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Success of the academy approach?

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jun 26, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A complex picture is emerging about the controversial Academies programme. Researchers analyse and report findings about Academies in a special issue of the journal Management in Education (MIE), published today by SAGE. ...





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European Commission approves space policy

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 26, 2007 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The College of European Commissioners has adopted a "European Space Policy," designed to widen Europe's space activities.


Greater transparency needed in development of US policy on cyberattack

Technology / Internet

created Apr 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The current policy and legal framework regulating use of cyberattack by the United States is ill-formed, undeveloped, and highly uncertain, says a new report from the National Research Council. The United States should establish ...


Social scientist suggests new research framework to study complex systems

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jul 23, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The often-used one-size-fits-all approach to policies aimed at achieving sustainable social-ecological systems needs to be updated with a diagnostic tool to help scholars from multiple disciplines better frame the question ...


New report warns current policies will not avert health workforce crisis

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 18, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Without immediate action to develop an integrated, comprehensive, national health workforce policy, the U.S. is at risk of losing its status as the global health care leader, states a new report released by the Association ...


National Science and Technology Council releases strategy for digital scientific data

National Science and Technology Council releases strategy for digital scientific data

Technology / Other

created Mar 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) released a report describing a strategy to promote preservation and access to digital scientific data. The report, Harnessing the Power of Digital Data for ...


Setting priorities for patient-safety efforts will mean hard choices

Medicine & Health / Other

created Aug 25, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Is it more urgent for hospitals, doctors and nurses to focus resources on preventing the thousands of falls that injure hospitalized patients each year, or to home in on preventing rare but dramatic instances of wrong-side ...


Forest Service Web-based tool helps manage environmental risk

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The U.S. Forest Service Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center (EFETAC) recently launched the Comparative Risk Assessment Framework and Tools (CRAFT), a user-friendly, Web-based support system that helps natural ...


Better integration between agencies could save lives in custody

Medicine & Health / Other

created Apr 18, 2008 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

It is now widely accepted that referral to prison may not be appropriate for some people, and risk factors associated with suicide are well known, so why are policy makers still not doing enough to prevent increasing numbers ...


New FDA regulation of tobacco products has problems

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New US legislation granting the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) jurisdiction over tobacco products represents a serious compromise on the part of tobacco control advocates, argues a new essay in this week's open access ...


Grocery boost

Other Sciences / Other

created May 20, 2008 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Low-income neighborhoods that lack easy access to grocery stores could lead to a breakdown of food security for hundreds of thousands of people - not in the developing world, but in major urban areas of the U.S. That's the ...



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