Behavioral and psychosocial science has the potential to contribute much to the overall effort to reduce cancer morbidity and mortality and to improve the quality of life for cancer patients and their families. However, for a variety of reasons, including a lack of sustained funding for research and training and a lack of confidence by some in the potential payoff for investments in the area, t...

Recent applications of real options theory in strategy research have examined investment decisions framed as the purchase or exercise of particular options, but research has yet to offer direct evidence on whether firms actually capture option value from such investments. In this paper, we estimate the proportion of firm value accounted for by growth options and link the growth option value to ...

Child development research has a rich history of informing practices in families, schools, communities, and other contexts that shape children’s development and enhance their health and well being (Huston, 2008; Senn, 1975). Understanding developmental processes in typically and atypically developing children provides guidance on how to optimize positive development as well as how to prevent or...

Research is an integral part of the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) College of Dentistry's mission and strategic plan. The College of Dentistry (COD) has experienced substantial growth in its research enterprise since the opening of the Cruzan Center for Dental Research (CCDR) as evidenced by a 16-fold growth in extramural funding from 1998 to 2006. Through major investments from t...

BACKGROUND TO THE DEBATE Pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers argue that the current patent system is crucial for stimulating research and development (R&D), leading to new products that improve medical care. The financial return on their investments that is afforded by patent protection, they claim, is an incentive toward innovation and reinvestment into further R&D. But this view h...

Thanks to the revolutions in information technology, human "-omics" research, and intricate medical device development, academic health centers (AHCs) now have an unparalleled potential to become translational engines that both generate basic science advances and then translate them into human studies and, ultimately, into improved health care. However, AHC infrastructures have traditionally be...

In this study, we analyzed the factors that affect research funds using linear regression analysis to increase the effectiveness of investments in national research projects. We collected 7,916 items of data on research projects that were in the process of being finished or were completed between 2010 and 2011. Data pre-processing and visualization were performed to derive statistically signifi...

Considering the investments made in a research demonstration project— including the hours of work in research design, provision of services, data collection, data entry, money spent, and professional reputation—great care should be taken when testing hypotheses, but often it is not. A small amount of extra effort at the data analysis stage frequently can yield great benefits in terms of more ac...

The biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries are currently confronted with a conundrum: despite remarkable scientific breakthroughs over the past decade in our understanding of the molecular biology of disease, the financial returns to biopharma investments have been mediocre at best, and investors are withdrawing capital from this sector. Accordingly, there is a growing concern within and o...

As science education incorporates more inquiry-based activities throughout the curriculum, students gain important opportunities to take active roles in scientific research via independent research courses and summer research, as well as within traditional lab courses. While some industrious student researchers will experience the process of publishing their research in a scientific journal, th...