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grouping research reviews: What do they really say to the practitioner?
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The SBA invested $ 6 million a year into 10
groups of businesses for two years starting in 2010 and commissioned economic policy analysis
research - and - consulting firm Optimal Solutions
Group to perform an independent
review.
Before brands license products into new categories they need to conduct market
research, including a
review of secondary
research, focus
groups, interviews and field surveys to clearly understand what consumers believe about the brand and what their expectations are.
According to Harvard Business
Review, «
research first published in the Journal of Applied Psychology shows that even when the minority points of view are wrong, they cause the rest of the
group to think better, to create more solutions, and to improve the creativity of problem - solving.»
Secondly, the World Bank's Trade and Competitiveness
group also just published a policy note entitled, Supporting Growth - Oriented Women Entrepreneurs: A
Review of Evidence and Key Challenges, which draws upon and synthesizes existing
research from within and outside the Bank.
The
research group identifies negative and positive news coverage by
reviewing more than twenty million news and blog sources in real - time.
For additional insight into our longer term view, please click here to see a piece provided by our
research consultant, Asset Consulting
Group, that takes a brief look at the year - end
review.
During my thirty years of academic labor in the humanities, I have observed my colleagues across the country promote racial and sexual criteria in admissions and hiring,
review curricula, textbooks, and tests for proper representation of
groups, and elevate race and sexuality to essential
research fields.
Dudley dates his awareness of the need for these new disciplines from the fall of 1979, when he journeyed to Indianapolis as part of a
group convened by Robert Lynn, vice-president for religion at the Lilly Endowment, to
review an innovative project on congregational
research directed by James Hopewell.
Female consumers represent a driving economic powerhouse, controlling 65 %, or approximately $ 20 trillion annually, of global spending and more than 80 % of U.S. spending, according to the Harvard Business
Review and the Continuum's Women and Children
Research Group.
A
group of professional health organizations, authors and individuals got together and
reviewed all the
research findings along with the World Health Organization recommendations and developed the «gold standard» of maternity care; the Mother - Friendly Childbirth Initiative (MFCI).»
Research also suggests that women who use hospital - based birthing centers are more likely to have a normal vaginal birth and more likely to be breast - feeding six to eight weeks after delivery than those who give birth in a typical hospital setting, said Ellen Hodnett, a professor of nursing at the University of Toronto and a
review author for the Cochrane Collaboration Pregnancy and Childbirth
Group.
After an exhaustive investigation of the toxic gas hypothesis lasting three and a half years, methodically examining every aspect of the claim both by
reviewing existing
research, as well as by commissioning new
research, the Expert
Group has concluded that there is no evidence to support the claim that fire retardants in PVC cot mattresses cause SIDS.
One
research summary found that after
reviewing all available studies regarding the outcomes of using IBCLCs, mothers who had higher breastfeeding initiation rates, a longer duration of exclusive breastfeeding, a longer duration of any breastfeeding, higher breastfeeding rates for all infant age
groups, AND better maternal and infant health outcomes as compared to those who didn't seek out IBCLC support (5).
Published in the Lancet, the latest phase of the WHO's Global Survey on Maternal and Perinatal Health
Research Group reviewed births in nine Asian countries.
Other experience includes a year on the US 2010 Quadrennial Defense
Review, a year at the Kabul - based Afghanistan
Research and Evaluation Unit, two years in Beirut, Lebanon, shorter project management roles in Jordan, Pakistan, and Iraq, political risk forecasting in a London - based firm, and stints with the International Crisis
Group and the US Embassy in Kuwait.
«Typically, these speeches
review and celebrate the successes of an administration,» said Blair Horner of the New York Public Interest
Research Group.
They are conducted in partnership with the appropriate learned societies that cover the discipline being
reviewed, as the remit and recommendations from the
review involve the whole academic community The process was overseen by a Steering
Group composed of prominent UK academics, users of Human Geography
research and funders.
All existing
research on women in medicine was
reviewed for the report, and the
group concludes that giving career guidance and mentoring, providing support for carers and offering «taster» sessions to those who have taken a career break will help improve the future for female doctors.
