A survey of shipping finance research: Setting the future research agenda

Finding our Future: A Research Agenda for the Research Enterprise

For more than 50 years, the U.S. government has supported and encouraged scientific discovery through grants to researchers in laboratories and educational institutions around the nation. From its modest beginning in the late 1940s, the publicly supported research enterprise has grown, matured, and evolved into a $112-billion endeavor involving thousands of organizations and investigators repre...

Setting a research agenda for medical overuse

Prolonged grief: setting the research agenda

BACKGROUND Prolonged grief disorder is proposed for the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11), though it was rejected as a diagnosis for DSM-5. OBJECTIVE This review outlines findings and defines important areas for future research viewed from a lifespan perspective. RESULTS The development and psychometric evaluation of measures for the new diagnosis is paramount, specifically ...

Menthol cigarettes: setting the research agenda.

The First Conference on Menthol Cigarettes was convened in Atlanta, Georgia, on March 21–22, 2002. The purpose of the conference was to evaluate the present state of the science concerning the potential increased harm caused by adding menthol to cigarettes, and to set the priorities for further studies of menthol cigarettes. More than 80 researchers and tobacco control experts participated in t...

Trauma and PTSD: setting the research agenda

U p to 80% of people encounter severe adverse events in their lives (De Vries & Olff, 2009). Most people will be resilient or quickly recover from negative symptoms, but a significant proportion will develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) leading to a lifetime prevalence of PTSD in about 7% (De Vries & Olff, 2009; Kessler et al., 2005). These events precipitate not only PTSD but also majo...