scholarly journals Cancer Informatics for Cancer Centers (CI4CC): Building a Community Focused on Sharing Ideas and Best Practices to Improve Cancer Care and Patient Outcomes

2020 ◽  
pp. 108-116
Author(s):  
Jill S. Barnholtz-Sloan ◽  
Dana E. Rollison ◽  
Amrita Basu ◽  
Alexander D. Borowsky ◽  
Alex Bui ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Patient Outcomes ◽  
National Cancer Institute ◽  
Data Science ◽  
Cancer Centers ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The World ◽  
Population Science ◽  
History Of ◽  
National Forum

Cancer Informatics for Cancer Centers (CI4CC) is a grassroots, nonprofit 501c3 organization intended to provide a focused national forum for engagement of senior cancer informatics leaders, primarily aimed at academic cancer centers anywhere in the world but with a special emphasis on the 70 National Cancer Institute–funded cancer centers. Although each of the participating cancer centers is structured differently, and leaders’ titles vary, we know firsthand there are similarities in both the issues we face and the solutions we achieve. As a consortium, we have initiated a dedicated listserv, an open-initiatives program, and targeted biannual face-to-face meetings. These meetings are a place to review our priorities and initiatives, providing a forum for discussion of the strategic and pragmatic issues we, as informatics leaders, individually face at our respective institutions and cancer centers. Here we provide a brief history of the CI4CC organization and meeting highlights from the latest CI4CC meeting that took place in Napa, California from October 14-16, 2019. The focus of this meeting was “intersections between informatics, data science, and population science.” We conclude with a discussion on “hot topics” on the horizon for cancer informatics.

scholarly journals Cancer Informatics for Cancer Centers: Scientific Drivers for Informatics, Data Science, and Care in Pediatric, Adolescent, and Young Adult Cancer

2021 ◽  
pp. 881-896
Author(s):  
Anthony R. Kerlavage ◽  
Anne C. Kirchhoff ◽  
Jaime M. Guidry Auvil ◽  
Norman E. Sharpless ◽  
Kara L. Davis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Data Science ◽  
Adolescent And Young Adult ◽  
Cancer Centers ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Cancer Data ◽  
The World ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Young Adult Cancer ◽  
National Forum

Cancer Informatics for Cancer Centers (CI4CC) is a grassroots, nonprofit 501c3 organization intended to provide a focused national forum for engagement of senior cancer informatics leaders, primarily aimed at academic cancer centers anywhere in the world but with a special emphasis on the 70 National Cancer Institute–funded cancer centers. This consortium has regularly held topic-focused biannual face-to-face symposiums. These meetings are a place to review cancer informatics and data science priorities and initiatives, providing a forum for discussion of the strategic and pragmatic issues that we faced at our respective institutions and cancer centers. Here, we provide meeting highlights from the latest CI4CC Symposium, which was delayed from its original April 2020 schedule because of the COVID-19 pandemic and held virtually over three days (September 24, October 1, and October 8) in the fall of 2020. In addition to the content presented, we found that holding this event virtually once a week for 6 hours was a great way to keep the kind of deep engagement that a face-to-face meeting engenders. This is the second such publication of CI4CC Symposium highlights, the first covering the meeting that took place in Napa, California, from October 14-16, 2019. We conclude with some thoughts about using data science to learn from every child with cancer, focusing on emerging activities of the National Cancer Institute's Childhood Cancer Data Initiative.

scholarly journals A standards organization for Open and FAIR neuroscience: the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mathew Abrams ◽  
Jan G. Bjaalie ◽  
Samir Das ◽  
Gary F. Egan ◽  
Satrajit S Ghosh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Data Science ◽  
Small Data ◽  
Sustainable Infrastructure ◽  
The World ◽  
Formal Procedure ◽  
Fair Principles ◽  
Community Standards ◽  
Diverse Data ◽  
Independent Organization

There is great need for coordination around standards and best practices in neuroscience to support efforts to make neuroscience a data-centric discipline. Major brain initiatives launched around the world are poised to generate huge stores of neuroscience data. At the same time, neuroscience, like many domains in biomedicine, is confronting the issues of transparency, rigor, and reproducibility. Widely used, validated standards and best practices are key to addressing the challenges in both big and small data science, as they are essential for integrating diverse data and for developing a robust, effective and sustainable infrastructure to support open and reproducible neuroscience. However, developing community standards and gaining their adoption is difficult. The current landscape is characterized both by a lack of robust, validated standards and a plethora of overlapping, underdeveloped, untested and underutilized standards and best practices. The International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF), established in 2005, is an independent organization dedicated to promoting data sharing through the coordination of infrastructure and standards. INCF has recently implemented a formal procedure for evaluating and endorsing community standards and best practices in support of the FAIR principles. By formally serving as a standards organization dedicated to open and FAIR neuroscience, INCF helps evaluate, promulgate and coordinate standards and best practices across neuroscience. Here, we provide an overview of the process and discuss how neuroscience can benefit from having a dedicated standards body.

