Stimulating Research

Stimulating innovative research in health promotion.

The Global Working Group on Health Promotion Research (GWG HPR) of the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE) presents a collection of four articles illustrating innovative avenues for health promotion research. This commentary synthesizes the contributions of these articles while attempting to define the contours of research in health promotion. We propose that innovati...

Cognitive Neurology: Stimulating Research on Neglect

A recent brain stimulation study provides the first direct physiological evidence that attention deficits after right-hemisphere stroke arise in part from hyper-excitation of neural pathways in the undamaged left hemisphere.

Stimulating medical education research in the Netherlands.

BACKGROUND Since the 1970s, the Dutch have been active innovators and researchers in the medical education domain. With regards to the quantity of publications in the medical education literature, the Netherlands rank second among countries in Europe and fourth worldwide over the past years, related to the journals with highest impact factors. AIM We attempted to analyse what made this countr...

Stimulating Collaborative Development in Operations Research with libOR

In this paper we describe the development of libOR, an on-line library for the operations research (OR) community. The design and operation of this website is inspired by the Open Source movement and recent developments such as Wikipedia. In operations research, data sets are exchanged between researchers in order to test the performance of newly developed algorithms. Currently, the exchange of...

Challenging Nuclear Cardiology Research: Stimulating Discovery, Validation, and Clinical Relevance.