New Objects Of Study Research Articles

Measurable functions on σ-frames

We study (semi)measurable functions on σ-frames, extending the theory of real-valued functions from frames to σ-frames. The new objects of study are the σ-frame homomorphisms ▪ from the usual frame of reals into the congruence lattice of a σ-frame L, and its subclass of measurable functions L(R)→L. The desired extension faces two obstacles: (1) in general, σ-frames have no uncountable joins and are not pseudocomplemented; (2) σ-sublocales, that is, the subobjects in the dual category of the category of σ-frames and σ-frame homomorphisms, cannot be described as concrete subsets of the σ-frame L, unlike their counterpart in the category of locales, forcing us to work in the congruence lattice of L.Nevertheless, it is shown that, despite (1), the familiar method for generating real functions on frames via scales can be extended to arbitrary σ-frames. This is achieved by the new notions of σ-scale and finite σ-scale. It is also shown that, despite (2), the familiar insertion, extension and separation results for real-valued functions in several classes of frames (normal, extremally disconnected, G-perfect, F-perfect, perfectly normal) can be proved without involving uncountable joins and pseudocomplements, thus allowing their extension to measurable and semimeasurable functions.

ХІМІЧНІ ПРЕПАРАТИ В АГРАРНІЙ СФЕРІ ВИРОБНИЦТВА

Весь навколишній світ – це, здебільшого, світ хімічних сполук та їхніх перетворень. Переважна частина процесів у навколишньому середовищі належать до хімічних. Унікальність хімії полягає в тому, що вона не лише вивчає природні речовини, а й сама створює нові об’єкти дослідження. Хімія завжди була і залишається практичною, прикладною наукою разом із з хімічною технологією. Існування сучасного суспільства неможливе без усього того широкого спектра речовин, які можна отримати лише за допомогою хімічної технології, із якою хімія протягом свого становлення та розвитку є тісно пов’язаною. Впровадження методів хімічної технології та продуктів хімічної промисловості у народне господарство з метою інтенсифікації його розвитку та підвищення ефективності дістало назву хімізації.

학문의 사각지대: 한국 불교부적의 지구사적 연구 가능성 탐색

초록 · 키워드 목차 오류제보하기 This paper examines the historical background behind the recent surge in the scholarly interest in "Buddhist talismans," the talismans made and used in the Buddhist context. Although talismans formed an essential part of Buddhist practice in East Asia, the study of Buddhist talismans has remained an intellectual hiatus for a long time. As Buddhologists began to more actively study various Buddhist practices rather than doctrines and scriptures in the early 21st century, things and monuments used for Buddhist practices became new objects of study in the field of Buddhology. In the larger picture, this change is related to the "material turn" that has impacted the humanities and social science since the 1990s. The "material turn" is an academic movement that examines the ways in which things affect human action and society. Bruno Latour"s (1947-present) Actor-Network Theory and Graham Harman"s (1968-present) Object-Oriented Ontology and Speculative Realism have contributed significantly to promoting this movement. With these academic changes, Buddhologists and art historians are now paying more scholarly attention to diverse materials as well as texts used outside canonical Buddhism. With such changes, "Buddhist talismans" have become an excellent tool to illuminate the actual practices done by premodern Buddhists and to reveal the porous boundary between Buddhism, Daoism, and shamanism. The Buddhist talismans included in the medieval Dunhuang manuscripts have been discussed by some leading scholars abroad. On the other hand, Buddhist talismans excavated from Buddhist statues and tombs from Koryŏ and Chosŏn have little been known outside of Korea. Because some of the Buddhist talismans used in Koryŏ show connections with those included in the Dunhuang manuscripts, they will be an appropriate object to explore from the perspective of global history. By adopting the global historical approach, we will be able to avoid the pitfall of simply assuming the latter as the origins of the former. Instead, we should consider them as traces of the extensive network of Asian Buddhist talismans that once covered a large area from west China to the Korean peninsula. #불교부적 #지구사 #물질적 전회 #고려 #다라니 #Buddhist talisman #global history #material turn #Koryŏ #dhāraṇī 머리말1. 국제적 흐름에서 살펴본 불교부적 연구의 타당성2. 국내외 불교부적 연구 현황3. 한국 불교부적 출토 및 수집 현황4. 한국 불교부적의 융합적 연구방법 모색5. 한국 불교부적의 지구사적 연구방법 모색맺음말참고문헌Abstract

