Academic research practices have remained virtually identical in its conduct and organization over the last few decades. Disparate groups of researchers work on ideas, projects and inventions in isolated clusters, with little sharing of information and synergies from collaboration. However a new shift in paradigm is not only changing how researchers collaborate, but changing the [...]
What impact will the stimulus bill have? While there are physical structures ready, many researchers must secure their own funding and funding has been very scarce. The North Carolina Research Campus, with its three mostly empty buildings outfitted with some of the world’s best scientific equipment, could launch projects that would put people to work [...]
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A recent study published in the Journal of Education for Business examined [...]
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Title: “E-Research Collaboration: Frameworks, Tools and Techniques”
Co-Editors:
Murugan Anandarajan, Ph.D., Drexel University, ma33@drexel.edu
Asokan Anandarajan, Ph.D.,New Jersey Institute of Technology, asokan.anandarajan@njit.edu
Publisher: Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg
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E-Research Collaboration can be defined as the use of information communication technologies which enable the collaboration among individuals/group engaged in a research project. These technologies can range from email [...]
“Man is by nature, a political animal” so wrote Aristotle around the year 322 B.C. While biologists have studied human biology and its genetic basis, political scientists have been intensively studying the effect of the social and institutional environment on political attitudes and behaviors. However, its taken over over 2000 years for scientists to realize [...]
