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Statistics for Ranking Program Committees and Editorial Boards

Ranking groups of researchers is important in several contexts and can serve many purposes such as the fair distribution of grants based on the scientist’s publication output, concession of research projects, classification of journal editorial boards and many other applications in a social context. In this paper, we propose a method for measuring the performance of groups of researchers. The p...

boards and committees

boards and committees

passivity in waiting for godot and endgame: a psychoanalytic reading

this study intends to investigate samuel beckett’s waiting for godot and endgame under the lacanian psychoanalysis. it begins by explaining the most important concepts of lacanian psychoanalysis. the beckettian characters are studied regarding their state of unconscious, and not the state of consciousness as is common in most beckett studies. according to lacan, language plays the sole role in ...

Institutional Review Boards and Independent Ethics Committees

Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) and Independent Ethics Committees (IECs) are charged with protecting the rights and safety of clinical trial participants. The regulations that guide the review, approval, and conduct of human research refer to these independent boards as IRBs or IECs. In 2001 the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs (AAHRPP) was formed. Sinc...