BACKGROUND Modern societies depend on environmental sustainability and on new generations of individuals well-trained by environmental research and teaching institutions. In the past, significant contributions to the identification, assessment, and management of chemical stressors with legal consequences have been made. MAIN FEATURES Within this article, we intend to elucidate the merits and ...

This paper compares experts' assessments to a set of structural variables to determine whether each effectively predicts technology success. Using 69 homeland security and defense-related technologies, expert reviewers scored each technology on various dimensions as part of a government grant funding process. These technologies were tracked over 3 years and degrees of success recorded. Differen...

BACKGROUND The tobacco industry uses various strategies to promote itself as a socially responsible, ethical industry, including establishing links with health institutions and medical research. The purpose of this study was to identify the relationships between the tobacco industry and Canadian faculties of medicine, specifically research funding and donations from tobacco industry sources, an...

BACKGROUND Finding solutions to global health problems will require a highly-trained, inter-disciplinary workforce. Global health education and research can potentially have long-range impact in addressing the global burden of disease and protecting and improving the health of the global population. METHODS We conducted an online survey of twelve higher education institutions in the Pacific R...

Financial institutions play a key role as credit providers in the economy, and liquidity crises arise when they become credit constrained themselves. In such liquidity crises, financial institutions’ ability to borrow against their securities plays a key role, as Bagehot points out. In the private markets, it can become virtually impossible to borrow against certain illiquid securities, and, mo...

This paper reports on a review of the UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) funded Technologies Applications Programme (JTAP) and in particular focuses on outcomes of relevance for learning and teaching. The review concentrated on 26 of the 117 projects which the programme funded that were deemed to be of particular relevance to learning and teaching. The projects included investigation...

In 2006, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), guided by the leadership of Elias Zerhouni, launched the Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) program to jump-start transformative change in the nation’s research agenda to emphasize translating discovery from the bench to implementation in the community. 1–5 Much of the funding for the CTSAs was garnered by rolling NIH funding of Gen...

In response to the elevated rate of suicide among U.S. service members, a congressionally mandated task force recommended that the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) create a unified, comprehensive strategic plan for suicide prevention research to ensure that DoD-funded studies align with DoD's goals. To help meet this objective, a RAND study cataloged the research funded by DoD and other entitie...

Government health funding (GHF) is a cosmopolitan problem. It is especially conspicuous in China, where drug sales become a main source of medical institutions' incomes due to limited GHF. This is well known as China's "drug maintain medical institutions (DMMIs)" system which results directly in very high use of antibiotics, injections, and corticosteroids. However, few statistical data existed...