NIH mulls rules for validating key results

Validating Active Rules by Planning

The Reviewing Process: Validating Results

Any scientific publication aims to advance the field of knowledge that it deals with, and therefore the editorial staff will always be seeking the most revolutionary papers among all of those received. On the other hand, the reviewers' task is usually a much more conservative one, as reviewers are responsible for verifying the realism of the methods proposed and the veracity of the claimed resu...

Recombinant DNA: NIH rules broken in insulin gene project.

Romania mulls over fast food tax.

Nutritionists have warned that a pioneering tax on fast foods about to be introduced in Romania will not keep a lid on increasing obesity rates unless it is implemented properly. They argue that the planned new levy—drawn up by the health ministry and to be submitted to parliament for approval this month—could send out a confusing message to consumers in its current form about which foods preci...

Validating a Normative Framework for Federal eGovernment: Preliminary Results

E-government has been identified as the next major application of information systems to fundamentally alter how U.S. federal agencies interact with the public. Through a strategy published by the Office of Management and Budget, federal agencies are formulating and executing plans to realize the many expected benefits from e-government. It is not clear, though, whether there is either a normat...