Scientific Research Knowledge Research Articles

PP-44 Developing a paediatric drug formulary for the netherlands

<h3>Background</h3> As many drugs in paediatrics are used of off-label, prescribers face a lack of evidence-based dosing guidelines. Current knowledge on paediatric pharmacotherapy is empirical, practice based, and seldom systematically collected and disseminated.The overall aim was to develop an openly accessible, web based formulary con-taining best evidence based, referenced and up-to-date drug-specific information, which was acceptable to paediatricians, hospital pharmacists and general practitioners. <h3>Methods</h3> The work was done by a team of a coordinat-ing paediatrician (0.2 fulltime equivalent (fte)), project manager (0.8 fte) and pharmacist (1.0 fte) and the multidisciplanary editorial board of 35 members. The overall budget on an annual basis was € 250 000 in the first 2 years, and currently € 220 000. The formulary started as a consensus-based formulary. From this point onwards, a dedicated pharmacist searched the available scientific literature following and assessed the risks and benefits of use in the paediatric population. The evidence is de-scribed in a risk analysis document and summarised in a drug monograph and reviewed by the editorial board before publication. <h3>Results</h3> A framework was developed to provide dosing guidelines based on best available evidence from reg-istration data, published investigator-initiated research, guidelines, clinical experience and consensus. Dissem-ination of these dosing guidelines was established by developing an open-access online database (http://www.kinderformularium.nl/). The development has resulted in the revision of many earlier consensus-based dose rec-ommendations, clarified the scientific grounds of drug use for children and ensured uniformity in prescribing habits in the Netherlands. Also, additional projects to fur-ther improve the information and usability of the formu-lary were initiated, including dosing guidelines for renal dysfunction, a dosing calculator and parent/patient drug information leaflets. <h3>Discussion</h3> It is almost impossible to make a paediatric risk-benefit assessment based on the same standards that are mandatory when assessing adult drug use. We are aware that many of our dosing recommendations there-fore still bear a varying degree of uncertainty. ‘Best-evidence’ means that we do know the scientific background that supports paediatric use. This also implies that, in the face of low-quality evidence, expert opinion or a consen-sus of a group of experts is important. It is a common misconception that a recommendation supported by low-quality evidence implies a recommendation against use. The Dutch Paediatric Formulary deliberately chose to give insights in the limited amount of evidence available and create awareness rather than to reject paediatric use because of limited evidence. <h3>Conclusion</h3> The Dutch Paediatric Formulary is a proof of concept in creating a knowledge-based paediatric formulary. The formulary has also been of great value in timely translating scientific research knowledge to daily practice. We believe that the Dutch approach in creating a knowledge-based paediatric formulary was successful and could be used as basis for similar initiatives world-wide, preferably in a concerted effort to ultimately pro-vide children with effective and safe drug therapy.

Indigenous peoples' control over contemporary challenges of traditional subsistence socio-ecological systems sustainability: The case from the taiga zone of Siberia

Traditional subsistence socio-ecological systems (TSSESs) based on hunting, gathering and fishing are widely spread all-over the taiga zone of Siberia. Nowadays, they are strongly impacted by several drivers of change, coming from human activities and climate changes with cascading both positive and negative effects on all components of ecosystem functions and services. The effects may influence quality of life of indigenous people and human capacities. Key multi-scale issues and possible ways of their solution are identified in TSSESs of Evenkia municipal district of the Krasnoyarsk region based on scientific research and traditional local knowledge and perceptions integration. Among key issues the degradation of ecosystems heavily impacting local subsistence resources availability (fish and meat for food as well as wild animals’ skins for sale) is the most urgent for the indigenous people living on land. Several negative driving forces both socio-economic and natural such as widespread poaching, forest land auctions and increasing annual rent obligations for hunting grounds to the indigenous peoples, imposing limits (quarters) without taking into account real subsistence need of indigenous communities, non-compensated impact of spreading infrastructure and logging on taiga forest ecosystems and hunting grounds, as well as climate changes, are impacting quality of life and human capacities of indigenous people. This analysis of key issues and driving forces leading to them gives us opportunity to propose several ways of such issues solution. The improvement of control and management of TSSESs sustainability with active participation of indigenous people is the principle way for achieving TSSESs resilience and sustainability.

