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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"Research priorities"”.
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The setting of health research priorities in South Africa
… and development of a nation are linked. Health research is a vital element helps bring about improved health and has the potential to serve as an impetus for equitable development. Generally, it is necessary to prioritise needs in order to optimise the use of scarce resources for development. …
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Methods of breastmilk expression: An evidence review to inform guidelines and research priorities
… breastmilk expression and inform guidelines and research priorities. Methods: Systematic review using Cochrane methods. Electronic databases (PubMed, CINAHL, Embase, Scopus, Cochrane Central) and references of included studies were searched (July 2018). Selection criteria were RCTs comparing …
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Defining farm-safety research priorities and adjusting farm insurance premiums by a risk analysis approach
… activities. Agricultural safety education and research priorities were defined based upon the risk model developed in this study. A sensitivity analysis was conducted to determine the impact of the assumptions on the research priorities established. It was found that the research priorities …
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A Multiethnic Approach of Stakeholder Involvement to Set Priorities for Oral Health Research
Setting research priorities is a key component of an effective research system. Stakeholder involvement, both formal and informal, is crucial in this process. Only few studies focus on the challenges of engaging diverse populations, particularly those from different ethnic and linguistic …
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Meeting Development Objectives with Agricultural Research: Priority Setting in Zimbabwe
… to make choices in Zimbabwe's publicly funded research is heightened. Adoption of quantitative priority setting methods help improve the objectivity of decision-making while fostering consistency of research priorities with the attainment of research system objectives This study develops and …
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Exploring the Behaviour and Physiology of Juvenile Bonefish (Albula vulpes): Fundamental and Applied Perspectives
… fish throughout the Caribbean; to date, most research has focused on adult bonefish, leaving the juvenile life stage poorly understood. Bonefish are currently listed as ‘near-threatened’ by the IUCN, calling for a shift in research priorities to consider more than adults. In Chapter 2, I …
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Advancing Biosecurity in the Age of AI: Integrating Novel Detection, Suppression, and Evaluation Approaches
… an international expert review and establishing research priorities essential for deploying this vital physical defense against airborne threats. Third, it develops rigorous methodologies for evaluating AI's rapidly evolving biological capabilities, benchmarking frontier models across diverse …
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Condition Assessment Technologies for Drinking Water and Wastewater Pipelines: State-of-the-Art Literature and Practice Review
… methodologies available and in current use. This research incorporates an extensive literature review on actual cases of use of these various condition assessment technologies and techniques. This research also compiles information gathered through interviews and data mining work with utilities …
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Improving outcomes for women with endometriosis
… “The two aims of my thesis were (a) to identify research priorities for endometriosis and (b) to determine the feasibility of a future multi-centre, large randomised controlled trial (RCT) to evaluate the effectiveness of Omega-3 purified fatty acids (PUFA) for endometriosis-associated pain. To …
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Paternal Depression in the Peripartum Period: An International Delphi Study
… Peripartum Depression (PPPD) as well as identify research priorities through the Delphi method. Peripartum Depression is a major health issue for parents and their children. Fathers are at risk for peripartum depression due to the changes in identity, relationship, and biology they face during …
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The Cape Town Violence and Injury Observatory (VIO) Validity and utility of data sources for a prevention-oriented VIO in urban Cape Town, South Africa
… various iterations as a municipality-level research tool, to a city-level tool and thereafter as a national and transnational tool. Aims of this thesis The thesis aimed to assess the utility of clinical and non-clinical data sources in constituting a prevention-oriented violence and injury …
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An investigative study of the present professional preparation for teachers in primary schools in Saudi Arabia, with especial reference to Islamic and Arabic subjects
… and quality of teacher training and future research priorities are also identified.
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Measuring tropical forest disturbance and regrowth with spaceborne lidar
… that exceed the limitations assumed by prior research. This finding has important implications for our scientific understanding of carbon fluxes and biodiversity impacts in disturbed tropical forests, for research priorities in distributed geospatial computing to support future spaceborne …
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From Presence to “E-Presence” in Online Nursing Education
… The National League for Nursing (NLN) set research priorities that urged exploration of the impact that technology has on the content and nature of teaching and learning in nursing education (1999). Using a series of separate synchronous, online focus groups and 1:1 interviews with nurse …
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Evolutionary history and taxonomy of the titi monkeys (callicebinae)
… group, with implications for classification and research priorities.
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The role of inflammasomes in a murine model of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)
… and trauma. ARDS has become one of the top research priorities since the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak in 2020. From injury to damaged tissue repair, cell proliferation is a mandatory mechanistic process which is triggered by neutrophils and tissue resident macrophages releasing various factors or …
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The Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation of Stone Oaks (Lithocarpus)
… 6 steps back from Lithocarpus, to assess what research is conducted across all vascular plant species, after they are assessed as threatened. Drawing on data from scientific publications, botanic gardens, and herbaria, it identifies persistent knowledge gaps and highlights opportunities to …
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More money, more science? : how the malaria research community responds to funding opportunities
Agencies that fund research shape both the rate and direction of scientific progress through the resource allocation choices they make. However, our understanding of the degree to which scientists respond to shifts in that allocation is very limited. How does the scientific community reorganize …
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Characterization of Clinical and Commensal Escherichia coli Isolates from an Integrated Turkey Operation
… for avian pathogenic E. coli strains. These research priorities are complementary and may lead to the identification of new interventions to prevent this important infectious disease of poultry.
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The Development of a Cancer-Targeting Peptide-Drug Conjugate for the Treatment of Melanoma
… pandemic which has caused a dramatic shift in research priorities. One of the most aggressive and difficult to treat has invariably remained metastatic melanoma. Although encompassing only 4% of overall skin cancer diagnoses, chances for recovery were slim until recent revolutionary development …
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