“Palm Beach” on the Curaray River

2019 ◽  
pp. 9-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn T. Long
Keyword(s):  
Young Men ◽  
Innovative Technology ◽  
Tribal People ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Us ◽  
Amazonian Ecuador ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
American Evangelicalism

This chapter presents the history of an event in January 1956 that gave birth to an iconic missionary martyr narrative with a lasting impact on American evangelicalism and on the future of the Waorani people in Amazonian Ecuador. It began with five young men, representing evangelical faith missions. They were determined to make peaceful contact with the Waorani (aucas), a violent and isolated tribal people who had never heard the Christian gospel. The five men used aviation as an innovative technology to locate a Wao clearing and attempt to pacify the inhabitants by dropping trade goods from the air, followed by a face-to-face encounter. After the apparent friendliness of this first meeting, the Waorani returned two days later with spears and killed the missionaries. News of their deaths was publicized in the US and around the world.

Improving Data Quality in Face-to-Face Survey Research

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-50
Author(s):  
Carolyn Logan ◽  
Pablo Parás ◽  
Michael Robbins ◽  
Elizabeth J. Zechmeister
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Data Quality ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Survey Research ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Political Behavior ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The World

ABSTRACTData quality in survey research remains a paramount concern for those studying mass political behavior. Because surveys are conducted in increasingly diverse contexts around the world, ensuring that best practices are followed becomes ever more important to the field of political science. Bringing together insights from surveys conducted in more than 80 countries worldwide, this article highlights common challenges faced in survey research and outlines steps that researchers can take to improve the quality of survey data. Importantly, the article demonstrates that with the investment of the necessary time and resources, it is possible to carry out high-quality survey research even in challenging environments in which survey research is not well established.

Models of Peasant Differentiation and Aspects of Agrarian Economy in Colonial India

1985 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 549-571 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shri Prakash
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Colonial India ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Agrarian Economy ◽  
Indian Context ◽  
British Rule ◽  
Peasant Society ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

Given their sheer numbers, it is hardly surprising that the fate of peasants during British Rule in India should have become a principal index for evaluating its successes and failures. Since the Raj was much more than another effete political superimposition on supposedly timeless villages, the question of agrarian growth or stagnation during its currency is intertwined with more general issues. In so far as colonialism meant a sizable expansion of trade to and from the rural areas, its impact on village social structure in India bears comparison with that of a modern market on peasantries in other parts of the world. Perhaps, the classic case of a peasantry coming face to face with a growing market happened in Russia between 1860 and 1930. The history of that period has generated conceptual discussion about the dynamics of peasant society. The possibility of some of those ideas shedding light on the situation in India has prompted Indo-Russian contrasts and comparisons in agrarian history on more than one occasion (Charlesworth: 1979; Stein: 1984). As a sequel to these writings the Russian debate is considered here briefly in order to suggest some ways in which it might be useful in the Indian context.

Comic Art in Museums

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Comic Books ◽  
Graphic Novels ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
Critical Dialogue ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Material ◽  
Comic Art

Over the last twenty years, the growing diversity in content and artistic innovation in graphic novels, comic books, and web comics combined with the popularity of films based on comics material have made comic art newly attractive to curators, museums, and university galleries. More artists identified with comics are getting big budget retrospectives, collecting institutions are mounting rich historical shows, and exhibits capitalizing on the popularity of all types of comics are popping up around the world. This book is an introduction to the history and controversies that have shaped comics exhibitions, who the pioneers were, different ideas about comic art exhibits around the world, how the best practices for displaying comics have developed and why, and how artists and curators have found ways to display comics that break away from the “framed pages on the wall” format. Using long out-of-print reviews and new material from experts such as Art Spiegelman, Denis Kitchen, and Andrei Molotiu, Comic Art in Museums maps out the history of influential shows of original comic art from newly rediscovered shows of the 1930’s to contemporary blockbusters like High and Low: Modern Art, Popular Culture and Masters of American Comics, as well as the critical dialogue surrounding these shows. To borrow a phrase from Theirry Groensteen, it’s the story of one way that comics have finally achieved “cultural legitimization.”

scholarly journals Introduction: markets in modernization: transformations in urban market space and practice, c. 1800 – c. 1970

Urban History ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 358-371 ◽  
Author(s):  
JON STOBART ◽  
ILJA VAN DAMME
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Political Transformations ◽  
Urban Market ◽  
Modern Cities ◽  
The World ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
Space Function ◽  
History Of

