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Heiney, Sue P., Linda J. Hazlett, Sally P. Weinrich, Linda M. Wells, Swann Arp Adams, Sandra Millon Underwood, and Rudolph S. Parrish. "Antecedents and Mediators of Community Connection in African American Women With Breast Cancer." Research and Theory for Nursing Practice 25, no. 4 (2011): 252–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/1541-6577.25.4.252.

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Objective: To describe the theory of community connection defined as close relationships with women and men who are members of a neighborhood, a church, a work group, or an organization. Antecedent and mediator variables related to community connection are identified. Design/methods: A cross-sectional design was used to assess for relationships among theorized antecedents and mediators of community connection in a sample of 144 African American women aged 21 years and older (mean = 54.9) who had been diagnosed with invasive/infiltrating ductal carcinoma. Measurement and Analyses: Community connection was measured with the relational health indices-community subscale. Mediator analysis was conducted to assess significance of the indirect effects of the mediator variables, which were fear, breast cancer knowledge, and isolation. Results: Community connection was found to be associated with three of the four antecedents, cancer stigma, stress, and spirituality, but not associated with fatalism. Effects were mediated primarily through fear and isolation with isolation as was more dominant of the two mediators. Surprisingly, breast cancer knowledge showed no significant mediator role. Conclusions: The importance of isolation and fear as mediators of community connection is highlighted by this research. The study could serve as a model for other researchers seeking to understand connection in ethnic groups and communities.
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Pokorn, Nike K., and Tamara Mikolič Južnič. "Community interpreters versus intercultural mediators." Ethics of Non-Professional Translation and Interpreting 15, no. 1 (May 11, 2020): 80–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/tis.20027.koc.

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Abstract This article compares the professional profile of community interpreters to that of a particular group of intercultural mediators who work as non-professional, untrained interpreters, mainly in healthcare settings. Through a textual comparison of 13 deontological documents for community interpreters and intercultural mediators, this article investigates differences in the ethical positioning of these two profiles. The results show that while the codes of ethics of community interpreters tend to emphasize impartiality, the documents defining the emerging profile of intercultural mediators position advocacy more prominently. Beyond the differences in ethical positioning, the article also considers other reasons for the formation of this new profile and outlines several challenges related to the partial overlap between the two profiles, which include distorted definitions of the interpreter’s competences and performance, conceptual confusion in the research literature, and mismatched expectations of language services consumers.
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Mahrus, Ahmad Falih. "Kekuatan Hukum Penyelesaian Sengketa Waris Melalui Mediator Tokoh Masyarakat di Desa Wonosalam Kecamatan Wonosalam Kabupaten Demak." AL-HUKAMA' 9, no. 1 (June 3, 2019): 47–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.15642/alhukama.2019.9.1.47-75.

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This article is a field research to answer the role of community leaders as mediators in the settlement of inheritance disputes in Wonosalam, Demak and how the legal power of resolving inheritance disputes through mediator community leaders in Wonosalam, Demak. Research data are collected through interviews and observations, then are analyzed with descriptive analytical techniques with inductive thought pattern. Wonosalam community leaders have an important role in the settlement of inheritance disputes, namely as a mediator, including: opening and leading the mediation process, explaining and determining the heirs' parts, providing the best advice and solutions, deciding and determining what has been agreed by the parties to the dispute, preventing the emergence of even bigger disputes, and still maintaining harmony and harmony in social life. The results of the settlement of inheritance disputes through mediators of community leaders in Wonosalam do not have an enforceable legal force, because they are not confirmed by making a peace certificate or a peace agreement letter, which is contained in: article 27 of the Supreme Court Regulation No. 1 of 2016 concerning Mediation Procedures and article 1851 Civil Code. Nevertheless, the determination of community leaders as mediators in the settlement of inheritance disputes is obeyed and implemented by the people of Wonosalam.
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Guo, Weiting. "Living with Disputes: Zhang Gang Diary (1888–1942) and the Life of a Community Mediator in Late Qing and Republican China." Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 24, no. 2 (May 15, 2014): 218–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1025079ar.

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Using a newly available personal journal, Zhang Gang Diary (1888–1942), this study explores an understudied area of Chinese legal history: the everyday practice of community mediators in the late Qing and Republican eras. The records of the Zhang Gang Diary reveal how social, political, and judicial transformations impacted the practice of local mediation during a period of significant political and cultural change. The community mediator of this generation had increasingly limited room for mediation. However, as the diary reveals, community mediators also swiftly adapted to the new changes. Through a close reading of the life history of one village mediator, this paper examines a relatively low-status gentleman’s strategy for survival and how he responded to the grand societal and political transformations of late Qing and Republican China.
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Szejda, Keri, and Amy S. Ebesu Hubbard. "Neutrality and satisfaction in the mediation session: party and mediator perspectives." International Journal of Conflict Management 30, no. 3 (June 10, 2019): 329–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijcma-04-2018-0054.

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Purpose This study aims to investigate the relationship between perceptions of mediators acting symmetrically (treating parties equally) and transparently (providing an explanation of past or future behavior) with parties’ assessments of the neutrality of their mediator and satisfaction with the mediation process. Design/methodology/approach This mixed-method study surveyed parties and mediators from 35 naturally occurring mediation sessions at community mediation centers about their perceptions of neutrality, symmetry, transparency and satisfaction. Findings The results showed that parties overwhelmingly assessed their mediators as acting neutrally. Compared to parties’ assessments of mediator neutrality, mediators rated their own neutrality even higher. Symmetry and transparency were both positively correlated with parties’ assessment of mediator neutrality and also emerged as qualitative themes. Speaking order and talk time did not significantly correlate with perception of symmetry. Overall, symmetry appeared to be a more salient factor in parties’ assessment of mediator neutrality than transparency. Both neutrality and symmetry were positively correlated with party satisfaction with the mediation process, but transparency was not. Research limitations/implications The present study provides a foundation for future research in understanding neutrality from both parties and mediators’ perspectives. The primary limitation was a small sample size and possible selection bias in achieving the sample. Practical implications The study found that symmetry and transparency are useful strategies for managing party perceptions of mediator neutrality and party satisfaction with the mediation process. Originality/value This study is one of only a few empirical research studies that investigated the parties’ perspective of mediator neutrality. The study provides a foundation for future research in understanding neutrality from both parties and mediators’ perspectives.
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Ahmad, Sa'odah, Rojanah Kahar, and Muslihah Hasbullah. "Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Community Mediators in Malaysia." Kajian Malaysia 40, no. 2 (October 31, 2022): 45–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.21315/km2022.40.2.3.

