Storm over funding policy

Testing Theories of Policy-Making: Educational Funding

1 Policy-making is an essential part of every government. Each government must enact policies based on their own philosophies, backgrounds, and situations. Many governments develop very similar tendencies in policy-making while other governments have quite different tendencies about policy-making. Through looking at the different trends of policy-making in multiple countries, there are multiple...

Red Storm Capability Computing Queuing Policy

Red Storm will be the first Tri-Lab [Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)], U.S. Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration, Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) platform to be managed under an explicit capability computing policy directive. Instead of allocating nodes among SNL:LANL:LL...

Book Review: Storm over the Constitution

Dust storm simulation over Iran using HYSPLIT

Particulate matters have detrimental effects on human health, environment and economic. This pollutant may emit from anthropogenic or natural sources. On global scale, main proportion of natural particulate matter release to the atmosphere because of wind erosion from arid and semi-arid regions. Recently, the amount of dust coming from Arabian countries has dramatically increased, especially du...

Science funding and science policy: Big data as a tool for supporting the research funding process

ÜberResearch pursues a comprehensive approach to big and small data to aid science funders in operations and analysis. We seek to consolidate global award data and funders’ internal data, with a focus on data harmonization, natural language processing and disambiguation. In this article, firstly, I give a definition and some examples of big data. Next, I look at the relevance of big data in sci...