Indigenous and other ways (Denkzettel)

Identifying and understanding Indigenous ways of evaluating physical activity programs.

Indigenous evaluation frameworks have not been investigated in the context of American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) physical activity programs, an important area given the relationship between effective physical activity programs and quality of life among these populations. To address this gap, staff members of AI/AN physical activity programs were interviewed to explore their understanding...

[Ways of life and ways to drink of young indigenous in a transformation context].

The interactions among the ways of life and drink of youths indigenous of a populous place of Upper Rio Negro were analyzed through an ethnographic research. It was used a theoretical model that allowed to decompose and to articulate the social reality in different levels. It was observed that there was a multiplication of the situations in which is possible to drink, that are associated to mec...

Indigenous ways of knowing: implications for participatory research and community.

Researchers have a responsibility to cause no harm, but research has been a source of distress for indigenous people because of inappropriate methods and practices. The way researchers acquire knowledge in indigenous communities may be as critical for eliminating health disparities as the actual knowledge that is gained about a particular health problem. Researchers working with indigenous comm...

Model Checking and Other Ways of AutomatingFormal

1 Automated Formal Methods Formal methods can beneet system design in two diierent ways. Concepts and notations from mathematics can provide methodological assistance: they can help us think, and can help us communicate our ideas. Mathematical modeling can allow us to calculate some of the properties of our designs. My interest is chieey in the second of these and, more particularly, in automat...

Reducing the impact of cancer in Indigenous communities: ways forward.