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Family and neighbourhood issues are distinctly sensitive and emotional. They might also not be suitable to be settled using the existing courtroom device in the form of adjudication. It has been acknowledged that procedures in court have failed to address the emotional state of the disputants. The alternative way to resolve the dispute is by using mediation. A study was conducted among 217 community mediators selected to determine their knowledge, attitude and practice of community mediation. A self-administered questionnaire was used to gather the research data. The results revealed that the majority of the respondents (97.7%, n = 212) know that mediation is used to resolve community disputes. All respondents agreed that mediation helps in alleviating disputes in the community. The majority of the respondents (92.2%, n = 200) agreed that mediation is an important source of information and help for the community. The majority of the respondents (99.5%, n = 216) agreed that cooperation between mediators and members of the community is very important in reducing domestic disputes and gaps in the community. The study also found that a little over half of the respondents have a low attitude (51.2%, n = 111) on community mediation. Furthermore, listening to both disputants was the most (87.1%, n = 189) practiced technique used by the respondents in dispute resolution. The study concluded that the respondents have good knowledge of community mediation, a low regard for community mediation, and practise various techniques in resolving the disputes. Most of the respondents have fewer than 10 years of experience as a community mediator. Thus, it is understandable why they do not yet have a high attitude towards community mediation.
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Busroh, Firman Freaddy. "PERANAN TOKOH ADAT SEBAGAI MEDIATOR SOSIAL DALAM MENYELESAIKAN KONFLIK AGRARIA YANG MELIBATKAN MASYARAKAT ADAT MULTIKULTURAL DI INDONESIA (PERSPEKTIF KAJIAN SOCIO LEGAL RESEARCH)." Jurnal Hukum Mimbar Justitia 3, no. 1 (October 4, 2017): 97. http://dx.doi.org/10.35194/jhmj.v3i1.12.

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ABSTRACTIndonesia is a nation with many islands that consists of traditional society inside. Thattraditional community has a traditional leader who is respected and obeyed to solve theproblem. Customary figures can act as social mediators in solving the problems.Problem solving through social mediation could be more effective and efficient,especially in multicultural societies like Indonesia. Empowering customary law, it canhelp the government in resolving agrarian conflicts.Keywords: Multicultural; Adat leaders; Social Mediator; Community CustomaryLaw; Alternative Dispute Resolution.
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Fritz, Jan Marie. "Increasing the Number of Women Mediators in Peacemaking Initiatives." International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy 9, no. 1 (February 25, 2020): 68–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.v9i1.1466.

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Mediation refers to one or more individuals facilitating a negotiation among disputants to help them try to resolve, to their satisfaction, an issue or issues of concern. There is increasing interest in using mediation in a wide variety of circumstances (e.g., divorce, child custody, family disagreements, small claims issues, business matters, community problems, environmental issues and intrastate violent conflicts). Although professional women mediators in many countries are often involved in certain kinds of mediations as mediators or as members of mediation teams, this is not always the case. Examined here is the fact that few women mediators are involved as lead mediators or members of mediation teams in conflict zones - areas that are often large, involve complex issues and have been, or continue to be, violent. This article first discusses the concepts of inclusive peacebuilding and inclusive peacemaking. This is followed by a short discussion about mediation, and then further information is provided about women mediators. Finally, suggestions are made to increase the number of women mediators in complex, large-scale conflicts.
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Immmanuel, Limrogate, Taufik Siregar, and M. Citra Ramadhan. "Peran Mediator Dinas Tenaga Kerja Kota Medan dalam Memberikan Perlindungan Hukum Akibat Pemutusan Hubungan Kerja." Journal of Education, Humaniora and Social Sciences (JEHSS) 4, no. 1 (June 24, 2021): 470–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.34007/jehss.v4i1.677.

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The purpose of this research is to study and analyze the legal arrangements of Industrial Relations Mediators in solving layoffs, the role of the Medan City Disnaker Mediator in providing legal protection for workers' rights due to layoffs and the obstacles faced by the Medan City Manpower Office in providing legal protection for their rights. workers due to layoffs. Research on the role of the Medan City Manpower Office Mediator in providing legal protection due to layoffs is a normative juridical research. Normative legal research aims to examine library legal materials. The results show that the existence of legal arrangements regarding industrial relations mediators which are regulated in the Minister of Manpower Regulation Number 17 of 2014 concerning the Appointment and Dismissal of Industrial Relations Mediators as well as Mediation Work Procedures and Regulation of the Minister for Empowerment of State Apparatus Number 06 of 2009. In the role and process of enforcement the law enforced by the Medan City Manpower and Transmigration Mediators for workers / laborers who have been laid off is influenced by aspects that affect law enforcement, consisting of: legal substance aspects (laws), law enforcement aspects, facilities and infrastructure aspects, community aspects, aspects culture. The obstacles faced by the Mediator of the Medan City Manpower Office for workers or laborers who were laid off can be seen from the aspects that affect law enforcement.
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Romanadze, Luiza. "MEDIATION IN POST-WAR RESTORATION IN UKRAINE." Access to Justice in Eastern Europe 5, no. 4-2 (December 13, 2022): 202–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.33327/ajee-18-5.4-n000432.

