Multifaceted Agenda Research Articles

Reshaping Sports Journalism Through Innovation: An Analysis of L’Équipe Explore’s Strategies, Practices and Output

ABSTRACT Sports journalism practice faces important challenges deriving from the multiplication of platforms, the acceleration of workflows, the emergence of new entrants and the audiences’ shifting consumption habits. In a bid to overcome those challenges and advance innovation across the board, the French newspaper L’Équipe established a specific unit for that purpose: Explore. By focusing on this case study, this research has examined the formats, output and practices deployed by Explore and evaluated its impact within L’Équipe’s offer. The study is informed by content analysis performed on the projects (N = 201) published by Explore over a 32-month timeframe (May 2021–December 2023), ethnographic work and eight semi-structured interviews with its employees. Findings reveal that Explore stands out as a leading “media lab” in sports journalism. Through a broad range of formats and a multifaceted agenda, Explore occupies a unique position in terms of delivering cultural capital. Explore embraces alternative production modes that invest in freedom and research while rejecting hyper-accelerated cycles and clickbait-oriented approaches. Such proposition has resonated with audiences and positioned Explore as a cornerstone of L’Équipe’s commercial strategy. Solutions articulated by Explore contribute to the broader discussion of how sports journalism practice can be reshaped in the digital age.

Missed Connections in the U.N. Agenda: Applying the Women, Peace and Security Framework to the Feminization of Poverty

Women, Peace and Security, a multifaceted agenda intended to address the particular ways in which conflict affects women, has been on the United Nations agenda since the landmark Security Council Resolution 1325 passed in 2000. The unequal burden of poverty on women, a phenomenon that has been coined “the feminization of poverty,” has been on the United Nations agenda for even longer, since the 1995 Beijing Conference on Women. Yet, despite the fact that poverty and inequality both cause and result in conflict in a violent cycle, the problem of the feminization of poverty has not been integrated into the United Nation’s Women, Peace and Security agenda at large. This Note argues that the eradication of the gendered impact of poverty must be a central goal of the Women, Peace and Security agenda: first, to ensure the full enjoyment of women’s human rights, and second, because an agenda for peace can only be achieved by increasing gender equality and women’s political participation. This point is demonstrated through an analysis of the current system of international peacebuilding, which relies heavily on international financial institutions and perpetuates a neoliberal economy, to the detriment of both peace and women’s rights. This Note concludes that applying the framework of the four pillars of Women, Peace and Security (participation, protection, prevention, and post-conflict relief and recovery) can disrupt the cycles that perpetuate conflict and deny women equality, opportunity, and adequate living conditions.

Social Unionism and the Popular Front: The Cambridge Union of University Teachers, 1935-1941

Most studies of university faculty unions that formed during the interwar era argue that those bodies devoted themselves to a progressive social, economic, and political agenda (social unionism), rather than immediate workplace needs (bread-and-butter unionism). The few scholarly works that mention the Cambridge Union of University Teachers (CUUT)—created in October 1935 by instructors from Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology—emphasize the union’s orientation toward social issues. An affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers, the CUUT never attempted to engage in collective bargaining or to set wages, hours, or other work conditions. But a careful examination of the CUUT’s early history reveals a more complicated legacy. The men, and a few women, who led the union embraced a multifaceted agenda: to link Local 431 to the larger community, including local teachers’ unions and other area labour groups; to support a national popular front social movement; and to secure fair employment and academic freedom for all college/university teachers in Cambridge. This article describes and analyzes the CUUT’s ideology and policies during the years 1935-1941, the union’s most active period, and the obstacles that it encountered both from within its ranks and from the corporatized institutions of higher education.

Patient perspectives on patient-reported outcomes in multiple sclerosis treatment trajectories: A qualitative study of why, what, and how?

