scholarly journals Research Activities of the Economic and Research Branch of the Canadian Department of Labor

2005 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 518-528
Author(s):  
George Saunders
Keyword(s):  
Research Projects ◽  
Economic Variables ◽  
Department Of Labor ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Statistical Series ◽  
Canadian Department

The author is surveying the activities of the Economic and Research Branch in the Department of Labour (Ottawa). Collecting and analysing statistical series in the labor field are the most important ones. In-depth research projects are concerned with relationships between labor data and other related economic variables.

scholarly journals Strengthening the SSTC NRS Scientific and Technical Potential through Participation in the IAEA Coordinated Research Projects

2021 ◽  
pp. 5-13
Author(s):  
Yu. Balashevska ◽  
D. Gumenyuk ◽  
Iu. Ovdiienko ◽  
O. Pecherytsia ◽  
I. Shevchenko ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Safety Assessment ◽  
Radiation Safety ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Spent Fuel ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Technical Potential ◽  
Technical Issues ◽  
Fuel Characterization ◽  
Definition Of

The State Scientific and Technical Center for Nuclear and Radiation Safety (SSTC NRS), a Ukrainian enterprise with a 29-year experience in the area of scientific and technical support to the national nuclear regulator (SNRIU), has been actively involved in international research activities. Participation in the IAEA coordinated research activities is among the SSTC NRS priorities. In the period of 2018–2020, the IAEA accepted four SSTC NRS proposals for participation in respective Coordinated Research Projects (CRPs). These CRPs address scientific and technical issues in different areas such as: 1) performance of probabilistic safety assessment for multi-unit/multi-reactor sites; 2) use of dose projection tools to ensure preparedness and response to nuclear and radiological emergencies; 3) phenomena related to in-vessel melt retention; 4) spent fuel characterization. This article presents a brief overview of the abovementioned projects with definition of scientific contributions by the SSTC NRS (participation in benchmarks, development of methodological documents on implementing research stages and of IAEA technical documents (TECDOC) for demonstration of best practices and results of research carried out by international teams).

OP124 Research Gaps In Health Technology Assessment In Brazil

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (S1) ◽  
pp. 47-48
Author(s):  
Erica Ell ◽  
Betânia Leite ◽  
Dalila Gomes ◽  
Daniela Rego ◽  
Lenilson Gonçalvez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Technology Assessment ◽  
Technology Assessment ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Health Technology ◽  
Economic Evaluations ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Research Gaps ◽  
Unified Health System ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Rapid Reviews

Introduction:In 2017 the Brazilian Ministry of Health (BMH), through the Department of Science and Technology (DECIT) and in partnership with the Hospital Alemão Oswaldo Cruz (HAOC), financially supported research activities focused on health technology assessment (HTA) on topics deemed important by the BMH. The aim was to help resolve the priority health problems of the Brazilian population and to strengthen the management of the Unified Health System, within the scope of HTA.Methods:A survey of HTA research needs was carried out in all BMH sectors through internal meetings conducted by representatives from each of the sectors. The problems and needs were then discussed, prioritized, and transformed into research lines in a workshop sponsored jointly by DECIT and the HAOC. Following this, a specific public call was made to the HTA community to comment on the prioritized research lines. The submitted research projects were then judged and selected by a committee of experts in the field. The approved projects were contracted, and when the projects were completed the results were presented and discussed by the researchers in a final seminar for representatives of the BMH technical areas.Results:A total of 135 research gaps were identified, of which forty-two lines of research were included in the research call after the prioritization workshop and the search for evidence in the literature. The call involved an amount of BRL one million (USD 280,442), and seventeen research projects were financed, including two systematic reviews, seven rapid reviews, and eight economic evaluations.Conclusions:The promotion of research by the BMH has enabled the search for scientific evidence to support public policies and decision making in health services.

FGM Research Activities in Europe

MRS Bulletin ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolfgang A. Kaysser ◽  
Bernhard Ilschner
Keyword(s):  
Functionally Graded ◽  
Swiss Federal Institute ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Graded Materials ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Federal Institute ◽  
The Status ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Application Fields

The application of functionally graded materials (FGM) principles is widespread in Europe, despite the lack of national or European programs coordinating the efforts of the individual institutions and researchers. In the following article, the status of research in Europe will be outlined by examples of research projects from various application fields. More detailed information on European FGM research is available from the proceedings of the FGM '94 symposium held in October 1994 in Lausanne, Switzerland. The symposium was organized by B. Ilschner through the Materials Department of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne.

Strategic planning of scientific research activities: What is the added value for Algerian research institutions?

