The Drama of Responsible Research and Innovation: The Ups and Downs of a Policy Concept

This contribution addresses the question why Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) is facing problems to succeed as concept for research and innovation policy in the European Commission, despite the EC’s 20 years of history of funding research activities and coordination and support actions that address science and society relations. Our analysis highlights four interrelated elements that contribute to the instability of RRI as policy concept, i.e. semantic, legal, financial and institutional fragility. We use Sabatier’s advocacy coalition approach (1998) to explain how these elements of fragility developed and how the ups and downs of RRI as policy concept played out. We identify three opposing advocacy coalitions with regards to RRI and analyze their belief systems and resources

Towards a framework for impact assessment for mission-oriented innovation policies. A formative toolbox approach

Mission-oriented policies (MOIP) have become important means to foster transformative change in many countries. Yet, approaches for assessing these policies' impacts are still in their infancy, not least due to the complexity of MOIP. To address this gap, we propose a toolbox approach that supports policy-makers during policy design and implementation, and allows for an identification of potential impacts by a theory-based approach. To disentangle the complexity of missions, we first conceptualize MOIPs as multiple translation processes from mission formulation and design to implementation. Each translation step shapes the policies' impacts. Based on this framework, we develop a set of specific analytical tools that are intended to support the process of bringing missions into realization, but also help to assess whether missions contribute to the postulated goals. These tools include a mapping of the socio-technical systems, a typology to explore the transformative ambition of missions, a process to develop impact pathways, an inventory of policy instruments to support the mission design, and indicators to measure mission progress along the developed pathways. Finally, we propose several analytical questions to explore the context for the development of potential impacts

Makine öğrenimi yoluyla bölgesel arı sütü farklarının arkasındaki kimyasal faktörleri keşfetmek

This study aims to discover the characteristic chemical factors for determining the region of royal jelly using machine learning. 84 samples from 13 different regions of Turkey were used for the study, and the chemical parameters of moisture, pH, acidity, and 10-hydroxy-2-decanoic acid (10-HDA) were investigated. ANOVA test was conducted to determine whether there are differences between royal jelly from 13 locations concerning the four chemical values. In addition to the statistical tests, a machine learning model was used to find out what makes royal jelly different from each other. The descriptive statistics of the chemical analysis results of royal jelly showed the following values: moisture 63.05%±2.99, pH 3.67±0.08, acidity 45.32±3.55, and 10-HDA 2.40±0.24. Surprisingly, the machine learning model suggests that 10-HDA may be the most prominent parameter for determining the region of royal jelly. This information will help us identify royal jelly’s authenticity more easily.Bu çalışmanın amacı, makine öğrenmesi yoluyla arı sütünün bölgesini belirlemek için ayırt edici kimyasal faktörleri keşfetmektir. Çalışmada, Türkiye'nin 13 farklı bölgesinden 84 numune kullanılmış ve nem, pH, asitlik ve 10-hidroksi-2-dekanoik asit (10-HDA) kimyasal parametreleri incelenmiştir. 13 yerden toplanan arı sütleri arasında dört kimyasal değer açısından farklılık olup olmadığı ANOVA testi ile incelenmiştir. İstatistiksel testlere ek olarak, arı sütlerini birbirinden neyin ayırdığını keşfetmek için bir makine öğrenimi modeli kullanılmıştır. Arı sütü, kimyasal analiz sonuçlarının tanımlayıcı istatistikleri sırasıyla, nem %63,05±2,99, pH 3,67±0,08, asitlik 45,32±3,55 ve 10-HDA 2,40±0,24 olarak bulunmuştur. Şaşırtıcı bir şekilde, makine öğrenimi modeli, 10-HDA'nın arı sütünün bölgesini belirlemek için en belirgin parametre olabileceğini öne sürmektedir. Bu bilgi, arı sütünün doğruluğunun tespitini daha kolay öğrenmemize yardımcı olacaktır

New HoRRIzon: D5.5 Actions and Activities to Realize RRI in Diversity of Approaches

This Deliverable tells about the journey of the Social Labs from their very beginning, in which we struggled to first get an understanding of the particular Funding Line of H2020 and tried to “diagnose” its uptake of RRI, continuing with the identification of our stakeholders and our attempt to incentivize them to participate in the Social Labs. In this Deliverable, we explain which methods we used in our Social Lab Workshops to raise and discuss the question of responsibility in research and innovation and to generate ideas for Pilot Actions, which experiences we made with these group methods and, most importantly, which Pilot Actions the Social Lab participants created, developed, changed and implemented in order to realize their ambitions of RRI and a responsible research and innovation system

Spatial and temporal heterogeneity in human mobility patterns in Holocene Southwest Asia and the East Mediterranean

We present a spatiotemporal picture of human genetic diversity in Anatolia, Iran, Levant, South Caucasus, and the Aegean, a broad region that experienced the earliest Neolithic transition and the emergence of complex hierarchical societies. Combining 35 new ancient shotgun genomes with 382 ancient and 23 present-day published genomes, we found that genetic diversity within each region steadily increased through the Holocene. We further observed that the inferred sources of gene flow shifted in time. In the first half of the Holocene, Southwest Asian and the East Mediterranean populations homogenized among themselves. Starting with the Bronze Age, however, regional populations diverged from each other, most likely driven by gene flow from external sources, which we term “the expanding mobility model.” Interestingly, this increase in inter-regional divergence can be captured by outgroup-f$_3$-based genetic distances, but not by the commonly used F$_{ST}$ statistic, due to the sensitivity of F$_{ST}$, but not outgroup-f$_3$, to within-population diversity. Finally, we report a temporal trend of increasing male bias in admixture events through the Holocene