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Background: This article addresses the challenges of developing mediation in Ukraine, the lack of effective coordination between courts and mediators, and issues of low awareness in Ukrainian society about mediation. It is argued that Ukrainian courts and mediation in Ukraine are going concurrent ways so that mediation is not integrated into or reinforcing the court-based litigation system. Meanwhile, the national mediation community must mature through the organization of high-quality interaction with the judicial system. Moreover, the war and post-war period will cause a new workload of civil and commercial disputes that are generally suitable for mediation, especially when the disputants residing in different regions after fleeing from war. This article is aimed at finding sustainable and fast solutions for raising awareness of mediation in Ukrainian society and effective coordination between courts and mediators based on the progress already achieved. Methodology: This article used doctrinal legal research to evaluate the options of cooperation between courts and mediation, empirical analysis to examine judicial system performance and the mediation community status quo, analyse options for closer cooperation of courts and mediators, and find sustainable solutions for promoting mediation. Results and Conclusions: Courts and the mediation community must work together to break the general reliance on traditional litigation; courts should actively promote mediation through sustainable means, and the mediation community should improve the quality control of mediation services, develop a complaint-handling procedure, and further progress with online platforms for choosing a mediator.
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Cattell, Victoria R. "Poverty, community and health : social networks as mediators between poverty and well-being." Thesis, Middlesex University, 1997. http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/9776/.

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This thesis argues that social networks are key mediators between the harsh circumstances of people's lives and their lived experience and perceptions of health and well being. The thesis offers a critical review of the literature on health inequalities and social networks and health and from this identifies key concepts which serve as analytical/heuristic tools in approaching a study of the dynamics between poverty, community and health in the Lea Valley area of London. The complexities of the relationship between these various aspects of life are currently under researched in the literature. Both quantitative and qualitative methods are utilised. A statistical overview of the Lea Valley was undertaken and confirmed relationships between lower social class, poverty and deprivation (on a comprehensive range of measures) and poor health for the region. The evidence is considered in relation to current conceptual approaches to poverty. Two deprived areas are chosen as exemplary case studies and through detailed analysis of interview data the relationship between neighbourhood, social networks and the experience of health and well being is illustrated. Different social network formations were found to mediate poverty and health in different ways. Local patterns of social networks were influenced by local structural and historical features, by facilities and opportunities, including opportunities for positive neighbouring, for forming friendship networks, and for participation in local life as well as for casual interaction. Individuals' social networks were influenced by characteristics of their neighbourhood, by their perceptions of their community as well as by their experience of work, their values, and attitudes to others. It is suggested that the range of membership groups in an individual's network has implications for the mechanisms involved in the relationship between networks and health. Health promoting functions of networks and health protecting or damaging attributes and attitudes were found to be closely related to the type of network identified. Different network models also helped people to cope with poverty and life’s problems in different ways. It is concluded that social networks, attitudes and values, coping resources and health and well being are closely linked. A conception of social cohesion at the neighbourhood level is offered, based on interaction, strong community perceptions, solidarity, trust, inclusion and tolerance, with adequate distribution of resources and availability of work as preconditions.
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Douglass, James G. "Community dynamics in submersed aquatic vegetation: Intermediate consumers as mediators of environmental change." W&M ScholarWorks, 2008. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539616634.

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Natural ecosystems are strongly affected by changes in resource supply (bottom-up forces) and by changes in upper trophic levels (top-down forces). The extent to which these processes impact a system depends largely on the responses of organisms at middle trophic levels. In seagrass beds, a group of mid-level consumers known as mesograzers form a critical link in the chain of impact, connecting seagrass and epiphytic algae with predatory fishes and crustaceans. I observed dramatic seasonal and interannual changes in mesograzer abundance and species composition in eelgrass (Zostera marina) beds of lower Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, and endeavored to explain the top-down and bottom-up causes and consequences of those changes with field studies and controlled experiments. A field cage experiment showed that grazing, predation and nutrient enrichment all had strong effects on the eelgrass community, but that the effects of each factor varied for different community components (Chapter 1). A second experiment delved deeper into the predation dynamic by manipulating the diversity of both predators and mesograzers in macroalgal mesocosms. Increasing predator diversity increased the strength of predation, but increasing mesograzer diversity conferred resistance to some types of predation (Chapter 2). to assess the influence of top-down and bottom-up forces in a more natural context, I analyzed the long-term changes in biotic and abiotic components of an eelgrass bed at the Goodwin Islands National Estuarine Research Reserve. I found that abiotic processes had strong effects on both consumer and resource abundance, and could therefore initiate either top-down or bottom-up control of eelgrass community structure (Chapter 3). to examine this top-down and bottom-up control in more detail I explicitly compared the ecological relationships seen in the field to those observed in mesocosm experiments. Mesocosm experiments tended to find a greater influence of top-down effects and a lesser influence of bottom-up effects, relative to field observations (Chapter 4). Finally, I took a snapshot of the eelgrass food web itself by examining the gut contents and stable carbon and nitrogen isotopic ratios of predators, mesograzers, and plants. I found that direct grazing on eelgrass does occur, but that microalgae and detritus provide the main trophic support for the epifaunal community (Chapter 5). Overall, my results suggest that both top-down and bottom-up forces control eelgrass community structure via mesograzers, but that top-down control in the field is more subtle and more intimately tied with bottom-up control than has been indicated by some manipulative experiments.
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Slominski, Emily Ann. "Perspectives of Case Managers in Community-Based Elder Care: Work Roles, Stresses, Mediators, and Rewards." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1218046656.

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Sybesma, Cheryl K. "Social Cognitive Mediators and Moderators of the Relation Between Experiences of Community Violence and Adolescent Outcomes." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1214446801.

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Solomon, Monica D'adrianne. "Religiosity, Spirituality, and Depressive Symptoms in Older Adults in an Active Living Community." Scholar Commons, 2014. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5129.

