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Perceived conflict of interest in health science partnerships
University scientists conducting research on topics of potential health concern often want to partner with a range of actors, including government entities, non-governmental... -
Validating a scale to measure engineers’ perceived self-efficacy for engineer...
Education outreach in schools has been identified as a critical route to influence children's perceptions and capabilities for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics... -
Framework for Modelling Economic Impacts of Invasive Species, Applied to Pine...
Background: Economic impact assessment of invasive species requires integration of information on pest entry, establishment and spread, valuation of assets at risk and market... -
Public expenditure on Non-Communicable Diseases & Injuries in India: A budget...
Background Resource allocation decisions for disease categories can be informed by proper estimates of the magnitude and distribution of total spending. In the backdrop of a... -
Mycophilic or mycophobic? Legislation and guidelines on wild mushroom commerc...
Mycophiles forage for and pick vast quantities of a wide variety of wild mushroom species. As a result, mushroom intoxications are comparatively frequent in such countries with... -
Scientific sinkhole: The pernicious price of formatting
Objective To conduct a time-cost analysis of formatting in scientific publishing. Design International, cross-sectional study (one-time survey). Setting Internet-based... -
Reshuffling the global R&D deck, 1980-2050
Based on more recent science spending developments in countries such as China, Korea, India and Brazil, there is a growing sense that the world’s scientific deck of cards is in... -
Stock Market Returns and Clinical Trial Results of Investigational Compounds:...
Background For biopharmaceutical companies, investments in research and development are risky, and the results from clinical trials are key inflection points in the process. Few... -
Ecological Footprint Model Using the Support Vector Machine Technique
The per capita ecological footprint (EF) is one of the most widely recognized measures of environmental sustainability. It aims to quantify the Earth's biological resources... -
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Background: The city of Wrocław in Poland represents one of Central Europeans oldest capitals of science with numerous Nobel laureates. Due to a long history of political... -
A Model for Good Governance of Healthcare Technology Management in the Public...
Good governance (GG) is an important concept that has evolved as a set of normative principles for low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) to strengthen the functional capacity... -
Personal Traits Underlying Environmental Preferences: A Discrete Choice Exper...
Personality plays a role in human behavior, and thus can influence consumer decisions on environmental goods and services. This paper analyses the influence of the big five... -
An improved collaborative filtering method based on similarity
The recommender system is widely used in the field of e-commerce and plays an important role in guiding customers to make smart decisions. Although many algorithms are available... -
Industry payments to physician journal editors
Background Open Payments is a United States federal program mandating reporting of medical industry payments to physicians, increasing transparency of physician conflicts of... -
Biomedical career enrichment programs: Exploring women and minority participa...
Limited empirical data exists on why women and minority students enter Biomedical Career Enrichment Programs (BCEPs) and how program variables—such as duration of... -
Analysis of elite soccer players’ performance before and after signing a new ...
The aim of the current study was to analyse performance differences of football players 2-years prior and the year after signing a new contract (the following year) while taking... -
Reducing the Medical Cost of Deliveries in Burkina Faso Is Good for Everyone,...
Since 2007, Burkina Faso has subsidized 80% of the costs of child birth. Women are required to pay 20% (900 F CFA = 1.4 Euros), except for the indigent, who are supposed to be... -
The role of scientific communication in predicting science identity and resea...
The number of biomedical sciences PhDs persisting in academic faculty careers has been declining. As one potential influence on trainees’ intention to persist, we investigate... -
Retailer Stackelberg game in a supply chain with pricing and service decision...
: This paper studies the Retailer Stackelberg game in a supply chain consisting of two manufacturers and one retailer where they compete simultaneously under three factors... -
A decision support model for investment on P2P lending platform.
Peer-to-peer (P2P) lending, as a novel economic lending model, has triggered new challenges on making effective investment decisions. In a P2P lending platform, one lender can...
