Τα καλύτερα Research Talks podcast (2024)

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Episode 12: The Challenges of Phone Surveys with Women in India during COVID 16:02

4y ago16:02

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How has COVID impacted the way researchers do fieldwork? This episode features IFPRI Research Analyst Shweta Gupta (https://www.ifpri.org/profile/shweta-gupta) who, in a conversation with Sivan Yosef (https://www.ifpri.org/profile/sivan-yosef), tells the story of how the pandemic has upended the way IFPRI researchers are doing household surveys. In…

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Episode 11: Poop from the Coop: Livestock Contamination and Nutrition in Burkina Faso 15:07

4y ago15:07

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This episode features IFPRI Senior Research Fellow Derek Headey ( https://www.ifpri.org/profile/derek-headey ) who, in a conversation with Sivan Yosef ( https://www.ifpri.org/profile/sivan-yosef) , tells the story of how IFPRI researchers decided to probe the link between the presence of livestock feces in the home and childhood stunting. The resea…

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Episode 10: Working Amid War: Assessing Cash Transfers for Nutrition in Yemen 14:58

4y ago14:58

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How do you carry out research in the middle of one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world: the civil war in Yemen? This episode features IFPRI Research Fellow Sikandra Kurdi (https://www.ifpri.org/profile/sikandra-kurdi) who, in a conversation with Sivan Yosef ( https://www.ifpri.org/profile/sivan-yosef), tells the story of how Yemen’s Socia…

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Episode 9: It’s All in the Design: Soil Health Cards in India 18:00

4y ago18:00

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What happens when researchers start learning all about marketing? This episode features IFPRI Program Manager Vartika Singh who, in a conversation with Sivan Yosef, tells the story of how IFPRI researchers in India set out to investigate whether government-issued soil health cards were effective in getting smallholders to improve their farming prac…

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Episode 8: Safety Nets, Safe Households: How Cash Transfers Can Reduce Intimate Partner Violence 19:13

4y ago19:13

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Can cash transfers reduce violence within the home, keeping women safe from intimate partner violence? This episode features IFPRI Senior Research Fellow Melissa Hidrobo (https://www.ifpri.org/profile/melissa-hidrobo) and Research Fellow Shalini Roy (https://www.ifpri.org/profile/shalini-roy) who, in a conversation with Sivan Yosef (https://www.ifp…

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Episode 7: The Road to Financial Inclusion in Kenya 14:27

4+ y ago14:27

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Can researchers help develop a financial tool that lowers risk for both farmers and private banks? This episode features IFPRI Senior Research Fellow Liangzhi You who, in a conversation with Sivan Yosef, tells the story of how IFPRI researchers partnered up with the Government of Kenya as well as private-sector partners in Kenya to develop Risk Con…

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Episode 6: The Power of Safety Nets in Egypt 16:58

4+ y ago16:58

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Can impact evaluation drive changes in the design of social safety net programs? This episode features Egypt’s Minister of Social Solidarity Nivine El-Kabbag along with IFPRI researchers Clemens Breisinger and Hoda El Enbaby. In a conversation with Sivan Yosef and Drew Sample, they share the story of how IFPRI collaborated with the government of Eg…

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Episode 5: Picturing a Better Crop Insurance 17:41

4+ y ago17:41

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Can a smartphone camera help provide a safety net for smallholder famers? This episode features IFPRI’s Research Fellow Berber Kramer ( https://www.ifpri.org/profile/berber-kramer), who in a conversation with Sivan Yosef (https://www.ifpri.org/profile/sivan-yosef), shares the story of how IFPRI researchers came up with the idea of using smartphone …

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Episode 4: Doing Research in a COVID-19 World 20:01

4+ y ago20:01

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How do you conduct research under a global pandemic? This episode features two interviews illuminating the research process in an era of lockdowns and social distancing. IFPRI’s Senior Research Fellow Xiaobo Zhang (https://www.ifpri.org/profile/xiaobo-zhang) , in a conversation with Sivan Yosef (https://www.ifpri.org/profile/sivan-yosef) , talks ab…

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Episode 3: Will Travel for Data, to Papua New Guinea 17:33

4+ y ago17:33

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How do you collect data in very remote, hard-to-reach places? This episode features IFPRI’s Research Fellow Emily Schmidt (https://www.ifpri.org/profile/emily-schmidt), who in a conversation with Sivan Yosef (https://www.ifpri.org/profile/sivan-yosef), shares how IFPRI researchers began engaging in Papua New Guinea, travelling through difficult ter…

