Research governance: Whose idea is it?

Whose difficulty is it?

Whose future is it?

Good morning. It is a great honour to deliver this talk to a research community of which I have been a member when we were not sure that it was a domain of its own. It has since then developed in an impressive manner, and today it offers all the signs of a maturing scientific community in a technical field: a yearly conference with growing attendance, some structuring paradigms, progress in mod...

Whose idea is it anyway? The importance of reputation in acknowledgement.

Six-year-old children negatively evaluate plagiarizers just as adults do (Olson & Shaw, 2011), but why do they dislike plagiarizers? Children may think plagiarism is wrong because plagiarizing negatively impacts other people's reputations. We investigated this possibility by having 6- to 9-year-old children evaluate people who shared their own or other people's ideas (stories). In Experiment 1,...

whose responsibility is it anyway ?

Whose risk is it anyway?

Powell et al 1 have proposed the importance of 90-day mortality after lung cancer surgery, and have generated a predictive score using predominantly objective information. There are obvious advantages over the frequently quoted Thoracoscore which contains more subjective assessments of patient performance, and is based on data from a wide range of thoracic procedures including those for benign ...