Background: Interest in patient-reported outcomes has been growing in multiple sclerosis research and clinical care in recent years. This situation reflects the need for developing, testing, and integrating measures that adequately capture patients’ perspectives on symptoms, functional capacity, health status, and health-related quality of life. However, the patient perspective on the relevance, content, and use of patient-reported outcomes is yet to be investigated. Hence, this study aims to investigate the perspectives of people with multiple sclerosis on the value of patient-reported outcomes in clinical encounters, the most important aspects of living with multiple sclerosis that should be reflected in these reports, and possible opportunities and barriers for integrating this data into clinical care.Methods: A qualitative study was conducted to capture patient perspectives in a Danish population of people with multiple sclerosis. Initially, two focus group interviews were conducted with a total of 11 participants to explore their perspectives on patient-reported outcomes and related prospects and barriers. Subsequently, nine individual interviews were conducted to further investigate the identified aspects, opportunities, and barriers to use patient-reported outcomes in clinical care and treatment.Results: In general, the informants were motivated to report patient-reported outcomes, and they believed these reports to be relevant in clinical encounters as well as to have potential to promote patient involvement by focusing on current challenges for others with this disease. However, differences in the perceived need for reporting patient-reported outcomes were detected regarding the stage in the multiple sclerosis care trajectory and in relation to the disease phenotypes. In terms of domains to be incorporated into patient-reported outcomes, a total of 28 were identified by the informants, including neurological symptoms, cognitive impairments, mental health and well-being, self-care activities, and social challenges. Several factors for integrating patient-reported outcomes into clinical care emerged as important, in particular related to timing and frequency of reporting patient reported outcomes, considerations of cognitive impairments, the need for individualized approaches to patient-reported outcomes, and the need for active use of these reports for adjustment of treatment approaches in clinical encounters.Conclusion: From the perspective of people with multiple sclerosis, patient-reported outcomes hold important potential for enhanced patient involvement leading to a more multifaceted agenda in clinical consultations. However, patient-reported outcomes need to be comprehensive and encompass a broad range of measures regarding neurological symptoms, cognitive impairments, mental health and well-being, self-care activities, and social challenges to adequately capture and support the needs of people with multiple sclerosis in clinical encounters. It is important to address barriers for integration of patient-reported outcomes into clinical care, with the aim of preventing misuse. Future studies should focus on the synergy between perspectives from both patients and clinicians to understand how integration of patient-reported outcomes in clinical care can succeed.

Beyond energy services: A multidimensional and cross-disciplinary agenda for home energy management research

Home Energy Management (HEM) has a significantly growing impact on strategic energy policy, digital equity, as well as housing development and transport issues. With the proliferation of home working, reliance on electricity for heating and cooling and the increasing needs for electric charging for transportation, there is an urgent need to develop novel ways for efficient management of home energy use. Current efforts focus on HEM technologies at individual household levels, without considering the social or spatial context or their collective community-wide interrelated dependencies.We propose a multifaceted agenda at the intersection of disciplinary domains to tackle this problem by using a multidimensional lens that draws on energy behaviour, architectural research, biomimetics, and computational design, simultaneously. Optimal and effective behavioural patterns can be extracted and abstracted from nature, informing a more collective and interrelated behavioural dependencies approach that considers the complex multidimensional energy use patterns of different housing typologies. This paper discusses the analytical benefits of this new research approach through a study of home energy management behaviour. The approach though could be expanded to consider other similar empirical contexts whereby sustainable multidimensional resource management is sought such as water use, food distribution as well as transport and mobility.

Party Manifestos, Opposition and Media as Determinants of the Cabinet Agenda

Cabinets are the engine of policy change in parliamentary systems. Yet, we still know little about how cabinets micro-manage the content of their multifaceted agenda during their term in office. Drawing on the party and agenda-setting literature, this article addresses this gap by focusing on three main determinants of cabinet priorities: issue priorities in the electoral platforms of majority and opposition parties, and new and unforeseen problems as conveyed by the media. Our analysis reveals that (1) majority platforms have a stronger impact on the cabinet agenda than those of opposition parties, but this effect decreases as the legislative term progresses; (2) cabinet agendas do take into consideration opposition electoral priorities but only when the latter are expressed by mainstream competitors or when the media focus on them and (3) an externally imposed adjustment programme can also create the conditions for strengthening the congruence between electoral and cabinet agendas.

