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When I was asked to give a companion lecture in support of ‘The Philosophy of Science’ (https://shorturl.at/4pUXz) I decided not to walk through the detail of the many methodologies in order of use. Instead, I chose to employ a long standing, and ongoing, scientific development as an exemplar. And so, I chose the ever evolving story of Thermodynamics as a scientific investigation at its best.
Conducted over a period of >200 years, Thermodynamics R&D, and application, benefitted from the highest levels of professionalism, collaboration, and technical thoroughness. New layers of application, methodology, and practice were made possible by the progressive advance of technology. In turn, this has seen measurement and modelling accuracy continually improved at a micro and macro level.
Perhaps most importantly, Thermodynamics rapidly became a primary tool in the advance of applied science/engineering/technology, spanning micro-tech, to aerospace and cosmology. I can think of no better a story to illustrate the breadth of scientific methodologies and applications at their best.
Describing and Interpreting an Immersive Learning Case with the Immersion Cub...Leonel Morgado
Current descriptions of immersive learning cases are often difficult or impossible to compare. This is due to a myriad of different options on what details to include, which aspects are relevant, and on the descriptive approaches employed. Also, these aspects often combine very specific details with more general guidelines or indicate intents and rationales without clarifying their implementation. In this paper we provide a method to describe immersive learning cases that is structured to enable comparisons, yet flexible enough to allow researchers and practitioners to decide which aspects to include. This method leverages a taxonomy that classifies educational aspects at three levels (uses, practices, and strategies) and then utilizes two frameworks, the Immersive Learning Brain and the Immersion Cube, to enable a structured description and interpretation of immersive learning cases. The method is then demonstrated on a published immersive learning case on training for wind turbine maintenance using virtual reality. Applying the method results in a structured artifact, the Immersive Learning Case Sheet, that tags the case with its proximal uses, practices, and strategies, and refines the free text case description to ensure that matching details are included. This contribution is thus a case description method in support of future comparative research of immersive learning cases. We then discuss how the resulting description and interpretation can be leveraged to change immersion learning cases, by enriching them (considering low-effort changes or additions) or innovating (exploring more challenging avenues of transformation). The method holds significant promise to support better-grounded research in immersive learning.
ESR spectroscopy in liquid food and beverages.pptxPRIYANKA PATEL
With increasing population, people need to rely on packaged food stuffs. Packaging of food materials requires the preservation of food. There are various methods for the treatment of food to preserve them and irradiation treatment of food is one of them. It is the most common and the most harmless method for the food preservation as it does not alter the necessary micronutrients of food materials. Although irradiated food doesn’t cause any harm to the human health but still the quality assessment of food is required to provide consumers with necessary information about the food. ESR spectroscopy is the most sophisticated way to investigate the quality of the food and the free radicals induced during the processing of the food. ESR spin trapping technique is useful for the detection of highly unstable radicals in the food. The antioxidant capability of liquid food and beverages in mainly performed by spin trapping technique.
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Behaviour-grounded, incentive-based training for pork butchers in traditional markets in Africa and Asia
1. Behaviour-grounded, incentive-based, training for
pork butchers in traditional markets in Africa and Asia
Delia Grace2,3, Dang Xuan Sinh1, Hung Nguyen-Viet3, Florence Mutua3 and Fred Unger1
1 Animal and Human Health Program, International Livestock Research Institute, Hanoi, Vietnam
2 Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich, Kent ME4 4TB, United Kingdom
3 Animal and Human Health Program, International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya
Background
While many pilots have attempted to improve food safety in
LMICs often with short term success, we don’t yet have
approaches proven to sustainably and scalably improve food
safety. The conventional approach of relying on inspection and a
national food control system fails, because of lack of resources
and poor governance. Infrastructure provision is expensive and
prone to degradation in the absence of maintenance.
Hence interest has grown in improving food safety through
harnessing consumer demand and providing direct, immediate,
meaningful incentives (material, social or moral) for behaviour
charge. Nudges are a subset of incentives that seek to change
behaviours by altering the external context rather than through
coercion or material incentives. This poster describes the use of
behavioural science, incentives, and nudges in developing a
training course for butchers in east Africa.
