Discussions about funding, sustainability, and governance of any e-infrastructure service tend to be culmination points of the tensions between bottom-up and top-down, static and dynamic, and prescriptive and descriptive approaches. Data management brings in additional challenges due to the time aspect. While a computing centre or network technology might be considered obsolete after a few year...

Many communities have funded stormwater management from property taxes paid into their general funds. However, there is great competition for municipal general fund dollars from other worthy municipal programs. Stormwater management improvements typically have a low priority, unless the municipality is reacting to a recent major storm or regulatory action. The total cost of stormwater managemen...

This is a must-have resource for biotech entrepreneurs and investors, as well as invaluable supplementary reading for students aspiring to a career in the industry. In particular, it illustrates the tensions between both sides based on their different backgrounds and expectations. The book outlines the various funding opportunities for the biotech industry in Europe and identifies ways for both...

This is a must-have resource for biotech entrepreneurs and investors, as well as invaluable supplementary reading for students aspiring to a career in the industry. In particular, it illustrates the tensions between both sides based on their different backgrounds and expectations. The book outlines the various funding opportunities for the biotech industry in Europe and identifies ways for both...

Following the terrorist attacks on the United States, governments and funding agencies are quickly rethinking their strategies for detecting and combating agents that could be used as bioweapons. Researchers say the attention is giving a needed boost to research into infectious diseases. " Bioterrorism attacks have definitely impacted on us, giving research a sense of urgency, " says Brett Finl...

Electronic reporting of laboratory results to public health agencies can improve public health surveillance for reportable diseases and conditions by making reporting more timely and complete. Since 2010, CDC has provided funding to 57 state, local, and territorial health departments through the Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity for Infectious Diseases cooperative agreement to assist with im...

BACKGROUND The tobacco industry has organised research institutions to generate misleading data on indoor air quality, including second-hand smoke exposure and health effects. OBJECTIVES To describe tobacco industry involvement in the organisation and financial support of an air quality research laboratory in El Salvador. METHODS Tobacco industry documents on the internet were systematicall...

Calgary Laboratory Services provides global hospital and community laboratory services for Calgary and surrounding areas (population 1.4 million) and global academic support for the University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine. It developed rapidly after the Alberta Provincial Government implemented an austerity program to address rising health care costs and to address Alberta’s debt and d...