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    Career Coaches as a Source of Vicarious Learning for Racial and Ethnic Minori...

    Introduction Many recent mentoring initiatives have sought to help improve the proportion of underrepresented racial and ethnic minorities (URMs) in academic positions across...
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    Computational biology is an interdisciplinary field, and many computational biology research projects involve distributed teams of scientists. To accomplish their work, these...
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    Why do researchers from Economics and Social Sciences cite online? Insights f...

    Presented at the 17th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI) on September 2-5, 2019 in Rome (Italy). 
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    Autism spectrum disorder, politics, and the generosity of insurance mandates ...

    The study of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in the United States has identified a growing prevalence of the disorder across the country, a high economic burden for necessary...
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    Family and the field: Expectations of a field-based research career affect re...

    Field-based data collection provides an extraordinary opportunity for comparative research. However, the demands of pursuing research away from home creates an expectation of...
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    Background  As in many health care systems, some Canadian jurisdictions have begun shifting away from global hospital budgets. Payment for episodes of care has begun to be...
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    Acknowledgements are not just thank you notes: A qualitative analysis of ackn...

    Acknowledgements in scientific articles can be described as miscellaneous, their content ranging from pre-formulated financial disclosure statements to personal testimonies of...
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    Publications as predictors of racial and ethnic differences in NIH research a...

    This research expands efforts to understand differences in NIH funding associated with the self-identified race and ethnicity of applicants. We collected data from 2,397 NIH...
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    Research Capacity Strengthening in Low and Middle Income Countries – An Evalu...

    Between August 2012 and April 2013 the Career Development Fellowship programme of the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (World Health...
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    Beware of vested interests: Epistemic vigilance improves reasoning about scie...

    In public disputes, stakeholders sometimes misrepresent statistics or other types of scientific evidence to support their claims. One of the reasons this is problematic is that...
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    The "new normal": Adapting doctoral trainee career preparation for broad care...

    : Doctoral recipients in the biomedical sciences and STEM fields are showing increased interest in career opportunities beyond academic positions. While recent research has...
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    Antarctica is often associated with images of masculine figures battling against the blizzard. The pervasiveness of heroic white masculine leadership and exploration in...
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    The role of mainstreamness and interdisciplinarity for the relevance of scien...

    There is demand from science funders, industry, and the public that science should become more risk-taking, more out-of-the-box, and more interdisciplinary. Is it possible to...
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    The aim of this research is to explore factors influencing the management decisions to adopt human resource information system (HRIS) in the hospital industry of Bangladesh—an...
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    AIMS: Social scientists have postulated that the discrepancy between achievements and expectations affects individuals' subjective well-being. Still, little has been done to...
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    There is increased concern about poor scientific practices arising from an excessive focus on P-values. Two particularly worrisome practices are selective reporting of...
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    A new survey to evaluate conflict of interest policies at academic medical ce...

    Background A majority of academic medical centers (AMCs) have now adopted conflict of interest policies (COI) to address relationships with pharmaceutical and device industries...
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    Evidence for scaling up HIV treatment in sub-Saharan Africa: A call for incor...

    Summary points The ever-growing HIV treatment programs in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) present local policy makers with complex decision dilemmas, as international guidelines...
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    Values in environmental research: Citizens' views of scientists who acknowled...

    Scientists who perform environmental research on policy-relevant topics face challenges when communicating about how values may have influenced their research. This study...
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    Patent pledges, open IP, or patent pools? Developing taxonomies in the thicke...

    Recently, a range of organisations, including car and consumer electronics manufacturers, have applied so-called patent pledges. A patent pledge is a publicly announced...