The American Institutes for Research.

Midwifery in American Institutes of Higher Education:

Midwifery is one of the universal professions. At the end of the nineteenth century, midwives in the United States were disenfranchised from the mainstream. A concerted effort was waged by male physicians to characterize midwifery practices as unscientific while simultaneously preventing midwives from obtaining formal education. Although midwifery in the United States continued, it was limited ...

The National Institutes of Health Roadmap for Medical Research website.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is a division of USA’s Office of Portfolio Analysis and Strategic Initiatives. The NIH is the Department of Health and Human Service’s medical research agency. The aim of the NIH is to improve health and save lives through medical discoveries. The roadmap website for the NIH commenced after the Director of the NIH, Elias A. Zerhouni, MD, convened a series...

Challenges to Promoting Active - Learning , Student - Centered Pedagogies American Institutes for Research under the EQUIP 1 LWA

Multivariate approach to classify research institutes according to their outputs: The case of the CSIC's institutes

This paper attempts to build a classification model according to the research products created by those institutes and hence to design specific evaluation processes. Several scientific input/output indicators belonging to 109 research institutes from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) were selected. A multidimensional approach was proposed to resume these indicators in various compone...

The National Institutes of Health/National Institutes of Nursing Research intramural research program and the development of the National Institutes of Health Symptom Science Model.

The National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) intramural research program conducts basic and biobehavioral symptom science research and provides training opportunities to the next generation of scientists. Recently, the NINR developed the Symptom Science Model to guide research. The model begins by identifying a complex symptom, which is then characterized into a phenotype with biological a...