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The relationship between the university-the enterprise and the government evolved towards the Triple Helix model and allowed, through a new strategy of innovating University, the understanding of the research work as researching at risk, this is the integration of the scientific production and the management of the results as a global tool, which means the generation of knowledge plus the gener...

Validity and efficiency of e-mail use in business communication have not been disputable for a long time. But what is disputable is security and risks of e -mail use. It is in danger because of threats coming from different sources and forms of work. E-mail content, computer data, corporative networks as well as business processes and image and partner’s trust can also be in danger. This paper ...

Technology and infrastructure both play key roles in achieving the optimisation of spatial data to support decision-making, in the spatial data community. Many institutional and technical initiatives have arisen in response to the increase in quantity and improving quality of spatial data to help users to structure the influx. However, there are persistent challenges to integrating institutiona...

The success of an informing system depends upon achieving a fit between multiple entities: the sender, the client, the delivery system, and the task to be performed. Conceptually, the effectiveness of such informing can be modeled as a fitness landscape—a function that maps the characteristics of the system into a scalar fitness value. The assumed shape of that landscape plays a major role in d...

s cience and policymaking are uneasy partners. In an address at the press conference to release the 1983 National Research Council report on risk assessment in the Federal Government, the former administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Will iam D. Ruckelshaus, said: “The main reason for the uneasiness lies, I think, in the conflict between the way science really works an...

The value of including a research component in medical students’ training programs has been widely recognized. Nevertheless, examples of how this may be done are rarely found in the literature. The case study reported in this short paper aimed to address this gap in the literature by investigating how a group of postgraduate students attached to the Orthopedics Department of a major hospital in...

THE COMMUNICATION OF RESEARCH results through peer review and publication is an intrinsic and essential part of scientific research. It is a great privilege to be starting the position of Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology. My predecessor, Paul Insel, has effected major advances for the Journal, including reducing the time to first decision on manuscripts and ...

In the United States, highly religious people tend to live longer, have fewer health and mental problems, steal less, volunteer more time, and give away more money than others. Even when other relevant factors are controlled for statistically, these differences persist. Moreover, in many cases the religiosity of the community influences these factors as much as the religiosity of individuals. T...