Methods
ILRI and partners conducted or commissioned systematic
reviews on food safety training, food safety interventions,
nudges and piloted nudge-based studies in pork value
chains in Uganda and Vietnam. Direct observation, focus
group discussion, key informant interview, formative
research and stakeholder workshops were held in eastern
Africa.
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Conclusions
Training butchers in informal and traditional markets of
LMICs has often relied on providing information or training in
skills. Focusing on behaviours to be changed, motivating
behaviour change through incentives, and facilitating
behaviour change with nudges promises to be more effective
and sustainable.
Training in Africa & Asia
Delia Grace Randolph
d.randolph@cgiar.org ● Box 30709 Nairobi Kenya ● +254 20 422 3000 ● ilri.org
NRI, University of Greenwich, UK
This project was funded by ACIAR and CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition
and Health (A4NH)
This document is licensed for use under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence.
May 2023.
May 2023
Results
We developed a modular training course for butchers based on
nine essential hygienic behaviours for butchers “The Five Cleans
and the Three S’s” (Table 1) and three sets of motivations:
material, social and moral (Table 2). We identified nudges that
could be incorporated into protocols to encourage behaviour
change (table 1).
ILRI thanks all donors and organizations which globally support its work through their contributions to the CGIAR Trust Fund.
TABLE 1: FIVE CLEANS AND THREE S BEHAVIOUR CHANGE
Behaviour Behaviour sub-components
Clean water Obtaining clean water, keeping water clean, water
filtration, chemical disinfection of water
Clean hands How to wash hands; when to wash hands; handwashing
station; use of tippy tap; construction & use of soapy
bottle; hand sanitiser
Clean cloths &
clothes
Different coloured cloths for different uses; many cloths;
cleaning & disinfecting cloths in coloured buckets; drying
cloths. Clean clothes and uniforms.
Clean surfaces Difference between cleaning & disinfection; making up
disinfectants; sprays; use of kinnos
Clean utensils
& tools
Need to clean before and after use
Store safely Store food off the ground; keep food in the shade; control
pests
Separate Keep damaged away from intact, hot from cold, clean from
dirty, new from old
Sanitise Treating meat with vinegar, lemon/lime juice, foodgrade
lye, citric acid, lactic acid
TABLE 2: INCENTIVES FOR BEHAVIOUR CHANGE
Material Better business: more profitable business through a) tips for
keeping clients happy through polite, attentive behaviour,
and good appearance; b) feedback on client satisfaction; c)
training on record-keeping; d) involvement in campaigns to
inform consumers on food safety; e) scores on doors to
attract consumers; f) marketing strategies
Social Societal respect & pressure: a) uniform or tee shirt; b)
certificates to show they are trained; c) training in food
safety outreach to consumers; d) media or market attention;
e) messaging on how they safeguard health of the
community; f) recognise butchers who are performing well.
Moral Emotional and personal: a) Eliciting disgust at dirt; b) pride in
professionalism and cleanliness; c) belief they are keeping
butcher’s family safe
TABLE 3: NUDGES TO SUPPORT BEHAVIIOUR CHANGE
Changing
salience
Different coloured boards and cloths for different
uses
Anchoring
effects
Agreement on the behaviours that all butchers
should and do manifest
Channelling
vanity
Mirror over handwashing station to attract
Eliciting
intentions
Reflection time at end of every training when
trainees think how they will put into practice what
they have learned
Making
accountable
Including report back on behavioural change and
anonymous spot checks on behaviour
Being
watched
Eyes above handwashing station
Pre-
commitment
Public pledges to follow hygiene rules
Reducing
friction
Dedicated tools and layout that forces localisation
such as fixed hooks for cloths
Reminding Posters on hygiene protocols e.g., how to wash
hands, how to disinfect
Table 1: Nine essential hygienic behaviours for butchers
Table 2: Incentives for butcher behaviour change
Table 3: Nudges to support hygienic behaviours