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Chenyang Xiao - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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increasing influence of party identification on perceived scientific agreement and support for Government Action on climate change in the united states 2006 12
Weather Climate and Society, 2014Co-Authors: Aaron M. Mccright, Riley E. Dunlap, Chenyang XiaoAbstract:AbstractSince the mid-2000s, U.S. conservative leaders and Republican politicians have stepped up efforts to challenge the reality and seriousness of anthropogenic climate change (ACC). Especially with the rise of the Tea Party in 2009, ACC denial has become something of a litmus test for Republican politicians to prove their conservative bona fides. Two recent studies find that misperception of scientific agreement on ACC is associated with lower levels of support for Government Action to deal with ACC. Using nationally representative survey data from 2006 and 2012, the analytical model developed in those two studies was applied to investigate whether the effect of political orientation on perceived scientific agreement and support for Government Action to reduce emissions has increased since the heightened ACC denial by Republican politicians beginning in 2009. The results indicated that political ideology and party identification are moderately strong predictors of perceived scientific agreement; belie...
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Perceived scientific agreement and support for Government Action on climate change in the USA
Climatic Change, 2013Co-Authors: Aaron M. Mccright, Riley E. Dunlap, Chenyang XiaoAbstract:Given the well-documented campaign in the USA to deny the reality and seriousness of anthropogenic climate change (a major goal of which is to “manufacture uncertainty” in the minds of policy-makers and the general public), we examine the influence that perception of the scientific agreement on global warming has on the public’s beliefs about global warming and support for Government Action to reduce emissions. A recent study by Ding et al. (Nat Clim Chang 1:462–466, 2011 ) using nationally representative survey data from 2010 finds that misperception of scientific agreement among climate scientists is associated with lower levels of support for climate policy and beliefs that Action should be taken to deal with global warming. Our study replicates and extends Ding et al. (Nat Clim Chang 1:462–466, 2011 ) using nationally representative survey data from March 2012. We generally confirm their findings, suggesting that the crucial role of perceived scientific agreement on views of global warming and support for climate policy is robust. Further, we show that political orientation has a significant influence on perceived scientific agreement, global warming beliefs, and support for Government Action to reduce emissions. Our results suggest the importance of improving public perception of the scientific agreement on global warming, but in ways that do not trigger or aggravate ideological or partisan divisions. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
C. Nataraj - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Nonlinear dynamic analysis of an epidemiological model for COVID-19 including public behavior and Government Action
Nonlinear Dynamics, 2020Co-Authors: C. A. K. Kwuimy, Foad Nazari, Xun Jiao, Pejman Rohani, C. NatarajAbstract:This paper is concerned with nonlinear modeling and analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic currently ravaging the planet. There are two objectives: to arrive at an appropriate model that captures the collected data faithfully and to use that as a basis to explore the nonlinear behavior. We use a nonlinear susceptible, exposed, infectious and removed transmission model with added behavioral and Government policy dynamics. We develop a genetic algorithm technique to identify key model parameters employing COVID-19 data from South Korea. Stability, bifurcations and dynamic behavior are analyzed. Parametric analysis reveals conditions for sustained epidemic equilibria to occur. This work points to the value of nonlinear dynamic analysis in pandemic modeling and demonstrates the dramatic influence of social and Government behavior on disease dynamics.
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nonlinear dynamic analysis of an epidemiological model for covid 19 including public behavior and Government Action
arXiv: Populations and Evolution, 2020Co-Authors: C. A. K. Kwuimy, Foad Nazari, Xun Jiao, Pejman Rohani, C. NatarajAbstract:This paper is concerned with nonlinear modeling and analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic currently ravaging the planet. There are two objectives: to arrive at an appropriate model that captures the collected data faithfully, and to use that as a basis to explore the nonlinear behavior. We use a nonlinear SEIR (Susceptible, Exposed, Infectious & Removed) transmission model with added behavioral and Government policy dynamics. We develop a genetic algorithm technique to identify key model parameters employing COVID19 data from South Korea. Stability, bifurcations and dynamic behavior are analyzed. Parametric analysis reveals conditions for sustained epidemic equilibria to occur. This work points to the value of nonlinear dynamic analysis in pandemic modeling and demonstrates the dramatic influence of social and Government behavior on disease dynamics.
Stephen Colagiuri - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Government Action on diabetes prevention time to try something new
The Medical Journal of Australia, 2015Co-Authors: Jenny Claire Kaldor, Roger S Magnusson, Stephen ColagiuriAbstract:Type 2 diabetes mellitus, driven by overweight and obesity linked to unhealthy diets, is the fastest growing non-communicable disease in Australia. Halting the rise of diabetes will require a paradigm shift from personal to shared responsibility, with greater accountability from Australian Governments and the food industry. It will also require Governments to try something different to the prevailing approaches emphasising education and the provision of information. We propose four priority areas where Government regulation could strengthen Australia’s response. Those areas relate to mandatory front-of-pack food labelling, regulating junk food advertising, better oversight of food reformulation and taxing sugar-sweetened beverages.
