It is interesting to speculate on the reasons for the recent upsurge of interest in what might be broadly described as a reflective approach to teacher education. While there is a good deal of contention at the moment as to precisely what this might mean, it is clear that we have been down a very similar track before, most notably with the work of Dewey (1904/1965) earlier this century. So what...

That RTD (Research and Technological Development) expenditure is related to social and economic development is widely acknowledged. At first sight, this relation could be traced as follows: “Expenditure in basic research produces discoveries used by applied research to conceive new products or new processes which generate positive social and economic impacts in the mid-long term” (STOA, 1999). ...

Molecular biology methods have tremendous value not only in the investigation of basic scientific questions, but also in application to a wide variety of problems affecting the overall human condition. Disease prevention and treatment, generation of new protein products, and manipulation of plants and animals for desired phenotypic traits are all applications that are routinely addressed by the...

Researchers in intellectual disability have had limited theoretical engagement with mainstream theories of masculinity. In this article, the authors consider what mainstream theories of masculinity may offer to applied research on, and hence to therapeutic interventions with, men and boys with intellectual disability. An example from one research project that explored male sexual health illustr...

The widespread use of rating scales in applied research fields implies need of statistical methods applicable to various types of studies involving ordinal response data. The aim of this paper is to present a teaching model of joining research courses in rating scale data analysis for statisticians and applied scientists together in order to stimulate inter-disciplinary communication. The parti...

Translational research refers to the application of basic science to address clinical problems and to acquire knowledge that can be used to guide and refine clinical practice. This special issue seeks to explore and integrate some of the most promising findings offered by recent cognitive and affective neuroscience studies to fill the gap between basic and applied research thereby heightening o...

The highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) energies of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and graphene are crucial in fundamental and applied research of carbon nanomaterials, and so their modulation is desired. Our first-principles calculations reveal that the HOMO energies of CNTs and graphene can both be raised by negatively charging, and that the rate of increase of the HOMO energy of a CNT is much...

BACKGROUND Workforce development is an important aspect of evidence-informed decision making (EIDM) interventions. The social position of individuals in formal and informal social networks, and the relevance of formal roles in relation to EIDM are important factors identifying key EIDM players in public health organizations. We assessed the role of central actors in information sharing networks...

Unlike most other disciplines, psychology parses its field primarily in terms of processes or mental entities (e.g., learning, sensation, perception, memory), rather than domains of life (e.g., eating, work, leisure). Although there are merits in this organization, a perhaps unintended result is that psychology has paid minimal attention to the major domains of life and how people function in t...

Working necessarily with Likert scales to measure Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC) outcomes has the advantage of unification, but also presents difficulty in reducing the rating from 1 to 5, especially when the research is qualitative and thus includes the use of words and expressions, as well as observations and perceptions. What exactly does a score of 2 or 3 mean with regard to the NOC ...