Toward an Activist Agenda for Monitoring Virus Emergence

Toward an activist agenda for monitoring virus emergence.

The continuing emergence of arboviruses such as chikungunya virus requires thoughtful attention and approaches for risk management. Incorporating experimental evolutionary studies, as described in this issue by Stapleford et al. (2014), has the potential to move public health toward a more proactive agenda for predicting and responding to disease emergence.

Toward an Activist Political Theory

Toward an agenda for evaluation of qualitative research.

Evaluation is essential for research quality and development, but the diversity of traditions that characterize qualitative research suggests that general checklists or shared criteria for evaluation are problematic. We propose an approach to research evaluation that encourages reflexive dialogue through use of an evaluation agenda. In proposing an evaluation agenda we shift attention from rule...

CoMo: An Open Infrastructure for Network Monitoring – Research Agenda

Our idea is to define a per-query accuracy metric and maximize the aggregate accuracy of all query results given the available resources. We argue that in network monitoring it is always possible to regulate the accuracy of a query (that will include the measurement error as well as the timeliness of the results). For a given set of queries we then need to define an aggregate utility function a...

Settling Ulysses: An Adapted Research Agenda for Refugee Mental Health

Refugees and asylum seekers arriving in Europe during the 2015/2016 wave of migration have been exposed to war conditions in their country of origin, survived a dangerous journey, and often struggled with negative reception in transit and host countries. The mental health consequence of such forced migration experiences is named the Ulysses syndrome. Policies regarding the right to residency ca...