La Universidad de Buenos Aires y la interdisciplina

En este trabajo se repasan las distintas formas institucionales que adquirieron las iniciativas interdisciplinarias en la Universidad de Buenos Aires desde la vuelta al estado de derecho en Argentina en 1983. Entre tales iniciativas se destaca en primera instancia la experiencia interdisciplinaria desplegada por el Centro de Estudios Avanzados (cea). Se caracterizan las adecuaciones que con llevó en las universidades la orientación neoliberal del gobierno nacional en la década de 1990, donde la opción por la interdisciplina se articuló con la conformación de alianzas y redes de cooperación con sectores extrauniversitarios, tanto de la esfera empresarial privada como de instancias gubernamentales más amplias. Aún cuando el cea dejó de funcionar en 2003 como tal, se muestra que la promoción de la interacción interdisciplinaria ya no dejaría de figurar en la agenda de la uba, primero con la creación de los Programas Intersdisciplinarios de la ubay luego con su incorporación como variante específica de la programación regular del sistema de investigación científica de la Secretaría de Ciencia y Técnica de la universidad.

Analysing the Effectiveness of University Scientific Research Projects on the Knowledge Management

This paper briefly analyzes the connotation and characteristic of knowledge management. Elaborating the problems which exist in the present scientific research project management, analyzing the relationship between university scientific research project management and knowledge management; putting forward the knowledgeable, informatization, modernization and humanization strategy into the process of scientific research project management under the view of knowledge management, and exploring theory and method to make full use of knowledge management, establishing the comprehensive and whole process management mechanism in local university scientific research project management, so as to improve the efficiency of scientific research project management, promoting the development of local colleges and universities’ scientific research.

Scientific research about the National Policy for Health Promotion.

Resumo Objetivou-se avaliar o nível do conhecimento e sistematização da produção científica vinculada à Política Nacional da Promoção da Saúde (PNPS) após dez anos de sua implementação. Estudo cienciométrico da literatura científica nacional e internacional sobre a PNPS nas bases PubMed e SciELO. A pesquisa foi realizada no mês de dezembro de 2015, utilizando o termo “política nacional de promoção da saúde”, que resultou na identificação de 88 publicações relacionadas à PNPS. Os anos de 2012 e 2013 detiveram o maior número de artigos publicados, identificando a Política Nacional de Alimentação e Nutrição e a temática Saúde Bucal como objetos mais estudados. Os estados de São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro e o Distrito Federal destacaram-se pela quantidade e qualidade da produção científica, os quais foram em sua maioria divulgados em periódicos internacionais classificados nos estratos Qualis A2. As políticas de Atenção às Urgências, Saúde Materno-Infantil e Adolescência figuraram como temas pouco explorados. Embora as produções científicas tenham contribuído para aplicação do conhecimento técnico e científico na promoção da saúde, os setores pouco explorados poderão dificultar o dimensionamento e a reformulação de ações estratégicas para o enfrentamento das iniquidades em saúde nas próximas décadas.

