scholarly journals Acknowledging bereavement, strengthening communities: Introducing an online compassionate community initiative for the recognition of pandemic grief

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Ummel ◽  
Mélanie Vachon ◽  
Alexandra Guité‐Verret
Keyword(s):  
Community Initiative

Institutional Change through Innovation: The URBAN Community Initiative in Berlin, 1994–99

10.1068/c0416 ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 697-713 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlotte Halpern
Keyword(s):  
Urban Policy ◽  
Urban Poverty ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
Balance Of Power ◽  
Local Networks ◽  
Government Structure ◽  
Process Of Change ◽  
Community Initiative ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
The City

Reunification profoundly challenged the local government structure inherited from the Cold War period in Berlin. Yet this sudden socioeconomic and political change did not produce any immediate impact on institutional arrangements or policy instruments within the urban policy field. In this context, the implementation of the European Community Initiative URBAN, between 1994 and 1999, offered an opportunity to actors who were willing to challenge the existing balance of power to contest the legitimacy of preexisting interests and representations. The author argues that, in a context of competing interpretations of the issues raised by segregation processes which have left pockets of poverty in both parts of the city, the URBAN programme has managed to become an important driving force behind an underlying process of change. Its innovative approach to urban poverty and social exclusion exerted an impact on the parameters of this process of change, exacerbating existing political and organisational conflicts and challenging local networks, sources of legitimacy, and policy instruments.

scholarly journals JISC Collections: Post-Cancellation Entitlement Registry Scoping Project

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 85-95
Author(s):  
Magaly Bascones
Keyword(s):  
Community Initiative ◽  
Library Collections

Since e-journals were first introduced into library collections, Post-Cancellation Access (PCA) rights and perpetual access have been a concern for librarians. Perpetual access concerns are being addressed by initiatives such as LOCKSS, CLOCKSS, PORTICO, among others. The same cannot be said for PCA rights. We haven’t yet seen any commercial, institutional or community initiative and work directed at addressing the problem. It is within this context that the JISC Collections: Post-Cancellation Entitlement Registry Scoping Project has been designed and implemented. It has explored in some detail what would happen if an institution wanted to ascertain from a publisher what its PCA rights were. The findings of interest to publishers and libraries are detailed in this article.

scholarly journals Datanator: an integrated database of molecular data for quantitatively modeling cellular behavior

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yosef D. Roth ◽  
Zhouyang Lian ◽  
Saahith Pochiraju ◽  
Bilal Shaikh ◽  
Jonathan R. Karr
Keyword(s):  
Additional Data ◽  
Molecular Data ◽  
Rna Modifications ◽  
Cellular Behavior ◽  
Reaction Rate Constants ◽  
Integrative Research ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Community Initiative ◽  
Biochemical Research ◽  
Diverse Data

AbstractIntegrative research about multiple biochemical subsystems has significant potential to help advance biology, bioengineering, and medicine. However, it is difficult to obtain the diverse data needed for integrative research. To facilitate biochemical research, we developed Datanator (https://datanator.info), an integrated database and set of tools for finding clouds of multiple types of molecular data about specific molecules and reactions in specific organisms and environments, as well as data about chemically-similar molecules and reactions in phylogenetically-similar organisms in similar environments. Currently, Datanator includes metabolite concentrations, RNA modifications and half-lives, protein abundances and modifications, and reaction rate constants about a broad range of organisms. Going forward, we aim to launch a community initiative to curate additional data. Datanator also provides tools for filtering, visualizing, and exporting these data clouds. We believe that Datanator can facilitate a wide range of research from integrative mechanistic models, such as whole-cell models, to comparative data-driven analyses of multiple organisms.

scholarly journals Specifications of Standards in Systems and Synthetic Biology

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Falk Schreiber ◽  
Gary D. Bader ◽  
Martin Golebiewski ◽  
Michael Hucka ◽  
Benjamin Kormeier ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Synthetic Biology ◽  
Information Exchange ◽  
Computational Models ◽  
Access Point ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Community Initiative ◽  
Central Access ◽  
Oral Presentations ◽  
Modeling In Biology

Summary Standards shape our everyday life. From nuts and bolts to electronic devices and technological processes, standardised products and processes are all around us. Standards have technological and economic benefits, such as making information exchange, production, and services more efficient. However, novel, innovative areas often either lack proper standards, or documents about standards in these areas are not available from a centralised platform or formal body (such as the International Standardisation Organisation).Systems and synthetic biology is a relatively novel area, and it is only in the last decade that the standardisation of data, information, and models related to systems and synthetic biology has become a community-wide effort. Several open standards have been established and are under continuous development as a community initiative. COMBINE, the ‘COmputational Modeling in BIology’ NEtwork [1] has been established as an umbrella initiative to coordinate and promote the development of the various community standards and formats for computational models. There are yearly two meeting, HARMONY (Hackathons on Resources for Modeling in Biology), Hackathon-type meetings with a focus on development of the support for standards, and COMBINE forums, workshop-style events with oral presentations, discussion, poster, and breakout sessions for further developing the standards. For more information see http://co.mbine.org/.So far the different standards were published and made accessible through the standards’ web-pages or preprint services. The aim of this special issue is to provide a single, easily accessible and citable platform for the publication of standards in systems and synthetic biology. This special issue is intended to serve as a central access point to standards and related initiatives in systems and synthetic biology, it will be published annually to provide an opportunity for standard development groups to communicate updated specifications.

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