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The academy is often described as an ivory tower, isolated from the community surrounding it. Presenting the theory, vision, and implementation of a socially engaged program for the Department of Human and Organizational Development (HOD) in Peabody’s College of Education and Human Development at Vanderbilt University, Academics in Action! describes a more integrated model wherein students and faculty work with communities, learn from them, and bring to bear findings from theory and research to generate solutions to community problems. Offering examples of community-engaged theory, scholarship, teaching, and action, Academics in Action! describes the nuanced structures that foster and support their development within a research university. Theory and action span multiple ecological levels from individuals and small groups to organizations and social structures. The communities of engagement range from local neighborhoods and schools to arenas of national policy and international development. Reflecting the unique perspectives of research faculty, practitioners, and graduate students, Academics in Action! documents a specific philosophy of education that fosters and supports engagement; the potentially transformative nature of academic work for students, faculty, and the broader society; and some of the implications and challenges of action-oriented efforts in light of dynamics such as income inequality, racism, and global capitalism. This edited volume chronicles teaching, research, and community action that influences both inside and outside the classroom as well as presents dimensions of a participatory model that set such efforts into action.

Action research in education. --- Community and school. --- Dewey, John, --- Inter-disciplinary. --- John Dewey. --- Mixed-Methodological Research. --- Multi-disciplinary. --- Participatory Action Research. --- University-Community Partnerships. --- social justice.

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What are the fundamental issues, processes, agency and dynamics that shape the political economy of life in modern Africa? In this book, the contributors - experts in anthropology, history, political science, economics, conflict and peace studies, philosophy and language - examine the opportunities and constraints placed on living, livelihoods and sustainable life on the continent. Reflecting on why and how the political economy of life approach is essential for understanding the social process in modern Africa, they engage with the intellectual oeuvre of the influential Africanist economic anthropologist Jane Guyer, who provides an Afterword. The contributors analyse the political economy of everyday life as it relates to money and currency; migrant labour forces and informal and formal economies; dispossession of land; debt and indebtedness; socio-economic marginality; and the entrenchment of colonial and apartheid pasts. Wale Adebanwi is the Rhodes Professor of Race Relations at the University of Oxford. He is author of Nation as Grand Narrative: The Nigerian Press and the Politics of Meaning (University of Rochester Press).

Economic development --- Development, Economic --- Economic growth --- Growth, Economic --- Economic policy --- Economics --- Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) --- Development economics --- Resource curse --- Africa --- Economic conditions. --- Politics and government. --- Africa. --- African people. --- Economic Anthropology. --- Everyday Life. --- History. --- Jane Guyer. --- Livelihoods. --- Margins. --- Political Economy. --- Political economy. --- Social Process. --- Society. --- Sustainability. --- Well-being. --- anthropology. --- apartheid legacies. --- apartheid. --- colonial past. --- colonialism. --- conflict and peace studies. --- economics. --- everyday life. --- geography. --- history. --- language. --- modern Africa. --- multi-disciplinary examination. --- philosophy. --- political science. --- race relations. --- socio-economic marginality. --- sustainable life. --- well-being.

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The present book recapitulates the articles published within the Special Issue "Cartilage Repair and Regeneration: Focus on Multi-Disciplinary Strategies", Applied Sciences, MDPI, dealing with the innovative multi-disciplinary therapeutic approaches for musculoskeletal diseases. In particular the published studies space from advanced 3D bioprinting technology to obtain a scaffold with different zonal cell densities, and biphasic scaffold (ChondroMimetic) construction, pass through the comparison of different techniques for cartilage regeneration such as of mosaicplasty and matrix-assisted autologous chondrocyte transplantation (MACT) and histopathological features of osteochondral units, and end with the considerations regarding development of bioreactors able to mimic the biomechanical load on chondrocytes in vitro, giving some interesting insights in this specific scientific field.

