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The Society for Ethnobotany  (SEB) is about people exploring the uses of, and our relationship with plants, cultures and our environment—plants and human affairs. You might well call our research and educational efforts, the science of survival.

We were established as the Society of Economic Botany in 1959 and our mission is to foster and encourage scientific research, education, and related activities on the past, present, and future uses of plants, and the relationship between plants and people, and to make the results of such research available to the scientific community and the general public through meetings and publications.

Membership in SEB is open to all individuals interested in ethnobotany and in the promotion of research in this field.

With members from across the 50 U.S. states and more than 64 countries around the globe, SEB serves as the world's largest and most-respected professional society for individuals who are concerned with basic botanical, phytochemical and ethnological studies of plants known to be useful or those which may have potential uses so far undeveloped. It is recognized that the field of ethnobotany includes all or parts of many established disciplines such as: agronomy, anthropology, archaeology, chemistry, economics, ethnobotany, ethnology, forestry, genetic resources, geography, geology, horticulture, medicine, microbiology, nutrition, pharmacognosy, and pharmacology, in addition to the established botanical disciplines.

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In a 1958 essay at the conference which was to found the Society for Economic Botany, David J. Rogers wrote, "A current viewpoint is that economic botany should concern itself with basic botanical, phytochemical and ethnological studies of plants known to be useful or those which may have potential uses so far underdeveloped. Economic botany is, then, a composite of those sciences working specifically with plants of importance to [people]." Ethnobotany is a growing field which emphasizes plants in context of the anthropological sciences. Some would say that science is what scientists do, perhaps the best definition of ethnobotany is found in the work presented in our journal and at annual meetings of the Society.

Our publication, ECONOMIC BOTANY , was founded in 1947 by Edmund H. Fulling at the New York Botanical Garden. William J. Robbins , then Director of the Garden, wrote in the first issue that this new botanical magazine would ";....serve as a common meeting place for botanists interested primarily in fundamental principles and others who are concerned with economic applications of those principles and with the industrial utlization of plants and plant products."

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Theories and Major Hypotheses in Ethnobotany

• Published: 07 September 2017
• Volume 71 , pages 269–287, ( 2017 )

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• Orou G. Gaoue   ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-0946-2741 1 , 2 , 3   nAff4 ,
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Ethnobotany has evolved from a discipline that largely documented the diversity of plant use by local people to one focused on understanding how and why people select plants for a wide range of uses. This progress has been in response to a repeated call for theory-inspired and hypothesis-driven research to improve the rigor of the discipline. Despite improvements, recent ethnobotanical research has overemphasized the use of quantitative ethnobotany indices and statistical methods borrowed from ecology, yet underemphasized the development and integration of a strong theoretical foundation. To advance the field of ethnobotany as a hypothesis-driven, theoretically inspired discipline, it is important to first synthesize the existing theoretical lines of research. We review and discuss 17 major theories and hypotheses in ethnobotany that can be used as a starting point for developing research questions that advance our understanding of people–plant interactions. For each theory or major hypothesis, we identify its primary predictions and testable hypotheses and then discuss how these predictions have been tested. Developing research to test these predictions will make significant contributions to the field of ethnobotany and create the critical mass of primary literature necessary to develop meta-analyses and to advance new theories in ethnobotany.

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Review of the Fund’s Capacity Development Strategy—Towards a More Flexible, Integrated, and Tailored Model

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April 9, 2024

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Capacity Development (CD), comprising technical assistance and training, fosters economic development by improving human capital and institutions in member countries. Every five years, the IMF reviews its CD Strategy to ensure that CD continues to be of high quality and well-focused on the needs of its members. This review calls for CD to become more flexible, integrated with the Fund’s policy advice and lending, and tailored to respond to member needs. The review benefitted from the recent independent evaluation of the Fund’s CD and a wide range of inputs, including internal and external consultations, surveys of recipients and development partners, staff background studies and recommendations of an External Advisory Group. The vision for CD is informed by the Fund’s comparative advantages and surveillance priorities. The proposals of the current review center around the six key areas: (1) strengthening CD prioritization and integration; (2) enhancing the funding model; (3) strengthening monitoring and evaluation; (4) modernizing modalities; (5) enhancing field presence; and (5) strengthening human resources policies for staff working on CD.

