Nonprofits with disparate missions, like the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Rifle Association and Save the Children, now sell goods online, while institutions like the Pew Charitable Trusts use the Internet to skim inefficiency from the paper-intensive grant process.
Running a laboratory is skill- and time-intensive; when the grant proposals are written, the technicians hired, and the discontented postdocs assuaged, there can seem to be little time left for doing actual science--especially when teaching, professional service, and raising families is thrown into the mix.
These pilot projects are often successful - the challenge is to have them accepted as a model for expansion to larger areas, or even reproduced nationwide -and to have them work well without the intensive support usually granted to pilot projects.
Should the university, for instance, invest in science programs, which are capital-intensive but also draw grant money, or should it bolster its areas of strength, liberal-arts departments like English and religious studies?
This has resulted in an agreement at institutional level, the provision of intensive training on writing international grant applications and scientific papers, several collaborative research projects, grant applications, and substantial support for the establishment of a biomedical informatics initiative.
Furthermore, ASEAN and SAFTA countries possess comparable comparative advantages and compete for labor-intensive FDI by granting similar kinds of incentives and treatments.
Although she is concerned about starting a family and is apprehensive about diving into the publish-or-perish, grant-intensive faculty cycle, she hasn't really considered any option other than applying for academic positions.
Hunter College, one of the winners, will use part of its $1.3 million grant for an intensive summer training program for high school science teachers that will also pay for equipment and supplies they can take back to their high schools, said SHIRLEY RAPS, chairwoman of biological sciences at Hunter.
We acknowledge receiving a NICER grant from Singapore Intensive care Medicine society.
This work was supported by the 2012 experimental research grant from French Intensive Care Society.
While funds for expensive equipment may be easier to negotiate for at large research universities or research medical centers, smaller less research-intensive institutions may qualify for grant programs that can provide extraordinary resources.
