Indian institutes to raise transfer efforts

Websites of Indian Institutes of Technology: a Webometric Study

The study explored different characteristics of linking analysis of sixteen IIT websites. All the IITs have their own websites and all websites working under homogeneous Domain Name System (DNS) “.ac.in”. The comparisons of ranking of Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) have been done using WISER, WIF (inlink) and World Rank. The WISER ranking and WIF (in-link) is having correlation i.e. +0....

Analyzing Research Productivity of Indian Institutes of Technology

A total of 1082 research publications of 111 faculty members working with Computer Science Engineering departments of four top ranked Indian Institutes of Technology were extracted from their websites and DBLP. Analysis of the extracted publications over a five year period from 2011 to 2015 unravel some important aspects about the research and authorship trends in these institutes of national i...

Biotechnology transfer at the National Institutes of Health.

Programmatic Efforts at the National Institutes of Health to Promote and Support the Careers of Women in Biomedical Science

Although women have reached parity at the training level in the biological sciences and medicine, they are still significantly underrepresented in the professoriate and in mid- and senior-level life science positions. Considerable effort has been devoted by individuals and organizations across science sectors to understanding this disparity and to developing interventions in support of women's ...

How (Not) to Raise Money

We show that standard winner-pay auctions are inept fund-raising mechanisms because of the positive externality bidders forgo if they top another’s high bid. Revenues are suppressed as a result and remain finite even when bidders value a dollar donated the same as a dollar kept. This problem does not occur in lotteries and all-pay auctions, where bidders pay irrespective of whether they win. We...