From May, a new clause [2] will be slipped in to all government grant agreements, preventing public funding from being used to lobby the government. While the clause is aimed at quangos, it will also affect charities [3], and crucially academic research [4]. As David Nutt puts it in yesterday's Guardian [5], this move is an attempt to "limit scientific outputs to those that support its policies".

Original scientific paper This paper has presented and discussed machinability in the drilling of SMC (Sheet Mould Compound) A-Class composite materials using Taguchi's DoE method. The thrust forces, surface roughness and push-out peel-up delamination behaviour in drilling process for glass fibre reinforced SMC composites have been evaluated. The experimental results and the contribution ratio ...

We study a Cournot duopoly dynamic model in which reaction functions are piecewise linear. Such a model typically generates ergodic chaos when it involves strong nonlinearites. To investigate statistical properties, we construct explicit forms of density functions associated with chaotic trajectories. We demonstrate that the long-run average behavior possesses regular properties although each c...

One of the most important duties education is to enable individuals develop and advance their societies through scientific research, especially great acceleration in era knowledge, information technology its outputs. Therefore, this study sought identify role research development Palestine. During study, concluded several results, notably That Palestine still suffers from some scientific, finan...

BACKGROUND Recent technological developments in medicine, including modern radiology have promoted the impact of scientific researches on social life. The scientific outputs such as article and patents are products that show the scientists' attempt to access these achievements. OBJECTIVES In the current study, we evaluate the current situation of Iranian scientists in the field of radiology a...