“Management Performance And Its Impact Analysis On The Beneficiary Community”

In a developing country such as the Philippines, where call for change is relentless, the inclusive participation of the citizens has become vital. In 2012, the Aquino Administration launched the Bottom-up Budgeting (BUB) Program to bolster inclusive growth, grassroots empowerment, and good governance at the local level. In Cagayan de Oro City (CdeO), BUB sought to increase citizens’ access to local service delivery with a demand-driven budget planning process and to strengthen government accountability in local public service provision (Openbub.gov, 2012). Using the Most Significant Change (MSC) approach, this study examined the dynamics of Civil Society Organizations’ participation in BUB-funded projects that have helped the Local Government Unit (LGU) develop a more progressive perspective in governance and its replicability in other areas. There has been formal recognition by the LGU of the valuable contributions of CSOs to the City’s growth, in the form of strengthened commitment towards poverty alleviation, productive partnerships, and the establishment of the City CSO Affairs Office. The interplay of the CSOs, government stakeholders, and private institutions in the City remains relevant. BUB has been anchored on strong community involvement, open government, and people’s multifaceted agenda for the City, even in the face of the Duterte administration’s plan to replace BUB with a relatively similar system, the Assistance to Disadvantaged Municipalities Program (ADMP). Once institutionalized in the local bureaucracy, civil society participation will continue to keep alight the torch of cooperation in building the fourth metropolis in the country, even as we are buffeted by winds of uncertainty brought about by social and political challenges.

Diffusing Signage as a Visual Communication in Applied of Pico Hydro Technology in Batu Roto, Bengkulu Province, Indonesia

In a developing country such as the Philippines, where call for change is relentless, the inclusive participation of the citizens has become vital. In 2012, the Aquino Administration launched the Bottom-up Budgeting (BUB) Program to bolster inclusive growth, grassroots empowerment, and good governance at the local level. In Cagayan de Oro City (CdeO), BUB sought to increase citizens’ access to local service delivery with a demand-driven budget planning process and to strengthen government accountability in local public service provision (Openbub.gov, 2012). Using the Most Significant Change (MSC) approach, this study examined the dynamics of Civil Society Organizations’ participation in BUB-funded projects that have helped the Local Government Unit (LGU) develop a more progressive perspective in governance and its replicability in other areas. There has been formal recognition by the LGU of the valuable contributions of CSOs to the City’s growth, in the form of strengthened commitment towards poverty alleviation, productive partnerships, and the establishment of the City CSO Affairs Office. The interplay of the CSOs, government stakeholders, and private institutions in the City remains relevant. BUB has been anchored on strong community involvement, open government, and people’s multifaceted agenda for the City, even in the face of the Duterte administration’s plan to replace BUB with a relatively similar system, the Assistance to Disadvantaged Municipalities Program (ADMP). Once institutionalized in the local bureaucracy, civil society participation will continue to keep alight the torch of cooperation in building the fourth metropolis in the country, even as we are buffeted by winds of uncertainty brought about by social and political challenges.

Restoring layered geographies: ecology, society and time

ABSTRACTOur planet has suffered vast ecological losses, yet the law attaches little priority to restoration of past damage and environmental history. While many jurisdictions have enacted laws for environmental restoration, such as remediation of former mines and cleanup of chemical spills, few focus on regeneration of entire landscapes and ecosystems. However, the rewilding movement and a variety of community-based initiatives are pioneering restoration projects around the world, demonstrating not only benefits to restoration governance but helping communities to become ecologically literate and compassionate about their environs. In legislating new approaches to ecological restoration, governments must embrace these social and temporal layers of our geographies. We should approach ecological restoration as a multi-faceted agenda that includes healing human culture along with healing the natural environment itself.

