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    The Coral Triangle Atlas: An Integrated Online Spatial Database System for Im...

    In this paper we describe the construction of an online GIS database system, hosted by WorldFish, which stores bio-physical, ecological and socio-economic data for the 'Coral...
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    Privacy Attitudes among Early Adopters of Emerging Health Technologies

    Introduction Advances in health technology such as genome sequencing and wearable sensors now allow for the collection of highly granular personal health data from individuals....
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    Engagement present and future: Graduate student and faculty perceptions of so...

    Interest in public engagement with science activities has grown in recent decades, especially engagement through social media and among graduate students. Research on...
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    Orienteering Problem with Functional Profits for multi-source dynamic path co...

    Orienteering problem (OP) is a routing problem, where the aim is to generate a path through set of nodes, which would maximize total score and would not exceed the budget. In...
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    Outcome Reporting Bias in Government-Sponsored Policy Evaluations: A Qualitat...

    The reporting of evaluation outcomes can be a point of contention between evaluators and policy-makers when a given reform fails to fulfil its promises. Whereas evaluators are...
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    Beyond Academia – Interrogating Research Impact in the Research Excellence Fr...

    Big changes to the way in which research funding is allocated to UK universities were brought about in the Research Excellence Framework (REF), overseen by the Higher Education...
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    Alcohol Misuse among University Staff: A Cross-Sectional Study

    OBJECTIVES: To examine the prevalence of hazardous drinking among staff in a UK university and its association with key socio-demographic features. DESIGN: A cross-sectional...
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    The looks matter; aggression escalation from changes on phenotypic appearance...

    Domestic fowl in small groups are assumed to establish hierarchical systems based on individual recognition. Conversely, interactions in large groups are modulated by badges of...
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    Relative solidarity: Conceptualising communal participation in genomic resear...

    OBJECTIVE: As genomic research gathers momentum in sub-Saharan Africa, it has become increasingly important to understand the reasons why individuals wish to participate in this...
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    A Global Estimate of the Number of Coral Reef Fishers

    Overfishing threatens coral reefs worldwide, yet there is no reliable estimate on the number of reef fishers globally. We address this data gap by quantifying the number of reef...
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    Challenges to implementing national comprehensive sexuality education curricu...

    School-based comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) can help adolescents achieve their full potential and realize their sexual and reproductive health and rights. This is...
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    Has large-scale named-entity network analysis been resting on a flawed assump...

    : The assumption that a name uniquely identifies an entity introduces two types of errors: splitting treats one entity as two or more (because of name variants); lumping treats...
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    Development of a knowledge translation platform for ataxia: Impact on readers...

    AbstractBackgroundDissemination of accurate health research information to patients and families has become increasingly important with the rise of the internet as a means of...
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    Improving the Measurement of Maternal Mortality: The Sisterhood Method Revisited

    BACKGROUND: Over the past several decades the efforts to improve maternal survival and the consequent demand for accurate estimates of maternal mortality have increased....
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    Equity in aid allocation and distribution: A qualitative study of key stakeho...

    The Sustainable Development Goals have spurred a growing interest in and focus on equitable development. In theory, donors can play an important role in promoting equity within...
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    Ecosystem services in European protected areas: Ambiguity in the views of sci...

    Protected Areas are a key component of nature conservation. They can play an important role in counterbalancing the impacts of ecosystem degradation. For an optimal protection...
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    Initial Coin Offerings

    This paper examines the market for initial coin offerings (ICOs). ICOs are smart contracts based on blockchain technology that are designed for entrepreneurs to raise external...
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    Industry-university collaborations in Canada, Japan, the UK and USA--with emp...

    As industry-university collaborations are promoted to commercialize university research and foster economic growth, it is important to understand how companies benefit from...
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    How long do new medicines take to reach Canadian patients after companies fil...

    Introduction Studies of the delay between when companies file a New Drug Submission (NDS) and when drugs reach Canadian patients typically focus on the time in the regulatory...
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    Evaluation of a mid-career investigator career development award: Assessing t...

    The National Institutes of Health (NIH) K18 award mechanism provides funded opportunities for established investigators to gain knowledge in fields outside of their primary...