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The population of older adults in the United States is steadily rising. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently released a call to reduce mental distress in older adults. Research shows that mental distress is associated with depressive symptoms, which are significantly related to many chronic medical conditions, functional impairment, suicide, and all-cause mortality. Depression is a major public health concern. There is an interest in gerontology research on the buffering role of engagement against depressive symptoms such as volunteering, social activities, and religion. Certain religious beliefs and behaviors contribute to maintaining or improving mental health and research suggests that religiosity may act as a buffer against depressive symptoms. As the population of older adults exponentially increases, there is a need for theory guided research that examines the relationship between religiosity and depressive symptoms and mediators as possible mechanisms. This study addresses two important gaps in the literature on depressive symptoms within the religious gerontology field: the relationships of a wider range of religious variables with depressive symptoms, and examining health behaviors and social support as mediators. Data were collected from the University of South Florida (USF) Health in The Villages study, a population-based study of older adults residing in an active living community in southwest central Florida. Binary logistic regression analyses were conducted that examined multiple measures of religiosity (organizational religiosity, subjective religiosity, and subjective spirituality) and covariates as predictors of depressive symptoms as defined by the Patient Health Questionaire-2 (PHQ-2). The PHQ-2 is a validated 2-item screener tool for measuring depressive symptoms. A series of mediation analyses were conducted to test for possible mediation of religiosity and depressive symptoms. Proposed mediators included in the mediation analyses were: health behaviors (tobacco use, alcohol use, vegetable/fruit consumption, dietary habits, and medication adherence) and social support (emotional support and availability of a caretaker). Organizational religiosity was significantly associated with depressive symptoms. However, subjective religiosity and subjective spirituality were not significantly associated with depressive symptoms. Health behaviors and social support did not mediate the relationship of organizational religiosity and depressive symptoms. Findings suggest that increased religious/church service attendance is associated with fewer depressive symptoms. Social support and health behaviors did not mediate the relationship between religious/church service attendance and depressive symptoms. Future research studies should explore other theory-guided constructs as possible mediators of religiosity and depressive symptoms. Additionally, contrasting findings between the relationship of depressive symptoms and subjective measures of religiosity versus organizational religiosity, suggests the continued use of multidimensional measures of religiosity within research. Future research should examine specific aspects of religious service attendance and in relation to depressive symptoms. Furthermore, 41% of participants who attended a religious/church service weekly or more reported depressive symptoms, thus based on their choice to regularly engage in religious activities, they are likely to be receptive to participating in faith-based approaches to address depressive symptoms. Therefore, for communities and individuals who are open to faith-based approaches, findings support the use of spiritually modified depression therapies at the individual level. Also, behavioral health prevention initiatives are recommended at the organizational level such as hosting depression screenings at faith-based health fairs. As the population of older adults continues to rise public health and behavioral health professionals should explore opportunities for collaboration with faith-based communities.
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Cribeiro, Marisol. "The Efficacy of San Lazaro and His Manifestations: Divine Mediators of Health Within Miami's Cuban-American Santeria Community." FIU Digital Commons, 2014. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1641.

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This study explored the origins, evolution and influence of the tradition of San Lázaro as it currently pertains to the Cuban-American Santeria community in Miami. The main argument of the study is that in the context of the contemporary religious culture of Santeria in Miami, San Lázaro is a hybrid spirit. Many manifestations of healing entities have come to merge in the person of this spirit. Though practitioners identify with specific manifestations of this spirit, the processes of transmigration have blurred the lines of deep-rooted faiths and created a fusion of meanings from disparate traditions, making San Lázaro an ambivalent personality. San Lázaro’s ambivalence is the very quality that makes him such an important Orisha. As a deity whose personalities demonstrates the combination of a diversity of qualities, including those that contradict each other, San Lázaro is deployed in a very broad range of healing context, making him a versatile Orisha. This study clarified the contrasting qualities this deity embodies and traces the socio-historical context in which the deity acquires the layers of meanings it is currently associated with. Drawing on interviews with Lázaranian worshipers [Lázarenos] in Miami and engaging in Bourdieu’s concept of Habitus, the study provided a window into the nature of the tradition of San Lázaro and how its usage is linked with the African heritage of the worshipers.
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Hellenthal, Rebecca L. "Utilizing an Empirically-Supported Parenting Intervention in Rural Community Settings: an Investigation of Effectiveness, Mediators of Change, and Dropout." Ohio : Ohio University, 2009. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1258073725.

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Contreras, Ricardo B. "Promotoras of the U.S.-Mexico border an ethnographic study of culture brokerage, agency, and community development /." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2005. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0001032.

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Wilks, Chrisanne. "Factors Associated with Client Satisfaction at Community-based Mental Health Agencies in Ohio." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1448966548.

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Sophocleous, Christala. "Mediations and manipulations : everyday community partnership making in South Wales." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2014. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/64376/.

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This ethnographic research within the community of Hendinas in South Wales is set at the intersection of debates about governance and the place of ‘community’ within public policy. Taking the Welsh Governments’ Community First Programme as its starting point, it explores how community based practices that have ‘something to do’ (Law 2003) with partnership, come to constitute institutionalised ‘community-led partnerships’. Grounded in empirical ethnographic and interview data, the core research question of ‘how is partnership made in and through everyday lives?’ is addressed through the development and exploration of the ‘institutional life of a community’. Distinguishing between community as a place of affective ties and one in which action is directed at the collective projects of ‘making things better’. Drawing from over a year of fieldwork the thesis develops an empirically grounded critical interpretive policy analysis which engages directly with local people, staff and practices to explore how they use their agency and that ascribed to them by the Communities First policy as productive agents (NAfW 2001a; WAG2007a). Developed from the work of Foucault (1991a [1978]) much policy literature has highlighted the self-responsibilisation risks of government programmes. This research finds that while these risks exist, there is also a counter trend grounded in the broader ‘institutional life of communities’, in which critical self-responsibilisation also develops. The research explores the parameters of local understandings of ‘successful’ policy implementation by considering an instance of its ‘failure’ which brings into view two different models of partnership. The first, ‘partnership for action’ requires formal participation in a ‘partnership’ as a precondition of action, in contrast to ‘partnership as action’, in which partnership emerges from action between two or more agencies. Exploring policy implications and extrapolating from research findings, the thesis highlights tensions between the local advancement of communities which indicate that despite seeking to enhance social justice, the Communities First policy may perversely exasperate tensions and schisms between disadvantaged communities.
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Books on the topic "Community mediators"

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1939-, Evans Alice F., and Evans Robert A. 1937-, eds. Peace skills: A manual for community mediators. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2001.