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 261-277
Author(s):  
Abdelmalik Mezhouda
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Research Priorities ◽  
Shared Vision ◽  
Project Planning ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Research Institutions ◽  
Research Activities

Abstract Strategic planning becomes, nowadays, an integral part of higher education institutions management. It aims at supporting universities and colleges to anticipate changes, mobilize institutional energies and potentials around a shared vision and face new challenges. In spite of the well-acknowledged added value of strategic planning in higher education institutions worldwide, it still has not received enough attention within Algerian research institutions where traditional long-run planning is still prevailing. The present article aims at exploring the practice of research planning among Algerian research institutions focusing on its main elements, namely planning model, setting research priorities, alignment of objectives, research project planning, criteria of validating research projects, researchers' motivations and research projects monitoring. The article also highlights the potential value that strategic planning can deliver to help Algerian research institutions improve their performance and achieve their goals.

scholarly journals Linguistic and multilingual issues in virtual worlds and serious games: a general review

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Cruz-Lara ◽  
Alexandre Denis ◽  
Nadia Bellalem
Keyword(s):  
Sentiment Analysis ◽  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
Serious Games ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
Emotion Detection ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Textual Information ◽  
Linguistic Support ◽  
General Review ◽  
Research Activities

Within a globalized world, the need for linguistic support is increasing every day. Linguistic information, and in particular multilingual textual information, plays a significant role for describing digital content: information describing pictures or video sequences, general information presented to the user graphically or via a text-to-speech processor, menus in interactive multimedia or TV, subtitles, dialogue prompts, or implicit data appearing on an image such as captions, or tags. It is obviously crucial to associate digital content to multilingual textual information in a non-intrusive way: the user must decide, whether or not, he wants to display the textual information related to the digital content he is dealing with in any particular language.In this paper we will present a general review on linguistic and multilingual issues related to virtual worlds and serious games. The expression “linguistic and multilingual issues” will consider not only any kind of linguistic support (such as syntactic and semantic analysis) based on textual information, but also any kind of multilingual and monolingual topics (such as localization or automatic translation), and their association to virtual worlds and serious games. We will focus on our ongoing research activities, particularly in the framework of sentiment analysis and emotion detection. Note that we will also dedicate special attention to standardization issues because they grant interoperability, stability, and durability.The review will essentially be based on our own experience but some interesting international research projects and applications will be also mentioned, in particular, research projects and applications related to sentiment analysis and emotion detection.

scholarly journals Fostering Scientific Collaborations for Cancer Research Between High and Low/Middle Income Countries Through International Partnerships

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement 2) ◽  
pp. 234s-234s
Author(s):  
F. Santos
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Research ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Research Training ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Biomedical Sciences ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Middle Income Countries ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Low Middle Income Countries

Background: Much remains to be learned about the causes of several major cancers. Implementing and sustaining global initiatives aimed to advance cancer research requires concerted efforts among government agencies, the industry and philanthropic institutions. Aiming to tackle this challenge, in 2015 the Azrieli Foundation, Canada's International Development Research Centre, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and the Israel Science Foundation launched the Joint Canada-Israel Health Research Program (JCIHRP), a 7-year CA$35 million partnership that draws on the scientific strengths of Canadian, Israeli and low and middle income countries (LMICs) researchers in the broad field of biomedicine. Aim: JCIHRP aims to advance research and discovery in the biomedical sciences; encourage scientific collaboration between Canadian and Israeli researchers; and build capacity and foster scientific relations and collaborations with researchers and trainees in LMICs. Methods: JCIHRP will fund up to 30 research projects from 2015 to 2022 in diverse areas of the biomedical sciences (neurosciences, immunology, cancer and metabolism). So far, the program is supporting 9 projects in cancer research. Teams are led by a Canadian and Israeli principal investigators and a collaborator from a LMIC. Three years is the maximum duration of each grant and teams can request up to CA$1.17 million. The program launches 1 competition each year and activities are coordinated by a directors working group, which is responsible for program implementation and coordination among the agencies. Annual implementation timeline can be divided into 4 phases: competition development and application; proposals' eligibility, selection and decision; research phase; and reporting and monitoring. In deploying these phases, the funding partners have shared effort and costs. Results: Among cancer research projects, 4 teams are developing strategies to improve effectiveness of cancer immunotherapy. Five other teams use advanced genomics and protein engineering techniques to elucidate molecular mechanisms associated with tumor development, progression and resistance to therapy in pancreatic, breast, hepatic and brain cancer. These projects are supporting 26 established researchers in 7 Canadian, 6 Israeli and 9 institutions based in Brazil, Mexico, China, India, Argentina and Turkey. Additionally, 19 graduate students and 9 postdoctoral fellows are directly involved in research activities. Type of collaboration can be grouped into 2 categories: research and training (5 projects) and research, training and exchange (4 projects). Conclusion: JCIHRP multicentre funding model allows international integration of researchers promoting scientific advances, new collaborations and enhancing teams' overall competitiveness by prioritizing research topics with potential for global impact in cancer research.

