Erratum: Tech transfer fails to translate into startups

From Keiretsu to Startups: Japan’s Push for High Tech Entrepreneurship

2 The Asia/Pacific Research Center (A/PARC) is an important Stanford venue, where faculty and students, visiting scholars, and distinguished business and government leaders meet and exchange views on contemporary Asia and U.S. involvement in the region. A/PARC research results in seminars and conferences, published studies, occasional and discussion papers, special reports, and books. A/PARC ma...

An Approach to Translate XSLT into XQuery

XML (eXtensible Markup Language) transformations and queries are crucial operations for interpreting XML databases. XSLT (eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) is a prominent XML technology for these operations, but XQuery (XML Query Language) can query a broad spectrum of XML information sources, including both databases and documents. In this paper, we present our approach to transl...

Cardiovascular Risk of NSAIDs: Time to Translate Knowledge into Practice

Clinical use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) carries cardiovascular risk, which acquires implications for public health against the backdrop of rising chronic disease rates in lowand middleincome countries (LMICs). New evidence from an international study conducted by Patricia McGettigan and David Henry and published this week in PLOS Medicine [1] sheds light on how emerging e...

Developing innovative models to translate guidelines into practice.

A study described in this issue explored the feasibility of implementing two specific clinical practice guidelines. Using a low-cost intervention, Resnick et al. improved medical record documentation of care recommended in pain and falls practice guidelines. The intervention involved providing written materials to volunteer nursing home (NH) staff. One might hypothesize that an approach that su...

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