John Potts, former research director of Massachusetts General Hospital, says that further big increases in life expectancy are "within the capacity of the scientific knowledge base and medical delivery system if you didn't have to worry about costs".But costs should be less of a worry if the gains in health are so highly valued.
From this review, it is clear that the research on water-energy nexus has seen a significant increase in both the number of studies and the capacity of the scientific community to productively assess water and energy interlinkages at a higher resolution.
M.S. received consulting fees from CEHA, for attending Cultures of Health and Aging and for contributing to the writing of this article in the capacity of professional scientific writer.
The agency created the chief scientist position at the urging of the Institute of Medicine, which had expressed concerns about FDA's research capacity and handling of scientific issues.
Lyons main job, as she sees it, is to collect and disseminate information of all sorts: on the capacity and potential of scientific resources in the region; the logistics of getting research done in a particular country or locale; emerging technologies that promise to assist NSF researchers working in sub-Saharan Africa; and which scientists are doing what where in the region.
"However, to try to untangle that and come up with definitive estimates for sulfate versus nitrate versus black carbon would go beyond the capacity of our current scientific evidence to determine accurately".
ICSU works on activities such as building the scientific capacity of developing countries, assuring open access to scientific data, creating new international, interdisciplinary research programmes (most notably in the realm of global environmental change), and serving as a 'voice for science' at conferences and summits of the United Nations and other international policy bodies.
"The goal has always been to ensure that every state had a reasonable level of scientific capacity," Danek says.
This study examined the contribution of self-reported Internet operational and navigational skills, previous domain knowledge, and working memory capacity, to the comprehension of scientific texts embedded as lessons in an e-learning course, taken remotely by college aged students.
Indeed, in this decade of efforts to link development, health and research world-wide, there is little enquiry into the role of scientific capacity in general [ 14].