DISSEMINATING KNOWLEDGE THROUGH TAGS: RECOMMENDING TAGS FOR SCIENTIFIC RESOURCES

Knowledge diffusion has prime importance for generation of new knowledge. The creation of new knowledge is not possible without referring or consulting the past work. Two very important potential flows related to knowledge diffusion can be observed in the common practice of researchers. First, in scientific research knowledge diffusion estimation using citation counts is generally used to establish the value of knowledge which inflates citations. Second the researchers use cited work to search the connected and related resources. Recently the social and collaborative phenomena termed as Web 2.0 has spurred new era of knowledge and information flow on the web. Its potential for the growth and diffusion of scientific knowledge has not been well explored. The emerging social and collaborative applications, such as tagging and bookmarking, are transforming the ways scientists and researchers organize their personal and collaborative information spaces. These bookmarking and tagging applications provide open data and rich metadata resources such as tags. Past research shows that the bookmarking and tagging can be used as a supplementary indicator for measuring research popularity and knowledge diffusion. However the current work exploits author keywords of scientific publications to link these resources with relevant tags extracted from a social bookmarking application such as CiteULike. This work compares, for a focus resource, the tags extracted from CiteULike based on author keywords with their corresponding tag cloud of CiteULike. The result shows that system extends the authors keyword set with social tags providing links to rich and focused resources in CiteULike. This also enhances the serendipitous discovery of emerging concepts related to the focused resource. Such a system may enhance the discovery of related and popular resources for researchers. This dataset has been made available publicly for scientific community.

Air Toxics Under the Big Sky: examining the effectiveness of authentic scientific research on high school students’ science skills and interest

ABSTRACTAir Toxics Under the Big Sky is an environmental science outreach/education program that incorporates the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) 8 Practices with the goal of promoting knowledge and understanding of authentic scientific research in high school classrooms through air quality research. This research explored: (1) how the program affects student understanding of scientific inquiry and research and (2) how the open-inquiry learning opportunities provided by the program increase student interest in science as a career path. Treatment students received instruction related to air pollution (airborne particulate matter), associated health concerns, and training on how to operate air quality testing equipment. They then participated in a yearlong scientific research project in which they developed and tested hypotheses through research of their own design regarding the sources and concentrations of air pollution in their homes and communities. Results from an external evaluation revealed that treatment students developed a deeper understanding of scientific research than did comparison students, as measured by their ability to generate good hypotheses and research designs, and equally expressed an increased interest in pursuing a career in science. These results emphasize the value of and need for authentic science learning opportunities in the modern science classroom.

Arabic Rumours Identification By Measuring The Credibility Of Arabic Tweet Content

Twitter enjoys the fame of the most popular and widely used as a platform for socializing, including all aspects of life current affairs, religious ideas, political issues, scientific research, and general knowledge. Every single activity of day to day life and human behavior and values is lodged at this platform. Sending and receiving messages on Twitter (tweets) with is limited to 140 characters, In this research the author attempts to understand the characteristics of those Arabic rumour (falsified information stream) patterns. False tweets could be a rumour which is mostly recognized as a representative whose legitimacy, authenticity, precision and significance is either unverifiable or unreliable. Arabic rumours may propagate misinformation on social networks. In this research, the author illustrates the difficulty of Arabic rumour identification in twitter social platform by studying the impact based on Arabic tweet content. Furthermore, the author explains how these content features are too influential in measuring the credibility of those Arabic tweets.

Globalization of the Korean Journal of Medical Education.

New year’s greetings to all members of the Korean Society of Medical Education. Best wishes for your perfect health and continued success in your academic career. The Korean Society of Medical Education was founded in May 1983, and started its major academic activities in 1989. This organization aims at development of Korean medical education by evaluating medical education systems as well as its goals, contents and methods, and disseminating the knowledge of systematic and scientific research results on all related domains. Beginning with the first conference launched in March 1989, the 31st conference was hosted last year. Ever since the first edition of Korean Journal of Medical Education was published in June 1989, there has been a great effort made to globalize our medical journal. Finally, in May 2015, our medical journal became included in MEDLINE and it was a milestone that enhanced our standing. It is truly a significant and pleasant event and we would like to give you warm applause for your devotions for the development of the Korean Journal of Medical Education. Also we would like to appreciate our editors who made continuous efforts to advance the journal to the level of global standard. Aside from the successful inclusion in MEDLINE, the Korean Society of Medical Education will further strive to be included in SCI. In an attempt to achieve this goal, we created a board member and reviewers with international professionals, shortened the evaluation process to promote English dissertations, and appointed copy editors to offer editing services in English. In addition, the editing committee regularly opens seminars on how to write or review English papers as well as awards successful applicants who submit highly qualified research papers in a yearly contest. Dear members, I believe that medical educators should contribute to the development of medical education through academic activities, actively engaging in conducting medical education researches, and writing dissertations. Please support us with highly valuable and qualified dissertations on medical education to enhance our journal of medical education. Until our journal is included in SCI, I will appreciate any feedback that can improve our academic conferences and journal. Again, I hope all is going well around you. Thank you.

