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A decade of decline: Grant funding for researchers with disabilities 2008 to ...
Recent data highlights an imbalance in research grant success among groups underrepresented within the biomedical workforce, including racial/ethnic minorities and women.... -
Exploring the role of interdisciplinarity in physics: Success, talent and luck
Although interdisciplinarity is often touted as a necessity for modern research, the evidence on the relative impact of sectorial versus to interdisciplinary science is... -
Variable cultural acquisition costs constrain cumulative cultural evolution.
One of the hallmarks of the human species is our capacity for cumulative culture, in which beneficial knowledge and technology is accumulated over successive generations. Yet... -
Survey of Academic Field Experiences (SAFE): Trainees Report Harassment and A...
Little is known about the climate of the scientific fieldwork setting as it relates to gendered experiences, sexual harassment, and sexual assault. We conducted an... -
The Role of Gender in the Employment, Career Perception and Research Performa...
Recent decades have seen a sharp increase in the number of female PhD graduates in the Netherlands. Currently, the share of females among newly graduated PhDs is almost on par... -
The procurement of innovation by the U.S. government
The U.S. government invests more than $50 billion per year in R&D procurement but we know little about the outcomes of these investments. We have traced all the patents... -
Investing in Threatened Species Conservation: Does Corruption Outweigh Purcha...
In many sectors, freedom in capital flow has allowed optimization of investment returns through choosing sites that provide the best value for money. These returns, however, can... -
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... -
Striking a balance: socioeconomic development and conservation in grassland t...
The goal of preserving nature is often in conflict with economic development and the aspirations of the rural poor. Nowhere is this more striking than in native grasslands,... -
Cost-effectiveness of adding cetuximab to platinum-based chemotherapy for fir...
Purpose To assess the cost effectiveness of adding cetuximab to platinum-based chemotherapy in first-line treatment of patients with recurrent or metastatic head and neck... -
Monitoring inequalities in the health workforce: the case study of Brazil 199...
INTRODUCTION: Both the quantity and the distribution of health workers in a country are fundamental for assuring equitable access to health services. Using the case of Brazil,... -
Prevalence of and reasons for women’s, family members’ and health professiona...
: Mairead Black and Sohinee Bhattacharya discuss research findings on preferences for cesarean delivery in Asian settings and share their Perspective on facilitating... -
"How much will I get charged for this?" Patient charges for top ten diagnoses...
Objectives We examined the charges, their variability, and respective payer group for diagnosis and treatment of the ten most common outpatient conditions presenting to the... -
Shorter Lines Facilitate Reading in Those Who Struggle
People with dyslexia, who ordinarily struggle to read, sometimes remark that reading is easier when e-readers are used. Here, we used eye tracking to observe high school... -
Market Forces and Technological Substitutes Cause Fluctuations in the Value o...
Critics of the market-based, ecosystem services approach to biodiversity conservation worry that volatile market conditions and technological substitutes will diminish the value... -
Stakeholder perspectives on large-scale marine protected areas
Large-scale marine protected areas (LSMPAs), MPAs greater than 100,000km2, have proliferated in the past decade. However, the value of LSMPAs as conservation tools is debated,... -
An Evaluation of the Outcomes of Mutual Health Organizations in Benin
BACKGROUND: Mutual health organizations (MHO) have been seen as a promising alternative to the fee-based funding model but scientific foundations to support their generalization... -
Projecting human development and CO2 emissions
Although developing countries are called to participate in CO2 emission reduction efforts to avoid dangerous climate change, the implications of proposed reduction schemes in... -
Financial Evaluation of Different Vaccination Strategies for Controlling the ...
BACKGROUND: Bluetongue (BT) is a vector-borne disease of ruminants caused by bluetongue virus that is transmitted by biting midges (Culicoides spp.). In 2006, the introduction... -
Expert opinion on metal chains and other indestructible objects as proper enr...
EC Directive 2001/93 requires that all pigs have access to proper investigation and manipulation materials. Intensively farmed pigs in Europe are frequently provided with a...
