CONTEXT Research on the promotion of physical activity has been based on a variety of conceptual models. These models generally target one level of analysis, such as the individual, community, or the environment, and differ in their relative contact with basic or applied science. There have been limited attempts to develop approaches that target multiple levels of analysis and can stimulate bas...

Executive Summary The objective of this report is to understand the determinants of the fertility plateau in Egypt and to discuss the policy options that are available if further declines are being targeted. This report provides a summary of the main findings of a research activity conducted by SRC in partnership with UNFPA/ASRO and UNFPA Cairo office. The details of this activity, including th...

We present a framework to describe the process of conducting community-based qualitative research. Qualitative research activities are presented as a series of interrelated acts called asking, witnessing, interpreting, and knowing. Each act in the research process is described in terms of current qualitative research practices, and illustrated with examples from our own research projects on fam...

BACKGROUND Research training is essential in a modern undergraduate medical curriculum. Our evaluation aimed to (a) gauge students' awareness of research activities, (b) compare students' perceptions of their transferable and research-specific skills competencies, (c) determine students' motivation for research and (d) obtain students' personal views on doing research. METHODS Undergraduate m...

The national research leadership has recently become aware of the tremendous potential of translational research as an approach to address health disparities. The Research Centers in Minority Institutions (RCMI) Translational Research Network (RTRN) is a research network that supports multi-institutional, multidisciplinary collaboration with a focus on key diseases and conditions for which disp...

BACKGROUND International collaborators face challenges in the design and implementation of ethical biomedical research. Evaluating community understanding of research and processes like informed consent may enable researchers to better protect research participants in a particular setting; however, there exist few studies examining community perspectives in health research, particularly in reso...

In recent years, research interest in stress, coping, and health has grown considerably. This growing interest has produced a substantial body of literature and, concurrently, an extensive variety of theoretical and methodological approaches. While this research activity has significantly increased our understanding of the impacts of stress and coping on health, it also has produced considerabl...

The deliverable outlines the ongoing research towards a 4 generation of mobile radio systems. The deliverable uses deliverable D7.1 of the Matrice project within FP5 as a base to extend this towards the research projects within FP6 and local financed in Europe, the 802.X activities in North America, research activities in Asia and world-wide. Keyword list: 4G, Research activities, FP6, Multicar...

This study investigated the ethics of qualitative research by using bibliographic research. Data were collected in scientific articles from a Brazilian journal of collective health and the access to the sources was electronic. It were analyzed 117 articles of qualitative research which corresponded to 23.49% of the total production of the journal from 01/1998 to 03/2007. The information collect...

Within the professions of radiation therapy and medical imaging, clinician led research activity is becoming more prevalent. However, more is needed. A key component of continuing to develop professional groups who are both research active and producing high quality clinical research, is research mentoring. The authors of this paper share a common interest in enhancing research capacity through...