Sentences with phrase «research misconduct at»

-LSB-...] looking into possible research misconduct at the Climate Research Unit of East Anglia University got it all wrong.

Something all can agree on, however, is that misconduct in the United Kingdom, particularly in the area of medical research, is an endemic problem: An informal survey released by BMJ at the meeting showed that out of 2700 responses by BMJ subscribers, 13 % of medical and academic researchers had witnessed misconduct and 6 % were aware of possible research misconduct at their institution that hadn't been properly investigated.

Instead, it cited the process already in place to handle such disputes: ORI investigates reports of research misconduct at federally funded institutions, and if it finds a researcher has committed misconduct, it sends a «charge letter» outlining its finding and suggesting sanctions.

Ackenhusen further testified that she explained the process of investigating misconduct cases, but «since it didn't appear that Dr. Perez - Melgosa was making a complaint of research misconduct against herself... and it did not appear there was an allegation of research misconduct at that time» — Nickerson had not lodged a formal complaint — «I did not pursue it further.»

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Insider that, according to Swedish law's relatively narrow definition of research misconduct, his primary task was to compare the data presented in six papers describing the technique with lab and patient records at the institute and its hospital.

Gerdin told ScienceInsider that, according to Swedish law's relatively narrow definition of research misconduct, his primary task was to compare the data presented in six papers describing the technique with lab and patient records at the institute and its hospital.

Under federal regulations, universities and research institutions are required to look into every misconduct allegation that comes to them, regardless of how substantial (or insubstantial) it seems at first glance and regardless of where the allegation comes from.

• Those who think the toll of scientific misconduct is limited to science should read a paper in the European Heart Journal (EHJ) that claims that tainted research from the labs of Don Poldermans, the «disgraced cardiologist who was at Erasmus MC in the Netherlands, may have led to the deaths of» as many as 800,000 people in Europe.

The report is replete with examples of the social controversies involving science and technology at that time - the biological and environmental effects of nuclear weapons testing, DDT and other dioxins, the use of defoliants and herbicides by the U.S. military in Vietnam, the safety of nuclear power plants, the ban on fetal research, a moratorium on recombinant DNA research, the need for human subject protections and informed consent in genetics research, the misuse of psychology as a tool for torture, the implications of national security controls on science; misconduct in science, and the role of and protections for whistleblowers - many of which continue to resonate in the science and society relationship of today.

For all authors, the citation penalty was greater when the retraction was due to misconduct as opposed to an honest mistake — a result that makes sense to David Resnik, a bioethicist at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) in Arlington, Virginia, has decided to double down on its implementation of a congressionally mandated policy aimed at reducing research misconduct among NSF - funded scientists, despite a new report that notes problems with the agency's approach.

The company said it learned about «misconduct at a contract research organization (CRO) facility in Houston» from the FDA and that it cooperated with investigations by the FDA and its European counterpart.

«That would be a useful check and balance,» remarks C. K. Gunsalus, an attorney at the University of Illinois who has handled research misconduct cases.

The 8 - year - old Office of Research Integrity (ORI), a small unit within the Department of Health and Human Services, hopes to support studies aimed at gauging the frequency of misconduct and how to raise ethical standards.

«This was an adequate decision,» says Bengt Gerdin, a professor emeritus of surgery at Uppsala University in Sweden, who concluded in a report last year that Macchiarini's published research articles painted a flattering picture of his patients» health, and thus constituted scientific misconduct.

The expertise needed to investigate research misconduct cases is very different than investigating sexual harassment cases, says Price, who spent 17 years at the Office of Research Integrity, which handles misconduct by federally funded biomedical reseresearch misconduct cases is very different than investigating sexual harassment cases, says Price, who spent 17 years at the Office of Research Integrity, which handles misconduct by federally funded biomedical reseResearch Integrity, which handles misconduct by federally funded biomedical researchers.

That being said, the inquiry into misconduct should proceed according to the standard policies at the researchers» institution, with the media being notified only if the parties in question are indeed deemed guilty of research fraud.

