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Policy options for food system transformation in Africa and the role of science, technology and innovation
As recognized by the Science, Technology and Innovation Strategy for Africa – 2024 (STISA-2024), science, technology and innovation (STI) offer many opportunities for addressing the main constraints to embracing transformation in Africa, while important lessons can be learned from successful interventions, including policy and institutional innovations, from those African countries that have already made significant progress towards food system transformation. This chapter identifies opportunities for African countries and the region to take proactive steps to harness the potential of the food and agriculture sector so as to ensure future food and nutrition security by applying STI solutions and by drawing on transformational policy and institutional innovations across the continent. Potential game-changing solutions and innovations for food system transformation serving people and ecology apply to (a) raising production efficiency and restoring and sustainably managing degraded resources; (b) finding innovation in the storage, processing and packaging of foods; (c) improving human nutrition and health; (d) addressing equity and vulnerability at the community and ecosystem levels; and (e) establishing preparedness and accountability systems. To be effective in these areas will require institutional coordination; clear, food safety and health-conscious regulatory environments; greater and timely access to information; and transparent monitoring and accountability systems
Making a Homeland: Roots and Routes of Transnational Armenian Engagement
Ties to the homeland have always been a central focus of global diaspora and migration studies. How and why do the descendants of migrants maintain their attachment to the ancestral homeland? To what extent do emotional ties bind second and later generations of migrants to that place? Tsypylma Darieva examines various actors, channels and sites of transnational Armenian engagement that generate new pathways of diasporic ›roots‹ mobility. Drawing on long-term ethnographic observations in Armenia and in the USA, she examines transnational flows of people, money and ideas to show the social and political significance that roots mobility acquires when the mythical 'homeland' becomes a real place
The Public Performance Of Sanctions In Insolvency Cases: The Dark, Humiliating, And Ridiculous Side Of The Law Of Debt In The Italian Experience. A Historical Overview Of Shaming Practices
This study provides a diachronic comparative overview of how the law of debt has been applied by certain institutions in Italy. Specifically, it offers historical and comparative insights into the public performance of sanctions for insolvency through shaming and customary practices in Roman Imperial Law, in the Middle Ages, and in later periods.
The first part of the essay focuses on the Roman bonorum cessio culo nudo super lapidem and on the medieval customary institution called pietra della vergogna (stone of shame), which originates from the Roman model.
The second part of the essay analyzes the social function of the zecca and the pittima Veneziana during the Republic of Venice, and of the practice of lu soldate a castighe (no translation is possible).
The author uses a functionalist approach to apply some arguments and concepts from the current context to this historical analysis of ancient institutions that we would now consider ridiculous.
The article shows that the customary norms that play a crucial regulatory role in online interactions today can also be applied to the public square in the past. One of these tools is shaming. As is the case in contemporary online settings, in the public square in historic periods, shaming practices were used to enforce the rules of civility in a given community. Such practices can be seen as virtuous when they are intended for use as a tool to pursue positive change in forces entrenched in the culture, and thus to address social wrongs considered outside the reach of the law, or to address human rights abuses
MiLMo:Minority Multilingual Pre-trained Language Model
Pre-trained language models are trained on large-scale unsupervised data, and
they can fine-turn the model only on small-scale labeled datasets, and achieve
good results. Multilingual pre-trained language models can be trained on
multiple languages, and the model can understand multiple languages at the same
time. At present, the search on pre-trained models mainly focuses on rich
resources, while there is relatively little research on low-resource languages
such as minority languages, and the public multilingual pre-trained language
model can not work well for minority languages. Therefore, this paper
constructs a multilingual pre-trained model named MiLMo that performs better on
minority language tasks, including Mongolian, Tibetan, Uyghur, Kazakh and
Korean. To solve the problem of scarcity of datasets on minority languages and
verify the effectiveness of the MiLMo model, this paper constructs a minority
multilingual text classification dataset named MiTC, and trains a word2vec
model for each language. By comparing the word2vec model and the pre-trained
model in the text classification task, this paper provides an optimal scheme
for the downstream task research of minority languages. The final experimental
results show that the performance of the pre-trained model is better than that
of the word2vec model, and it has achieved the best results in minority
multilingual text classification. The multilingual pre-trained model MiLMo,
multilingual word2vec model and multilingual text classification dataset MiTC
are published on http://milmo.cmli-nlp.com/
In the Shape of a Paisley: An Autoethnography Study of the Gap in Iranian Immigrant Women With Government Executive Leadership Roles
This study explored the experiences of Iranian immigrant women leaders in the government sector in the Pacific Northwest. The focus of the study was to understand how their experiences of inequitable opportunities in the workplace prohibited them from attaining and advancing executive leadership roles. A qualitative autoethnography approach was used to explore how the researcher’s lived experiences denoted the career pathway trajectory for Iranian immigrant women in the government sector to capture the essence of their experiences navigating inequities along the leadership pipeline. To examine their experiences, multiracial feminism theory and representative bureaucracy theory provided a multifaceted viewpoint of Iranian immigrant women in the context of their identities concerning their leadership roles. A conceptual framework also guided this study through the lens of the “emotional tax” phenomenon on women of color in the workplace as they identified inequities in the organizations in which they worked. Finally, this study drew exclusively from the researcher’s experience, who served in a leadership position in the government sector. Through the development of supporting concepts and subthemes, four major themes emerged, including (a) Cultural Influence, (b) Powerless, (c) Empowered, and (d) Servant Leadership. These themes explained the process of leader emergence within the Iranian immigrant women community
Slava Ukraini: a psychobiographical case study of Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s public diplomacy discourse
Volodymyr Zelenskyy\u27s public diplomacy during the Russo-Ukrainian conflict was examined in this dissertation. Zelenskyy’s discourse emphasized his action-oriented traits, Ukrainian identity, and nationalism. The study employed LTA, and LIWC-22, for natural language processing analyses of Zelenskyy\u27s public speeches and diplomatic discourse. Zelenskyy demonstrated agency, adaptability, collaboration, and positive language patterns, suggesting confidence and optimism, according to the data. In addition, the research emphasizes how domestic and international factors influence state behavior, as well as how political demands, cultural, historical, and political factors influence Zelenskyy\u27s decision-making.
This dissertation sheds light on a global leader\u27s psychobiographical characteristics, beliefs, and motivations during a crisis, thereby advancing leadership and conflict resolution. By incorporating transformational leadership theory into LTA, researchers can gain a better understanding of effective leadership and how it develops strong connections with followers. LTA, LIWC-22, and qualitative coding were used to identify themes and trends in Zelenskyy\u27s speeches. The findings show Zelenskyy\u27s linguistic and leadership traits in public diplomacy, emphasizing the importance of understanding leaders\u27 traits in foreign policy decision-making. Psychobiographical profiles aid scholars in understanding a leader\u27s political views on conflict, their ability to influence events, and how they accomplish their objectives. As a result, perceptions of the state as an actor, as well as foreign policy decisions, must consider the effect of individual leaders. Conclusions include the Brittain-Hale Foreign Policy Analysis Model, based on a heuristic qualitative coding framework; HISTORICAL
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