Use of audiovisual messages from land user to land user for sharing knowledge about SLM: experiences from a pilot project in Kenya and Tajikistan

The global World Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies (WOCAT) initiative has developed standardised tools and methods to compile and evaluate knowledge available about SLM. This knowledge is now combined and enriched with audiovisual information in order to give a voice to land users, reach a broad range of stakeholders, and assist in scaling up SLM to reverse trends of degradation, desertification, and drought. Five video products, adapted to the needs of different target groups, are created and embedded in already existing platforms for knowledge sharing of SLM such as the WOCAT database and Google Earth application. A pilot project was carried out in Kenya and Tajikistan to verify ideas and tools while at the same time assessing the usefulness of the suggested products on the ground. Video has the potential to bridge the gap between different actor groups and enable communication and sharing on different levels and scales: locally, regionally, and globally. Furthermore, it is an innovative tool to link local and scientific knowledge, raise awareness, and support advocacy for SLM. Keywords: Sustainable Land Management (SLM), knowledge sharing, audiovisual messages, video, World Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies (WOCAT)

Prioritizing Healthy Child Development Could Prevent Child Prostitution

The CHILDREN AT RISK documentaries “Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking” and “International Human Trafficking” draw attention to the dire consequences of our failure as a society to ensure that all children are raised with healthy experiences in safe and loving environments. It is our collective responsibility to put policies and services into place to prevent child prostitution from happening in the first place, while also providing treatment and care for the victims of prostitution. We must embed the prevention of child prostitution into a broader vision for healthy child development and encourage our national, state, and local policymakers to prioritize the development and implementation of a comprehensive and coordinated strategy for children.

Knowledge for sustainable development in the Tajik Pamir Mountains

The paper presents the results of a multi-year baseline study project in which 10 sectors ranging from agriculture to natural hazards were assessed by a transdisciplinary Swiss–Tajik research team. This knowledge base was enhanced in a development strategy workshop that brought together stakeholders from the local to the international levels. The methodology applied was found appropriate to initiate a broad reflection and negotiation process among various stakeholder groups, leading to a joint identification of possible measures to be taken. Knowledge—and its enhancement through the involvement of all stakeholder levels— appeared to be an effective carrier of innovation and changes of attitudes, thus containing the potential to effectively contribute to sustainable development in marginalized and resource-poor mountain areas.

Desarrollo cognoscitivo y formación de conocimientos políticos en niños y adolescentes

El artículo examina el desarrollo cognoscitivo y sus diferentes interpretaciones en la investigación de la formación de conocimientos políticos en niños y adolescentes. En primer término, se analiza el fenómeno del desarrollo psicológico desde el reciente consenso teórico acerca de sus principios centrales, propuesto para evitar la fragmentación explicativa de fines del siglo pasado. Tal consenso abarca una nueva perspectiva del desarrollo, sistémica y relacional, que procura superar modelos explicativos que escinden aspectos interdependientes al entenderlos como excluyentes. En segundo lugar, se abordan e ilustran algunas de estas cuestiones a través de diversas investigaciones del desarrollo infantil de conocimientos políticos, incluyendo un estudio propio sobre la formación de la noción de gobierno nacional en niños y adolescentes de la ciudad de Buenos Aires y de La Plata

Desarrollo cognoscitivo y formación de conocimientos políticos en niños y adolescentes

El artículo examina el desarrollo cognoscitivo y sus diferentes interpretaciones en la investigación de la formación de conocimientos políticos en niños y adolescentes. En primer término, se analiza el fenómeno del desarrollo psicológico desde el reciente consenso teórico acerca de sus principios centrales, propuesto para evitar la fragmentación explicativa de fines del siglo pasado. Tal consenso abarca una nueva perspectiva del desarrollo, sistémica y relacional, que procura superar modelos explicativos que escinden aspectos interdependientes al entenderlos como excluyentes. En segundo lugar, se abordan e ilustran algunas de estas cuestiones a través de diversas investigaciones del desarrollo infantil de conocimientos políticos, incluyendo un estudio propio sobre la formación de la noción de gobierno nacional en niños y adolescentes de la ciudad de Buenos Aires y de La Plata

Desarrollo cognoscitivo y formación de conocimientos políticos en niños y adolescentes

El artículo examina el desarrollo cognoscitivo y sus diferentes interpretaciones en la investigación de la formación de conocimientos políticos en niños y adolescentes. En primer término, se analiza el fenómeno del desarrollo psicológico desde el reciente consenso teórico acerca de sus principios centrales, propuesto para evitar la fragmentación explicativa de fines del siglo pasado. Tal consenso abarca una nueva perspectiva del desarrollo, sistémica y relacional, que procura superar modelos explicativos que escinden aspectos interdependientes al entenderlos como excluyentes. En segundo lugar, se abordan e ilustran algunas de estas cuestiones a través de diversas investigaciones del desarrollo infantil de conocimientos políticos, incluyendo un estudio propio sobre la formación de la noción de gobierno nacional en niños y adolescentes de la ciudad de Buenos Aires y de La Plata

Knowledge Discovery in Spectral Data by Means of Complex Networks

In the last decade, complex networks have widely been applied to the study of many natural and man-made systems, and to the extraction of meaningful information from the interaction structures created by genes and proteins. Nevertheless, less attention has been devoted to metabonomics, due to the lack of a natural network representation of spectral data. Here we define a technique for reconstructing networks from spectral data sets, where nodes represent spectral bins, and pairs of them are connected when their intensities follow a pattern associated with a disease. The structural analysis of the resulting network can then be used to feed standard data-mining algorithms, for instance for the classification of new (unlabeled) subjects. Furthermore, we show how the structure of the network is resilient to the presence of external additive noise, and how it can be used to extract relevant knowledge about the development of the disease.

A personal data framework for exchanging knowledge about users in new financial services

Personal data is a key asset for many companies, since this is the essence in providing personalized services. Not all companies, and specifically new entrants to the markets, have the opportunity to access the data they need to run their business. In this paper, we describe a comprehensive personal data framework that allows service providers to share and exchange personal data and knowledge about users, while facilitating users to decide who can access which data and why. We analyze the challenges related to personal data collection, integration, retrieval, and identity and privacy management, and present the framework architecture that addresses them. We also include the validation of the framework in a banking scenario, where social and financial data is collected and properly combined to generate new socio-economic knowledge about users that is then used by a personal lending service.