DTI research and development scoreboard reveals extent of R&D in services sector
...oductive environment for R&D investment. "Global competition remains strong and the Government is committed to making the UK one of the best places in the world for science and innovation." The R&D Scoreboard is the premier source of information on business R&D in the UK and globally, looking at data for th...Focus on opticians shows chain store pricing policies can save independents
...il (ESRC). It protects them from the intense local competition that could arise from price wars in places where s...lic health policy. When it comes to the form of competition between independents, this, too, appears to depend on whether or not there are chain stores nearby. ...American College of Physicians publishes 'Internal Medicine Essentials for Clerkship Students'
...ent Membership, sponsorship of a national clinical competition and residency fair, a Council of Student Members, and study resources such as MKSAP for Students 3. ACP also addresses public policy issues related to the concerns of medical students....Plastic surgery patients honored for courage, altruism
...ompetitions and winning, securing the state speech competition with the Future Business Leaders of America while in high school. Ashley works with the "English as a Second Language" program, volunteers at church, raises money for charity, and recently received several college scholarships for her grades and publ...Award winning research offers hope for back pain sufferers
...duates has won the SET award in the face of strong competition from students at Oxford, Cambridge and Imperial College in London. "We are also very pleased that Rachael has decided to stay on with us to continue her studies and undertake a PhD in the important area of biomedical materials science." In awar...Screening program yields decline in sudden cardiac deaths in young athletes
...rt disease. Medical evaluation of athletes before competition offers the potential to identify those without sym..., 2 percent of the athletes were disqualified from competition due to cardiovascular causes. "All these findings suggest that screening athletes for cardiomyopath...2006 Science-in-Society award winners announced
...ience Writers (NASW). NASW holds the independent competition annually to honor outstanding investigative and interpretive reporting about the sciences and their impact on society for good or ill. The 72-year-old organization of science writers recognizes and encourages critical, probing works in five categorie...SWAN system to help blind and firefighters navigate environment
...rstood by the user but that are not annoying or in competition with other sounds they need to hear such as traffic noise." SWAN System Overview The current SWAN prototype consists of a small laptop computer worn in a backpack, a tracking chip, additional sensors including GPS (global positioning system), a ...Studies examine physician disclosure of medical errors
..."doesn't earn you points," and that the culture of competition in medicine can discourage doctors from being straightforward about mistakes, even among colleagues. To promote further study of positive and negative factors underlying error disclosure, the research team developed a taxonomy of four positive and ...Paying physicians to recruit patients into trials: The ethical concerns
...ruitment incentives is directly related to growing competition between research sponsors. The fees offered to health professionals for successful recruitment can be substantial, they say--finder's fees ranging between $2,000 and $5,000 per patient are common. Lemmens and Miller outline a number of concerns ra...Is it time to give the NHS more independence?
...t would offer an effective alternative to provider competition or a centrally-driven regime of targets. General gractitioner Stephen Gillam warns that "an independent NHS will become a glorified commissioning agency as what used to be a national health service becomes an amalgam of free floating foundation hos...GroPep awarded key patent for infertility treatment in Europe
...re is no cure. The size of the market, the lack of competition and the strong patent position held by GroPep, means that the drug has the potential to participate in a market worth up to US$750 million annually. Listed biopharmaceutical company GroPep Limited (ASX: GRO) today announced that European Patent No....Grueling four-day race becomes Stanford lab for cardiac experiments
...d that the hearts of the athletes who finished the competition pumped 10 percent less blood at the end of the race compared with the amount pumped at the beginning. Ashley and his colleagues chose to study this group of endurance racers, who hailed from all over the world, because they wanted to test the pheno...Research reveals tobacco company's role in China's cigarette smuggling crisis
...traband was then used to build market presence, in competition with other brands, with supply and price carefully managed." The paper ends with a call for the broad obligations of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, an historic treaty adopted by the member countries of the World Health Organization in...Taking the wrinkles out of motoneuronal disease
.... The legacy of millions of years of evolution and competition between venomous species has resulted in deadly neurotoxins capable of blocking neuronal communication. I am using our knowledge of the mode of action of these neurotoxins to design a selective motoneuron delivery system that could change our way of ...ASH Katrina Relief Program receives ASAE's 2006 Associations Advance America Award of Excellence
...iations Advance America Awards program, a national competition sponsored by the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE). This prestigious award recognizes associations that propel America forward with innovative projects in areas such as education, skills training, and community service among others. ...ESC recommends interdisciplinary collaboration in non-invasive imaging
...isease. In some parts of the world this has caused competition between different specialists who want to use their particular technique to investigate patients. In Europe, however, this situation should be considered as a stimulus for collaboration between experts in different imaging modalities, according to a ...Studies of married couples, soccer and hockey teams focus on brain's response to stress
...ed by chronic stress, follow: Testosterone fuels competition in women Female and male athletes have more in common than just the desire to compete: Both produce more testosterone in the heat of competition, making greater amounts of the hormone when they win. Researchers from the Institute for Applied Psychol...International study investigates early biology of HIV infection
...000 new cases of HIV infection each day moved from competition among research institutions to a strategy of cooperation. An international "virtual research center" the Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology (CHAVI) was awarded up to $300 million over seven years to support efforts to develop an HIV vaccine. T...5 finalists compete for Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Operations Research
...erations Research. The winner of the Franz Edelman competition will be announced at a special awards banquet on M...actice06/index.htm ). Each year, the Franz Edelman competition recognizes outstanding examples of Operations Research (O.R.)-based projects that have transformed c...