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Kraybill, Ronald S. Peace skills: A manual for community mediators. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2001.

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Susan, Raines, ed. Expert mediators: Overcoming mediation challenges in workplace, family, and community conflicts. Lanham: Jason Aronson, 2013.

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Cabannes, Yves, Mike Douglass, and Rita Padawangi, eds. Cities in Asia by and for the People. NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462985223.

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This book examines the active role of urban citizens in constructing alternative urban spaces as tangible resistance towards capitalist production of urban spaces that continue to encroach various neighborhoods, lanes, commons, public land and other spaces of community life and livelihoods. The collection of narratives presented here brings together research from ten different Asian cities and re-theorises the city from the perspective of ordinary people facing moments of crisis, contestations, and cooperative quests to create alternative spaces to those being produced under prevailing urban processes. The chapters accent the exercise of human agency through daily practices in the production of urban space and the intention is not one of creating a romantic or utopian vision of what a city "by and for the people" ought to be. Rather, it is to place people in the centre as mediators of city-making with discontents about current conditions and desires for a better life.
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1905-, Campbell Roald Fay, ed. The Organization and control of American schools. 5th ed. Columbus: C.E. Merrill Pub. Co., 1985.

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Kraybill, Ronald S., Robert A. Evans, and Alice Frazer Evans. Peace Skills: Manual for Community Mediators. Jossey-Bass, 2001.

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Raines, Susan S., and Jean Poitras. Expert Mediators: Overcoming Mediation Challenges in Workplace, Family, and Community Conflicts. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, 2014.

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Poitras, Jean, and Susan Raines. Expert Mediators: Overcoming Mediation Challenges in Workplace, Family, and Community Conflicts. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, 2012.

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Poblete, JoAnna. Limited Leadership. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252038297.003.0007.

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This chapter examines the roles played by Puerto Rican labor agents such as Florentin Souza and Alberto E. Minvielle in Hawaiʻi's sugar plantations during the first half of the twentieth century. Like Filipinos, Puerto Ricans also relied on local leaders to translate and convey their issues to plantation managers. Since few Puerto Rican laborers at the Olaʻa plantation understood English, both workers and plantation leaders looked to independent labor mediators to bridge the language barrier between Anglo-American leadership and intra-colonials. This chapter first discusses the roles of the two types of Puerto Rican middlemen in Hawaiʻi, sporadic community ethnic mediators and self-initiated labor agents, before considering how they became important advocates and mediators for intra-colonials and sugar plantation management.
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Cybercultures: Mediations of Community, Culture, Politics. BRILL, 2012.

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Book chapters on the topic "Community mediators"

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Heller, Kenneth. "Community and Organizational Mediators of Social Change." In Encyclopedia of Primary Prevention and Health Promotion, 294–302. Boston, MA: Springer US, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5999-6_83.

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Dearing, Eric, Erin Sibley, and Hoa Nha Nguyen. "Achievement Mediators of Family Engagement in Children’s Education: A Family–School–Community Systems Model." In Processes and Pathways of Family-School Partnerships Across Development, 17–39. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16931-6_2.

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Pool, Jonathan. "4. Translators in a global community." In The Translator as Mediator of Cultures, 73–86. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/wlp.3.07poo.

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Rudvin, Mette, and Elena Tomassini. "13. Migration, ideology and the interpreter-mediator: The role of the language mediator in education and medical settings in Italy." In Crossing Borders in Community Interpreting, 245–66. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/btl.76.13rud.

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Doyle, Ian W. "Community Archaeology in Ireland: Less Mitigator, More Mediator?" In SpringerBriefs in Archaeology, 45–59. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68652-3_4.

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Alfaro, Jaime, Javier Guzmán, David Sirlopú, Denise Oyarzún, Fernando Reyes, Mariavictoria Benavente, Jorge Varela, and José María Fernández de Rota. "Sense of Community Mediates the Relationship Between Social and Community Variables on Adolescent Life Satisfaction." In Community Quality-of-Life and Well-Being, 185–204. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53183-0_10.

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Poli, Daniela. "Massimo Quaini, la passione per la cartografia storica con uno sguardo rivolto al futuro." In Il pensiero critico fra geografia e scienza del territorio, 187–204. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-5518-322-2.14.

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The essay traces back the scientific dialogue between the author and Massimo Quaini about the contemporary usefulness of the geographer-cartographer figure, perfected during the period of the great absolute monarchies. In this path, which ranges among memories, literature, poetry, the story of the elaboration of the Charter celebrating the historical-morphological identity of the Levanto territory drawn up during the elaboration of the Levanto PUC finds space. In the text, Quaini’s fundamental contribution emerges in highlighting the historical cartographer as a mediator of knowledge, an aspect that is necessary today to recover in order to create an urban planning account capable of putting at the centre of the project the place, in its various expressive forms, and the settled community.
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Hadi, Faizal Susilo, Sri Wartini, and M. E. Lanny Kusuma Widjaja. "Green Organizational Culture as Mediator of the Effect of Knowledge Creation on Green Performance." In Proceedings of the 19th International Symposium on Management (INSYMA 2022), 239–46. Dordrecht: Atlantis Press International BV, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-008-4_32.

