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...

A total of 1082 research publications of 111 faculty members working with Computer Science Engineering departments of four top ranked Indian Institutes of Technology were extracted from their websites and DBLP. Analysis of the extracted publications over a five year period from 2011 to 2015 unravel some important aspects about the research and authorship trends in these institutes of national i...

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) is Canada's premier health-research funding agency. We fund nearly 14,000 researchers and trainees in four theme areas: biomedical, clinical, health services, and population and public-health research. Our mandate is 'to excel according to international standards of scientific excellence, in the creation of new knowledge and its translation into...

once severely rejected, first language (l1) use is no more considered to be inherently detrimental in foreign language pedagogy. recent research within sociocultural framework has come up with numerous facilitative roles for l1 use (anton and dicamilla, 1999; swain and lapkin, 2000; storch and wigglesworth, 2003). also, studies from humanistic perspectives that deal with the teachers’ and learn...

The new US President will be selecting the next director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) at a time when the agency faces many challenges. Priorities for the new director include boosting the NIH coffers in troubled economic times, balancing funding for basic and translational research, and helping young scientists.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is committed to attracting, developing, and supporting the best scientists from all groups as an integral part of excellence in training. Biomedical research workforce diversity, capitalizing on the full spectrum of skills, talents, and viewpoints, is essential for solving complex human health challenges. Over the past few decades, the biomedical research...