French labs face funding squeeze

Prisons face hep C-treatment funding crisis.

Research, policy and funding - academic treadmills and the squeeze on intellectual spaces.

In recent years, there has been a great deal of collective rumination about social scientists' role in society. In the post-1997 UK context, public policy commitments to 'evidence-based policy' and 'knowledge transfer' have further stimulated such reflections. More recently, Michael Burawoy's 2004 address to the American Sociological Association, which called for greater engagement with 'public...

Welfare Finance Reform : District States Could Face Funding Challenges

T recent unveiling of President Clinton’s welfare reform proposal marks the beginning of a debate which, before it ends, may affect both the design and financing of many welfare programs. While the administration’s proposal would redesign one of the key programs, Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), debate has already spread to how welfare is financed. Poverty rates, which are determ...

Funding decisions

Funding decision is one of the financial strategic decisions of a corporation. There are also two other finan-cial strategic decisions that a corporation faces, the investment and the dividend decision. This paper de-scribes briefly the investment and the dividend decision, although its main focus is on funding decision. In de-scribing the funding decision the researchers will first explain the...

Virtual labs: a substitute for traditional labs?

Current technologies give us the ability to enhance and replace developmental biology classes with computer-based resources, often called virtual labs. In the process of using these resources, teachers may be tempted to neglect the simpler technologies and lab bench activities, which can be labor intensive. In this paper, I take a critical look at the role of computer-based materials for the te...