mesenchymal stem cells --- tissue engineering --- chondrogenesis --- osteoarthritis --- bioreactor --- mechanical stimuli --- physical stimulation --- compression --- shear stress --- hydrostatic pressure --- osteonecrosis --- osteochondral unit --- tissue remodelling and repair --- multi-targeted approach --- mosaicplasty --- MACT --- ACI --- scaffold --- osteochondral autologous transplantation --- OAT --- cartilage --- knee --- biphasic scaffold --- osteochondral defect --- cartilage repair --- quantitative MRI --- calcium phosphate --- bioprinting --- biofabrication --- articular cartilage --- human chondrocytes --- cell density --- cell gradient --- 3D bioprinting --- ChondroMimetic --- cartilage regeneration --- osteochondral repair --- matrix-assisted autologous chondrocyte transplantation --- magneto-responsive techniques --- biomechanical stimuli --- multi-disciplinary approach

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This discerning book provides a comprehensive analysis of the nationwide randomised Finnish basic income experiment 2017 to 2018, from planning and implementation through to the end results. It presents the background of the social policy system in which the experiment was implemented and details the narratives of the planning process alongside its constraints, as well as a final evaluation of the results.

Basic income. --- Basic income --- Social policy. --- Research --- National planning --- State planning --- Economic policy --- Family policy --- Social history --- Annual income guarantee --- Basic income guarantee --- Guaranteed annual income --- Guaranteed income --- Guaranteed minimum income --- Universal basic income --- Economic security --- Income --- Income maintenance programs --- Basic income experiment --- randomised field experiment --- multi-disciplinary evaluation --- employment effects --- well-being --- health, trust and confidence --- bureaucracy and basic income --- financial stress --- support for basic income --- feasibility of basic income --- Finland. --- Fen-lan --- Fen-lan kung ho kuo --- Finlande --- Finlândia --- Finlandii͡ --- Finli͡andii͡ --- Finnland --- Finnlando --- Finrando --- Republic of Finland --- Republiken Finland --- Souomi --- Suomen tasavalta --- Suomi

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This open access book provides the first systematic overview of existing challenges and opportunities for responsible data linkage, and a cutting-edge assessment of which steps need to be taken to ensure that plant data are ethically shared and used for the benefit of ensuring global food security – one of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. The volume focuses on the contemporary contours of such challenges through sustained engagement with current and historical initiatives and discussion of best practices and prospective future directions for ensuring responsible plant data linkage. The volume is divided into four sections that include case studies of plant data use and linkage in the context of particular research projects, breeding programs, and historical research. It address technical challenges of data linkage in developing key tools, standards and infrastructures, and examines governance challenges of data linkage in relation to socioeconomic and environmental research and data collection. Finally, the last section addresses issues raised by new data production and linkage methods for the inclusion of agriculture’s diverse stakeholders. This book brings together leading experts in data curation, data governance and data studies from a variety of fields, including data science, plant science, agricultural research, science policy, data ethics and the philosophy, history and social studies of plant science.

Science—Philosophy. --- Botany. --- Artificial intelligence—Data processing. --- Philosophy of Science. --- Plant Science. --- Data Science. --- Botanical science --- Floristic botany --- Phytobiology --- Phytography --- Phytology --- Plant biology --- Plant science --- Biology --- Natural history --- Plants --- plant sciences and data linkage --- Technical Challenges of Data Linkage --- Governance Challenges of Data Linkage --- Subsistence and Agronomy: Carl Linnaeus --- Managing Data in Crop Breeding --- Data, Duplication, and the Decentralisation of Crop Collections --- Data Management multi-Disciplinary African RTB Crop Breeding --- Potential of Long-Term Agricultural Experiments --- Trials of Linking and Sharing Wheat Research Data --- Plant Scientific Data Integration --- Building Community Standards plant scientific data integration --- Consistent Data Lifecycle plant sciences --- COVID-19 Open Research Dataset --- agriculture data sciences --- Digital Marketplace for Agrobiodiversity --- Plant Genetic Sequence Data --- Digital Sequence Genetic Resources plant sciences --- plant sciences data policy --- Crop Diversity Management data sharing