This study aimed at introducing the panel data analysis to explore the determinants and the effect of ethics violations on the abnormal returns of the sponsors of Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) by using the five negative incidents over 20 years. The financial secondary data collected from the CTMONEY database and the CPBL official website were employed to determine the relationship...

BACKGROUND Although industry sponsors provide approximately 70 percent of the funding for clinical drug trials in the United States, little is known about the legal agreements that exist between industry sponsors and academic investigators. We studied institutional standards regarding contractual provisions that restrict investigators' control over trials. METHODS We used a structured, cross-...

www.sciencemag.org SCIENCE VOL 329 16 JULY 2010 249 COVER A seedling carpet dominated by Dipteryx oleifera (almendro) in the forest understory of Barro Colorado Island, Panama. Seedlings here have a lower probability of surviving when surrounded by neighbors of their own species. However, rare species suffer more from the presence of like neighbors than do common species, suggesting a mechanism...

tentative): This talk will outline the types of data that public health officials seek from mathematical models during a public health emergency. The talk will describe how modeling is integrated into CDC’s emergency response structure and illustrate the type of questions that have been addressed during large-scale responses. Also discussed will be the conditions and constraints under which the...

As congregations continue to prepare for the future, they focus particularly on the identification and development of potential new sponsors. The Sisters of Mercy Regional Community of Chicago has launched an initiative to identify persons who might be appropriate for sponsorship ministry. Working with the sisters in the region, we who served on the congregation's leadership team began by looki...

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Many studies have shown that commercially-sponsored clinical trials are more likely than publicly-financed trials to produce results that are favorable to the sponsoring firm. There is no research, however, to support the allegation that industry sponsors intentionally design methodologically inferior studies. Rather than empirically determining whether commercially financed research is less so...