Other comments suggested that the energy, enthusiasm and commitment of project participants, including student and junior researchers, may be a key enabler of collaborative research.
The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/10/147/prepub wishish to acknowledge the hard work and commitment of project and fieldwork officers Phil O'Donohoe (dec ., Kat Lonergan, Harold Ulamari, Emma Kowal and Kayli Wayte.
We acknowledge the commitment of the project staff: Megan Rollo, Wei-I Wu, Dr Stephen Bunker, Adrienne O'Neill and Vivien Harris.
The prospect of getting feedback reports is important in order to increase the commitment of the project managers and stakeholders to participating in the measurements.
The board members, acting as devil's advocates, counterbalance the engineers' natural overconfidence, helping to avoid escalation of commitment to projects with unacceptable levels of risk.
The fund performed well for several years, but then became victim to year-by-year political expediency: excessive bonding, a commitment to projects of dubious necessity and the diversion of capital dollars to operations.
The purpose of the follow-up research is to examine any change or improvement of 1) physical activity with their children and healthy eating patterns at home, 2) knowledge about physical activity and nutrition, and 3) parents' awareness of, attitude toward, and commitment to Project FIT.
Matthew Hook, of media agency Carat, said that while many athletes cut shallow commercial deals, Beckham shows a "very high level of commitment" to projects, ensuring their success and his own rewards.
Project owners can apply the framework to guide their commitment from selection of project participants at the design stage to encouragements for improved performance at the construction stage in a sequential manner.
The book features dedicated chapters on leadership and teamwork, including virtual and intercultural cooperation, commitment and motivation of project teams.
Collins, who points out that the commitment of the genome project to address ethical issues as well as generate data came at the project's inception, describes four categories of questions: Fairness and privacy; implementation of new medical practices based on genomic data (e.g., genetic testing); use of human subjects; and public education.
