Closing Data Gaps with Citizen Science? Findings from the Danube Region

Closing the loop - From citizen sensing to citizen actuation

“Human-in-the-loop” sensing or citizen sensing as a method for collecting, analysing, and mining information about events is becoming more mainstream. In this work, we aim to utilise the concept of citizen sensors but also introduce the theory of citizen actuation. Citizen sensors observe, report, and collect data – we propose by supporting these citizen sensors with methods to affect their sur...

Closing the knowledge gaps.

Closing the health gaps.

For several decades, epidemics of chronic, non-contagious diseases have been observed in the developed countries worldwide. However, considerable health differences are noted between countries, even on the same continent, as well as between individual population groups in particular countries. These differences are very clearly observable in Europe. Professor Zatoński in his studies (HEM, PONS ...

Closing the Gaps: From Science to Action in Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health in Africa

The previous papers in the PLoS Medicine series [1,2] demonstrate that the technical basis for improving maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) in sub-Saharan Africa is largely known, but too often policy and practice are not well informed by science. There are two distinct aspects to this ‘‘gap.’’ First there is a ‘‘science to policy and practice’’ gap. Accumulated scientific research on t...

Closing Achievement Gaps

groups are a prominent feature of today’s educational landscape, with black and Hispanic children regularly falling far behind white children. Although the achievement gaps narrowed somewhat during the 1970s and 1980s, they have since proved stubbornly resistant to closing further. If the nation is to achieve the goal of equal education as “a fact and a result,” to borrow President Lyndon Johns...