Costs and benefits of research

Clinical Governance: Costs and Benefits

Benefits of open and high-powered research outweigh costs.

Several researchers recently outlined unacknowledged costs of open science practices, arguing these costs may outweigh benefits and stifle discovery of novel findings. We scrutinize these researchers' (a) statistical concern that heightened stringency with respect to false-positives will increase false-negatives and (b) metascientific concern that larger samples and executing direct replication...

clinical governance: costs and benefits

Sugarcane Research in Barbados and Its Costs and Benefits

New varieties are constantly being evaluated and introduced, An overview of the organisation of sugarcane agronomic research in Barbados is given in the context of its constraints and opportunities. The research programme has been made substantially more cost effective by the reorganisation of the variety testing component. This paper describes how the work is conducted. Using certain assumptio...

Green Retrofitting Costs and Benefits: A New Research Agenda

Since the introduction of the Green Mark Scheme in Singapore in January 2005, more than 650 projects have been awarded the Green Mark Award. In fact, from 2008, all new buildings must achieve the mandatory standard of a certified green building. However, the challenge is how to convert the existing stock of buildings in order for them to achieve the green mark standard. This study is motivated ...