ACC Advocacy

Advocacy.

The Psychology of Advocacy and the Advocacy of Psychology

This article addresses needs and opportunities for advocacy for the science, education and practice of psychology from the perspectives of three leaders within organized psychology, academia, and hospital practice. The authors make distinctions between knowledge transfer and knowledge translation as well as between lobbying and advocacy. They define proactive and reactive advocacy and draw atte...

Advocacy 101: getting started in health education advocacy.

Advocacy for the public's health and for the profession are widely recognized as responsibilities of health educators. Increasing emphasis on advocacy by professional organizations has peaked the interest of health educators, yet knowing where to begin as an advocate is, to many, a mystifying process. This article provides basic advocacy terminology, dispels concerns about participating in advo...

acc-Motif Detection Tool

Background: Network motif algorithms have been a topic of research mainly after the 2002-seminal paper from Milo et al, that provided motifs as a way to uncover the basic building blocks of most networks. In Bioinformatics, motifs have been mainly applied in the field of gene regulation networks field. Results: This paper proposes new algorithms to exactly count isomorphic pattern motifs of siz...

Reflections from ACC 2015