Interdisciplinarity in the structure of modern methodology of history

The integration of humanitarian research has greatly expanded the range of related disciplines involved in the process of historical cognition. The article examines the epistemological aspects of interdisciplinaryism as the main principle of the development of modern history methodology. The consequence of strengthening inter-subject relationships in historical studies was the complexity of vocabulary, the emergence of new concepts borrowed from related disciplines. The modern conceptual system is caused by the appearance of new objects of study, which were not in the “classical” historical science, so called “event history.” Some of them (gender, historical memory, totalitarianism, childhood, the environment, etc.) are established in their status of “historical” and interdisciplinary. At the same time, there appeared new objects of “non-event” history studies (history of emotions, violence, etc.) which require an appeal to evolutionary psychology, historical sociology, anthropology and other areas of humanitarian knowledge.

UKRAINIAN CHRISTIAN MARKETING: COMMUNICATIONS, VERBAL POSITIONING OF RELIGIOUS SERVICES AND GOODS

Communicative features of religious marketing are new objects of study for the Ukrainian scholars. The actuality of the study is stipulated by the fact that the studied subjects belong to such general communicative and linguistic problems as linguistic programming of personality, language and religious identity, semiotic code, God substitution, communicative manipulation, suggestion, etc. The cognitive significance of religious marketing for Ukrainians is determined by the factors of its influence on the consumers. Consumer behavior depends on the communicative specifics of religious marketing texts. The authors distinguish the pathogenic influence and influential texts with pragmatic function. The objects of our research are the communicative features of the Christian marketing, Islamic marketing and Judaic marketing in Ukraine. The subjects of our article are the marketing of communications, positioning of religious services and goods. The tasks are the following: to analyze the communicative aspects of religious marketing of Christians, Muslims and Jews in Ukraine. The methodology of the research is based on the current approaches to scientific studying of religious communication and channels of its promotion. We use discourse analysis (critical) for the science qualification of interactional aspects, socio-psychological and socio-cognitive characteristics, frameworks and contexts. Religious marketing communication great progress has been made in new media. Within the frames of marketing linguistics, new media linguistics peculiarities are also analyzed.

Cinejornalismo em perspectiva histórica

A relação entre o Cinema e a História promoveu um duplo avanço no campo historiográfico. Com uma variedade extensa de produções, permitiu análises de fontes primárias e novos objetos de estudo. Além disso, a pesquisa em acervos audiovisuais também contribui para a constituição de uma interface entre a História Cultural e Política. Assim, o objetivo central deste artigo é analisar em perspectiva histórica os usos políticos dos cinejornais no Brasil. Formando o primeiro veículo de informações audiovisual, o cinejornalismo revolucionou os meios de comunicação. Contudo, conforme foi se popularizando, também se tornou uma importante ferramenta de propaganda política. Ainda assim, constitui um tema ainda pouco explorado pela historiografia. Por isso, esse artigo consiste em uma reunião das principais produções historiográficas que utilizaram este objeto como fonte de análise.

Hacia un estado de la cuestión: la historia sociocultural y su alcance en el estudio de la cárcel municipal de Celaya (1863-1961)

El estudio histórico de las instituciones de encierro ha tomado relevancia en los últimos años. La historia sociocultural, como parte de la nueva historia, propone el análisis de nuevos objetos de estudio, entre ellos la cárcel, el delito y la justicia punitiva. El mundo carcelario, envuelto en representaciones e imaginarios sociales, no escapa del análisis actual y el aporte de la historia sociocultural se vuelve imprescindible para su comprensión. En América latina, las tendencias historiográficas se dirigen al estudio de la justicia y las prácticas sociales asociadas. A partir de este giro en el campo de la historia se propone el estudio de las cárceles locales y la explicación de su desarrollo y permanencia ya que las categorías de delito y las formas punitivas responden a un contexto sociocultural. Se estudia la cárcel de Celaya (1863-1961) y su valor historiográfico en la conformación de procesos sociales complejos. El estudio de la cárcel municipal nos conlleva a la comprensión de su representación en el imaginario social. La diversidad de fuentes utilizadas para su análisis promueve la construcción de una historia no escrita. Las categorías de delito y las formas de justicia punitiva explican las prácticas sociales, los valores y la moralidad de la sociedad celayense además de la apertura a un nuevo enfoque de la historia nacional a partir de la historia local.

