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Medical Sciences	33%
Business, Economics, Finance and Accounting	33%

Selected Abstracts

Conversation with Murray Jarvik

ADDICTION, Issue 9 2001
Article first published online: 1 SEP 200
In this occasional series we record the views and personal experience of people who have specially contributed to the evolution of ideas in the Journal's field of interest. Murray Jarvik's long and fruitful career in research and teaching spans the 50-year period beginning before the explosion of interest in psychopharmacology up to the present. His studies on LSD, among the first ever published, were followed by studies on the effects of drugs on memory and memory consolidation, which were then followed by studies on nicotine, smoking and pharmacological interventions in tobacco dependence. His contributions to the field of tobacco dependence have earned him international recognition. [source]

Feature: UNESCO World Heritage and the Joggins cliffs of Nova Scotia

GEOLOGY TODAY, Issue 4 2004
Howard J. Falcon-Lang
UNESCO World Heritage status is the highest honour that may be bestowed on a palaeontological site. In addition to heightening conservation status, it confers international recognition of a locality's ,outstanding universal value' and often triggers the release of substantial regional development funds. Despite these incentives it is, perhaps, not surprising that only a handful of fossil sites have successfully navigated the World Heritage selection process. In this feature, we draw on our recent experience of developing a World Heritage bid for the Pennsylvanian ,Coal Age' locality of Joggins, Nova Scotia. As well as demonstrating the huge significance of Joggins, we hope that our findings will provide valuable guidelines for the assessment of World Heritage fossil sites in general. [source]

Whither Latin America? trends and challenges of science in Latin America

IUBMB LIFE, Issue 4-5 2007
Marcelo Hermes-Lima
Abstract Science in Latin America has experienced vigorous growth in the past decade, as demonstrated by the fact that the Latin American share of the world's scientific publications increased from 1.8% in 1991 - 1995 to 3.4% in 1999 - 2003. Significant growth has also taken place in the numbers of PhDs in science and engineering (S&E) awarded in Latin American countries in recent years, including those in the natural sciences. Importantly, albeit at different rates, growth has been verified in almost all countries in the region, indicating a general effort to promote the development of S&E. In most research fields, however, the recognition or relative impact of Latin American science, as measured by the average number of citations received by published articles (CpP), is still below world averages and much lower than in developed nations. We show that average CpP values for a set of 34 representative developing and developed countries correlate significantly with gross expenditure in research and development (GERD), with gross domestic product (GDP) per capita and with the number of researchers per million inhabitants (RpM). Among those countries, Latin American nations present some of the lowest average values of CpP (<6), GERD (,1% of GDP) and RpM (<2,000). We also examined recent trends in scientific activity in Latin America, with focus on the natural sciences and on biochemistry and molecular biology (BMB). In terms of citation scores, publications in BMB compare favorably to those in other research fields within Latin America. At the same time, however, Latin American BMB is one of the areas for which relative impact - compared to developed nations or normalized to world averages - is lowest. These observations clearly indicate the need to establish effective policies to increase competitiveness in terms of the quality and international recognition of Latin American natural sciences in general, and BMB in particular, as opposed to merely increasing the absolute numbers of publications or the numbers of PhDs awarded in the region. IUBMB Life, 59: 199-210, 2007 [source]

Interview with a Quality Leader: Paul Uhlig on Transforming Healthcare

JOURNAL FOR HEALTHCARE QUALITY, Issue 3 2009
Jason Trevor Fogg
In 2002 Dr. Uhlig and the cardiac surgery team he led at Concord Hospital, Concord, NH, received the John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety Award from the National Quality Forum and the Joint Commission. Dr. Uhlig has received international recognition for research concerning patient safety, teamwork, and healthcare culture, including a 2007,2008 King James IV Professorship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Scotland. [source]

Managerial efficiency and human capital: an application to English association football

MANAGERIAL AND DECISION ECONOMICS, Issue 8 2002
Peter Dawson
The problem of hidden action in organizations makes direct measurement of managerial performance problematic. But in English association football hidden action is unlikely to be as serious a problem because the owner observes the manager's performance each time the team plays. In this situation production frontier analysis may be used to measure managerial performance and analyze the variation in performance across managers in terms of manager human capital. Having some kind of prior affiliation with the club and achieving international recognition as a player are especially important. Overall, initial experience matters more than specific and general managerial experience. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]

Tackling the paradox: can attaining global research excellence be compatible with local technology development?

R & D MANAGEMENT, Issue 1 2004
Johan Van Helleputte
This paper uses the case of the IMEC (microelectronics research centre) to examine the compatibility between strategic IPR management of large independent research centres, and regional industrial policy missions given to such centres in return for government funding. In particular, the issue of whether a balance can be found between a necessary drive for international recognition and critical mass of funding, and a policy of IPR valorization towards regional firms is examined. The first section sets out the mission of IMEC and the evolution over time of its strategic approach to building global industrial partnerships based on a sophisticated model of IPR management. Drawing on a recent evaluation, the subject of the second section is the extent to which the results of the industrial and exploratory research activities of IMEC are then commercialized in local Flemish industry. The concluding section offers policy conclusions in terms of the instruments and objectives which public policy makers can apply to maximize the local impact of large globally operating research centres. [source]