The new fund is the latest example of a large research program to serve national goals that is created outside the regular channel of competitive grants to individual scientists.
In a large research program (part of the ECOMONT project) managed areas, as well as areas that are not used or only used to some extent, were investigated in order to find out their liability to snow gliding.
One exception--the senior scientist tends to be the first author on a general article that describes extended results of a large research program (i.e., an introduction to a special issue of a journal that includes many specific articles from that research program).
As a member of the hospital's professional staff, Sarah was familiar with the institution's large research program investigating the therapeutic potential of LSD with alcoholic and neurotic patients.
National governments and public-private collaborations are funding large research programs and infrastructure dedicated to translation of basic PM concepts into clinical trials.
Concerns over the negative environmental impact from livestock farming across Europe continue to make their mark resulting in new legislation and large research programs.
Niederhuber follows the controversial Andrew von Eschenbach, a friend of President Bush's family who launched several large research programs and set an ambitious goal of ending suffering and death from cancer by 2015 (Science, 21 April, p. 357).
This methodology has deeply been analyzed and applied to wireless access networks through a series of large research programs organized by the European Union (see, e.g., [19, 20] and reference therein).
Finally, two ongoing large research programs on river ecosystem restoration, of which are sponsored by the Government of Korea, are briefly introduced, followed by the introduction of a near-prototype experiment facility recently completed mainly for research on ecological river engineering.
Concomitantly, several large research programs have been devised to study the physical, chemical, and biological environment of Patagonia, such as the CIMAR FIORDO, and recently COPAS Sur-Austral based at Universidad de Concepcion, that attempts to close the bridge between oceanographic knowledge and its use by society.
Although Boyack and Klavans [37] showed that self-citations cannot explain the strong association between citation impacts of the cited and citing papers at the aggregate level, the strong connection between current and previous top-level research in the life sciences and health sciences might partly be the result of large research programs that cite to a large extent internally.
