While such initiatives can effectively bridge knowledge gaps and facilitate best practices across established and emerging research disciplines and therapeutic areas, concerns remain on how these improve on the historical process of independent replication in validating research findings and their potential to inhibit scientific innovation.
GKN has brought another ancient craft into the 21st century: Instead of molding or bashing molten metal into shape, GKN has improved on the decades-old process of turning cold metal into a fine powder, pouring it into a mold and cooking it at 1,150 degrees Celsius to strengthen it, a process known as sintering.
Measures to improve compliance were discussed, based on improving the process of information exchange with business-registering authorities for registration, and with tax revenue authorities for contribution collection.
The iPlay programme is a successful starting point in the prevention of physical activity related injuries in children, but the programme needs to be further improved on the basis of this process evaluation.
Instead of leaving potential buyers alone with a website, the team is working on improving the process of online personal sales.
The authors found a positive effect of accreditation on improving the process of care and clinical outcomes [ 17].
Both proposed interventions (communication training with and without POCT) do not aim at reducing antibiotic prescriptions at all costs, but on improving the process of decision-making.
Publication of the NICE guidance on improving the process of care for patients with CNS malignancies coincided with the advent of new evidence-based surgical techniques and oncological therapies in the first half of the last decade.
One important finding is that farmers seem to expand on the benefits of improved varieties through the process of creolization [ 25, 26].
The detergent-enzymatic method, already used to develop bioengineered pig and human trachea scaffolds, has been applied to rat tracheae in order to obtain airway grafts suitable to be used to improve our knowledge on the process of tissue-engineered airway transplantation and regeneration.
