International Connections: Resources That Support the Growth and Development of Community Foundations Globally

Documents international linkages between, and support for, the promotion and development of community foundations. Identifies gaps in funding and support

Community Foundations: Symposium On a Global Movement: Current Issues For the Global Community Foundation Movement

This report documents some of the key elements of "Community Foundations: Symposium on a Global Movement", the first global meeting for people involved in community foundations. The sessions dealt with the changing world in which community foundations operate; the role foundations play globally,and roles for community foundations. Additional resources are included

El Crecimento de las Fundaciones Comunitarias en el Mundo: Un Análisis de la Vitalidad del Movimiento de Fundaciones Comunitarias

This is the first of a series of reports on international community foundation trends and developments which are published annually by WINGS-CF under the heading of Community Foundation Global Status Reports

Serving a Wider Community: Community Foundations' Use of Geographic Component Funds and Other Strategies and Structures to Cover Territory

Community foundations operating in different countries are subject to their own legal and tax systems governing nonprofits and foundations. Structures developed under one country's legal and tax systems are less important than the concepts and philosophy behind how community foundations cover territory. Community foundations can take the ideas and models presented here and adapt them to fit their local needs and circumstances

Large expert-curated database for benchmarking document similarity detection in biomedical literature search

Document recommendation systems for locating relevant literature have mostly relied on methods developed a decade ago. This is largely due to the lack of a large offline gold-standard benchmark of relevant documents that cover a variety of research fields such that newly developed literature search techniques can be compared, improved and translated into practice. To overcome this bottleneck, we have established the RElevant LIterature SearcH consortium consisting of more than 1500 scientists from 84 countries, who have collectively annotated the relevance of over 180 000 PubMed-listed articles with regard to their respective seed (input) article/s. The majority of annotations were contributed by highly experienced, original authors of the seed articles. The collected data cover 76% of all unique PubMed Medical Subject Headings descriptors. No systematic biases were observed across different experience levels, research fields or time spent on annotations. More importantly, annotations of the same document pairs contributed by different scientists were highly concordant. We further show that the three representative baseline methods used to generate recommended articles for evaluation (Okapi Best Matching 25, Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency and PubMed Related Articles) had similar overall performances. Additionally, we found that these methods each tend to produce distinct collections of recommended articles, suggesting that a hybrid method may be required to completely capture all relevant articles. The established database server located at https://relishdb.ict.griffith.edu.au is freely available for the downloading of annotation data and the blind testing of new methods. We expect that this benchmark will be useful for stimulating the development of new powerful techniques for title and title/abstract-based search engines for relevant articles in biomedical research.Peer reviewe

Gender and psychology

This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Wiley via the DOI in this record.This chapter summarises the psychological research on gender. The first part of the chapter focusses on experimental and social constructivist psychology and discusses what psychological differences are found between genders and the different approaches put forward to explain these differences. These approaches include essentialist theories which argue that gender differences arise from evolutionary adaptations, and constructivist theories, which argue that gender differences are the result of cultural and contextual influences. We discuss the extent to which these approaches can explain gender differences in general, but also patterns of gender differences across cultures. The second part of this chapter discusses psychological research that adopts social constructionist approaches to studying gender, and outlines examples of discourse and conversation analytic research on the (re)production of gender in language and interactions. Finally, we will discuss how the retention of multiple perspectives and research methods by gender researchers is important for moving beyond additive (and dichotomous) models of gender, and beyond a European/US centric view