Search Results - Scientific Objectivity.

Mainstreaming communication of adaptation to climate change: Some initiatives from Central Africa by Sonwa, D.J., Mbede, E., Bele, M.Y., Abilogo, E., Ngaunkam, P.

“…In order to address these challenges and contribute to the improvement of the journalistic style of reporting topics on forest and climate change adaptation with more scientific knowledge and to create a stronger scientific base of event coverage, pilot capacity-building initiatives were initiated with the specific objectives as follows: (1) training of journalists during workshops; (2) fellowships award for research activities to communication master students; (3) mentoring of senior and junior journalists and (4) open reflection on how to mainstream forests and adaptation to climate change in curricula of communication schools in Central Africa. …”
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COPO: a metadata platform for brokering FAIR data in the life sciences by Etuk, A., Shaw, F., González Beltran, A., Johnson, D., Laporte, Marie-Angélique, Rocca Serra, Philippe, Arnaud, Elizabeth, Devare, Medha, Kersey, Paul J., Sansone, Susanna-Assunta, Davey, R.P.

“…COPO is a computational system that attempts to address some of these challenges by enabling scientists to describe their research objects (raw or processed data, publications, samples, images, etc.) using community-sanctioned metadata sets and vocabularies, and then use public or institutional repositories to share it with the wider scientific community. …”
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DIVECOSYS: Bringing together researchers to design ecologicallybased pest management for smallscale farming systems in West Africa by Brevault, T., Renou, A., Vayssières, Jean-François, Amadji, G., Assogba-Komlan, F., Diallo, M.D., Bon, H. de, Diarra, K., Hamadoun, A., Huat, J., Marnotte, P., Menozzi, P., Prudent, P., Rey, J., Sall, D., Silvie, P., Simon, S., Sinzogan, A.A.C., Soti, V., Tamo, Manuele, Clouvel, P.

“…Its main scientific objective is to explore the potential of biodiversity and ecological processes such as pest regulation, enabling novel ecologically-based models for productive systems, reduction of pesticide use, and adaptation or resilience of farming systems in the face of environmental disruptions. …”
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Characterizing predatory publishing: A review by Kilonzi, Emily, Oliveira, Ana R.S., Mego, Lina, Gameda, S., Alonso, Silvia

“…Objective(s): Predatory journals are a poorly understood threat to science. …”
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Science and innovation for resilient food systems in fragile and conflict-affected settings by CGIAR

“…Scientific advancements and innovative partnerships are transforming food, land, and water systems in fragile and conflict-affected settings (FCAS). …”
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Water pollution monitoring and management: a review of Bangkok by Ali, G., Nitivattananon, V., Ahmad, Waqas, Nawaz, R.

“…Water pollution management for pollution control seldom considers the scientific information. The main objective of this paper is to review the water pollution management in Bangkok and link the entire process to the cause and effects of water pollution. …”
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What traits of collaboration networks are associated with project success? The case of two CGIAR agricultural research programs for development by Plex Sulá, A.I., De Col, Valentina, Etherton, B.A., Yanru Xing, Agarwal, A., Ramić, L., Bonaiuti, Enrico, Friedmann, M., Proietti, Claudio, Thiele, Graham, Garrett, Karen A.

“…Characterizing collaboration patterns can inform decisions to enhance the structure and dynamics of research programs. OBJECTIVE We introduce a new analytic framework for evaluating collaborative research networks based on scientific publications, and an associated conceptual framework for the role of research networks in achieving societal goals. …”
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Research Ethics and the CGIAR by CGIAR Science Council, Adair, Linda S., Dias, Clarence, Sandoe, Peter

“…The present study is concerned with ethical issues relating to the process involved in the CGIAR mission: scientific research and research-related activities. …”
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What are the prospects for citizen science in agriculture? Evidence from three continents on motivation and mobile telephone use of resource-poor farmers by Beza, E., Steinke, J., Etten, Jacob van, Reidsma, Pytrik, Fadda, Carlo, Mittra, S., Mathur, P.N., Kooistra, L.

“…For educated farmers, contributing to scientific research was a more important motivation to participate as citizen scientists compared to less educated farmers. …”
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Exploring the experienced usefulness of the PSD framework in a mixed natural built environment by Spezia, Fanny

“…However, this type of research has, according to scientific research, commonly focused on how green settings in the urban context, like parks or green spaces are perceived. …”
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Science to support climate-smart agricultural development by Rosenstock, Todd S., Mpanda, Mathew, Rioux, J., Kirui, Josephine, Anyekulu, S., Luedeling, Eike, Kuyak, Shem, Kimaro, Anthony A., Franzel, Steven, Neufeldt, Henry, Shepherd, K., Neely, Constance

“…This document reports on the concepts driving the scientific activities of FAO’s Mitigation of Climate Change in Agriculture Programme’s (MICCA) pilot projects in East Africa. …”
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The African Academy of Sciences by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…The African Academy of Sciences (AAS) which is based in Nairobi Kenya, was founded in 1985 to pro mote and foster the growth of the scientific community in Africa. The objectives of the Academy are to stimulate, design and coordinate regional,...…”
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Report of the VBDC Capitalization Workshop by CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food

“…Representatives of three of the five VBDC projects met for the following specific objectives: - Review emerging messages from the projects and the audience category that could use the messages - Review emerging outcomes from the projects; - Identify other ‘quick wins’ that we need to focus on, in the next months including any scientific outputs that can be written up in the short term either within or between projects - Discuss preliminary plans and scientific contributions to the final VBDC Science Conference coming up in September 2013 Before the meeting project briefs were prepared and sent to each project team to be represented at the workshop. …”
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Evaluating quality of science in CGIAR research programs: Use of bibliometrics by Rünzel, Max, Sarfatti, Paolo., Negroustoueva, Svetlana

“…Overall, the CRP review showed a significant output of scientific publications during the period 2017–2020, with 4,872 articles, 220,101 references, and 7.1 citations per article. …”
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Animal husbandry and grazing potential in the Sahel: An atlas of Niger by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…One of the chief objectives of CTA is to compile scientific and technical information and prepare state-of-theart studies based on available, though very often scattered, data. …”
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CapFor: Una experiencia exitosa de cooperación internacional entre CATIE y METLA by Mery, Gerardo

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The Cassava Biotechnology Network (CBN) and cassava biotechnology research by Thro, Ann Marie, Roca, W., Henry, Guy

“…CBN organizes biennial scientific meetings and publishes scientific proceedings, a semiannual newsletter, and other material. …”
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Modelling agricultural drought: a review of latest advances in big data technologies by Houmma, I.H., El Mansouri, L., Gadal, S., Garba, M., Hadria, R.

“…Thus, out of 417 articles across all studies on drought, 226 articles published from 2010 to 2022 were analyzed to provide a global overview of the current state of knowledge on multivariate drought modelling using the inclusion criteria. The main objective is to review the recent available scientific evidence regarding multivariate drought modelling based on the joint use of geospatial technologies and artificial intelligence. …”
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An absolute index (Ab-index) to measure a researcher's useful useful contributions and productivity by Biswal, Akshaya Kumar

“…The lack of an absolute quantification of the author’s scientific contributions by the existing measurement system hampers the decision-making process. …”
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Rehabiliteringsmetoder för hundar efter operation av osteokondros i bogleden by Färnström, Anna, Larsson, Emelie

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