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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"Research funding"”.
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Does decreased research funding from the National Institutes of Health to local academic hospitals cause an increase in industry sponsored research funding?
… of Health (NIH) has been the stalwart of research funding at universities and academic teaching hospitals. However, since the start of the last decade NIH funding has contracted in real terms. Anticipating future Federal Government fiscal austerity, the situation appears unlikely to …
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Research Funding Patterns in the UK: With Special Reference to Analytical Science
This work considers the nature of research in Arts and Sciences generally in terms of funding inputs and publication output. The funding is described as broadly 'peer review’ or 'customer contractor’, the definitions for which are described. <br/><br/>The data base which has been assembled for the …
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Science, Engineering and Technology Research Funding Policy in Ireland 1995-2008: A Policy Document Analysis
… there has been an increased level of government funding for research and development in higher education institutions in Ireland. This thesis analyses the evolving theoretical literature on the production of knowledge, and traces how models of research and innovation have evolved in the …
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Bridging the innovation gap through funding : the case of MIT Deshpande Center
The idea of gap-funding program, in which academic scientists are given research funding for developing proof-of-concept and prototype, has recently attracted attention as a policy measure of commercializing academic science. While the earliest programs of its kind were initiated about a decade …
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University sustainability in times of uncertainty: The impact of Brexit on EU staff and students
… impact on EU student and staff recruitment, EU research funding, and collaborations with Europe was uncertain, as many Brexit policies and procedures had not been considered by the government when the Leave outcome was announced. EU staff and students working and studying in UK Higher Education …
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Improving the efficiency of research and development using belief networks
… has spent over three trillion dollars supporting research and development projects across its various federal agencies. There is a considerable, long-standing need to monitor, justify, and improve this allocation of taxpayer monies. However, oversight and prioritization of research funding has …
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Uncertainty and individual discretion in allocating research funds
There is a long-standing tradition in public research funding agencies of distributing funds via peer review, which aggregates evaluations of proposed research ideas from a group of external experts. Despite complaints that this process is biased against novel ideas, there is poor understanding of …
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Researchers’ experiences on collaborative research: The case of the University of Namibia and Namibia Commission on Research, Science and Technology
… study explored the experiences of the academic researchers at the University of Namibia (UNAM) and Namibia Commission on Research, Science and Technology (NCRST) on collaborative research projects. A total sample size of 15 researchers from UNAM and NCRST participated in this research project. …
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Domestic Resource Mobilization as a Pathway to Decolonization of HIV prevention research in Kenya
… donors’ priorities shift, HIV prevention research funding is declining, making domestic resource mobilization (DRM) critical. DRM refers to the process by which a country generates and allocates its resources to fund its priorities. This study examined valueholder perspectives on DRM …
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Research impact through Results-Based Management: practices, promises and pitfalls A cross-programme evaluation of Horizon Europe and the EEA and Norway Grants
… macro-level results frameworks in international research funding programmes. It proposes a conceptual evaluation framework grounded in a literature review and theoretical adaptations of best practices from the development sector, and applies it to two case studies. The development and application …
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Think ‘Zebra’
… in one sheds light on the systemic barriers to research and diagnosis. Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS) has thirteen subtypes, and, to date, all but one have at least one identified genetic marker. In 2021, researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina announced they may have found the …
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Adaptive design of clinical trials : understanding the barriers to adoption
There is great competition for clinical research funding. This is in part due to the National Institute of Health's reduced budget to support such initiatives. It has resulted in a growing trend for clinical research to use adaptive design models to accelerate clinical trials and at the same time …
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Scientific research and economic activity : the perceptions of academic and industrial scientists of the production and capitalization of knowledge
… society. The study reveals that commercial research funding significantly affects the perceptions of university-industry collaboration and academic knowledge capitalization. The analysis showed that academic scientists who received commercial research funding have relatively positive views …
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AN URBAN BIOETHICS APPROACH TO UNDERSTANDING DISPARITIES IN NEURODEVELOPMENTAL OUTCOMES FOR CHILDREN WITH CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE
… through retrospective record review. Though research funding and hospital resources have historically flowed toward optimizing surgical and other clinical care techniques, results indicate that factors such as poverty and other social determinants of health have a greater impact on many CHD …
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Executive Regulation of Abortion During the Reagan-Bush Years
… 1984 "Mexico City Policy," the 1988 Fetal Tissue Research Funding Ban," and the 1988 "Gag Rule" illustrates how regulation was created, implemented, legitimized and sustained all through the powers of the Reagan-Bush administrations. These regulations violated legal standards and principles of …
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ARE GRADUATE STUDENTS RATIONAL? MACROECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF GRADUATE ENROLLMENT AND COMPLETIONS IN THE BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES
… relative wages and employment. However, because research doctorates in these fields may take six years or more to complete, there is a substantial lag in the labor supply response to changing market conditions. Rational expectations models assume that prospective graduate students can forecast …
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Factors Associating with the Future Citation Impact of Published Articles: A Statistical Modelling Approach
… country and institutional affiliations, and funding source are known to associate with its citation impact. This thesis investigates some common factors previously assessed and some new factors: journal author internationality; journal citing author internationality; cited journal author …
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Is the Share of Agricultural Maintenance Research Rising? Implications for Future Productivity Growth in U.S. Agriculture
Agricultural research is susceptible to research deterioration due to biological, climatic, and economic forces. Research deteriorates as the base conditions it addresses change which leaves the resulting information or technology less effective, efficient, productive, and/or relevant. Maintenance …
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Advancing clinical gait analysis through technology and policy
… tool. Only through indirect means, such as research funding, can policies support the development of organizations to take ownership of gait analysis technologies. Part I also concludes that policies should not fund development of gait technologies but instead should fund research units …
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“Down Your Drink” (DYD): a digital intervention to reduce harmful drinking
… Therapy. DYD was evaluated using the Medical Research Council’s framework for complex interventions. Several studies showed that large numbers of users registered with the programme and were willing to provide data, but levels of attrition were high. Users were largely in their mid to late …
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