Permission to Say “Capitalism”: Principles for Critical Social Science Engagement With GGR Research

HIV research: enhancing engagement to improve ethics

Diffusion Process for GGR Machining System with Spares, Balking and Reneging (RESEARCH NOTE)

This paper deals with the G/G/R machining system consisting of M operating machines as well as S cold standbys. The concepts of balking and reneging are incorporated which make our model more versatile to deal with real time systems. The broken-down machines are sent to repair facilities consisting of R permanent repairmen. The failure times and repair times are generally identical and independ...

Critical Realism and the Limits to Critical Social Science

Critical social scientists argue that explanations of social practices must be critical precisely in order to be explanatory, and that the necessity of critique gives social science a potentially emancipatory character. In practice, critiques of social phenomena are enormously contentious because it is difficult to establish agreement about what constitute problems, solutions or improvements, a...

Clinician engagement is critical to public engagement with clinical trials.

Five years on from Godlee and Chalmers’ advocacy of greater patient information to improve access to clinical trials,we have conducted research showing that engaging clinicians with local research and trial information is as critical to enabling participation as are public engagement and information provision. Our study explored the perceptions, motivations, and barriers to trial participation ...

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