Post-traductología para abordar el discurso publicitario: la ideología de la juventud en Dior

Para abordar la comunicación de la era global, como el texto-imagen, las concepciones tradicionales de la disciplina se revelan insuficientes. Gracias a nuevas teorías, como la de la «post-traducción» inaugurada por Gentzler, se pueden considerar nuevos objetos de estudio, ampliar el concepto de texto o los límites de la Traductología. Aplicando una metodología interdisciplinar, se analizarán dos casos de discurso publicitario pertenecientes a la casa Dior con presencia de homogeneización y secciones no traducidas, estableciendo comparaciones entre las versiones en español, inglés y francés. Este estudio revelará en qué medida el cuerpo femenino funciona como un texto en este entorno, que transmite y refuerza las ideologías vendidas desde la semiótica. El análisis también denuncia la violencia simbólica ejercida contra la identidad femenina y sus reescrituras mediáticas con la finalidad de despertar conciencia sobre qué discursos ayuda a perpetuar la traducción.

Gendering the Arab-Jew: Feminism and Jewish Studies after Ella Shohat

Gendering the Arab-Jew:Feminism and Jewish Studies after Ella Shohat Shir Alon (bio) Setting out to write an essay about cultural theorist Ella Shohat's influence on Jewish Studies over the past 30 years, I couldn't help but wonder (perhaps a bit maliciously) what Shohat, who debuted in academia with an unprecedented study of Israeli cinema from a postcolonial feminist perspective,1 would say about the recent, so-called Jewish Studies film Footnote (2011). Given that it centers on quarrels between Jewish philologists, Footnote was a surprising success both in Israel and at international festivals, even nominated for an Academy Award.2 No doubt its depiction of the relationship between two generations of Talmud scholars, father and son, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem struck a (local and international) chord. Armed with a theatrical soundtrack and humorous voice-over, the film narrates contemporary Jewish Studies as an Oedipal struggle between Ashkenazi men over official recognition, embodied in the Israel Prize. Women are assigned supportive roles as wives and mothers (alas, they occasionally dare not to be supportive enough!). One scene in particular seems to give a knowing wink to the viewing Jewish scholar, as the soundtrack gives way to a squabble, overheard at a cocktail party, about Daniel Boyarin's feminized Jewish man.3 Nevertheless, the pleasure is somewhat bitter if that scholar happens to be a woman, since Boyarin is employed merely to enforce the story of Jewish modernity as a story of masculinity. Whether it is a masculinity gained or lost depends on what flavor of masculinity you favor, but what is certain is that women remain irrelevant to it.4 [End Page 57] It is only fitting that the plot of the film rises and falls on a dramatic philological inquiry into the word metsudah, "fortress," since it presents Jewish Studies as a bastion of white men surrounded by resolute gatekeepers. Women, Mizrahi Jews, or Jerusalem's Palestinians are absent from the university citadel on the hill. What we do see, again and again, are the expressionless security guards standing at every door, profiling those attempting to enter. These guards, ubiquitous in Israeli public spaces since the beginning of the Second Intifada in 2000, are the one visual reference in the film to Israel's ongoing regime of separation. To anyone working in the field of Jewish Studies, the film's image of the discipline is clearly anachronistic: the walls of the fortress have been breached (though not toppled). Work done over the past 40 years has introduced both new research approaches and new objects of study, in dynamic exchange with critical gender, race, and ethnic studies, as well as vital criticism of Jewish Studies' commitment to a Zionist telos. Ella Shohat's writing, taking place at the intersection of Jewish Studies and Middle Eastern Studies, postcolonial studies, feminist theory, and critical race scholarship, directly and indirectly inspired many of these changes. The recent publication of an anthology of her collected writing spanning the past 30 years provides an occasion to assess her influence on the field.5 It seems instructive to position Shohat's intervention alongside Boyarin's, since both have utilized postcolonial and feminist theoretical tools to present foundational and resonant challenges to Jewish Studies: both engage with Jewish identity against its immediate context—Christianity in Boyarin's case and Arab/Muslim culture in the case of Shohat; both associate Zionism, albeit in different ways, with a kind of colonial mimicry, an effort to whiten and westernize the Jew, with destructive psychological effects; and both identify gendered mechanisms of orientalization, demonstrating that the effeminate Jew and the effeminate oriental share the burden of the European gaze. Yet, there is also an important difference between the two: whereas Boyarin is invested in identifying Jewish difference (and therefore an ethical-political Jewish essence),6 Shohat strives to multiply Jewish histories and challenge the paradigms that partition Jews from Arabs, East from West, and modernity from tradition, and in this manner she threatens to dismantle the disciplinary boundaries of Jewish Studies and its coherent object of research.7 This is one possible reason why Shohat and Boyarin's interventions rarely interact in American scholarship. Critical seminars...