Event coverage: ESMO Asia Congress returns to Singapore

Event coverage: ESMO Asia Congress returns to Singapore

Институты для мира в Евразии

Russian and Chinese initiatives in Central Eurasia cannot be considered separate or mutually exclusive - Eurasian integration and the Silk Road Economic Belt complement rather than contradict each other. Successfully conjoining the two projects directly depends on Russian-Chinese relations that are based on mutual respect and political trust. Both sides are equally interested in maintaining a stable and safe Central Asia for fruitful cooperation, not competition. However, more systematic and consistent work between the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) and China requires a strong and effective institutional basis and structure. The solution thus includes two important aspects. The first implies a more powerful Eurasian Economic Commission and the extension of its competence to new areas. The second means creating a special institution for intergovernmental cooperation, which could serve as a platform for a multilateral dialogue and provide ongoing day-to-day support for decision-makers and different experts of all levels. Such a mechanism would also help to elaborate a common position and policy on China for the five EEU countries. The conjoining of the EEU and the Silk Road initiative would not only boost trade among states but is necessary to develop infrastructure and investment programmes. Such a multifaceted agenda would require serious technical preparation as well as force EEU countries to compromise, because only with consent can members truly benefit.

“More Destruction to These Family Ties”

“More Destruction to These Family Ties” looks at the long history of non-Native intervention in the lives of Native American families. It maintains that the desire to educate and raise indigenous children culminated in the 1970s with a catastrophic quarter of Native American youth living away from their families and nations. This article argues that Native women activists were central to arresting the crisis; that they launched a multifaceted agenda to address challenges (rooted in colonialism) that indigenous families faced; and that they championed a framework that complicates existing narratives of women and activism in the United States during the 1970s.

Building State Capacity for Inclusive Development: The Politics of Public Sector Reform

A capable state is essential for inclusive development, and throughout the developing world governments and international development agencies are seeking to build it through a multifaceted agenda of Public Sector Reform (PSR). This paper presents an analytical review of the PSR agenda, emphasizing the political contestation inherent to the development of state capacity, and argues for a more nuanced and politically-informed research agenda. We begin by examining the various definitions of state capacity that are commonly employed by researchers, and settle on bureaucratic capacity as the transversal precondition for policy implementation. State capacity so understood has two components, effectiveness and accountability, and two domains, internal and external. Their intersection generates four broad dimensions of reform: organizational rationality, administrative restraint, social embeddedness and political autonomy; and each dimension in turn is likely to exhibit a different pattern of political contestation due to the parallel incentives for patrimonialism, corruption, oligarchy, and capture. We use this analytical framework to categorise and examine the major components of the PSR agenda, assessing their rates of success or failure according to the available evidence: we find that the relative failure of the PSR agenda so far is due to its reliance on flawed assumptions about the administrative politics of state capacity. We then evaluate whether new models that try to bypass central bureaucracies are likely to encounter greater success; specifically, we review the Africa Governance Initiative, the Open Government Partnership, and the 'hybrid models' approach of the Africa Power and Politics Program, and argue that all of them will be forced to confront the same politics of state capacity in the end. We close the paper by outlining a set of tentative guidelines for future research at ESID and elsewhere, suggesting a greater focus on the role of elites, informal institutions, the legislature as a non-state component of state capacity, the distinction between transversal and sectoral approaches, and finally the modalities and objectives of external assistance.

An Agenda for Increasing Grant Funding of Emergency Medicine Education Research

Funding is a perennial challenge for medical education researchers. Through a consensus process, the authors developed a multifaceted agenda for increasing funding of education research in emergency medicine (EM). Priority agenda items include developing resources to increase the competitiveness of medical education research faculty in grant applications, identifying means by which departments may bolster their faculty's grant writing success, taking long-term steps to increase the number of grants available to education researchers in the field, and encouraging a shift in cultural attitudes toward education research.

Ludwig Börne: A Memorial , and: Heinrich Heine: Alternative Perspectives 1985–2005 (review)