A collaborative methodology for tacit knowledge management: Application to scientific research

Tacit knowledge, which refers to the know-how, is critical to understand and reuse since it is located in the human heads. It represents the foremost element for human and team evaluation. Seeking for tacit knowledge is achieved only by communicating with the concerned persons, which makes losing it axiomatic if people leave their work without documenting their know-how. Thus, providing a collaborative environment based on a common conceptualization of the domain to formalize the experts’ knowledge and to share their outcomes is required. However, some barriers pertaining to cultural and social factors such as personality traits impede capturing the conceptual model. To cope with these issues, we have proposed a generic two-step methodology that copes with human barriers when capturing the domain experts’ tacit knowledge, their skills, and seeds terms in order to converge to a common knowledge representation. Considering the scientific research management as a use case, we followed the proposed methodology to formalize our scientific research knowledge in the context of network and communication research field. Based on the generated ontology, we have developed a semantic web platform that allows collaboratively annotating experts’ knowledge in a computer interpretable format that can be shared and reused by human and machines. Our evaluation is based on end users’ quality of experience and feedbacks.

Aesthetic Practice in Nepal

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/kumj.v11i2.12483 Kathmandu University Medical Journal Vol.11(2) 2013: 109

Assortative mixing, preferential attachment, and triadic closure: A longitudinal study of tie-generative mechanisms in journal citation networks

Abstract This study reveals the roles of three tie-generative mechanisms, namely, assortative mixing, preferential attachment, and triadic closure, in forming citation links in journals through the exponential random graph modeling approach. The study also adopts a longitudinal design to examine how the roles of the three mechanisms evolve over time. The data involve citation exchanges in Internet research among 680 journals in 12 subject areas from 2000 to 2013. Assortative mixing by discipline and publication foci is a significant tie-generative mechanism in journal citation networks. The magnitude of assortative mixing by discipline remains stable over time, whereas that by publication foci declines over time. Journals in Internet research demonstrate an increasing preference for influential journals to form citation links over time. The indegree of journals does not exert a significant impact on citation link formation among journals, whereas the outdegree of journals imposes a significantly negative impact on citation link formation among journals. Triadic closure is an important force that facilitates the formation of citation links among journals. The findings of this study improve our knowledge of the organizing principles that underlie journal citation networks and advance our understanding of the production process of scientific knowledge in Internet research.

SOCIAL INCLUSION AND SOLIDARITY IN STRICT POST-GRADUATION: EXPERIENCING THE LABORATORY "SCIENTIFIC WAKE FOR THE FUTURE" (PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION).