Policy Paper No. 2024/014

Monetary policy Political economy

9798400270697/2663-3493

PPEA2024014

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Conference Date: 27 – 29 September, 2024

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“technological advancements to help society overcome various socio-economic and health challenges”.

The conference aims to provide an active platform for research scientists, engineers, and practitioners throughout the world to present their latest research findings, ideas, and applications in the fields of interest which fall under the scope of IEEE. Prospective authors are invited to submit original research papers (not being considered for publication elsewhere) in standard IEEE conference template describing new theoretical and/or experimental research results in the following tracks (but are not limited to:)

Track-1 Computer and Information Technology

Chair: Prof. M N Hoda – BVICAM, New Delhi

Artificial & Augmented intelligence and their applications, Biometrics & RFID, Computational Intelligence, Deep Learning, Big Data Analysis, IOT, 5G Networks and Cloud Computing, Data and Business analytics, Computational Social Science & Social Networks

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Chair: Prof. Bijender Kumar – NSUT, New Delhi

Computing Technologies Algorithms Programming Languages Computing Architectures and Systems Computer Graphics, Vision and Animation Software and Database System Multimedia Engineering Networks, IoT and Cyber Security Cluster, Cloud, & Grid Computing Computational Intelligence, Data Mining, Neural Networks and Deep Learning, Meta heuristic algorithms, Machine Learning, Business Intelligence, Human Computer Interface, Crowd Sourcing & Social Intelligence, Data Science & Engineering, Big Data Analytics, High Performance Computing, Computational Biology & Bioinformatics Data Centric, Programming Data, Modeling & Semantic web, Text, Web Mining, & Visualization Domain Specific Data Management, Knowledge Engineering Parallel Computing, Pervasive Computing.

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Chair: Prof. Manoj Saxena – Delhi University, New Delhi

Electron Devices & Solid-State Circuits, Circuits and Systems, Consumer Electronics, Micro and Nanoelectronics, Photonics, RF Circuits, Systems and Antennas, Propagation and Computational EM RF/Millimetre-wave Circuits and Systems THz, mm Wave and RF Systems for Communications Materials and Structures Microwave Metrology RF and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology Devices, Circuits, Materials and Processing Electronic devices, materials and fabrication process, Device modelling & characterization, Advanced CMOS devices and process, Beyond CMOS device technology, Emerging memory technologies, Analog and mixed signal ICs, MEMS and semiconductor sensors

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Conventional, Renewable and Green Energy, Energy Storage Devices, Electric Vehicles and their Charging infrastructure, onboard, offboard chargers, Industrial Electronics and application, Smart Grid and Micro Grid, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Modelling & Simulation of Machines, Power Systems, High Voltage and Power Electronics, Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation

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Communication, Signal, Image and Video Processing, RF, Microwave, Millimetre wave: Theory and Techniques, Electromagnetics, Antennas and wave Propagation, Ultrasonic, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, Wireless technologies, Broadcasting, Intelligent Transportation System.

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Intelligent Control Systems – Robust, Fuzzy, Neural Network-based, Applications in inter-disciplinary areas; Instrumentation and Measurements, Sensors and Circuits – Optical, Biological, Robotics and Automation etc.

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Biomedical Engineering and Healthcare Technologies Biomedical Signal Processing and Instrumentation, Wearable Sensors for Health care monitoring Biomedical Imaging Micro/Nano-bioengineering and Cellular /Tissue Engineering & Biomaterials Computational Systems, Modeling and Simulation.

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Chair(s): Prof. Preeti Bajaj, IEEE Region 10 for WIE Mr. Sanjay Kar Chowdhury, Industry Relations Committee Chair, Region 10 for Industry Prof. Rajendrasinh Jadeja, Marwadi University, Gujarat for HTC Prof. Rajashree Jain, Symbiosis Pune for Education

Product Safety & Reliability Engineering, Social and Humanitarian Implications of Technology, Theoretical Computer Science, Emerging technologies and their applications in education, publications, tourism, healthcare, agriculture etc

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