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AbstractLimited resources and environmental degradation encourage green economy practices. Green performance can not only be assessed from the production results in the form of products or services in one production chain, but it is a production process in a sustainable cycle or known as a circular economy. Green performance at tertiary institutions can be achieved through an organizational culture system approach integrated between values, habitual behavior, curriculum, teaching and learning activities, research, community service, slogans, and artifacts (physical and visual). University also needs to develop organizational learning by acquiring and creating new knowledge to achieve opportunities and be adaptive and innovative toward ever-evolving green knowledge. This study aims to discuss the relationship between knowledge creation, green organizational culture, and green performance. The study was conducted on 211 university managerial staff in Semarang, Indonesia. The analysis was conducted using the path analysis approach. This study shows that knowledge creation and green organizational culture influence green performance. Green organizational culture mediates the effect of knowledge creation on green performance. This study provides implications of the importance of knowledge-based strategies and organizational culture development in the development of green performance.
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Ziozas, Nikolaos, and Theocharis Tsoutsos. "Clean Energy Transition in Southeast Europe: The Paradigm of Greece from a Fossil Fuel Mediator to a Community Energy Hub." In Renewable Energy Communities and the Low Carbon Energy Transition in Europe, 75–95. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84440-0_4.

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Ylimaki, Rose M., and Lynnette A. Brunderman. "A New Approach to School Development." In Evidence-Based School Development in Changing Demographic Contexts, 23–39. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76837-9_2.

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AbstractIn this chapter, we further explore and contextualize school development amidst the tensions between contemporary policies and the educational needs of students. We conceptualize school development as a process that mediates among tensions that result in a Zone of Uncertainty. We then describe our application of school development in the Arizona Initiative for Leadership Development and Research (AZiLDR). Content was initially drawn from findings from the International Successful School Principalship Project (ISSPP) exploring leadership in high-needs, culturally diverse schools and related leadership studies. Our approach differs from other school development models in at least four ways. First, the approach is grounded in education theory as explicated by John Dewey and others. Closely related, our approach attempts to balance evidence-based values with humanistic values. Third, our approach is grounded in our empirical research and related studies of leadership in culturally diverse schools and communities. Fourth, our approach is process oriented and contextually sensitive for schools as they are situated in the larger community and serving culturally diverse populations. Finally, we develop leadership through a collaborative approach in that we work with school teams as a unit.
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Conference papers on the topic "Community mediators"

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"VIRTUAL BRAND COMMUNITY INFLUENCE ON BRAND LOYALTY: CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIPS AND TRUST MEDIATORS." In International Conferences on ICT, Society and Human Beings (ICT 2020), Connected Smart Cities (CSC 2020) and Web Based Communities and Social Media (WBC 2020). IADIS Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.33965/ict_csc_wbc_2020_202008l018.

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Shu, Daniel H., Joan T. Merrill, and Philip L. Cohen. "104 SLE autoantibodies to casein kinase II: potential mediators of immunopathology." In LUPUS 21ST CENTURY 2022 CONFERENCE, Abstracts of Sixth Scientific Meeting of North American and European Lupus Community, Tucson, AZ, USA – September 20–23, 2022. Lupus Foundation of America, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/lupus-2022-lupus21century.4.

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Muh. Asriadi, A. M., Sulaiman Helmi, G. K. Kassymova, H. Retnawati, Samsul Hadi, and Edi Istiyono. "Effect of Job Satisfaction on Service Quality mediated by Lecturer Performance at State Universities." In Challenges of Science. Institute of Metallurgy and Ore Beneficiation, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.31643/2022.08.

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Job satisfaction achieved by lecturers can affect all aspects of productivity, from performance to the quality of services provided in the academic community. This study focuses on analyzing the effect of job satisfaction on service quality with the performance of lecturers as mediators. This study uses an explanatory research method involving 140 respondents from lecturers who teach at state universities. Respondents were chosen by the simple random technique to fill in the questionnaire instrument with the same. The data analysis technique used was Structural equation modeling-partial least squares (SEM-PLS) with the help of Smart PLS 3. The results showed that job satisfaction had a significant direct effect on lecturer performance. However, it does not have a significant direct effect on the quality of lecturer services. On the other hand, the performance of lecturers has a significant direct effect on the quality of lecturer services. In addition, the performance of lecturers also acts as a full mediator so that job satisfaction can affect the quality of lecturer services. The structural model formed also fits the empirical data so that this research can be used as a reference to improve the quality of lecturer services in state universities.
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Grunig, G., N. Durmus, K. Doo, Y. Zhang, Y. Shao, M. Cotrina, and J. Reibman. "Circulating Mediators of Tissue Remodeling in World Trade Center (WTC) Exposure Community Members with Uncontrolled Lower Respiratory Symptoms." In American Thoracic Society 2019 International Conference, May 17-22, 2019 - Dallas, TX. American Thoracic Society, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1164/ajrccm-conference.2019.199.1_meetingabstracts.a2498.

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Sabelli, Martha. "Old women and tablets: information behaviour in unfavourable contexts and social mediators." In ISIC: the Information Behaviour Conference. University of Borås, Borås, Sweden, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.47989/irisic2007.

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Introduction. In Uruguay, the Ibirapitá Plan provides a tablet for every low-income retired woman. That motivated the research of old women’s information behaviour related to access and use of inclusive information for overcoming their disinformation. This work has the following purposes: (i) contributing to research focused on knowing and interpreting the role of social mediators and old women in the processes of access, search and appropriation of information using the Plan’s tablets; (ii) investigating users' needs of local information; and, (iii) offering such information in a participatory design of a digital solution for tablets by an interdisciplinary team. Methods. A mix of methods was applied using a questionnaire and mainly qualitative methods: in-depth interviews with qualified informants and trainers, observation of tablet-distribution workshops, focus groups and validation workshops of the digital solution designed for tablets applied in two capital cities and two small towns with the collaboration of community organisations. Analysis of the results.The analysis of the results is presented according to five dimensions of analysis and the questions that the research seeks to respond to. Discussion and conclusion. The affirmations and experiences raised regarding the technological device open a wide range of challenges to overcome and learning opportunities both for tablet users and for the production, content management and future designs of search interfaces.
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Giofre', Francesca, and Mario Raúl Ramírez de León. "Outside the classroom: the participatory design workshop on Healthy City, Mixco, Guatemala." In Fourth International Conference on Higher Education Advances. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica València, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/head18.2018.7949.

