In the 21st century, healthcare executives are facing changes of unprecedented magnitude in virtually every area, affecting their ability to compete. That hindrance brings with it a greater need for rapid and effective organizational change and improvement. Yet changes in the U.S. healthcare delivery system have historically been criticized as slow and less than effective in responding to the c...

Fourier transforms, integer and fractional, are ubiquitous mathematical tools in basic and applied science. Certainly, since the ordinary Fourier transform is merely a particular case of a continuous set of fractional Fourier domains, every property and application of the ordinary Fourier transform becomes a special case of the fractional Fourier transform. Despite the great practical importanc...

It is now realized by all those concerned with the development of scientific, social, cultural, and economic progress, that practical applications and desirable advances in these fields depend upon research . The research is of two major kinds. One kind consists of basic fundamental research, in which problems are investigated because of their interest and challenge to the investigator, with no...

Introduction Industrial research is defined as planned search or critical investigation for the acquisition of new knowledge and advancement of science with the objective of applying such knowledge and advancement for developing new products, processes or services, or in bringing about a significant improvement in existing products, processes or services. Development is the translation of resea...

We study the process of how firms access basic research and translate this into applied research. Drawing on basic research, firms develop higher quality technologies and develop these technologies more intensely internally. Critical in this process are boundary crossing inventors – inventors that access basic research by active involvement in basic research projects and subsequent involvement ...

An ongoing project is described in which qualitative research was undertaken to guide development of a service program for retarded adults. Several issues concerning the need for research, the type of research, and research methodology appropriate to occupational therapy are discussed. The research activity as well as some findings and supporting data is presented to illustrate how the investig...

BACKGROUND The WHO health systems Building Blocks framework has become ubiquitous in health systems research. However, it was not developed as a research instrument, but rather to facilitate investments of resources in health systems. In this paper, we reflect on the advantages and limitations of using the framework in applied research, as experienced in three empirical vaccine studies we have ...

Until recently, basic and applied research agendas in the field of child development have followed separate paths. One reason the two have not merged is that the objectives of basic and applied research are often seen as incompatible. In this paper, we argue that researchers can simultaneously achieve the objectives of advancing basic knowledge and addressing applied problems within a single re...

The authors suggest an interesting way to measure the fraction of missing information in the context of hypothesis testing. The measure seeks to quantify the impact of missing observations on the test between two hypotheses. The amount of impact can be useful information for applied research. An example is, in genetics, where multiple tests of the same sort are performed on different variables ...