The GRADE approach attempts to merge research-based knowledge of efficacy with practice-based knowledge of effectiveness through the input of the expert panel.
The topic splitting and merging research where an event causally influences another for establishing links between stories or topics or storylines have been described in [18, 76 80].
"It became clear to us a number of years ago that we needed to merge materials research and manufacturing technologies," says Mr Idelchik, its research chief.
The library also intends to merge its research and branch arms.
Both are attempting to merge clinical research and clinical practice.
But several years ago, Deadwyler decided to merge the research tools of a collaborator with the goals of a funder.
This convergent discipline merges research areas such as chemistry, biology, physics, mathematics and engineering.
In addition, the medical research department of the Dutch Research Council (NWO-MW), which was mainly devoted to basic medical research, merged with the research organisation (ZON) of the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport, which was more focussed on health care research and innovation.
Merging the research funding functions of HEFCE into the research council organization would exacerbate this, not only creating obvious ring-fence issues that are implicitly recognized in the Green Paper itself but, more importantly, muddying the water of the already messy devolution arrangements for research funding in the UK.
Russell Group director-general Dr Wendy Piatt On the merging of research councils: "The government should be careful about making any substantial changes to a successful system.
Ministers are also forging ahead with the idea of merging the research councils into a single body, in the wake of the Nurse report, for much the same reason – which would produce negligible, if any, real savings.