This special issue addresses the changing role and later history of physical, face-to-face markets for goods, which in modern cities all over the world are mainly or wholly used by individuals and families for consumption purposes. Our focus is on the urban market as a specific urban place and its shifting relationship with important alterations in the governance, society and economy of modern, industrial cities (until c. 1970). The main intention of this collection is to move beyond traditional (western) views of the so-called ‘decline’ of these urban marketplaces. In the history and theorization of the type of cities that came into being all over the world in the wake of economic and political transformations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, ‘markets’ are usually thought of in terms of their institutional meaning. They are referred to as abstract notions of commerce and exchange, be it in commodities, labour, cash or shares. Seldom are they studied as real, physical marketplaces within cities; as entities that take up space; function in changing production and distribution chains and evolve as a result of changes in wholesaling, retailing, consumption and the political regulation of urban space, society and economy. Indeed, it is often argued that ‘marketplaces’ in this spatially delimited and concrete sense ceased to be of importance once modernization took hold of urban landscapes all over the world. That this is not the case is amply demonstrated by the articles gathered here: markets continued to be vibrant parts of a wide variety of towns and cities across the globe.

scholarly journals A Standards Organization for Open and FAIR Neuroscience: the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mathew Birdsall Abrams ◽  
Jan G. Bjaalie ◽  
Samir Das ◽  
Gary F. Egan ◽  
Satrajit S. Ghosh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Data Science ◽  
Small Data ◽  
Sustainable Infrastructure ◽  
The World ◽  
Formal Procedure ◽  
Fair Principles ◽  
Community Standards ◽  
Diverse Data ◽  
Independent Organization

AbstractThere is great need for coordination around standards and best practices in neuroscience to support efforts to make neuroscience a data-centric discipline. Major brain initiatives launched around the world are poised to generate huge stores of neuroscience data. At the same time, neuroscience, like many domains in biomedicine, is confronting the issues of transparency, rigor, and reproducibility. Widely used, validated standards and best practices are key to addressing the challenges in both big and small data science, as they are essential for integrating diverse data and for developing a robust, effective, and sustainable infrastructure to support open and reproducible neuroscience. However, developing community standards and gaining their adoption is difficult. The current landscape is characterized both by a lack of robust, validated standards and a plethora of overlapping, underdeveloped, untested and underutilized standards and best practices. The International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF), an independent organization dedicated to promoting data sharing through the coordination of infrastructure and standards, has recently implemented a formal procedure for evaluating and endorsing community standards and best practices in support of the FAIR principles. By formally serving as a standards organization dedicated to open and FAIR neuroscience, INCF helps evaluate, promulgate, and coordinate standards and best practices across neuroscience. Here, we provide an overview of the process and discuss how neuroscience can benefit from having a dedicated standards body.

C.G. Jung and the indigenous psyche: two encounters

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
David G. Barton
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
American Southwest ◽  
The Other ◽  
Misleading Information ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
James Hillman ◽  
American President ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

ABSTRACTIn The Lament of the Dead, James Hillman quotes Foucault as saying there are two ways to escape ‘the box of contemporary thinking’. One path lies through erudition, the other through the indigenous experience. While the history of Jung's ideas has been thoroughly explored, we understand little about his encounters with indigenous people in the American Southwest. For example, the literature on his visit to Taos Pueblo is riddled with misleading information. Part of the problem begins with Jung's own confusion regarding his contact at Taos with Antonio Mirabal. Not only did Jung wrongly believe that Mirabal was an ‘Indian chief’; he misspelled and mistranslated his Tiwa name, Ochwiay Biano. Although the encounter could be described (at one level) as superficial, Jung refers to it as one of the most important experiences of his life. This paper will explore what Jung seems to have encountered in Taos, and the ways his experience were orchestrated by the unseen presence of others (including Mabel Dodge Lujan, D.H. Lawrence, and Jaime de Angulo). Archival records and news accounts from the 1920s show that although Jung imagined he was meeting face to face with a ‘primitive' who still lived in the world of ‘participation mystique’, Mirabal was a gifted Native American impresario who later visited one American president and turned down an invitation to visit a second. I argue that the complex of colonialism surrounding Jung's relationship with Mirabal has infected subsequent encounters between the Jungian tradition and indigenous people.

The Future of Religion

1913 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 326-341 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stewart Means
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Intellectual Life ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Human Thought ◽  
The Awakening ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
First Time

No one who has studied the history of the last century can fail to be struck by the great changes which have taken place in human thought, affecting the whole outlook of man in his relation to the world both within and without and constituting a revolution in the intellectual life of our times. The most permanent forces in human life have been brought face to face with new facts, new conditions, and new ideas, and nowhere do we find the evidences of this change in outlook greater than in the sphere of religion, where the old problems and the old controversies are passed or passing. One of the great questions of today is, as a recent writer has said, “whether Christianity can come to terms with the awakening self-consciousness of modern civilization, equipped with a vast mass of new scientific knowledge and animated for the first time by ideals which are not borrowed from classical or Hebrew antiquity.” But Christianity itself has already been deeply influenced by some of the changes which have taken place. The great forces of history press steadily upon all the institutions of society and the form or expression of the religious life is profoundly affected by the movements of thought or changes in sentiment which take place in human society.

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