To stimulate and awakening the interest of students of high school or elementary public schools in research and science through scientific initiation stages in the Postgraduate Program in Translational Surgery. To stimulate and awakening the interest of students of high school or elementary public schools in research and science through scientific initiation stages in the Postgraduate Program in Translational Surgery. The target audience for the development of scientific activities were students enrolled in mid-level course (second year initially) and have approval of their participation in this project by the school and by legal guardians. The inclusion criteria were: physical proximity to the higher education institution, signing the consent form by the legal responsible for the students, and for the board of the school unit and the researcher. Initially, students performed diagnostic evaluation about the prior knowledge of biology, science and scientific research. From there, the classes were prepared based on the result of this test, then started the activities of Junior Scientific Initiation in basic education. The school chosen for this initial phase of the pilot project was the State School Rui Bloem which has 13 classrooms for the second year of medium education in a total of 390 students. Of these, 160 (41%) were interested but only 16 (10%) were eligible to start the pilot project in Translational Surgery Laboratory of Unifesp. These students showed average yield of 50% in diagnostic test and should start the next training in cell and molecular biology laboratory and also to attend scientific meetings. In the initial phase of the project, was observed the great student interest in scientific career, but at the same time, a great need for improvement. The choice of public school was for access to university and proximity. In addition, these students have more shortcomings and deficiencies. But this does not mean that the fascination for scientific career cannot turn them into great researchers thus contributing to the economic, social and intellectual growth of our country through scientific research. Estimular e despertar o interesse dos alunos do ensino médio ou fundamental de escolas públicas na pesquisa e na ciência por meio de estágios de Iniciação Científica Junior no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Cirurgia Translacional da Unifesp. O público alvo para o desenvolvimento das atividades científicas foram alunos regularmente matriculados em curso de nível médio (segundos anos inicialmente) e que tivessem aprovação de sua participação pela direção da escola e responsáveis legais. Quanto aos critérios de inclusão: proximidade física com a instituição de ensino superior, assinatura do termo de consentimento pelos responsáveis dos alunos, pela diretoria da unidade escolar e pelo pesquisador. Inicialmente, os alunos realizaram avaliação diagnóstica acerca dos conhecimentos prévios de biologia, ciências e pesquisa científica. A partir daí as aulas eram elaboradas com base no resultado deste teste, para então iniciar as atividades de Iniciação Científica Junior. A escola escolhida para esta fase inicial do projeto piloto foi a Escola Estadual Rui Bloem que possui 13 salas de aula para o segundo ano do ensino médio com total de 390 alunos. Destes, 160 (41%) apresentaram-se interessados; porém, somente 16 (10%) foram elegíveis para iniciar o projeto piloto no Laboratório de Cirurgia Translacional da Unifesp. Estes alunos apresentaram rendimento médio de 50% na prova diagnóstica e deverão iniciar os próximos treinamentos no Laboratório de Biologia Celular e Molecular e também a frequentar as reuniões científicas. Nesta fase inicial houve interesse dos alunos do ensino médio e o projeto piloto apresentado estimulou e despertou interesse dos alunos de escola pública na pesquisa e na ciência. A escolha de uma escola pública foi para o acesso à universidade e proximidade. Além disso, esses alunos têm mais carências e deficiências. Mas isso não significa que o fascínio pela carreira científica não pode transformá-los em grandes pesquisadores, contribuindo assim para o crescimento econômico, social e intelectual do nosso país através da pesquisa científica.

International research capacity building program for health related professionals to study the drug phenomenon in Latin America and the Caribbean

Most Organization of American States member states do not have a cadre of professionals with scientific knowledge and research experience on drugs and related problems. Therefore, the Organization of American States started a partnership, first with the University of Alberta/Canada and then with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto/Canada to train health related professionals to address this problem. The objective is to create a cadre of health and related professionals with scientific and technical research knowledge to enable scientific advances in the area of drug demand reduction. The program requires the development and implementation of a multicentric drug research proposal. The program has produced the following results: nine multicentric drug research studies implemented in 22 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean; 91 participants from 22 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. This is the only program in the Americas offering continued advanced research training to university faculty and contributing to strengthen the undergraduate and graduates curriculum on drug issues and research capability in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Pärandehitus kontseptsioonina ja tehnoloogiakasvatuse osana / Heritage building as a concept and as a part of technology education

