9) Lastly, a perspective was advanced that any experimental studies performed with human volunteers for purposes of generating information to inform a reference value should be assumed to be unethical as the default position, until the researchers can provide a coherent case as to why it would be ethically justified in taking into account foreseen health benefits and risks/hazards involved.
An innovative feature of this support is the social audit approach, which aims to inform policy design and policy implementation by generating information that is complementary to M&E practices.
This is in a sense related to the "generation effect", where it has been shown that spontaneously generating information as opposed to learning it passively improves subsequent recall [ 18, 19].
The project focused on (among other things) generating information on maize-legume value chains and policies and to inform farmers, extension agencies, non-governmental organizations and agribusinesses along the maize-legume value chain about opportunities for the adoption of conservation agriculture based practices leading to sustainable agricultural intensification.
The universe, they say, behaves exactly like a computer, processing and generating information.
"Generating information about targets is a crucial part of it," Mr. Wolfowitz said.
The law also promotes efficiency by generating information about cost effectiveness.
And Michael Horn, director of the National Drug Intelligence Center, a Justice Department agency that provides analysis for policy makers and support for drug-fighting programs, said he planned to shift more resources into generating information on prescription drug abuse.
The federal investigation into National Basketball Association gambling is generating information about other referees that could lead to disciplinary action short of criminal charges, authorities and lawyers involved with the case said yesterday.
The 72-hour warnings were described as a computer glitch: Wyndham International only recently took over the hotel from Omni, Ms. Brossart said, and new software for confirmation letters was generating information that conflicted with the hotel's policy.
Most of the formal means of generating information that are familiar in America today — objective journalism is only one; others are modern academic research, professional licensing, and think tanks — were created, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, explicitly to counter the populist inclinations of various institutions, one of which was the big media.
