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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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    Estimating the Impact of State Budget Cuts and Redirection of Prevention Reso...

    BACKGROUND: In the wake of a national economic downturn, the state of California, in 2009-2010, implemented budget cuts that eliminated state funding of HIV prevention and...
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    Experimental models in HUB (2) ‒ Applied Technological Ecosystem - Physical L...

    The need is to host an application platform [or a set of coexistent applications] in the Hub (2) of HEUREKA to facilitate the creative industries users in their...
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    Ten simple rules when considering retirement

    This is an article submitted to the Ten Simple Rules series of professional development articles published by PLOS Computational Biology.
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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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    Conflicts of interest in GM Bt crop efficacy and durability studies

    Public confidence in genetically modified (GM) crop studies is tenuous at best in many countries, including those of the European Union in particular. A lack of information...
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    The Macroeconomic Consequences of Renouncing to Universal Access to Antiretro...

    AIM: Previous economic literature on the cost-effectiveness of antiretroviral treatment (ART) programs has been mainly focused on the microeconomic consequences of alternative...
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    Evaluation of Croatian innovation capability

    In this paper we try to assess and evaluate Croatian innovation capability thorough the framework of the European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS), a system of innovation indicators....
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    Fish Is Food - The FAO’s Fish Price Index

    World food prices hit an all-time high in February 2011 and are still almost two and a half times those of 2000. Although three billion people worldwide use seafood as a key...
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    IUFRO News 2012/2: New Assessment of Biodiversity and Forest Management in REDD+

    New GFEP Expert Panel on Biodiversity, Forest Management, and REDD+ is preparing an assessment that will provide a stronger scientific basis for decisions about REDD+ policies...
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    Innovation by the Numbers: an Analytic Approach

    Slides from my presentation at the XXIV ISPIM conference held in Helsinki, 16-19th June. (http://conference.ispim.org)
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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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    Levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system vs. usual medical treatment for ...

    Objective: To undertake an economic evaluation alongside the largest randomised controlled trial comparing Levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine device ('LNG-IUS') and usual...
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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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    Ten simple rules for writing a career development award proposal

    Career development awards support intensive training and provide valuable funding for promising postdoctoral and/or junior faculty–level scientists during the transition to...
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    "Expanded HIV Testing in Low-Prevalence, High-Income Countries: A Cost-Effect...

    Objective In many high-income countries with low HIV prevalence, significant numbers of persons living with HIV (PLHIV) remain undiagnosed. Identification of PLHIV via HIV...
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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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    Variability in Costs across Hospital Wards. A Study of Chinese Hospitals

    Introduction Analysts estimating the costs or cost-effectiveness of health interventions requiring hospitalization often cut corners because they lack data and the costs of...
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    Gender and Corruption in Business

    Published online: 05 Oct 2016 Are firms with female owners or managers less corrupt than other firms? We test this question using firm-level data on corruption, ownership, and...