The Steering
Group agreed the terms of reference for the
review and, in consultation with the UK Human Geography community, appointed an International Panel of leading international experts, chaired by Professor David Ley, University of British Columbia, Canada The International Panel visited the UK for one week in May 2012 and met with about 150 stakeholders in UK Human Geography Prior to its UK visit, the Panel was provided with a range of background data including: Overviews of research trends and outputs since 2000 completed by representatives of the nine Human Geography sub-disciplines Two - page assessments by Heads of UK Geography Departments of strengths, weaknesses, overall health, and future opportunities and challenges to Human Geography in the UK (15 submissions were received) A statistical profile of UK Human Geography: Briefing Document: Statistical Overview and Commentary by Paul Wakeling (2012) Bibliometric Data for the ESRC International Benchmarking Review of Human Geography by Thomson Reuters (2012) A Short Introduction to UK Research Funding Policy by David Mills (2012) Survey of Users of Human Geography Research by Steve Johnson, David Gibbs and Ian Mills (
review and, in consultation with the UK Human Geography community, appointed an International Panel of leading international experts, chaired by Professor David Ley, University of British Columbia, Canada The International Panel visited the UK for one week in May 2012 and met with about 150 stakeholders in UK Human Geography Prior to its UK visit, the Panel was provided with a range of background data including: Overviews of
research trends and outputs since 2000 completed by representatives of the nine Human Geography sub-disciplines Two - page assessments by Heads of UK Geography Departments of strengths, weaknesses, overall health, and future opportunities and challenges to Human Geography in the UK (15 submissions were received) A statistical profile of UK Human Geography: Briefing Document: Statistical Overview and Commentary by Paul Wakeling (2012) Bibliometric Data for the ESRC International Benchmarking Review of Human Geography by Thomson Reuters (2012) A Short Introduction to UK Research Funding Policy by David Mills (2012) Survey of Users of Human Geography Research by Steve Johnson, David Gibbs and Ian Mills
research trends and outputs since 2000 completed by representatives of the nine Human Geography sub-disciplines Two - page assessments by Heads of UK Geography Departments of strengths, weaknesses, overall health, and future opportunities and challenges to Human Geography in the UK (15 submissions were received) A statistical profile of UK Human Geography: Briefing Document: Statistical Overview and Commentary by Paul Wakeling (2012) Bibliometric Data for the ESRC International Benchmarking
Review of Human Geography by Thomson Reuters (2012) A Short Introduction to UK Research Funding Policy by David Mills (2012) Survey of Users of Human Geography Research by Steve Johnson, David Gibbs and Ian Mills (
Review of Human Geography by Thomson Reuters (2012) A Short Introduction to UK
Research Funding Policy by David Mills (2012) Survey of Users of Human Geography Research by Steve Johnson, David Gibbs and Ian Mills
Research Funding Policy by David Mills (2012) Survey of Users of Human Geography
Research by Steve Johnson, David Gibbs and Ian Mills
Research by Steve Johnson, David Gibbs and Ian Mills (2012).
Between 2004 and 2006 John was full time Deputy Director and then Director of the Conservative
Research Department under Michael Howard and David Cameron during which time he set up the secretariat for the Conservative Party's Policy
Review Groups.
«It's unbelievable,» said Blair Horner, executive director of the New York Public Interest
Research Group, after
reviewing the proposed regulations.
The project entailed a literature
review, surveys,
research on types of science - policy connection mechanisms, and individual and
group consultations.
Also,
reviewing is often done in panels which can be subject to
group - think, favoring mainstream science and disfavoring high - risk - high - reward
research.
Researchers must also receive approval from their home institutions» institutional
review boards,
groups that ensure investigators will guard patients» confidentiality and adhere to ethical
research principles.
Advocates of biomedical
research, professional societies, and patient
groups had mobilized to plead for a more careful
review, warning that this bill's language was so vague it might hinder
research on human stem cells and new medical therapies.
Preliminary results of the study were presented at a World Health Organization (WHO) evidence
review group meeting, while UNITAID has issued a call for further
research into the use of endectocide class drugs, of which ivermectin is currently the only one registered for human use, as new vector control tools in the fight against malaria and other mosquito borne disease.
As a result, the authors suggest
reviewing dietary recommendations for adolescents, although they add that it would be useful to conduct similar
research on a sample
group with higher egg intake.
Earlier this year, a
group of concerned scientists and journal publishers signed an open letter known as the San Francisco Declaration on
Research Assessment (DORA) to encourage review boards and tenure committees to «eliminate the use of journal - based metrics, such as Journal Impact Factors, in funding, appointment, and promotion considerations,» and to encourage the development of alternative metrics (altmetrics) to measure a scientist's research contri
Research Assessment (DORA) to encourage
review boards and tenure committees to «eliminate the use of journal - based metrics, such as Journal Impact Factors, in funding, appointment, and promotion considerations,» and to encourage the development of alternative metrics (altmetrics) to measure a scientist's
research contri
research contributions.