The Boston Globe reports today that Harvard University cognitive scientist Marc Hauser, who is on leave after a university investigation found evidence of research misconduct in his lab, will not be allowed to teach at the university next year.

He stressed that this study looks at only a small part of the full financial loss from research misconduct.

NASA chief Charles Bolden is reviewing a request from a U.S. senator for a briefing on alleged misconduct at the agency's Ames Research Center (ARC) in California.

«There are already other reasons why institutions may be reluctant to investigate allegations involving research misconduct (e.g., time, expense, loss of revenue, bad publicity),» wrote Ferric Fang, a microbiologist at the University of Washington, Seattle, in an email to ScienceInsider.

She is also assistant vice president for research at CSU and directs the university's research integrity office, which offers training in research integrity and helps with misconduct investigations.

But the report notes that co-authors Teruhiko Wakayama, a former RIKEN researcher now at the University of Yamanashi in Kofu, and Yoshiki Sasai, of RIKEN CDB, who worked with Obokata to finalize the research, «allowed the papers to be submitted to Nature without verifying the accuracy of the data, and they bear heavy responsibility for the research misconduct that resulted from this failure on their part.»

The agency's response mirrors how it handled an earlier instance of scientific misconduct at another contract research organization

A top executive at AAAS, the world's largest general scientific organization, is urging federal officials to broaden the definition of research misconduct to include sexual harassment, saying such behavior is unacceptable and should carry serious financial repercussions.

Nick Steneck, director of research ethics and integrity at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, says authorities worldwide should adopt a uniform misconduct policy that provides clear guidance not only on data falsification and fabrication but also on lesser ethical breaches — such as self - plagiarism.

The full quote:» Three investigations of the alleged scientific misconduct of the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia — one by the UK House of Commons Science and Technology Committee, a second by the Scientific Assessment Panel of the Royal Society, chaired by Lord Oxburgh, and the latest by the Independent Climate Change E-mails Review, chaired by Sir Muir Russell — have confirmed what climate scientists have never seriously doubted: established scientists depend on their credibility and have no motivation in purposely misleading the public and their colleagues.

In 2013, Mani Pavuluri told the University of Illinois at Chicago that one of her study participants had been hospitalized — an event which prompted the university to halt three of her studies, launch a misconduct probe, and send letters to approximately 350 families of children participating in the research, notifying them of what happened.

notify CRUK at the earliest opportunity of any allegations of research misconduct connected in any way with the Grant or Grant Activities, as well as the progress and outcome of any ensuing investigation into the misconduct.

Current investigations of research experiments by a surgeon, Dr. Paolo Macciarini, are active for allegations of misconduct at the Karolinska Institute, the most prominent medical research center in Sweden.

An investigation related to this research has been conducted by the Expert Group for Misconduct in Research at the Swedish Central Ethical Review Board on behalf of Karolinska Insresearch has been conducted by the Expert Group for Misconduct in Research at the Swedish Central Ethical Review Board on behalf of Karolinska InsResearch at the Swedish Central Ethical Review Board on behalf of Karolinska Institutet.

At the start of a project - based research unit, we reviewed our school handbook's definition of academic misconduct.

The contracting officer shall insert the clause at (TAR) 48 CFR 1252.235 - 70, Research Misconduct, in all solicitations and contracts for research and deveResearch Misconduct, in all solicitations and contracts for research and deveresearch and development.

If the purpose of your earlier post that I commented on, was not to imply that your use of the term «false» equated to outright research misconduct via dishonesty, then why do you, here, defend yourself using two high profiles examples of exactly that very thing??? This makes no logical sense at all.

The climate scientist at the center of Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli's UVA document - seeking inquest has been cleared of research misconduct by a faculty panel at Penn State, the University...

By the way, McIntyre did bring a research misconduct complaint against Caspar Ammann at UCAR (which was rejected, of course).

The climate scientist Michael Mann, who has been under relentless attack from sceptics since the exposure of emails at East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit, was cleared of research misconduct by a university investigation yeResearch Unit, was cleared of research misconduct by a university investigation yeresearch misconduct by a university investigation yesterday.

at xv, it treats the falsification of data, intent to mislead, and retaliation against critics as examples of serious research misconduct.