Meanings of Waves: Electroencephalography and Society in Mexico City, 1940-1950.

Argument This paper focuses on the uses of electroencephalograms (EEGs) in Mexico during their introductory decade from 1940 to 1950. Following Borck (2006), I argue that EEGs adapted to fit local circumstances and that this adjustment led to the consolidation of different ways of making science and the emergence of new objects of study and social types. I also maintain that the way EEGs were introduced into the institutional networks of Mexico entangled them in discussions about the objective and juridical definitions of social groups, thereby preempting concerns about their technical and epistemic limitations. This ultimately enabled the use of EEGs as normative machines and dispositifs. To this end, the paper follows the arrival of EEGs and the creation of institutional networks then analyzes the extent to which the styles of thinking behind the uses of EEGs and attempts to reify a notion of normal electrical brain behavior-particularly by applying EEGs to a community of Otomí Indians-correlated with the difficulties of defining the socio-anthropological notions that articulated legal and disciplinary projects of the time. Finally, it unveils the shortcomings of alternative attempts to define a brain model and to resist the production of ontological determinations.

PERFORMING EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY IBERIAN MUSIC ESCOLA SUPERIOR DE MÚSICA DE CATALUNYA, BARCELONA, 14–16 JULY 2014

Musical performers and performing processes are relatively new objects of study if we compare them with composers and works, categories that have been at the centre of musicological concerns for a long time: so much so that in a relatively recent publication, An Introduction to Music Studies, ed. J. P. E. Harper-Scott and Jim Samson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), the study of musical performance is presented as a field of renewal for music history and analysis.

Geography, Art Theory, and New Perspectives for an Inclusive Art History

For a long time now, many have considered art history to be in a state of crisis. In the last decade, numerous publications have attempted to reimagine the discipline, addressing its future or even...

Usos teórico-metodológicos das pesquisas na área de Ciências Sociais e Humanas em Saúde

The current article aims to map and critically reflect on the current theoretical and methodological uses of research in the subfield of social and human sciences in health. A convenience sample was used to select three Brazilian public health journals. Based on a reading of 1,128 abstracts published from 2009 to 2010, 266 articles were selected that presented the empirical base of research stemming from social and human sciences in health. The sample was classified thematically as "theoretical/ methodological reference", "study type/ methodological design", "analytical categories", "data production techniques", and "analytical procedures". We analyze the sample's emic categories, drawing on the authors' literal statements. All the classifications and respective variables were tabulated in Excel. Most of the articles were self-described as qualitative and used more than one data production technique. There was a wide variety of theoretical references, in contrast with the almost total predominance of a single type of data analysis (content analysis). In several cases, important gaps were identified in expounding the study methodology and instrumental use of the qualitative research techniques and methods. However, the review did highlight some new objects of study and innovations in theoretical and methodological approaches.

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Shaping the Body Politic: Art and Political Formation in Early America (review)

