Consumer Research to Focus R&D Projects

Consumer involvement in research projects: the activities of research funders.

This paper reports findings from a postal questionnaire survey and in-depth interviews with UK funders of health-related research that explored whether, why and how they promote consumer involvement in research projects. Many UK funders of health-related research are adopting a policy of promoting consumer involvement in research projects. Telephone interviews revealed they have several reasons...

An Introduction to Focus Group Research

A focus group refers to a group of people who share some common characteristics. A researcher gathers these people in the group in order that they share their points of view and interact with each other over a specific issue. Focus group and Interview group are used interchangeably in the scientific literature and both refer to a method of collecting data in qualitative studies. Given the impor...

Introduction to Recent Research Projects

Research Interests Research Projects

2005–present HiStar: a secure operating system [2]. Led the HiStar project on designing and developing a new operating system that allows applications to minimize the amount of trusted code. HiStar allows applications to specify precise data security policies by specifying how different information can flow through the system. As a result, small amounts of trusted code can reason about the secu...

Research Projects

Here is a collection of research projects, ranging from number theory to probability to statistics to random graphs.... Much of the background material is summarized from [MT-B], though most standard number theory textbooks would have these facts. Each chapter begins with a brief synopsis of the types of problems and background material needed. For more information, see the handouts on-line at ...