We offer a UK-based commentary on the recent “Perspective” published in IJHPM by Thakkar and Sullivan. We are sympathetic to the authors’ call for increased funding for health service and policy research (HSPR). However, we point out that increasing that investment – in any of the three countries they compare: Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom– will ipso facto not necessarily lea...

The present proposal is in part a continuation of the NSF Research Proposal Definability, Constructibility and Transfer (DMS-0100778/DMS-0302248 in the amount of $69,276; project details are given in §4.3 and the introduction to §5). Whereas the latter proposal was submitted via the division Foundations, in view of the underlying tools stemming from model-theory, the present proposal is cast en...

Writing the proposal for a qualitative research methodology study is a double challenge because of the emergent nature of qualitative research design and because a methodology study entails describing a process to produce a process. How the authors addressed this challenge is shown in the annotated text of the grant proposal--"Analytic Techniques for Qualitative Metasynthesis"--funded by the Na...

Sparse graph-based codes such as low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes have revolutionized coding theory and have been proposed for many emerging communication and storage systems due to their excellent performance. A substantial amount of research has been devoted to the study of binary LDPC codes. In contrast, non-binary LDPC codes had been deemed too complex and consequently have not been st...

The ability to obtain extramural funding is a critical part of developing a successful academic career. This manuscript provides an introduction to the sources of funding, the process by which a research proposal is developed, and the process by which a research proposal is reviewed and funding. Emphasis is placed on the process of grant review is performed at the National Institutes of Health.

Objective: This paper aims at presenting and discussing a conceptual framework for corporate governance research. Method: The structure adopted this derives from our analysis of some the existing frameworks governance, which, despite their strengths, still fail to achieve consensus establish shared structure. Originality/Relevance: It is understanding, therefore, that original proposed in more ...