The concept of heritage building is used in a multitude of contexts. As a concept, heritage building is young and previously undefined in Finnish scientific literature. Earlier studies about the very notions of heritage building are also nonexistent in Finland. The purpose of the present dissertation was to investigate the conceptions of students in teacher training about heritage building before and after a study module on heritage building, which constitutes a part of their subject studies in didactics of handicrafts (with crafts as their future instructed subject in basic education). Lack of previous studies about conceptions of heritage building in Finland lead to selection of these conceptions as a research target. The study uses two different approaches for achieving its purpose. In order to find answers to the research problem, the students' common conceptions about heritage building were examined first. Secondly, it was considered how structured these conceptions were. Therefore, the research process included a conceptual review of heritage building to provide a baseline for comparing the student's conceptions and their structuredness.&#x0D; The target group (N28) comprised two classes of students carrying out subject studies in didactics of handicrafts (60 ECTS) in the University of Eastern Finland's Savonlinna campus. 17 of the students were male and 11 female. The two groups of students completed the pedagogical study module on heritage building in 2011 and 2012. The philosophy behind didactics of handicrafts in the Savonlinna campus includes technology education, which has given rise to the above mentioned study module. The students wrote an instructed essay on their conceptions about heritage building before and after the study module. A description of the students' conceptions about heritage building before and after the study module was created through a phenomenographical analysis. For the purposes of analysing the structuredness of the conceptions, the contents of the definition of heritage building were scored. On the basis of the created criteria, the expressions about heritage building in the students' essays were given points depending on their accuracy. The structuredness of conceptions was described by employing a three-stage scale: unstructured, fairly structured, and structured. The review of structuredness was given more depth by assessing the results against the student background information collected prior to the study module.&#x0D; The research results indicate that even though students in didactics of handicrafts have conceptions about heritage building that are parallel with the definition formulated for the purposes of the dissertation, they are superficial on average. The students were able to describe general values associated with heritage building, but understanding of the underlying material technology and structural physical systems often had fundamental limitations. The review of structuredness of conceptions supported the results achieved in the phenomenographical analysis of conceptions. It was observed that completing the study module had an impact on the structuredness of conceptions. Furthermore, the students' personal background was found to have some implications on how structured their conceptions on heritage building were, which was evidenced by notable differences in structuredness of conceptions on the individual level. Therefore, the conclusion is that instruction based on scientific research knowledge and drawing from technology education has influence on how structured the conceptions on heritage building are among students in teacher training. &#x0D; Keywords: heritage building, conceptions, conceptual change, structuredness, essay, phenomenography, technology education

The status of scientific research capability and influencing factors of nurses with bachelor or higher degrees

Objective To investigate the scientific research ability of clinical nurses with a bachelor or higher degree and to provide the basis and reference for hospital personnel selection and scientific research training.Methods Adopted a tailored questionnaire and the self-evaluation of nursing scientific research scale , we investigated 90 clinical nurses who met the criteria .Results The score of the self-evaluation of nursing scientific research scale of 90 participants was （56.02 ±20.57）.Whether participate in the scientific research training or not （59.34 ±21.03 vs 50.56 ±18.83） and whether study the scientific research knowledge or not （59.20 ±18.85 vs 40.13 ±22.09） were the influencing factors （F=2.051, 3.475, respectively;P<0.05）. Conclusions The leaders in hospital should focus on training and strengthening the literature retrieval and research ability.Meanwhile they should cultivate the nurses ’ scientific research consciousness to provide available personnel for the development of nursing science . Key words: Nursing education; Undergraduate nurses; Scientific research ability; Influencing factors; Scientific research nurse

The Role of Geographic and Organizational Boundaries in Nanotechnology Collaboration