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Episode 2: Scaling Up Nutrition for the Poor in Bangladesh 15:24

4+ y ago15:24

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How do you translate research findings into a robust, pro-poor national program? This episode features IFPRI’s Senior Research Fellow and Bangladesh Country Representative Akhter Ahmed ( https://www.ifpri.org/profile/akhter-ahmed ), who in a conversation with Sivan Yosef ( https://www.ifpri.org/profile/sivan-yosef ), shares the inspiring story of A…

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Episode 1: Playing Games to Save Water in India 17:15

5y ago17:15

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Sivan Yosef interviews IFPRI’s Ruth Meinzen-Dick & FES’s Jagdeesh Rao to understand their novel approach to forge cooperation among communities to conserve a shared resource, such as water.How do you get people to cooperate in conserving shared resources like water? IFPRI (https://www.ifpri.org/) partnered with an Indian non-profit organization cal…

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Promoting nutrition through schools in a lower middle income country, Sri Lanka 12:12

9+ y ago12:12

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Investigating how schools may help improve diet, particularly in low- and middle-income countries In recent decades, Sri Lanka has experienced a social, economic, demographic and environmental transition. Currently it suffers a double burden of under- and over-nutrition. It is important to align health promotion and development. This DPhil, which i…

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Past and Future Earthquake Hazard in Asia 15:57

9+ y ago15:57

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This lecture illustrates the ways in which the landscape in Central Asia has been influenced by active faults and earthquakes and will examine the hazard faced at the present-day. Mongolia, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan are lands of high mountains, faults, and earthquakes in the heart of Asia. The active deformation is due to the collision of India an…

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Rethinking the American Revolution and the US Founding Myth 8:35

9+ y ago8:35

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The importance of looking at the American colonial period not as the ‘Thirteen Colonies’ but as a British America consisting of twenty-six colonies and provinces. This discussion emphasises the importance of looking at the American colonial period not as the ‘Thirteen Colonies’ but as a British America consisting of twenty-six colonies and province…

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The stimulated brain 12:54

9+ y ago12:54

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How non-invasive brain stimulation techniques might work, and how we have started to use them in stroke survivors. Non-invasive brain stimulation has been around for thousands of years - from the use of electric fish in Ancient Greece to cure headaches, to the modern use of very small electric currents passed through the brain via two electrodes pl…

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Can we predict the structure of matter? 12:14

9+ y ago12:14

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From predicting the properties of nanotechnological devices to the structural stability of small proteins and dynamics of water. Atomistic computer simulations of matter based on solving quantum mechanical equations is an interdisciplinary area that touches physics, chemistry, and a part of biology. By calculating the electronic structure of an arr…

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Current practice in preventing and handling missing data alongside clinical trials: are we doing well? 12:14

9+ y ago12:14

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Reviewing the methodology surrounding missing data in research and statistical analysis, clarifying why it can contribute to misleading results. Missing data is present in almost all research. However, it is also a well-recognised problem in the analysis and reporting of clinical research due to its potential to introduce bias into the results. Pat…

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The Eternity Puzzle 12:41

9+ y ago12:41

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How mathematicians think about the puzzle that Christopher Monckton launched in 1999. In 1999 Christopher Monckton launched a new type of puzzle, similar to a jigsaw but with 209 plain green plastic pieces with geometric shapes. To attract interest, and increase sales, he offered a £1,000,000 prize for the first solution if found within a time limi…

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What debt management strategies do OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries follow? 12:47

9+ y ago12:47

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How do debt managers decide about the maturity of new public debt? Typical debt management objectives include:cost minimization,economic stabilization and tax smoothing, andadjusting to investor preferences.These objectives cannot be all achieved simultaneously. Theoretical models from the normative literature point to (2) tax smoothing as the opti…

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Shakespeare's Animals 11:53

9+ y ago11:53

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Why animals are everywhere in Shakespeare's language. Only two actual animals definitely appear in Shakespeare’s plays: a naughty dog in The Two Gentlemen of Verona and a hungry bear in The Winter’s Tale. But animals are everywhere in Shakespeare’s language. This talk will offer some suggestions as to why that is, and will show that the much-vaunte…

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Looking at atoms to understand mega-structures' structural integritySome components of nuclear reactors, such as steam generators, can weigh over 300 tonnes (4m diameter and 20m tall) and are expected ... 14:18

9+ y ago14:18

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How we need to characterize materials at atomic level in order to understand their macroscopic behaviour. Some components of nuclear reactors, such as steam generators, can weigh over 300 tonnes (4m diameter and 20m tall) and are expected to be safely in service for over 20 years. However, it is not unusual that they suffer from environmental degra…