Reviewed by: Shaping the Body Politic: Art and Political Formation in Early America Megan Walsh (bio) Keywords Material culture, Visual studies, American fine arts Shaping the Body Politic: Art and Political Formation in Early America. Edited by Maurie D. McInnis and Louis P. Nelson. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. 2011. Pp. 336. Cloth, $45.00.) Drawn from a 2006 symposium at the University of Virginia entitled “Envisioning America: Arts in the Jeffersonian Republic,” Shaping the Body Politic brings together a diverse set of essays representing new directions in the field of early American visual and material culture studies. As a whole, the volume asks important questions about the relationship between the arts and the emergence of a collective political entity “as artists and presidents, patrons and the public, used imagery as part of the rhetorical struggle to define, ultimately, what it meant to be an American” (12). Shaping the Body Politic positions itself as part of a new wave of interdisciplinary early American scholarship that draws methodological inspiration from the groundbreaking work of scholars like Laura Rigal, Jay Fliegelman, and Robert Blair St. George. Organized chronologically from the late colonial period to the early nineteenth century, the volume uncovers new objects of study and positions Americans’ representations of the nation and national identity in wider contexts. Four of the volume’s eight essays consider the history of American fine arts and offer a number of innovate readings of several familiar cultural [End Page 512] productions and their makers. Not only did early fine artists define national identity by building academies for the arts and by adapting European aesthetic principles to an American context, these essays argue, but artists also used their works to negotiate some of the early republic’s most heated political disputes. Maurie D. McInnis’s and Paul Staiti’s essays look to famous representations of George Washington. McInnis reads Jean-Antoine Houdon’s statue George Washington (1788–92) as a navigation of the uncertain position of the new nation’s leader through its staging of the president as both “modern” and “ancient Cincinnatus” (130); Houdon’s artistic decisions, according to McInnis, “helped shape America’s emerging national iconography” (130). Staiti argues that Gilbert Stuart’s Lansdowne Portrait (1796) “and its replicas and derivatives . . . restored the president’s lost luster at a time when his reputation and legacy were in greatest jeopardy” and “legitimated the Jay Treaty . . . as a product of Federalist wisdom” (181). Two other essays on the fine arts treat somewhat lesser known works, but no less famous artists. In his essay on Charles Willson Peale’s Miss Hallam as Imogen in “Cymbeline” (1771), David Steinberg reads the portrait alongside two poems by Jonathan Boucher, a loyalist Anglican rector in Annapolis, where the painting was first exhibited; Peale and Boucher used word and image in order to “support competing notions of Britishness and relations to Britain” (51). While Steinberg puts an artwork into a local context, John E. Crowley reads the trans-Atlantic history of early American landscape painting, arguing that most images of nature were produced by trained British artists who “did not see anything exclusively American about American scenery” and who therefore represented “American landscapes as implicitly part of the global British empire” (110). As a group, these essays reveal more of the considerable, but often overlooked, political motivations behind early American visual aesthetics. The book’s other essays trace less familiar territory, looking to material objects, print culture, and architecture as components of the nation’s artistic development. Vernacular and material artworks, these essays suggest, were as fundamental to the conceptualization of an emerging political culture as were fine arts. Two essays consider built environments in order to rethink ideas of space and place. In his analysis of Monticello, Roger B. Stein refutes the persistent notion that Jefferson intended his collection as an exercise in gentlemanly connoisseurship modeled on the early modern Wunderkammer. Stein instead insists that the displays at [End Page 513] Jefferson’s home conveyed a sense of national identity by teaching visitors to “relate object to object, art to nature, the past to the present, through the spatial dynamic and temporal juxtapositions of Jeffersonian design” (219). Focusing on more modest...

Fields, Logics, and Social Movements: Prison Abolition and the Social Justice Field*

This essay argues that field analyses of social movements can be improved by incorporating more insights from Pierre Bourdieu. In particular, Bourdieu’s concepts of logic, symbolic capital, illusio, and doxa can enrich social movement scholarship by enabling scholars to identify new objects of study, connect organizational‐ and individual‐level effects, and shed new light on a variety of familiar features of social movements. I demonstrate this claim by delineating the contours of one such field, the “social justice field” (SJF). I argue that the SJF is a delimited, trans‐movement arena of contentious politics united by the logic of the pursuit of radical social justice. Drawing upon existing scholarship, as well as my own research on the prison abolition movement, I argue that the competitive demands of the field produce characteristic effects on organizations and individual activists within the field. I conclude by considering how a Bourdieuian approach can provide fresh insights into familiar problematics within the social movements literature.

