Despite significant progress in climate impact research, the narratives that science can presently piece together of a 2, 3, 4, or 5 C warmer world remain fragmentary. Here we briefly review past undertakings to characterise comprehensively and quantify climate impacts based on multi-model approaches. We then report on the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISI-MIP), a communi...

Today, U.S. biomedical research is caught in a painful paradox—scientific progress is moving faster than ever. However, due to arbitrary across-the-board spending cuts, U.S. scientific innovation faces its greatest threat ever. Reduced federal support for biomedical research poses serious risks to our health and economy, but most Americans will not immediately feel those impacts. Who will tell ...

Impact occurs when research generates benefits (health, economic, cultural) in addition to building the academic knowledge base. Its mechanisms are complex and reflect the multiple ways in which knowledge is generated and utilised. Much progress has been made in measuring both the outcomes of research and the processes and activities through which these are achieved, though the measurement of i...

Ten years ago, large corpora were mainly available to industrial research groups; academic access to very large bodies of text was limited. Today a nllmber of large corpora are available and research using these resources has expanded well beyond the relatively small industrial research community. This expanded research community has significantly enlarged the scope of VLC research. Today's res...

Bridging the ‘know-do’ gap is not new but considerably greater attention is being focused on the issue as governments and research funders seek to demonstrate value for money and impact on policy and practice. Initiatives like the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Health System Impact (HSI) Fellowship are therefore both timely and welcome. However, they conf...

How to successfully create impact from academic research is the focus of much debate. Discussions often centres on role discipline, researcher skills and behaviour, or institutional systems capture evidence, but little consideration given relationship between environment.
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Abstract Reflecting about the future of Earth and its inhabitants is essential to ensure a possible tomorrow. Therefore, socio-environmental impact shall become universal inevitable concern researchers, educational institutions scientific research regulatory agencies. Social environmental impacts, in all senses, must be considered into any production knowledge. Some questions help incorporate t...