In earlier CA posts on the Penn State inquiry, I observed that Penn State thumbed their noses at Office of Research Integrity procedures for academic misconduct.

Some useful facts: 1) The inquiry / investigations at Penn State were handled in the normal way, under Hank Foley, VP Research, the job often responsible for academic misconduct investigations.

The important point from the report to me is this --[quote] At the time of initiation of the inquiry, and in the ensuing days during the inquiry, no formal allegations accusing Dr. Mann of research misconduct were submitted to any University official.

Quote «At the time of initiation of the inquiry, and in the ensuing days during the inquiry, no formal allegations accusing Dr. Mann of research misconduct were submitted to any University official.»

At the time of initiation of the inquiry, and in the ensuing days during the inquiry, no formal allegations accusing Dr. Mann of research misconduct were submitted to any University official.

Dr. Stefan Rahmstorf of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and a co-blogger with Mann at the climate blog RealClimate, felt that it was «extremely unlikely» that any university would be involved in a cover up, asking «[w] hy would a university ruin their reputation by attempting to cover up misconduct?»

HAMALENGWA — Findings of Professional Misconduct — While representing a difficult client who was charged with first degree murder, the Lawyer was eligible to bill the Ministry of the Attorney General for fees and disbursements pursuant to a Fisher order — The Lawyer's accounting, billing and docketing systems were deplorable and bore no relationship to his billings to the Ministry — The Lawyer engaged in professional misconduct by billing the Ministry for attendances at court when he had not attended or attended for less time than he claimed; overbilling for legal research; billing for services that were not properly billable as legal services; overbilling for student assistance disbursements he had not incurred; overbilling for fees and disbursements that were not fair and reasonable; and submitting a document to the Ministry purporting to be an invoice from a student working under his direction when the invoice was not prepared by the student and the services were not rendered as described in theMisconduct — While representing a difficult client who was charged with first degree murder, the Lawyer was eligible to bill the Ministry of the Attorney General for fees and disbursements pursuant to a Fisher order — The Lawyer's accounting, billing and docketing systems were deplorable and bore no relationship to his billings to the Ministry — The Lawyer engaged in professional misconduct by billing the Ministry for attendances at court when he had not attended or attended for less time than he claimed; overbilling for legal research; billing for services that were not properly billable as legal services; overbilling for student assistance disbursements he had not incurred; overbilling for fees and disbursements that were not fair and reasonable; and submitting a document to the Ministry purporting to be an invoice from a student working under his direction when the invoice was not prepared by the student and the services were not rendered as described in themisconduct by billing the Ministry for attendances at court when he had not attended or attended for less time than he claimed; overbilling for legal research; billing for services that were not properly billable as legal services; overbilling for student assistance disbursements he had not incurred; overbilling for fees and disbursements that were not fair and reasonable; and submitting a document to the Ministry purporting to be an invoice from a student working under his direction when the invoice was not prepared by the student and the services were not rendered as described in the document.

In U.S. v. Lawson, on the other hand, the federal Fourth Circuit addressed at length the reliability concerns presented by reliance on Wikipedia.32 The issue arose when, despite the trial court's explicit instruction not to conduct research on the internet or otherwise, a juror reviewed, during deliberations, a Wikipedia definition of an element of the crime with which the defendant was charged.33 The juror no longer had the original Wikipedia entry but obtained a printout two weeks later in anticipation of his appearance before the court on complaints of juror misconduct.

Nutrition expert and blogger Bill Shrapnel wrote about the news that Professor Jennie Brand - Miller from the University of Sydney and Dr Alan Barclay, Chief Scientific Officer at the Glycaemic Index Foundation and Head of Research at the Australian Diabetes Council have been cleared by the University of Sydney of research misconduct alleResearch at the Australian Diabetes Council have been cleared by the University of Sydney of research misconduct alleresearch misconduct allegations.