Archaeogenetic analysis of Neolithic sheep from Anatolia suggests a complex demographic history since domestication

Yurtman, ozer, Yuncu et al. provide an ancient DNA data set to demonstrate the impact of human activity on the demographic history of domestic sheep. The authors demonstrate that there may have been multiple domestication events with notable changes to the gene pool of European and Anatolian sheep since the Neolithic. Sheep were among the first domesticated animals, but their demographic history is little understood. Here we analyzed nuclear polymorphism and mitochondrial data (mtDNA) from ancient central and west Anatolian sheep dating from Epipaleolithic to late Neolithic, comparatively with modern-day breeds and central Asian Neolithic/Bronze Age sheep (OBI). Analyzing ancient nuclear data, we found that Anatolian Neolithic sheep (ANS) are genetically closest to present-day European breeds relative to Asian breeds, a conclusion supported by mtDNA haplogroup frequencies. In contrast, OBI showed higher genetic affinity to present-day Asian breeds. These results suggest that the east-west genetic structure observed in present-day breeds had already emerged by 6000 BCE, hinting at multiple sheep domestication episodes or early wild introgression in southwest Asia. Furthermore, we found that ANS are genetically distinct from all modern breeds. Our results suggest that European and Anatolian domestic sheep gene pools have been strongly remolded since the Neolithic

Studying çifteler district dialects and the contributions of enriching turkish

ABSTRACT _x000B_In the study, called ?The Examination of the Dialect of Çifteler Local and the Contributions of Turkish Extending has been tried to be fixed the dialect features of Emigrant and Türkmen villages peculiar to Çifteler-in the city of Eskişehir. In the ?Introduction? some information has been given about the history of local, social and cultural structure. Then the material collected and transcribed has been tackled under the titles of: in the first chapter ?Phonetics?, in the second chapter ?Morphology?, in the third chapter ?Semantics?, in the fourth chapter ?Texts? and in the fifth chapter ?Dictionary?._x000B_Following the material transcribed by totally 51 resources, Emigrant and Türkmen villages?sounds, word and sentence structures have been examined and finally a dictionary has been made in order to prove word existenceÖZET_x000B_Çifteler Yöresi Ağızlarının İncelenmesi ve Türkçenin Zenginleşmesine Katkıları adlı çalışmada Eskişehir ili Çifteler ilçesine ait Muhacir ve Türkmen köylerinin ağız özellikleri tespit edilmeye çalışılmıştır. Yörenin tarihi, sosyal ve kültürel yapısı hakkında ?Giriş?te bilgi verildikten sonra, derlenen ve deşifre edilen malzeme; I.Bölümde ?Ses Bilgisi?,II. Bölümde ?Şekil Bilgisi?,III. Bölümde ?Cümle Bilgisi?, IV. Bölümde ?Metinler? ve V. Bölümde ?Sözlük? başlıkları altında ele alınmıştır._x000B_Toplam 51 kaynak kişiden derlenen malzemeden yola çıkılarak yöredeki Muhacir ve Türkmen köylerinin ses olayları, kullanılan kelime ve cümle yapıları incelenmiş, son olarak da söz varlığını ortaya koymak amacıyla bir sözlük oluşturulmuştur

Evaluation of the Water Quality of the Ilke Stream According to Biotic Indices Based on Benthic Macroinvertebrates (West Anatolia, Turkey)

Benthic macroinvertebrates can provide an integrated picture of environmental changes. Health of freshwaters can be assessed based on measured changes in the ecological structure of benthic macroinvertebrates. During the study period, 33 taxa were determined in Ilke Stream. As a result of principle component analysis (PCA), mainly nine components (T degrees C, EC, TDS, BOD5, NH4-N, NO2-N, NO3-N, PO4-P and CI-) account for 92% of the total variance among the water quality parameters. As a result of the UPGMA analysis, the highest similarity value was observed between the 1th and 2nd sampling points. SI, BMWP, ASPT and BBI indices were more proper than FBI index to determine the water quality of Ilke Stream. The results indicate that these indices should be adapted based on the ecological, geomorphological and environmental features of the regions

Internet Gaming Disorder and Treatment Approaches: A Systematic Review

The purpose of this systematic review is to investigate the phenomenology of the psychiatric diagnosis of Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD), which has a serious potential, through the physical and psychosocial impacts of recent candidates for its diagnosis, followed by current treatment approaches for this problem. Using specific terms, a comprehensive database search of PsychINFO, ScienceDirect, Wiley Online Library, Web of Science, and PubMed was conducted to access particular studies that examine treatment interventions for IGD. All searches have been limited to full text papers published between 2000 and 2017. Six eligible treatment studies fulfilling the criteria of preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses (PRISMA) as an international guideline were included in the literature review. The evaluation criteria of the IGD were observed to differ among studies and the current samples to consist predominantly of males in adolescence to young adulthood. The findings on interventions indicate that different treatment modalities show successful results in reducing IGD symptoms and the time spent playing games, as well as on addictive individuals' progress regarding verbal expression. The general impressions of this systematic review are that although technology seems to facilitate life, Internet use and gaming habits at the same time can easily turn into a serious psychiatric problem. On the other hand, relatively little is known about IGD with a rather limited number of studies describing, assessing, and treating this problem. However, increasing information about this disorder is crucial for developing specific interventions. Thus, conducting additional research in Turkey as well as the world is essential for understanding IGD's nature and how to treat it