Ketan Shankardass - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the implementation of health in all policies initiatives a systems framework for Government Action
Health Research Policy and Systems, 2018Co-Authors: Ketan Shankardass, Carles Muntaner, Lauri Kokkinen, Faraz Vahid Shahidi, Alix Freiler, Goldameir Oneka, Ahmed M Bayoumi, Patricia OcampoAbstract:There has been a renewed interest in broadening the research agenda in health promotion to include Action on the structural determinants of health, including a focus on the implementation of Health in All Policies (HiAP). Governments that use HiAP face the challenge of instituting governance structures and processes to facilitate policy coordination in an evidence-informed manner. Due to the complexity of Government institutions and the policy process, systems theory has been proposed as a tool for evaluating the implementation of HiAP. Our multiple case study research programme (HiAP Analysis using Realist Methods On International Case Studies – HARMONICS) has relied on systems theory and realist methods to make sense of how and why the practices of policy-makers (including politicians and civil servants) from specific institutional environments (policy sectors) has either facilitated or hindered the implementation of HiAP. Herein, we present a systems framework for the implementation of HiAP based on our experience and empirical findings in studying this process. We describe a system of 14 components within three subsystems of Government. Subsystems include the executive (heads of state and their appointed political elites), intersectoral (the milieu of policy-makers and experts working with governance structures related to HiAP) and intrasectoral (policy-makers within policy sectors). Here, HiAP implementation is a process involving interActions between subsystems and their components that leads to the emergence of implementation outcomes, as well as effects on the system components themselves. We also describe the influence of extra-Governmental systems, including (but not limited to) the academic sector, third sector, private sector and interGovernmental sector. Finally, we present a case study that applies this framework to understand the implementation of HiAP – the Health 2015 Strategy – in Finland, from 2001 onward. This framework is useful for helping to explain how, why and under what circumstances HiAP has been successfully and unsuccessfully implemented in a sustainable manner. It serves as a tool for researchers to study this process, and for policy-makers and other public health actors to manage this process.
Aaron M. Mccright - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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increasing influence of party identification on perceived scientific agreement and support for Government Action on climate change in the united states 2006 12
Weather Climate and Society, 2014Co-Authors: Aaron M. Mccright, Riley E. Dunlap, Chenyang XiaoAbstract:AbstractSince the mid-2000s, U.S. conservative leaders and Republican politicians have stepped up efforts to challenge the reality and seriousness of anthropogenic climate change (ACC). Especially with the rise of the Tea Party in 2009, ACC denial has become something of a litmus test for Republican politicians to prove their conservative bona fides. Two recent studies find that misperception of scientific agreement on ACC is associated with lower levels of support for Government Action to deal with ACC. Using nationally representative survey data from 2006 and 2012, the analytical model developed in those two studies was applied to investigate whether the effect of political orientation on perceived scientific agreement and support for Government Action to reduce emissions has increased since the heightened ACC denial by Republican politicians beginning in 2009. The results indicated that political ideology and party identification are moderately strong predictors of perceived scientific agreement; belie...
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Perceived scientific agreement and support for Government Action on climate change in the USA
Climatic Change, 2013Co-Authors: Aaron M. Mccright, Riley E. Dunlap, Chenyang XiaoAbstract:Given the well-documented campaign in the USA to deny the reality and seriousness of anthropogenic climate change (a major goal of which is to “manufacture uncertainty” in the minds of policy-makers and the general public), we examine the influence that perception of the scientific agreement on global warming has on the public’s beliefs about global warming and support for Government Action to reduce emissions. A recent study by Ding et al. (Nat Clim Chang 1:462–466, 2011 ) using nationally representative survey data from 2010 finds that misperception of scientific agreement among climate scientists is associated with lower levels of support for climate policy and beliefs that Action should be taken to deal with global warming. Our study replicates and extends Ding et al. (Nat Clim Chang 1:462–466, 2011 ) using nationally representative survey data from March 2012. We generally confirm their findings, suggesting that the crucial role of perceived scientific agreement on views of global warming and support for climate policy is robust. Further, we show that political orientation has a significant influence on perceived scientific agreement, global warming beliefs, and support for Government Action to reduce emissions. Our results suggest the importance of improving public perception of the scientific agreement on global warming, but in ways that do not trigger or aggravate ideological or partisan divisions. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