Figurações do feminino em Printemps et autres saisons de J.-M. G. Le Clézio

Tendo-se estreado literariamente em 1963 com Le Procès-Verbal, um romance que problematiza o código romanesco em sintonia com as propostas teóricas do nouveau roman herdadas da década anterior, e que lhe valeu o prémio Renaudot, Le Clézio mostrar-se-á doravante não apenas um escritor prolífico, mas, acima de tudo, constantemente em busca de novos objectos de observação e de novas formas de escrita. Servindo-se da escrita como meio de autoconhecimento e de tentativa de compreensão dos outros e do universo, viajará de uma estética próxima do nouveau roman para uma outra que, a pouco e pouco, recupera o romanesco, o maravilhoso, o mitológico, o histórico, etc., transfigurando, contudo, os códigos narrativos do passado. A composição de Printemps et autres saisons revela cinco figuras femininas, que podem ser vistas como símbolos de transformação, de errância, de renascimento para o amor e a vida.

The Fiocruz experience in Global Health and Health Diplomacy capacity building: conceptual framework, curricular structure and first results

Developing an International Health capability and training professionals to work with health at the international level have been concerns of the Fiocruz for over a decade. This process culminated in its setting up a Global Health and Health Diplomacy area in 2007 and embarking on other initiatives, including a postgraduate specialisation course. This paper examines the theoretical frames of reference that orient the human resource capacity building in Global Health and Health Diplomacy pursued by Sergio Arouca National School of Public Health (ENSP/Fiocruz) in collaboration with a number of internal and external partners. Following a brief conceptual review, which delimits these areas as new objects of study in collective health, the paper examines the central issue relations between globalisation and health that organises the content and presents the structure of the 1st Specialisation Course in Global Health and Health Diplomacy, given in 2008-2009, in Brasilia. It is concluded that, in spite of advances identified in the past decade, these fields are in need of greater conceptual refinement and development of sound analytical frameworks. Meanwhile, the impacts of globalisation processes on the health of populations also pose new challenges to international cooperation. In view of the priority given to health by current Brazilian foreign policy, there is still insufficient knowledge production and human resource capacity-building to address these new realities. Thence the importance of the investments being made.

A experiência da Fiocruz na formação de profissionais em saúde global e diplomacia da saúde: base conceitual, estrutura curricular e primeiros resultados

Developing an International Health capability and training professionals to work with health at the international level have been concerns of the Fiocruz for over a decade. This process culminated in its setting up a Global Health and Health Diplomacy area in 2007 and embarking on other initiatives, including a postgraduate specialisation course. This paper examines the theoretical frames of reference that orient the human resource capacity building in Global Health and Health Diplomacy pursued by Sergio Arouca National School of Public Health (ENSP/Fiocruz) in collaboration with a number of internal and external partners. Following a brief conceptual review, which delimits these areas as new objects of study in collective health, the paper examines the central issue – relations between globalisation and health – that organises the content and presents the structure of the 1st Specialisation Course in Global Health and Health Diplomacy, given in 2008-2009, in Brasilia. It is concluded that, in spite of advances identified in the past decade, these fields are in need of greater conceptual refinement and development of sound analytical frameworks. Meanwhile, the impacts of globalisation processes on the health of populations also pose new challenges to international cooperation. In view of the priority given to health by current Brazilian foreign policy, there is still insufficient knowledge production and human resource capacity-building to address these new realities. Thence the importance of the investments being made.

The Fiocruz experience in Global Health and Health Diplomacy capacity building: conceptual framework, curricular structure and first results

Developing an International Health capability and training professionals to work with health at the international level have been concerns of the Fiocruz for over a decade. This process culminated in its setting up a Global Health and Health Diplomacy area in 2007 and embarking on other initiatives, including a postgraduate specialisation course. This paper examines the theoretical frames of reference that orient the human resource capacity building in Global Health and Health Diplomacy pursued by Sergio Arouca National School of Public Health (ENSP/Fiocruz) in collaboration with a number of internal and external partners. Following a brief conceptual review, which delimits these areas as new objects of study in collective health, the paper examines the central issue – relations between globalisation and health – that organises the content and presents the structure of the 1st Specialisation Course in Global Health and Health Diplomacy, given in 2008-2009, in Brasilia. It is concluded that, in spite of advances identified in the past decade, these fields are in need of greater conceptual refinement and development of sound analytical frameworks. Meanwhile, the impacts of globalisation processes on the health of populations also pose new challenges to international cooperation. In view of the priority given to health by current Brazilian foreign policy, there is still insufficient knowledge production and human resource capacity-building to address these new realities. Thence the importance of the investments being made.