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The paper describes an innovative teaching experience held at the Faculty of Architecture the University of San Carlos of Guatemala as part of the Professional Practice Program (EPS). 20 students and 9 professors, coordinated by 4 professors, carried out a workshop on the theme of Healthy City (HC) in the Municipality of Mixco, with the support of the same. Through active learning, a ‘deprivatization’ of the teaching activity and a participatory confrontation activity through interviews and questionnaires with citizens and stakeholders, the students and professors worked in 4 groups for seven days creating a community of practice. The results took the form of project proposals aimed at urban regeneration, in accordance with the principles of the HC, presented to the local community and to the Municipality of Mixco. The experience can be repeated in its methodology and has been positively evaluated by all the participants in terms of: acquisition of competences for dialogue with citizens and stakeholders for the identification of needs, increase in design skills and group work, as well as real service in the territory. The future urban planners and architects have also played a new role as mediators of participatory processes and facilitators.
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Choi, May Y., Nancy R. Cook, Emma Stevens, Jack Ellrodt, Natalya Gomelskaya, Gregory Kotler, JoAnn E. Manson, et al. "1102 Fish oil supplementation and pro-inflammatory and pro-resolving lipid mediators in patients with and without systemic lupus erythematosus." In LUPUS 21ST CENTURY 2021 CONFERENCE, Abstracts of the Fifth Biannual Scientific Meeting of the North and South American and Caribbean Lupus Community, Tucson, Arizona, USA – September 22–25, 2021. Lupus Foundation of America, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/lupus-2021-lupus21century.45.

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Maxwell, Annette E., Roshan Bastani, Catherine M. Crespi, and Leda L. Danao. "Abstract B99: A community-based randomized trial to increase colorectal cancer screening: Approaches to assessing intervention effectiveness, subgroup analyses and behavioral mediators of screening." In Abstracts: AACR International Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities‐‐ Sep 30-Oct 3, 2010; Miami, FL. American Association for Cancer Research, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1158/1055-9965.disp-10-b99.

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Petrova, Daniela. "LEGAL REGULATION OF THE HEALTH MEDIATOR AND ITS IMPACT ON THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL CAPITAL." In THE MEDIATION IN THE DIFFERENT PUBLIC SPHERES 2021. University publishing house "Science and Economics", University of Economics - Varna, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.36997/mdps2021.22.

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The activity of the health mediator has a sustainable impact on people's lives, both in the smaller community groups and on the overall educational, health and economic growth of the society. During the Kovid 19 pandemic, the practice of the profession of health mediator is of utmost importance and significance, with a view to informing and preventing health. The author of this article presents the legal framework of the health mediator in the national and European legislation. The aim of the author is to present the legal and professional requirements for the health mediator. The health mediator is already an established and legally regulated profession, which operates in the individual municipalities in the Republic of Bulgaria.
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Petrova, Daniela. "LEGAL REGULATION OF THE HEALTH MEDIATOR AND ITS IMPACT ON THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL CAPITAL." In THE MEDIATION IN THE DIFFERENT PUBLIC SPHERES 2021. University publishing house "Science and Economics", University of Economics - Varna, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.36997/mdps2021.243.

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The activity of the health mediator has a sustainable impact on people's lives, both in the smaller community groups and on the overall educational, health and economic growth of the society. During the Kovid 19 pandemic, the practice of the profession of health mediator is of utmost importance and significance, with a view to informing and preventing health. The author of this article presents the legal framework of the health mediator in the national and European legislation. The aim of the author is to present the legal and professional requirements for the health mediator. The health mediator is already an established and legally regulated profession, which operates in the individual municipalities in the Republic of Bulgaria.
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Chang, Michael Alan, Alejandra Magana, Bedrich Benes, Dominic Kao, and Judith Fusco. Driving Interdisciplinary Collaboration through Adapted Conjecture Mapping: A Case Study with the PECAS Mediator. Digital Promise, May 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.51388/20.500.12265/156.

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In this report, we demonstrate how an interdisciplinary team of computer science and learning sciences researchers utilize an adapted conjecture mapping tool during a collaborative problem-solving session. The session is documented through an edited “Dialogue” format, which captures the process of conjecture map construction and subsequent reflection. We find that creating the conjecture map collaboratively surfaces a key tension: while learning sciences theory often highlights the nuanced and complex relational nature of learning, even the most cutting-edge computing techniques struggle to discern these nuances. Articulating this tension proved to be highly generative, enabling the researchers to discuss how considering impacted community members as a critical “part of the solution” may lead to a socio-technical tool which supports desired learning outcomes, despite limitations in learning theory and technical capability. Ultimately, the process of developing the conjecture map directed researchers towards a precise discussion about how they would need to engage impacted community members (e.g., teachers) in a co-design process.
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Firestone, Mary. Plant stimulation of soil microbial community succession: how sequential expression mediates soil carbon stabilization and turnover. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), March 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/1177136.

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Ripoll, Santiago, Tabitha Hrynick, Ashley Ouvrier, Megan Schmidt-Sane, Federico Marco Federici, and Elizabeth Storer. 10 Ways Local Governments in Multicultural Urban Settings can Support Vaccine Equity in Pandemics. SSHAP, May 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/sshap.2022.016.

