Context Of Academic Research Research Articles

Development and Pilot Testing of a Human Subjects Protection Training Course Unique to Registered Dietitian Nutritionists

Development and Pilot Testing of a Human Subjects Protection Training Course Unique to Registered Dietitian Nutritionists

Some (bacilli) like it hot: genomics of Geobacillus species.

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). Grant Numbers: BB/H016120/1, BB/I024631/1, BB/I025956/1, BB/K003240/2, BB/L012499/1

Citizen expectations of 'academic entrepreneurship' in health research: public science, practical benefit.

Responsiveness to citizens as users of technological innovation helps motivate translational research and commercial engagement among academics. Yet, retaining citizen trust and support for research encourages caution in pursuit of commercial science. We explore citizen expectations of the specifically academic nature of commercial science [i.e. academic entrepreneurship (AE)] and the influence of conflict of interest concerns, hopes about practical benefits and general beliefs. We conducted a cross-sectional national opinion survey of 1002 Canadians online in 2010. Approval of AE was moderate (mean 3.2/5, SD 0.84), but varied by entrepreneurial activity. Concern about conflict of interests (COI) was moderate (mean 2.9/5, SD 0.86) and varied by type of concern. An ordinary least-squares regression showed that expectations of practical benefits informed support for AE, specifically that academic-industry collaboration can better address real-world problems; conflict of interest concerns were insignificant. These findings suggest that citizens support AE for its potential to produce practical benefits, but enthusiasm varies and is reduced for activities that may prioritize private over public interests. Further, support exists despite concern about COI, perhaps due to trust in the academic research context. For user engagement in research priority setting, these findings suggest the need to attend to the commercial nature of translational science. For research policy, they suggest the need for governance arrangements for responsible innovation, which can sustain public trust in academic research, and realize the practical benefits that inform public support for AE.

Internationalization of East Asian firms

The rapid growth of multinational enterprises originating in East Asian economies, especially over the last two decades, has attracted much academic interest on the internationalization patterns of these firms. In this introduction, we outline insights on analyzing the internationalization of East Asian firms in general and review the broad context of academic research on the internationalization of enterprises from mature industrial economies as well as emerging markets. To highlight the contributions of the articles in this issue, we describe the new evidence based on empirical findings from research presented in the individual articles and suggest implications for future research.

Child psychiatry takes to the streets: A developmental partnership between a university institute and children and adolescents from the streets of Sao Paulo, Brazil

Objective High levels of domestic violence, mental illness, and alienation from authorities are associated with high incidence of children/adolescents living on the streets in low and middle income countries. The Equilibrium Project (Programa Equilíbrio) was created to facilitate social reintegration through a virtual partnership between an academic psychiatric institute and highly vulnerable children and adolescents living on the streets, in group shelter with supervision, and in other high risk situations. Methods Descriptive presentation of qualitative data and analysis of preliminary empirical data collected over a 24-month period. Results Dialogue between academic professionals, street children, and city officials shaped The Equilibrium Project over the last 2 years. The program has progressively moved from a professional clinic setting to a community-based but protected activity center with recreational and professional services and an emphasis on linkage with social service agencies, city government and law enforcement officials in an academic research context. A total of 351 patients have been served of whom virtually all were neglected by their parents, 58.4% report physical or sexual abuse, 88.89% have been diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder, 40.4% drug use. After 2 years of operation, 63.5% ( n = 223) successfully completed or continue in treatment and 34.8% ( n = 122) were reunited with their families. Conclusions and Practice implications Program development guided by consumer input led to a successful program offering professional services in a protected community setting that facilitates social reintegration by providing “go between” services integrating relationships between alienated consumers and formal psychiatric, pediatric, social service, and criminal justice systems.

Transgressing the witness at three sites of knowledge

This article examines a performance event, Life is Perfect, by Paul+a (Paul Jeff and Sarah Dowling), which took place on 2 October 2004 over a period of 24 hours at The Peterstone Court Hotel in mid-Wales. The site of this work was then revisited by TRAWS (The Inter-University research group for Performance in Wales) as part of an exploration of performance sites across Wales. These findings were themselves then represented at the Centre for Performance Research's conference Towards Tomorrow? as both a record of research conducted and as an exploration of the potential of collaborative engagement with site-specific work and its documentation as event within the context of academic research. The article traces the performance across three sites: hotel, hotel revisited, conference, and questions the knowledge developed at each site, how it challenges the original work, betrays, misrepresents, obscures and ultimately entirely restages it, according to very different criteria than may have originally been intended. Using Maurice Blanchot's fiction ‘The instant of my death’ and Jacques Derrida's essay ‘Demeure’ (both conceptual influences on Life is Perfect) the paper turns towards a consideration of the ‘death’ of performance events and the nature of ‘survival’ that place offers in opposition to the archive. Finally, it considers the potential new epistemologies that emerge from research exercises focused on the recovery of a relation to knowledge that is not based on evidence, testimony and truth, but rather admits that loss, forgetfulness and uncertainty are integral to any ‘return’ to the site of performance.

On Their Dress They Wore a Body: Fashion and Identity in Late Qing Shanghai

In many cultures undressing—oneself and others—is considered a very erotic and enticing activity. The present essay, however, argues that leaving someone’s clothes on can be just as interesting and titillating—at least within the context of academic research.1 Thus it is centered on fictional representations of clothed bodies and fashion in Shanghai within the realm of late Qing literary production.2 As it will become clear from the following

Imagining what we might study if we really studied small groups from a speech perspective

Research in the field of speech is placed within the context of academic research in general, and the historical tendency for speech research to be derivative is noted. The essay argues for the need to focus on the essential subject matter of speech in the study of small group communication. The necessity for more research of a descriptive nature and the desirability for alternative research designs are emphasized.

In search of working‐class memory: Some questions and a tentative assessment

This article analyzes the circumstances under which the concept of mémoire ouvrière has emerged in France and its relation to a change in the conception of history as well as the status of the historian. It presents the debate that centered on the meaning and function of the research into workers’ memory and the specificity of its object. Its approach is comparative: though focusing on research done in France it refers to Great Britain, Italy and the U.S. Differences in workers’ memories according to trades, traditions and national experiences are analyzed. And so is the relationship between workers’ memory and labor organizations: it is seen to be deeply political but not one‐sided as is often claimed. La Mémoire ouvrière cannot be dissociated from workers’ consciousness, class identity and from the purposefulness of memory. Finally, the article stresses the ambiguities and contradictions faced by the attempt to recapture workers’ memory in an academic research context.