Ministers appointed to engineer revival in Iraqi research

A revival of parabiosis in biomedical research.

Modern medicine wields the power to treat large numbers of diseases and injuries most of us would have died from just a hundred years ago, yet many of the most devastating diseases of our time are still untreatable. Chronic conditions of age such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, osteoarthritis or Alzheimer's disease turn out to be of a complexity that may require transformative ideas and pa...

A survey of newly appointed consultants' attitudes towards research fraud.

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of, and attitudes towards, observed and personal research misconduct among newly appointed medical consultants. DESIGN Questionnaire study. SETTING Mersey region, United Kingdom. PARTICIPANTS Medical consultants appointed between Jan 1995 and Jan 2000 in seven different hospital trusts (from lists provided by each hospital's personnel department). M...

Research Engineer R & D Manager-Wood Quality

A survey was conducted of US pulp and paper mills to characterize chip pile manage survey was developed by members of the TAPPI Fiber Raw Material Supply Commit tee December of 1999. There were a total of 80 re dents to the surve one sofhvood and one hard Chip transport to piles was Pile inventory method was volume to weight was predominate quality varied by region, with brightness losses being...

Revival of test bias research in preemployment testing.

We developed a new analytic proof and conducted Monte Carlo simulations to assess the effects of methodological and statistical artifacts on the relative accuracy of intercept- and slope-based test bias assessment. The main simulation design included 3,185,000 unique combinations of a wide range of values for true intercept- and slope-based test bias, total sample size, proportion of minority g...

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