development: bibliometric analysis

The article aims at presenting and assessing the role of state-financed grants in the Armenian-Russian scientific ties development. Armenian-Russian relations have a long history of collaboration and capture nearly all fields starting from cultural-humanitarian to military-political ones. Scientific cooperation is amongst the most rapidly developing aspects of bilateral relations. Since 2012 scientific cooperation is being implemented also within the framework of state-sponsored bilateral grant projects organized jointly by the State Committee of Sciences of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Armenia and the Russian Humanitarian Scientific Foundation and the Russian Foundation for Basic Research under the Government of the Russian Federation. The paper considers four competitions carried out within the framework of the above grant programs. The study is based on the Armenian, Russian and international databases to evaluate bibliometric indicators - Web of Science (WoS), Russian Index of Scientific Citation (RSCI) and Armenian Index of Scientific Citation (ASCI). The study period is 1991-2015. Due to differences in access to the above-mentioned databases, the time frame of the information used differs: publications indexed in WoS were considered for 2006-2015, RSCI - 1991-2015 and ASCI - 2007-2012. Such bibliometric indicators as author's publications number, author's citations total number, the Hirsch index, journals impact factor, self-citations number, an average number of citations per a publication are used. The above bibliometric indicators, as well as ages and scientific degrees of winners and other participants, have been compared with each other. The article also analyzes the scientific journals where the results of the projects were published. In general, the paper emphasizes the high effectiveness of state grant programs in the Armenian-Russian scientific cooperation development.

The Joyous Entry of Albert and Isabella in Lille: History, Conquest and the Making of Belgium

This article investigates the planned festivities for the Joyous Entry of Archduke Albert and the Infanta Isabella Eugenia, joint sovereigns of the Low Countries since 1598, when they entered their city of Lille in 1600. In particular, this article focuses on the tableaux vivants and triumphal arches created by city authorities to commemorate the long history of collaboration between the counts of Flanders and the urban corporation. Accounts of these arches and tableaux vivants have survived only in two chronicles and an intriguing set of contemporary images. These posed scenes evoked newer forms of historical writing popular in the early modern period – urban, chorographical, and cosmographical – that did the work of renewing bonds of sovereign to people in the midst of the Dutch Revolt. They also produced a version of history that effectively silenced the problematic recent past, and placed the city of Lille firmly within the larger empire of its Habsburg sovereigns.

Science superpowers find common ground.

Chinese–US research partnerships outnumber all other international pairings. That trend, spurred by a long history of collaboration between the two countries, presents challenges, but the outcomes are a major boon for science.

Collaboration at the Heart of Innovation

Much has been written regarding the long history of collaboration between the pharmaceutical industry and academia. These collaborations have led to the production, Food and Drug Administration (FDA)2 approval, and widespread use of a myriad of pharmaceutical agents. Traditionally, industry has primarily relied upon academia for the identification of novel drug targets and subsequently to conduct clinical trials to evaluate the safety and efficacy of manufactured products. Academia and industry have differing primary motivations—dissemination vs profit—but share the common goal of advancing healthcare. In the emerging age of “open-access” science, new models for partnership have evolved. Private-public partnerships (PPPs) and mixed consortiums are gaining strength and are examples of how “shared science” can accelerate the rate of discovery and innovation. …

Co‐operation between large‐scale MPAs: successful experiences from the Pacific Ocean

Abstract Nations have recently committed to protecting 20–30% of the ocean at various global summits; however, marine protected areas currently cover &lt;3% of the ocean. Large‐scale marine protected areas (LSMPAs, &gt;100 000 km2) are a new concept in global marine conservation that offer real hope in achieving global conservation targets. Many of the existing LSMPAs are remote islands in the Pacific that share common natural history, threats, culture, as well as scientific and management needs. As a result of their common ancestry, many Pacific cultures have a long history of collaboration, including sharing resources, information and expertise to ensure the long‐term sustainability of their resources. Management, governance and research capacity limitations are magnified in LSMPAs, therefore highlighting the need to return to these prior forms of collaboration to achieve conservation objectives. Several LSMPAs in the Pacific have collaborated to achieve their management and scientific goals, including documented collaborations among the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, the Phoenix Islands Protected Area, the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument, the Marianas Trench Marine National Monument, the Motu Motiru Hiva Marine Park, the Natural Park of the Coral Sea, and the Cook Islands Marine Park. Collaborations among LSMPAs in the Pacific include bilateral agreements, learning exchanges, as well as research, monitoring and enforcement activities. By working together, Pacific LSMPAs have been able to overcome some of the management and scientific challenges associated with conserving vast areas of the oceans. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley &amp; Sons, Ltd.

Reading the Bible with the marginalised: The value/s of contextual Bible reading

There is a long history of collaboration between “popular” or “contextual” forms of biblical interpretation between Brazil and South Africa, going back into the early 1980’s. Though there are significant differences between these forms of Bible “reading”, there are values and processes that cohere across these contexts, providing an integrity to such forms of Bible reading. This article reflects on the values and processes that may be discerned across the Brazilian and South African interpretive practices after more than thirty years of conversation across these contexts.

A rural local health department-hospital collaborative for a countywide community health assessment.

In mid-2012, the Polk County Health Department initiated a community health needs assessment process with the 3 medical centers serving this rural Wisconsin county of 45 000 residents. The collaborative process drew on primary and secondary data, including clinical data pooled from health care organizations, to assess population health. Community health assessment ultimately engaged more than 1800 county residents through coordinated surveys and community forums. Although the Polk County Health Department has a long history of collaboration with the local health care community, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, coupled with meaningful use requirements for health care providers, sharply increased engagement, contributed to shared priorities, and brought this relationship to a new level. Partners have now convened community-based workgroups around the top 3 health focus areas selected from the assessment process. Community health assessment emphasized the social determinants of health as a step toward a more "upstream" orientation to population health goals.

Dingwell, Head Receive 2013 N. L. Bowen Award: Citation for James W. Head III

It is my pleasure to present James W. Head III of Brown University as a recipient of the 2013 Bowen Award. A major theme of Jim Head's research career has been the unraveling of the volcanic history of the rocky bodies of the solar system, and he has been an investigator on virtually all of the major international planetary investigation missions. Jim is an excellent observer and interpreter of observations. But more than that, as I have observed over our long history of collaboration, he shares the need to understand the basic physical processes controlling volcanism and to interpret observations in a quantitative, as well as qualitative, way. So in addition to documenting the history of volcanism on silicate planets, Jim has been at the forefront of trying to understand the mechanisms of volcanic eruption processes, on Earth as well as elsewhere.