FOSTER is an EU project aiming at identifying, enriching and providing training content on relevant Open Science topics in support of implementing EC‘s Open Science Agenda in the European Research Area. During the previous two years a wealth of training resources have been collected, which are now presented in a dedicated training portal. The paper describes how to use the FOSTER training platf...

In recent years, scholarly publishing has been faced with many distractive phenomena. Generally, most researchers are unaware of fraudulent practices now common to scholarly publishing and are at risk of becoming a victim of them. Editors also need to have sufficient knowledge about these practices. There are papers that try to increase awareness of authors about fraud in scholarly publishing, ...

Educational Intervention Strategies is a collaborative project undertaken by teams from the following institutions: Belgium All project teams have contributed to this report, which is the outcome principally of the first workpackage. The workpackage was coordinated by the University of Surrey.

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The objective of this research project was to investigate bridge approach problems and develop new concepts for design, construction, and maintenance that will reduce this costly problem.

As criticisms of factory farming continue to mount, an increasing number of individuals have changed their existing dietary practices. Perhaps the two most important food movements reacting against industrial farming are (1) vegetarianism, the avoidance of animal flesh; and (2) conscientious omnivorism (CO), the consumption of meat or fish only when it satisfies certain ethical standards. While...

OBJECTIVES Primary care high-risk prescribing causes significant harm, but it is unclear if it is largely driven by individuals (a 'bad apple' problem) or by practices having higher or lower risk prescribing cultures (a 'spoiled barrel' problem). The study aimed to examine the extent of variation in high-risk prescribing between individual prescribers and between the practices they work in. D...

Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) is a structured and coordinated approach for identifying, assessing, managing risks faced by an organization. Implementing ERM standards frameworks has several benefits, including improving focus perspective on risk. aids in developing leading indicators to detect potential risk events provide early warning signals. also incorporates key metrics measurements of ...