Despite the increasing investment in multi-year federally funded science and technology centers in universities, there are few studies of how these centers engage in learning and change based on information submitted from various agents in the oversight and evaluation process. One challenge is how to manage and respond to this evaluative information, especially when it is conflicting. Although ...

nowadays, the world is faced with diverse challenging issues which lead to the development of communities to discuss about the matter and provide solutions for them. academic research centers are then established to puzzle out the raised questions with reliance on expert opinions and studies in response to the current prevailing needs. islamic republic of iran blessed with knowledgeable academi...

F rom April 2013, the IJOTM has extended its activities in publishing articles on tissue banking. It is a great pleasure to witness expansion of the journal activities in this new dimension that heralds a bright future through interactive reinforcement of the country's two major transplantation units by sharing mutual experience to further the regional goals of the MESOT. On account of the prev...

Telephone call centers are an integral part of many businesses, and their economic role is significant and growing. They are also fascinating socio-technical systems in which the behavior of customers and employees is closely intertwined with physical performance measures. In these environments traditional operational models are of great value – and at the same time fundamentally limited – in t...

BACKGROUND Recognizing the value of outcomes research to understand and bridge translational gaps, to establish evidence in clinical practice and delivery of medicine, and to generate new hypotheses on ongoing questions of treatment and care, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health established the Centers for Cardiovascular Outcomes Research program in...

CONTEXT Besides the generic "basic" vs "applied" labels, little information is known about the types of life-science research conducted within academic medical centers (AMCs). OBJECTIVE To determine the relative proportion, characteristics, funding, and productivity of AMC faculty by the type of research they conduct. DESIGN Mailed survey conducted in 2007 of 3080 life-science faculty at th...

This discussion defines various research approaches undertaken in health care or health promotion settings, notably basic science research, translational research, comparative effectiveness research (CER), implementation sciences, and quality improvement. This discussion particularly clarifies the relationship between translational research implementation sciences, comparative effectiveness res...

February 7, 2017 609 HE PLSE Lori Mosca, MD, MPH, PhD Pamela Ouyang, MBBS Carl A. Hubel, PhD Harmony R. Reynolds, MD Matthew A. Allison, MD, MPH Twenty years ago, the American Heart Association (AHA) pioneered a national initiative to raise awareness of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in women. In 1997, only 1 in 3 women recognized heart disease as their leading killer, and the percentage doubled ...

The history of research on photosynthetic reaction centers is outlined, starting with the implication of their existence through the discovery of the photosynthetic unit, as reported by R. Emerson and W. Arnold in 1932, and culminating in the crystallization and X-ray analysis of the anoxygenic bacterial reaction centers, reported by J. Deisenhofer, H. Michel, and coworkers, over the period 198...