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At national and aggregate levels, COVID-19 vaccination across G7 countries appears successful. To date, 79.4% of the total population of G7 countries have received a first dose, 72.9% a second, and 45.4% a booster shot (28th April 2022 data). In France, 80.6% of the total population has had a first dose, 78.2 % have had two doses, and 55.4% have had their booster jabs (28th of April 2022 data). In the UK, 79.3% of the total population has received one dose, 74.1% a second one, and 58.5% have received a booster. In Italy, 85.2% of the total population has had a first dose, 80.4% have had two doses, and 66.5% have had their booster jabs (28th of April 2022 data). These figures indicate enthusiasm across G7 countries for COVID-19 vaccines. Yet high overall vaccination rates at the national level, disguise significant in-country disparities. For example, by the end of 2021, less than 50% of residents of the Northern Districts of Marseille were vaccinated, compared with over 70% in wealthier neighbourhoods. In the Ealing borough of Northwest London, 70% of the eligible population has had a first dose – which is almost 10% percent below the national average (4th of April 2022 data). Disparities are also seen in other urban metropolises across the G7. This brief investigates these disparities through the lens of “vaccine (in)equity”, focusing on the role of local actors. It builds on ethnographic and qualitative research carried out in the Northern Districts of Marseille and ongoing research engagement around vaccine equity in Ealing (Northwest London), as well as qualitative research carried out in Italy among networks of healthcare providers, intercultural mediators, and civil society organizations that collaborated during the COVID-19 campaign in the Emilia Romagna region and in Rome. This brief is based on research conducted between October and December 2021 in Marseille and ongoing engagement in Ealing which started in May 2021. It identified how local governments, health actors, community groups and residents play key roles in shaping vaccine (in)equity. This brief was developed for SSHAP by Santiago Ripoll (IDS), Tabitha Hrynick (IDS), Ashley Ouvrier (LaSSA), Megan Schmidt-Sane (IDS), Federico Federici (UCL) and Elizabeth Storer (LSE). It was reviewed by Eloisa Franchi (Università degli Studi di Pavia) and Ellen Schwartz (Hackney Council Public Health). The research was funded through the British Academy COVID-19 Recovery: G7 Fund (COVG7210038). Research was based at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Susssex, and the Laboratoire de Sciences Sociales Appliquées (LaSSA). The brief is the responsibility of SSHAP.
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Blumwald, Eduardo, and Avi Sadka. Citric acid metabolism and mobilization in citrus fruit. United States Department of Agriculture, October 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.32747/2007.7587732.bard.

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Accumulation of citric acid is a major determinant of maturity and fruit quality in citrus. Many citrus varieties accumulate citric acid in concentrations that exceed market desires, reducing grower income and consumer satisfaction. Citrate is accumulated in the vacuole of the juice sac cell, a process that requires both metabolic changes and transport across cellular membranes, in particular, the mitochondrial and the vacuolar (tonoplast) membranes. Although the accumulation of citrate in the vacuoles of juice cells has been clearly demonstrated, the mechanisms for vacuolar citrate homeostasis and the components controlling citrate metabolism and transport are still unknown. Previous results in the PIs’ laboratories have indicated that the expression of a large number of a large number of proteins is enhanced during fruit development, and that the regulation of sugar and acid content in fruits is correlated with the differential expression of a large number of proteins that could play significant roles in fruit acid accumulation and/or regulation of acid content. The objectives of this proposal are: i) the characterization of transporters that mediate the transport of citrate and determine their role in uptake/retrieval in juice sac cells; ii) the study of citric acid metabolism, in particular the effect of arsenical compounds affecting citric acid levels and mobilization; and iii) the development of a citrus fruit proteomics platform to identify and characterize key processes associated with fruit development in general and sugar and acid accumulation in particular. The understanding of the cellular processes that determine the citrate content in citrus fruits will contribute to the development of tools aimed at the enhancement of citrus fruit quality. Our efforts resulted in the identification, cloning and characterization of CsCit1 (Citrus sinensis citrate transporter 1) from Navel oranges (Citrus sinesins cv Washington). Higher levels of CsCit1 transcripts were detected at later stages of fruit development that coincided with the decrease in the juice cell citrate concentrations (Shimada et al., 2006). Our functional analysis revealed that CsCit1 mediates the vacuolar efflux of citrate and that the CsCit1 operates as an electroneutral 1CitrateH2-/2H+ symporter. Our results supported the notion that it is the low permeable citrateH2 - the anion that establishes the buffer capacity of the fruit and determines its overall acidity. On the other hand, it is the more permeable form, CitrateH2-, which is being exported into the cytosol during maturation and controls the citrate catabolism in the juice cells. Our Mass-Spectrometry-based proteomics efforts (using MALDI-TOF-TOF and LC2- MS-MS) identified a large number of fruit juice sac cell proteins and established comparisons of protein synthesis patterns during fruit development. So far, we have identified over 1,500 fruit specific proteins that play roles in sugar metabolism, citric acid cycle, signaling, transport, processing, etc., and organized these proteins into 84 known biosynthetic pathways (Katz et al. 2007). This data is now being integrated in a public database and will serve as a valuable tool for the scientific community in general and fruit scientists in particular. Using molecular, biochemical and physiological approaches we have identified factors affecting the activity of aconitase, which catalyze the first step of citrate catabolism (Shlizerman et al., 2007). Iron limitation specifically reduced the activity of the cytosolic, but not the mitochondrial, aconitase, increasing the acid level in the fruit. Citramalate (a natural compound in the juice) also inhibits the activity of aconitase, and it plays a major role in acid accumulation during the first half of fruit development. On the other hand, arsenite induced increased levels of aconitase, decreasing fruit acidity. We have initiated studies aimed at the identification of the citramalate biosynthetic pathway and the role(s) of isopropylmalate synthase in this pathway. These studies, especially those involved aconitase inhibition by citramalate, are aimed at the development of tools to control fruit acidity, particularly in those cases where acid level declines below the desired threshold. Our work has significant implications both scientifically and practically and is directly aimed at the improvement of fruit quality through the improvement of existing pre- and post-harvest fruit treatments.
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