The entire human research infrastructure is under intense and increasing financial pressure. These pressures may have been responsible for several errors in judgment by those responsible for managing human research and protecting human subjects. The result of these errors has been some terrible accidents, some of which have cost the lives of human research volunteers. This, in turn, is producin...

According to laboratory federalism, federal systems can promote governmental innovation and experimentation, while containing the risks of only one jurisdiction. However, it is unclear whether these benefits are realised in practice states actually effective ‘laboratories’. This article evaluates extent which federalism occurring practice, focusing on a case study age discrimination law Austral...

1 Denis Gillet, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, [email protected]. 2 Georgios Fakas, ERCIM Fellow, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, [email protected] Abstract  The eMersion project aims at promoting a pedagogical trial-and-error paradigm by enhancing the opportunities for engineering trainees to carry out extensive ...

A field study of a nationwide U.S. Department of Defense systems development project, combined with other laboratory experimentation, explores an underemphasized factor in current distributed multimedia conferencing and group support system theories. The ability of an organization to effectively manage its technology environment to deliver distributed support systems is shown to have direct imp...

The research is a balance of theoretical analysis, numerical simulations, and experimentation in the laboratory and local waters at WHOI. The theories are approximate and have included various ray, volume integration, and modal-series-based solutions. An acoustic pulse-echo laboratory is used to collect backscatter data off of the animals and turbulence over a wide range of acoustic frequencies...

Between December 1, 1938, and April 1, 1940, autopsy examinations have been made of 246 subhuman primates in the Laboratory of Physiology of the Yale University School of Medicine.t These routine examinations were made in order to obtain some normal and abnormal values for monkeys of those species most commonly used in laboratory experimentation. It was expected thereby to establish some standa...

Distance-learning engineering courses supporting remote laboratory experimentation, afford a number of critical benefits including flexible access to resources. However, creating an effective and integrated learning environment which allows the access, control and monitoring of embedded devices and instrumentation over the Internet is challenging. Recent advances in web technologies and applica...