When I recently grew weary of tabloid cable news and spent an afternoon watching C-SPAN coverage of the Senate Judiciary Committee mark up of gun control legislation I felt nourished, off the junk food, sustained, an informed citizen again.
These activities are expected to sustain and inform students' research self-efficacy beliefs, positive outcome expectations, and research interests.
Even so, on many college and university campuses, which are increasing shaped by corporate assumptions and expectations, the centerpiece of higher education, sustained research and informed instruction, is giving way to the assumption that our students must be entertained.
This self informed and sustained the writing, and was informed and sustained in return.
In some hands, this convoluted, labyrinthine narrative would end up a sprawling mess, but such is Anderson's storytelling discipline – informed and sustained by the precision of the cinematography and set design – that it never gets away from him.
Empirically, our approach in this discussion is informed by sustained social scientific engagement with the worlds of umbilical cord blood banking internationally and spanning a decade or more.
It will take sustained pressure from an informed, organized, and creative citizenry who can make the damage wrought by the drug war visible, while demanding real change.
However, few efforts have been made to translate the research agenda into novel methods and concepts that can sustain and guide empirically informed scientific work (Waltner-Toews et al. 2008; Wilcox and Gubler 2005; Wood et al. 2012).
These questions are intended to shape a bioethics research agenda in both social science and normative ethical analysis to inform a sustained and responsible program to reduce the burden of preterm birth and stillbirth within the broader context of improving women's health, as well as maternal, newborn and child health.