This paper examines how the collaboration of inventors within an organization and in different organizations contributes to the success of innovation in nanotechnology. We expect that the greater extent of collaborations among inventors would yield better research outcomes because of the importance of collaboration in combining existing knowledge to create new ideas, and in evaluating and selecting from these ideas. Due to the tacit nature of technological knowledge, greater geographic distance of collaborating inventors can negatively affect inventive performance, while distant collaboration can bring opportunity to tap into unique local knowledge. The collaboration of inventors in different countries can further add difficulties. On the other hand, we expect the collaboration between universities and companies would yield better performance due to the importance of scientific knowledge in nanotechnology research. We utilize patent data for our empirical analysis, and corroborate with interviews with researchers at nanotech companies. Our results show that, after controlling for inventor quality, a greater number of inventors in collaboration is associated with more successful innovation. International cooperation appears to be an obstacle for successful innovation. While inventor's quality or prior collaboration experience has some moderating effect on international collaboration, this effect is not statistically significant. Collaboration between companies and universities is positively associated with the success of innovation. Also, the U.S subsample indicates that cooperation over longer distance is negatively associated with successful innovation, but the statistical significance is weak. The number of assignees has mixed effect on successful innovation, indicating the difficulties of collaboration across organizational boundaries.

RESEARCH-BASED KNOWLEDGE FOR POLICY DECISION MAKING: MAXIMIZING THE OPPORTUNITIES OF IMPACT

The permanent dissatisfaction about abilities of state legislation together with public administration to use scientific research knowledge for public decision making has underpin. Not inconsiderable body of dissatisfaction comes from the side of policy managers and practitioners with reflection of unperfected quality of research outcomes. However, effectiveness of research-based knowledge utilisation for public decision making is not a self-oriented or spontaneous action. It challenges the research content quality on the one hand and the policy modelling process on the other hand. The goal of this research was to outline the managerial practical implications for the potential use of research-based knowledge with the purpose to improve public policy decision making and to propose the actionable framework for use of research based knowledge. The study design. The investigation was based on the analysis of officially issued scientific reports, which were initiated and funded by the government with the purpose to inform policy decision making. The sample frame consisted of 50 scientific research reports (6780 pages) issued in the period of 2007-2009 from the pull of 180 and lay under responsibility of two ministries: Ministry of Economy and Ministry of Education and Science. The topics of research reports cover health resort research, health improvement, administration burden diminishing, special regulation for researchers’ social security, intellectual property rights, small and medium business development, technology park development, and so on. The key findings. Knowledge for policy decision making is conceptualized during interaction of policy actors, who represent own stakes. However, the policy decision is made before a certain knowledge level is reached and determines the fundamental common decision making knowledge gap, which could be filled by research-based knowledge. The evidence based policy paradigm recognises wide list of barriers for sustainable utilisation of research-based knowledge for policy decision making (governmental political commitments; legislators’ skills to communicate research and low awareness of research, researchers’ distance from political context and managerial needs). Taken in to account knowledge generation environment for policy decision making (policy rounds and actors diversification), paper propose the model for research based knowledge utilisation coping with the obstacles of evidence based policy and facilitate this utilisation via natural relieve of barriers cause. The managerial framework is based on threefold aspects, such as a.) the research content quality including transformation scenarios; b.) the research process interaction with policy making rounds; c.) alignment of policy creation actors with researchers. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.eis.0.7.5152

The selection criteria for Slovenian bibliography: with special emphasis on the articles

ABSTRACTSelection principles are an important stage in the creation of a national bibliography. The article outlines the selection of the national output to be included in Slovenian bibliography. It also presents theoretical basis for selection in general, with the emphasis on international guidelines and on the development of national principles and professional outlines. Statistical data and examples give more detailed analysis of selection criteria of articles regarding different types of serial publications. Results of the study show that selection criteria for Slovenian bibliography are to be constantly verified due to the dynamics of the national publishing industry. Nevertheless, the main features of selection criteria remain unchanged: lasting value of subject matter with the emphasis on scientific research and expert knowledge.

Hoe doorbreek je de identificatie van wetenschappelijk met kwantitatief?

How to break the identification of ‘scientific’ with quantitative? Introduction How to break the identification of ‘scientific’ with quantitative? Introduction Teachers in qualitative methods feel that their courses do not break students’ quantitative idea of scientific research and scientific knowledge. Why is that? And what can be done to break this misidentification? Three prominent lecturers in qualitative methods give their opinion. With a comment by Fijgje de Boer.