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How to spot a liar in literature 12:46

9+ y ago12:46

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An introduction to the theory of unreliable narration and outlines two critical approaches: the cognitivist and the rhetorical. Body language experts and polygraph tests can help us to determine when we are being deceived, but how do we know whether the narrator in a literary text is lying to us? This talk provides an introduction to the theory of …

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Who killed "Dead Meat" Thompson? 12:03

9+ y ago12:03

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Using a scenario from the Hollywood film "Hot Shots", how should a compensation payment have been divided up between all those involved in the circumstances of "Dead Meat" Thompson's death? The circumstances of LT “Dead Meat” Thompson’s (from Hot Shots) death are as unfortunate as they are spectacular: during a training flight he crashes into anoth…

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A digital database of the correspondence of Catherine the Great of Russia 14:10

9+ y ago14:10

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Demonstrating the pilot and explaining the significance of this digital database. A prolific letter-writer, Catherine II ruled during the high point of the European Enlightenment, when letters were the essential knowledge-transfer medium in government, commerce and intellectual exchange in an increasingly globalised world. She maintained a vast cor…

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Watching the Brain Change 11:56

9+ y ago11:56

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Our research uses brain imaging techniques such as MRI, to assess changes in brain activity or brain structure. We then try to use this information to design new interventions to improve healthy ageing or boost recovery from stroke. The brain changes when we learn, get older, or recover from damage such as stroke. Our research uses brain imaging te…

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Seeing the Invisible in Health and Disease 12:48

9+ y ago12:48

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How our ability to now see the invisible is central to research in biology – from infectious disease to cancer and Alzheimers. The development of the electron microscope in the middle of the last century revolutionised biology and our understanding of cells and tissues. Developments have continued and in this century computation methods have enable…

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Cancer: why it's bad to the bone 13:14

9+ y ago13:14

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Why is cancer metastasis to bone so devastating, what are the challenges, and what are we trying to do about it.Από τον Claire Edwards

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Climate Change and the fall of the Pyramid Age of Egypt 11:24

9+ y ago11:24

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Is Climate Change responsible for the downfall of the Pyramid Age of Egypt Recent palaeoenvironmental evidence suggests that northeast Africa and southwest Asia were struck by an intense 'mega-drought' around the year 2200 BC. The event has already been blamed for the collapse of complex societies in Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley. I am trying to…

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Earth’s earliest super predators 12:36

9+ y ago12:36

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Anomalocaridids: their ecology & their diversity. The Cambrian Explosion was a major biodiversification event that saw the rise of nearly all animal phyla in a rapid burst 500 million years ago. The anomalocaridids are iconic members of these primitive animal ecosystems, owing to their huge size, bizarre morphology and complicated history of desrip…

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The ethics of rail travel; or, what George Eliot can teach us about HS2 12:57

9+ y ago12:57

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An analysis of George Eliot's 'Middlemarch' and how the writer's critique of railroads might inform an ethically sensitive approach to HS2 Whilst no-one would question the economic advantages of a high-speed rail network connecting major cities in the UK, there is still little agreement about the feasibility of the government’s £50 billion HS2 proj…

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Trade Unions and North Africa's Arab Spring 7:54

9+ y ago7:54

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What role did trade unions play in the Egyptian and Tunisian uprisings of 2010/2011? What role did trade unions play in the Egyptian and Tunisian uprisings of 2010/2011? This talk challenges the predominant assumption in research on trade unions and democratization rule, namely that trade unions are necessarily driven by material interests or by th…

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What can dinosaurs tell us about evolution? 13:41

9+ y ago13:41

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Fossil records tell us a lot about evolution around the time of dinosaursΑπό τον Roger Benson

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Lost in Translation? Experiencing the body on stage and screen 13:49

9+ y ago13:49

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How audiences respond to the body on stage and on screen. This presentation will seek to explore how audiences respond to the body on stage and on screen. We will explore the concept of ‘liveness’ and question how the physical presence of an actor alters our expectation of a cinematic/ theatrical event. We will touch on spectator theory, in both th…

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Colouring-in for Adults 11:04

9+ y ago11:04

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How flow cytometry can help investigations into immune-mediated diseases. Flow cytometry is a technique which uses flourescent compounds of different colours to label molecules on cells. Using this approach we can investigate the cell populations responsible for causing immune-mediated diseases such as Ankylosing Spondylitis and explore how new the…

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