The core group of scientists interact with main collaborators from the German research institute and university as well as from numerous national, regional and international networks [ 8].
In the context of increasing interest on malaria and greater availability of funding for malaria, but few effective interventions, the results of the first IPTi study reported in 2001 (Schellenberg et al. ) generated enthusiasm among the core group of scientists involved in the trial.
And no subject is closer to the core of what scientists and engineers do than intellectual property (IP) law.
That trust in fact goes far beyond mere confidence in researchers' general truthfulness to the core of what scientists believe about the scientific method.
Rather it is a grassroots organisation, catalysed by an initial core of interested scientists, but with membership open to all who share one or more of the goals of the group: Open Data in Chemistry.
Much of the backing for the hurricane sleuthing by Dr. Donnelly, Dr. Liu and a small core of like-minded scientists has come from the Risk Prediction Initiative, a nonprofit research program based in Bermuda that is financed by insurance companies.
But things are changing, thanks to a core of enthusiastic Portuguese scientists who have decided to use the International Polar Year (IPY --which, oddly, runs for 2 years, from 1 March 2007 to 1 March 2009--as a platform for developIPY --whichl's polar research effort and IPY --whichce.
In reality the core of interaction between scientists, readers, laymen, institutions, publishers and editors is at a crucial, evolutionary juncture.
With the trend in Singapore going more and more toward the provision of core facilities, scientists here will soon need to expend much less energy in their efforts to stay above the technology waves.
A perceptive 2012 analysis by Fang and Casadevall identified imbalances in the career structure and incentivisation of scientists as core difficulties, but although framed as a call for reform, their study concludes by simply calling for a 'conversation' among scientists about what changes to implement.
