There are errors in the Funding section. The correct funding information is as follows: The project was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant numbers: 81370701), the National Clinical Key Subject Construction Project (No.: AXA medical office letter [2013]544), the 2013 Program for Innovation Team Building at Higher Education Institutions in Chongqing, China and th...

The present article systematically reviews the current status of neonatal research in India by examining the research articles published by Indian authors in the last 10 years. It also enlists the major challenges and proposes a few potential solutions to improve the status of neonatal research in the country. The systematic review of 574 eligible articles indicates that majority of the studies...

and increasing financial pressure, India's key policy document for economic development through 2017—the 12th Five-Year Plan—has recommended that the country's higher education institutions be granted more autonomy over curriculum, staffing, and programs offered. RaND researchers developed a course of action to help India implement policies and reforms that link education quality to funding in ...

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system is indeed crucial for service operations competencies in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). Previous studies ascertain that ERP system improves an operational efficiency and enhance competitiveness. Though literature has indicated the importance of ERP system for enhancing a firm’s operational performance, there is only a small-scale of ERP adopters ...

The paper develops an empirical approach for analysing the relationships between funding and research output. In particular, it focuses on how the changes in the funding structure of multi-disciplinary old British universities have affected their propensity to carry out research of a more applied nature. First, the evolution of the funding structure of UK universities in the period 1989-93 is s...

BACKGROUND Family medicine is a relatively new specialty that has been trying to develop a research base for 30 years. It is unclear how institutional research success and emphasis have affected the research productivity of family medicine departments. OBJECTIVE To examine the research infrastructure, productivity, and barriers to productivity in academic family medicine in research intense a...

The increase in the amount of high quality research demonstrates that the UK's universities are delivering even better research than five years ago. " But Roderick Floud, president of Universities UK and vice-chancellor of Guildhall University, called on the government to fund the improved results. " These results show that our universities are contributing at a world-class level, and we urge t...

Funding decision is one of the financial strategic decisions of a corporation. There are also two other finan-cial strategic decisions that a corporation faces, the investment and the dividend decision. This paper de-scribes briefly the investment and the dividend decision, although its main focus is on funding decision. In de-scribing the funding decision the researchers will first explain the...