Among the CSFR / OSFR early professional ethics initiatives, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission asked the committee to
review proposed regulations regarding issues of technical dissent with the agency, OSFR staff surveyed 241 professional societies asking them about the extent of their organization's professional ethics issues and efforts, and the CSFR, the President's Commission on Ethical Problems in Medicine and
Research and the group Medicine in the Public Interest cosponsored a workshop on whistle blowing on fraud in biomedical r
Research and the
group Medicine in the Public Interest cosponsored a workshop on whistle blowing on fraud in biomedical
researchresearch.
Varmus pointed out that a special
review group he created in 1994 to give advice on embryo
research had already judged human cloning to be «repugnant» — a view he endorsed.
Micheletti and his
research group have been among the first to work in that respect and are an authoritative voice in the field, so much that the Physics of Life
Reviews has chosen to ask the scientist himself this
review.
Another recently published systematic
review and meta - analysis by Dr. Sievenpiper's
research group found that eating on average one serving a day of beans, peas, chickpeas or lentils can also reduce «bad cholesterol» by five per cent and therefore lower the risk of cardiovascular disease.
«All HEIs [higher education institutions] should
review the working hours of their academic staff and the management of
research groups to ensure that practices are in keeping with the needs of those employees with caring responsibilities,» the report says.
That
review, launched last year by a 27 - member CASAC
review panel, is being closely followed by industry and environmental
groups in light of mounting
research that fine particulates pose health risks at levels below the current limits.
I realize that your «Working
Group On
Review Of Bioengineering And Technology And Instrumentation Development
Research», defined «bioengineering and technology» as encompassing areas such as biotechnology, functional genomics, informatics, chemistry and physics, nevertheless they did not discuss the problems experienced by physicists engaged in basic research on the frontier of physics and biology from the present system of study s
Research», defined «bioengineering and technology» as encompassing areas such as biotechnology, functional genomics, informatics, chemistry and physics, nevertheless they did not discuss the problems experienced by physicists engaged in basic
research on the frontier of physics and biology from the present system of study s
research on the frontier of physics and biology from the present system of study sections.
Over her time at FDA, Woodcock has moved up, first by running the
review group for biologics, then becoming the deputy director of biologics, then head of the Office of Therapeutics, and finally being appointed head of the Center for Drug Evaluation and
Research (CDER), a division of FDA committed to ensuring that «all prescription and over-the-counter drugs are safe and effective.»
Some will argue vehemently that peer
review allows the scientific establishment to strangle unpalatable new ideas at birth and encourages the settling of old scores between rival
research groups.
Previously,
research groups had to get approval for each project involving human ES cells from their own Institutional
Review Board (IRB) and then from a national committee under the Ministry of Education, Culture, Science, Sports, and Technology.
After the German Environment Ministry came under pressure from environmental
groups, the German
Research Ministry ordered that the experiment be put on hold while independent scientific
reviews by non-German scientists were done.
The experiment worked, and last year a
review of 317 patients treated by 27 different
research groups found an astounding 92 percent cure rate from this unusual therapy.
The reality is this: the science in the 2015 paper is impeccable and has been replicated and confirmed by other
research groups publishing in peer -
reviewed journals; data used in the paper were not experimental, biased or improperly archived; and the paper was not rushed to publication.
NIH also announced a plan to work with federally funded community health centers to find cohort volunteers from underserved
groups; an ethics
review board for the cohort study; and a pilot project to work with companies on apps for allowing people to share their data for
research.
The
group's
research papers, undergoing peer
review, are unequivocal.
It receives stable core funding, which is shared by all
research groups and
reviewed every 5 years.
In one change, Collins said he plans to replace an oversight
group made of federal government employees, the Interagency Animal Models Committee, that now
reviews proposals for chimpanzee
research.
Kirkland also co-wrote a 2013 paper
reviewing research around the health effects of glyphosate, under a contract with the Glyphosate Task Force, an industry - backed
group, he says.
Wayt interviewed Ed Cutrell, from Microsoft
Research's Adaptive Systems Interaction
Group, and
reviews some of the subjects he came across at the meeting.
His international
research group began to explore the issue through a systematic literature
review and meta - analysis.
An international consortium of scientists that was recently assembled to
review the science on BPA for the German UmweltBundesAmt (that country's equivalent of the Environmental Protection Agency) determined that the
research FDA used in its safety assessment was flawed because it failed to consider the chemical's effects on behavior and prostate development, according to a copy of the
group's conclusions provided to ScientificAmerican.com.