Heinrich Heine, Ludwig Borne: A Memorial. Translated with a commentary and an introduction by Jeffrey L. Sammons. Rochester: Camden House, 2006. xl + 137 pp. Jeffrey L. Sammons, Heinrich Heine: Alternative Perspectives 1985-2005 .Wurzburg: Konigshausen & Neumann, 2006. 301 pp. The two titles by and on Heine, the one edited and the other authored by Jeffrey Sammons, represent cornerstones of a distinguished career of an outstanding scholar. If Sammons is the dean of American Heine studies, his longstanding loyalty as stalwart treasurer of the North American Heine Society indicates more than just commitment beyond the call of duty. It also has symbolic significance as an engagement that goes well beyond the academic customs and conventions of the guild. A treasurer, indeed, Sammons has kept watch over a treasure whose recognition has gained new critical attention during the last four decades coinciding with the period of Sammons's own critical work. Sammons has assumed a stanare central to the present scene of international Heine research. Without him, the current stage of Heine research is difficult to imagine. And yet he has managed to remain an outsider, or so he likes to claim, thus true to the critical but also liberating ethos of Heine's own approach. With the first complete English translation of Heine's controversial Borne book Sammons makes a text available that poses a formidable challenge scholarship has yet to recognize in its fuller implications. With this translation, Heine's work is now completely translated into English. Instructively contextualizing what was likely Heine's oddest literary adventure - it led to the greatest estrangement from his readers, which Heine, however, never really understood, to the challenge of a duel and, as a consequence, to Heine's committing to his wife in marriage - the introduction highlights the complicated and multifaceted agenda that informs the composition of this text.The translation is precise and Sammons does a superb job in reflecting the tone and diction of the original. The translation is also aptly annotated, to the point, and succinct. As simple and straightforward as the text often pretends to be, Heine's Borne book is one of his most intricate and complex literary performance acts as it employs the figure and character of Borne in a complicated play of self-clarification and mystification. The consistently sober and clearly worded translation serves the challenge well, rendering Heine's bravura performance, wildly imaginative, brilliant, yet often subtle in its stylistic effects (xl) into an English that translucently reflects the intricate structure of Heine's most dramatic act of self-staging behind the surface of blunt simplicity. Sammons renders the text's highly dramatic performance with exacting precision. Heine artfully builds up the semblance of a straightforward narrative only to twist and expose it at every turn. Heine has the tension of his narrative build up on the basis of a style that is at the same time both seemingly direct and mischievously complex. Sammons does full justice to Heine's use of underhanded irony and its linking of critique and self-critique. Sammons's translation reproduces this sophisticated play in sovereign manner, congenially rendering Heine's act of performance with the ironic suspense that is key to Heine's literary prose. With his translation, Sammons has extended an invitation to return to a central scene in Heine's writing that holds important keys for a critical understanding. In Ludwig Borne: A Memorial, Heine weaves an intricately wrought web of cultural, political, religious, and literary motives that highlights the constitutive function of their mutual interdependence. With this constellatory effect of interweaving seemingly disparate moments and movements, Heine articulates a position that argues for the dynamic coherence of the poetical-political and ethicopoetical link that demands a rethinking of the traditional distinction between aesthetics, politics, and ethics and suggests a constitutive bond that Heine however reimagines as profoundly different from conventional aesthetics. …

Spiritual Development in Childhood and Adolescence: Toward a Field of Inquiry

Sustained attention to spiritual development during childhood and adolescence in the social and developmental sciences has the potential to significantly enrich and strengthen the understanding of the core processes and dimensions of human development. This article seeks to set the stage for such an inquiry by exploring 6 themes for building a multifaceted agenda. It argues that spiritual development is (a) understudied; (b) a complex, multifaceted concept; (c) grounded in a human propensity; (d) overlaps with and includes many aspects of religious development; (e) a developmental process that is shaped by both individual capacities and ecological influences; and (f) a potentially powerful resource for positive human development.

Efficacy and effectiveness of child and adolescent psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy.

Decades of intervention research have produced a rich body of evidence on the effects of psychotherapies and pharmacotherapies with children and adolescents. Here we summarize and critique that evidence. We review findings bearing on the efficacy of psychosocial treatments and medications under controlled experimental conditions. We also report evidence, where available, on the effectiveness of both classes of treatment with clinically referred youth treated in real-world clinical contexts. In general, the large body of evidence on efficacy contrasts sharply with the small base of evidence on effectiveness. Addressing this gap through an enriched research agenda could contribute importantly to linking scientific inquiry and clinical practice-to the benefit of both ventures. This is one element of a multifaceted agenda for future research and for synthesis of research, which will require the interplay of multiple disciplines related to child and adolescent mental health.