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Author(s): Max Kozlov Author Affiliations: Hurricane Ida forces Louisiana researchers to rethink their future Hurricane Ida destroyed almost 30,000 utility poles. Some Louisiana residents could be without power for up [...], The category-4 storm is the latest in a line of tropical cyclones that have closed universities, caused scientists to evacuate and disrupted research projects. The category-4 storm is the latest in a line of tropical cyclones that have closed universities, caused scientists to evacuate and disrupted research projects.

A critical challenge for science policy decision makers is determining how to spend limited resources most productively. To do so, one must have a basic understanding of the inner workings [...]

Sigma Xi has released its Annual Report for fiscal year 2020, encompassing July 1, 2019-June 30, 2020. The Annual Report shares data and success stories that demonstrate what the Sigma [...]

A bibliometric analysis of the Bacillus anthracis and Ebola virus archival literature was conducted to determine whether negative consequences of the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism' (USA PATRIOT) Act and the 2002 Bioterrorism Preparedness Act on US select agent research could be discerned. Indicators of the health of the field, such as number of papers published per year, number of researchers authoring papers, and influx rate of new authors, indicated an overall stimulus to the field after 2002. As measured by interorganizational coauthorships, both B. anthracis and Ebola virus research networks expanded after 2002 in terms of the number of organizations and the degree of collaboration. Coauthorship between US and non US scientists also grew for Ebola virus but contracted for the subset of B. anthracis research that did not involve possession of viable, virulent bacteria. Some non-US institutions were dropped, and collaborations with others intensified. Contrary to expectations, research did not become centralized around a few gatekeeper institutions. Two negative effects were detected. There was an increased turnover rate of authors in the select agent community that was not observed in the control organism (Klebsiella pneumoniae) research community. However, the most striking effect observed was not associated with individual authors or institutions; it was a loss of efficiency, with an approximate 2- to 5-fold increase in the cost of doing select agent research as measured by the number of research papers published per millions of US research dollars awarded. biosecurity policy | research productivity | research networks | Bacillus anthracis | Ebola virus www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.0915002107

Search Peter Norvig * Director of research at Google Internet search as we know it is just one decade old; by 2020 it will have evolved far beyond its current [...]

Analysis of environmental and health aspects of research into nanatechnology are discussed, along with possibilities of its usage for military purposes.

The analysis of the different aspects of accountants' commitment to their profession, based on the availability of opportunities for future research, is presented.

ABSTRACT By and large, those who discuss the fate of the sciences divide into two camps. The first includes those convinced that the sciences will be complete once a few [...]

As the publisher at Playwrights Canada Press, I find that there is great variety in the kinds of writing that crosses my desk every day. We mainly publish Canadian-authored plays [...]

If you can look into the seeds of time, And say which grain will grow and which will not, Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear Your favors [...]

Author(s): Richard Van Noorden Indian science is a study in contrasts. With its vast population and rapidly expanding economy, the country has ramped up scienti?c production at an impressive rate. [...]

Sigma Xi members, science supporters, and students came together October 25-28 for the 2018 Sigma Xi Annual Meeting and Student Research Conference. The theme of this year's meeting, 'Big Data [...]

By now, everybody knows about it--about the tremendous advances in computer networks as tools of inquiry; about the free communication links among researchers around the world; about the loss of [...]