Research: Widening the Conduct of Hospitality Inquiry: Toward Appreciating Research Alternatives

1997 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig C. Lundberg
Keyword(s):  
Research Projects ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Activity Choices ◽  
The Many ◽  
Decision Alternatives ◽  
Subsequent Activity

If it is assumed that the situations of interest to hospitality researchers are phenomenologically complex as well as changeful, then it follows that a multiplicity of meanings can be imposed. Thus, for particular research projects a variety of paths for discovery and understanding may be equally viable. If this is so, an appreciation of alternative modes and means of inquiry is desirable if not requisite. This paper undertakes this task. The conduct of research is described as a generic sequence of activities shown to entail choices (and hence tradeoffs) among alternatives—usually with consequences for subsequent activity choices. The many decisions of what to do and how to do it are paralleled by choices about who might decide and who might do each activity. While the authors are sympathetic to the seemingly endless proliferation of models and theories, methodological strategies, designs and techniques, we argue that it may be unrealistic to think a small number or a one best set will suffice. Rather, if mainstream inquiry is restricting, then multi-stream inquiry may be a necessity. Appreciating the decision alternatives in research activities, thus, begins to widen the conduct of inquiry—allowing the richness of ways to do hospitality research to begin to reflect the richness of what is studied.

TRANSDISCIPLINARY SYSTEM OF SUPPORTING STUDENT YOUTH ACTIVITIES

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maryna Popova ◽  
Vitalii Prykhodniuk
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Information ◽  
Information Resources ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Software Platform ◽  
Scientific Creativity ◽  
Educational Activities ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Youth Activities ◽  
Constitutional Right ◽  
Technical Products

The article focuses on the aspects of the realization of the young scientists constitutional right on the freedom of scientific creativity in the process of the implementation of research projects by providing access to modern achievements in science and technology. To solve this problem, it is proposed to create a transdisciplinary system of supporting the educational and research activities of the student youth by means of the software platform "Transdisciplinary Educational Dialogues of Application Ontological Systems". Cognitive IT software tools TODAOS provide the formation of transdisciplinary "prisms of knowledge", which are network ontological representations of the results of educational activities of student youth, semantically related to the network ontological representations of scientific and technical products of fundamental and applied researches of institutions of NAS of Ukraine and contextual connectivity indexes with thematically related scientific information, Ministry of Education’s curricula, and educational and methodological materials based on the interoperability and integrativeness of knowledge-oriented information resources and systems created in different formats and standards and technologies.

TECHNOLOGICAL DISTANCE IN ACADEMIC COLLABORATIONS: EVIDENCE FROM BATTERY RESEARCH

2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (06) ◽  
pp. 1440011 ◽  
Author(s):  
NICOLE VOM STEIN ◽  
NATHALIE SICK
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Geographical Proximity ◽  
Expert Interviews ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Technical Language ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Technological Distance

Technological distance is one important factor within research projects to enhance or prevent successful knowledge transfer for innovation. To get a better understanding of bridging mechanisms of diverging technological distances, we compare publication-based and individually perceived technological distances of collaboration partners in a multi-disciplinary battery research project. Differences hint at already bridged or non-bridged technological distances. Further information, given during expert interviews, present reasons for different knowledge transfer and recombination mechanisms in different dyadic collaborations. We generally find evidence that technological distance can be bridged by reducing geographical or social distances. When research activities are really complementary and collaboration partners have a common (technical) language, there is less need of decreasing other distances. Integrating research along the traditional battery value chain needs more social or geographical proximity to decrease and not just bridge technological distance at least in a practical way.

scholarly journals Experiences of Honours Research Students and Supervisors During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Pilot Study Framed by Self-Determination Theory

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natasha N. Kumar ◽  
Elizabeth Summerell ◽  
Branka Spehar ◽  
Jacquelyn Cranney
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Self Determination Theory ◽  
Psychological Needs ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Perceived Impact ◽  
Research Students ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Practical Implications

This study evaluated the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in a sample of Honours students (n = 21) and Honours supervisors (n = 41) at a major Australian university. Data were collected from voluntary, online, anonymous surveys, which included ratings of the pandemic’s impact on their 1) experience of Honours research activities, and 2) sense of relatedness, competence, autonomy, and wellbeing. Self-determination theory (SDT), which posits that the psychological needs of relatedness, competence, and autonomy lead to a sense of wellbeing, provided a theoretical framework for understanding student and supervisor experience during the pandemic. Both students and supervisors indicated significant impact of the pandemic on the students’ research projects, and the degree of perceived impact did not differ between students and supervisors. There was no relationship between the severity of impact and student or supervisor wellbeing. Student wellbeing was low, but the hypotheses that student SDT needs would not be met were only partly supported. Overall, the extent to which Honours students’ SDT needs were met predicted wellbeing; the outcome was similar for supervisors. Our hypothesis that SDT needs and wellbeing would be higher for supervisors than for students was supported. The theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed, including recommendations for Honours programs as we move through the current pandemic.

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