Aston Business School Research Institute is the administrative centre for all research activities at Aston Business School. The School comprises more than 70 academic staff organised into thematic research groups along with a Doctoral Programme of more than 50 research students. Research is carried out in all of the major areas of business studies and a number of specialist fields. For further ...

One of the goals of undergraduate education should be the acquisition of a scientific attitude, determined by affective dimensions, and whose traits or characteristics should include: curiosity, objectivity, open-mindedness, flexibility, critical thinking, intellectual honesty, investigative energy, creative daring and social participation. In short, the ‘‘university essence’’: creating and tra...

Professor van der Lely has been barred from entering her laboratory, accessing her data, managing her grants, using her email, and communicating with her students and colleagues at UCL. This is an extraordinary and unjust punishment. The career of a scientist depends on continuous interaction with students, collaborators, funding agencies, and research subjects. This is especially true for a sc...

The mission of The American Journal of the Medical Sciences (AJMS) is to support the exchange of knowledge and information and to publish high quality clinical, basic, and education research. As the official Journal of the Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (SSCI), an academic organization, The AJMS will support the academic, educational, and medical research activities of the SSCI thr...

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...

The present study is a report on the authors' experience working nurses in a randomized, blinded, phase III clinical trial, developed at Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sérgio Arouca/FIOCRUZ/RJ. This study describes the participation of nurses in the implementation of a clinical trial, highlighting their importance in this new field of work. The authors state the rigorous implementation of the...

PURPOSE Gender disparities within academic promotion have been reported in several medical specialties. Female representationin association with research productivity has not been reported among academic dermatologists. As research productivity is a heavily weighted factor in determining promotion, we sought to determine whether gender disparities in academic rank and scholarly impact, measured...

There is increasing research activity aimed at understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying the phenomenon of so-called Fab-arm exchange, which has important implications for immunotherapies involving the anti-inflammatory IgG4 antibodies, and might also be relevant to our understanding of the etiology of the newly-described IgG4-related disease. I would like to point out that “Fab”-arm ex...

We present as examples, some problems which motivate talented undergraduates, or even high school students, to do research in mathematics. These problems are related to the speaker’s research activity. They have been presented in the past to attract very bright students. Here we go through the roots of some of these problems and elaborate the research topics behind them.

Researchers are beginning to explore environmental correlates to further the field of physical activity research. Before interventions and experimental investigations can be undertaken, it is necessary to identify specific environmental features that are consistent correlates of physical activity. There has been a plethora of research measuring such cross-sectional associations since this field...