Transition to organic food in Danish public procurement: can a top-down approach capture the practice?

This paper is addressing the attention towards organic transition processes which takes place in a Danish political context at the moment. With departure in the explicit propositions in an organic vision 2020 launched by the Danish government the practice in public kitchens is presented and discussed. The main findings in several recent studies address the lack of relations between key actors in the field and the challenges in embedding the change into a resilient practice. Especially the relation between kitchen staff and the public administrations seems to be lacking. The political aim is translated into an economic support program dedicated only the teaching of kitchen staff, but does not see the relational character of the transition. Concluding remarks underlines the complexity of a transition approach and problematizes the narrow focus on educational activities as the primary initiative to make farmers and public kitchens convert their production to organic

Daily Practice Experience of Baricitinib Treatment for Patients with Difficult-to-Treat Atopic Dermatitis:Results from the BioDay Registry

Clinical trials have shown that baricitinib, an oral selective Janus kinase 1/2 inhibitor, is effective for the treatment of moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis. However, daily practice data are limited. Therefore, this multicentre prospective study evaluated the effectiveness and safety of 16-weeks' treatment with baricitinib in adult patients with moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis in daily practice. A total of 51 patients from the BioDay registry treated with baricitinib were included and evaluated at baseline and after 4, 8 and 16 weeks of treatment. Effectiveness was assessed using clinician- and patient-reported outcome measurements. Adverse events and laboratory assessments were evaluated at every visit. At week 16, the probability (95% confidence interval) of achieving Eczema Area and Severity Index ≤ 7 and numerical rating scale pruritus ≤ 4 was 29.4% (13.1-53.5) and 20.5% (8.8-40.9), respectively. No significant difference in effectiveness was found between dupilumab non-responders and responders. Twenty-two (43.2%) patients discontinued baricitinib treatment due to ineffectiveness, adverse events or both (31.4%, 9.8% and 2.0%, respectively). Most frequently reported adverse events were nausea (n = 6, 11.8%), urinary tract infection (n = 5, 9.8%) and herpes simplex infection (n = 4, 7.8%). In conclusion, baricitinib can be an effective treatment option for moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis, including patients with non-responsiveness on dupilumab. However, effectiveness of baricitinib is heterogeneous, which is reflected by the high discontinuation rate in this difficult-to-treat cohort

意外性のあるレシピを推薦するエージェントの提案

毎日の食事のレシピを考えることは非常に大変なことである．近年では独自のレシピを自由に書き込むことができる投稿型レシピサイトが多数存在しており，サイト内のレシピ数，ユーザ数は年々増加している．投稿型レシピサイトには，普通とは多少異なる食材を用いた意外性のあるレシピが存在するが，通常の検索機能を使って発見するのは困難である．そこで，本研究では投稿型レシピサイトから意外性のあるレシピを抽出するための推薦エージェントを提案する．このレシピ推薦エージェントはTF-IDFの考えを応用したRF-IIF（Recipe Frequency-Inverse Ingredient Frequency）を利用し，ユーザから指定された料理カテゴリーにおける食材の希少度と一般度から意外度を算出する．次にレシピに出現する食材の意外度からレシピの意外度を算出するが，各レシピの料理カテゴリーを誤判定すると，普通のレシピが意外レシピと誤判断されてしまうため，別カテゴリーのレシピをいかに除外するかが重要である．最後に，レシピ間の類似度を計り類似したレシピを除去することで多様性に富んだ意外性のあるレシピを抽出する．アンケートによる評価を実施し，提案するレシピ推薦エージェントの有用性を示した．Many surprising recipes that have different ingredients from normal recipes exist in user-generated recipe sites. However, we cannot find surprising recipes by using the search function. In this paper, we propose a method of extracting surprising recipes from the user-generated recipe sites. We calculate the surprising value of ingredients and recipes by using RF-IIF. Then, we remove the redundancy of recipes that have high surprising values. Finally, we extract surprising recipes of the dish category specified by the user. In the evaluation experiment, we conducted a questionnaire about each surprising recipe. As a result, we showed the usefulness of our proposed method

Gitanos protestantes: el movimiento religioso de las iglesias "Filadelfia" en Andalucía, España

Este artículo recoge una caracterización amplia del protestantismo gitano de las iglesias Filadelfia en Andalucía, España. Este movimiento étnico-religioso, que nace en Francia y llega a Andalucía en los años sesenta, es el resultado de la apropiación de una rama del protestantismo y su paulatina adaptación a los contextos gitanos. Las iglesias, lideradas por gitanos, funcionan como espacios de hibridación cultural y autogestión del cambio. Contrariamente a lo que podría pensarse, la adscripción a las nuevas agrupaciones desborda los escenarios chabolistas y marginales, arrancando conversiones entre todos los sectores sociales de esta minoría étnica. El protestantismo está cumpliendo una doble función entre los gitanos andaluces: por un lado, es instrumento de reafirmación cultural en un momento histórico de extrema distorsión de las tradiciones y, por otro, es motor de transformación cultural, a través de una relectura crítica que de las tradiciones y las identidades gitanas se realiza en el seno de las nuevas agrupaciones religiosa

'New ordinary' of 'winners' : South Africa as part of BRICS

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Del Espíritu a la gente Sobre las especificidades del ethos pentecostal y su incidencia socio-política: El caso del Centro Cristiano Nueva Vida en Buenos Aires

Este trabajo tiene por objetivo aportar a la identificación de los diversosacercamientos al estudio de la relación entre pentecostalismo y política,especialmente desde el análisis de la dimensión socio-cultural que poseen lasdinámicas identitarias que caracterizan este sector religioso. Para ello,vincularemos el aporte de distintas corrientes de teología pentecostal en AméricaLatina con un caso de estudio: el Centro Cristiano Nueva Vida (CCNV) en laciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina.This work aims to contribute to the identification of the different approaches to the study of the relationship between Pentecostalism and politics, especially from the analysis of the socio-cultural dimension that possess the identity dynamics that characterize this religious sector. To do so, we will link the contribution of different currents of Pentecostal theology in Latin America with a case study: the Centro Cristiano Nueva Vida (CCNV) in the City of Buenos Aires, Argentina.Este trabalho pretende contribuir para a identificação das diferentes abordagens ao estudo da relação entre o pentecostalismo e política, especialmente desde que a análise da dimensão sócio-cultural da dinâmica de identidade que têm caracterizado este sector religioso. Para fazer isso, nós iremos ligar a contribuição de diversas correntes de teologia pentecostal na América Latina com um estudo de caso: O Centro Cristão Nueva Vida (CNVC), na cidade de Buenos Aires, Argentina.Fil: Panotto, Nicolás Esteban. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales; Argentin

Setting Sail on Stormy Waters: On the Role of Organizational Ethnographers in the Age of Financialization

Current financialization marks a broad cultural shift in the economy. It also marks a cultural shift within organizations. Primarily, it seems to challenge the status of profit as an ultimate measure that no logic transcends, sanctifying in its place the concept of ‘shareholder value’. This article discusses this transformation and argues that it has two major implications for organizational ethnographers. First, it holds the potential for overcoming the traditional suspicion towards ethnography in the fields of business and management, and the accompanying wariness towards the type of social reflexivity that ethnography entails. Second, it raises new questions to be asked of the ethnographic method and how new cultural issues might be examined