Due to an aging population in Europe, the development of Ambient Assisted Living technologies (AAL) is increasingly the target of research financing. These technologies promise to enable older people to remain in their own homes longer, something many people report wanting and which may also reduce the costs of care. To date however there are few systems on the market. Other studies have tried ...

ACADEMIC ABSTRACT This research examines the development of consensus when evaluating small business applicant presentations during a second round screening process for Department of Defense related funding. Drawing on literature from decision dilemma research, we examined whether a second round screening process resulted in greater consensus among panel members and to what extent those panel m...

BACKGROUND Governments and other payers are yet to determine optimal processes by which to review the safety, effectiveness, and cost-effectiveness of technologies and procedures that are in active use within health systems, and rescind funding (partially or fully) from those that display poor profiles against these parameters. To further progress a disinvestment agenda, a model is required to ...

BACKGROUND Priority setting in health care is a challenge because demand for services exceeds available resources. The increasing demand for less invasive surgical procedures by patients, health care institutions and industry, places added pressure on surgeons to acquire the appropriate skills to adopt innovative procedures. Such innovations are often initiated and introduced by surgeons in the...

CONTEXT Colleges of osteopathic medicine (COMs) trying to stimulate research and develop research infrastructures must overcome the challenge of obtaining adequate funding to support growing research interests. The authors examine changes in research funding at COMs during the past 15 years. OBJECTIVES To track 1999-2004 data on COM research funding, COM faculty size, educational backgrounds ...

There is an error in the funding statement. Please refer to the complete funding statement here: This research was supported by funds from the Cave Conservancy Foundation (Doctoral Fellowship in Karst Studies), Society of Systematic Biologists (Graduate Student Research Award), and the American Arachnological Society (Vincent Roth Fund for Systematics Research) awarded to S Derkarabetian. This ...

There are errors in the Funding section. The correct funding information is as follows: This work was funded by the Amsterdam Brain and Cognition priority program; grant number: ABC2014-01 (http://abc.uva.nl/research/nav), the European Union 7th Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement no. 604102 (Human Brain Project; http://www.humanbrainproject.eu), and the Deutsche Forschung...

Grants to the second and third authors (AV and JP) are incorrectly omitted from the Funding statement. The Funding statement should read: ‘‘The PC lab was supported by the Swiss National Foundation for Scientific Research (grant 31003A135789), the Doerenkamp-Zbinden Foundation and the Fondation Egon Naef pour la Recherche in Vitro. The JP lab was supported by grants from the Swiss National Scie...

The Funding statement is incorrect. The publisher apologizes for the error. The correct Funding statement is: This research was financially supported by the National Key Technologies R&D Program (2015BAD07B01), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31270656, http://www.nsfc.gov.cn/), the Scientific Research and Graduate Training Joint Programs from BMEC and the Schatz Center for Tre...

There are errors in the Funding section. The publisher apologizes for the errors. The correct funding information is as follows: This work was supported by NeuroScreen (FP6, European Union Health-2007-B-222943) and Progetto Giovani Ricercatori (Italian Ministry of Health, GR-2008-1146615) to Luciano Conti and by Progetto Oncologico “Characterization of the molecular mechanisms regulating brain ...