The Laboratory of Industrial and Energy Economics (LIEE) is an educational and research unit at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), one of the oldest and most prestigious academic institutions of Greece. The unit is part of the Chemical Engineering Department, having strong links with other departments of NTUA in both teaching and research activities. LIEE currently employees 6 ...

BACKGROUND It is widely accepted that all medical graduates should understand the uses and methods of rigorous research, with a need to promote research to graduates who will pursue an academic career. This study aimed to explore, identify and explain what motivates and demotivates medical students to do research. METHODS A convergent parallel mixed methods study was conducted. Cross-sectiona...

BACKGROUND Although clinical research is integral to the advancement of medical knowledge, physicians face a variety of obstacles to their participation as investigators in clinical trials. We examined factors that influence the participation of gastroenterologists and hepatologists in clinical research. METHODS We surveyed 1050 members of the American Association for the Study of Liver Disea...

With rapid progress in scientific research activities and growing competition for funding resources, it becomes critical to effectively evaluate an individual researcher's annual academic performance, or their cumulative performance within the last 3-5 years. It is particularly important for young independent investigators, and is also useful for funding agencies when determining the productivi...

BACKGROUND Research experiences early in the medical student's education are an important factor for attracting a greater number of doctors to careers with a research component. OBJECTIVE To determine the factors contributing to a lack of enthusiasm about research activities among medical students, and to suggest ways to help students develop an interest in research. DESIGN A medical instit...

though 1990 marked the 25th anniversary of the American };. Occupational Therapy Foundation (AOTF), organized research efforts in the profession have been undelway for several decades. Previous articles in this series have highlighted developments in praerice and education over the past 40 years, in which the years 1949 and 1989 have been compared. Dramatic changes have occurred since 1949 in t...

We propose a core task for question generation intended to maximize research activity and a subtask to identify the key concepts in a document for which questions should be generated. We discuss how these tasks are affected by the target application, discuss human evaluation techniques, and propose application-independent methods to automatically evaluate system performance.

BACKGROUND Biomedical research can have impacts on patient care at research-active hospitals. We qualitatively evaluated the impact of the Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (Oxford BRC), a university-hospital partnership, on the effectiveness and efficiency of healthcare in local hospitals. Effectiveness and efficiency are conceptualised in terms of impacts perceived by clinicians on the qualit...

The main objective of this research is to design and operate a prediction market inside an R&D community, to assess the emergence and the evolution of mobile technologies. To support this research, we iteratively developed and evaluated several prototypes. We intend to demonstrate the successful use of prediction markets for predicting the impact of a research activity. Furthermore, following a...