Information Security college-level education efforts received a financial shot in the arm late last year with the announcement of a federal funding program to train an information security workforce. In this paper, we address issues surrounding development of a viable Computer Science, Information Security laboratory that meets the three-pronged needs of research education, and outreach in a re...

Millions of life scientists across the world rely on bioinformatics data resources for their research projects. Data resources can be very expensive, especially those with a high added value as the expert-curated knowledgebases. Despite the increasing need for such highly accurate and reliable sources of scientific information, most of them do not have secured funding over the near future and o...

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Too often the questions of basic biomedical research have been mistaken to represent the critical scope of all medical research, and traditional laboratory methods have been seen as necessary and sufficient methods for understanding human health and illness. As a result, approximately 90% of National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding is spent on research within the traditional biomedical scien...

We examine the incentive effects of funding contracts on entrepreneurial effort and on allocative efficiency. We experiment with funding contracts that differ in the structure of investor repayment and, thus, in their incentives for the provision of entrepreneurial effort. Theoretically the replacement of a standard debt contract by a repayment-equivalent non-monotonic contract reduces effort d...

Before 1999, the United States had no appropriated funding for arboviral surveillance, and many states conducted no such surveillance. After emergence of West Nile virus (WNV), federal funding was distributed to state and selected local health departments to build WNV surveillance systems. The Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists conducted assessments of surveillance capacity of res...

BACKGROUND In 2009, Ghana adopted the Strengthening Laboratory Management Toward Accreditation (SLMTA) programme in order to improve laboratory quality. The programme was implemented successfully with limited donor funding and local human resources. OBJECTIVES To demonstrate how Ghana, which received very limited PEPFAR funding, was able to achieve marked quality improvement using local human...

Unlike accounting earnings, economic profit (EVA) is a measure of a company's true earnings because it fully "accounts" for the costs of all forms of financing, including debt and equity. In the EVA view, a company is not truly profitable unless it earns a return on capital that bests the opportunity cost of capital. That being said, the question addressed here is how to measure the economic pr...

The European Science Foundation acts as a catalyst for the development of science by bringing together leading scientists and funding agencies to debate, plan and implement pan-European initiatives. This ESF programme builds on the longstanding European research tradition in cyanobacterial nitrogen fixation. It is, however, the first coordinated European interdisciplinary programme in the field...