Last fall, a year after the anthrax attacks sounded a bioterrorism alarm, Anthony S. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, promised that he would strive to ...

While translational research can happen at any stage of the research process, a recent investigation of behavioral and social science research awards granted by the NIH between 2008 and 2014 revealed ...

Across scientific disciplines, psychology being no exception, a distinction is oftentimes made between basic and applied research. Basic research is ivory tower research, with no practical ...

The solutions to feeding the world are certainly multi-faceted, requiring knowledge from a diversity of fields and practices to successfully raise food production and maintain ecosystem security. Thus ...

The aim of applied sociology is claimed to be social amelioration through the application of the knowledge acquired by pure or basic sociology. For Ward, following Comte, applied sociology was to be ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In this paper we present some basic problems of the metric fixed point theory (existence, uniqueness, set-theoretic aspects (Bessaga, Janos, ...