Best Practices of Successful Academic Research Labs [Women in Engineering]

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 138-141
Author(s):  
Chinwe Ekenna ◽  
Lydia Tapia
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Women In Engineering ◽  
Successful Academic

scholarly journals The un Guidelines on the Use of Armed Guards

2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 475-491 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elke Krahmann
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Private Security ◽  
Security Services ◽  
Security Industry ◽  
Private Security Companies ◽  
New Guidelines ◽  
The Military ◽  
Industry Associations

In 2012, the United Nations approved new Guidelines on the Use of Armed Private Security Companies by its agencies, funds and programmes. The Guidelines hold the potential to not only enhance the quality of armed security services contracted by the un, but also raise professional standards within the military and security industry more generally by serving as a model for other consumers and companies. Nevertheless, a close reading of the Guidelines indicates that there is still room for improvements. Drawing on best practices identified by industry associations, major clients and academic research, this article makes six recommendations for revision. Specifically, the article contends that expanding the scope, content and enforcement of the Guidelines would contribute to strengthening the control over private security contractors.

Designing Animated (and Interactive) Infographics for Remote Learning

2020 ◽  
pp. 154-185
Author(s):  
Shalin Hai-Jew
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Learner Control ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Visual Representations ◽  
Learning Contexts ◽  
Remote Learning

In remote learning, “animated (and interactive) infographics” combine—visual representations of concepts, data, information, and in-world phenomena; designed motion; designed interactivity; designed learner control; setup of learning contexts and learner sociality; and other factors—to enable various types of learning: observational, (disembodied) experiential, review and practice-based, and other approaches. This work explores the available best practices of designing, development, and deploying animated infographics for learning based on much of the available academic research and some present-day technologies.

The BI-Based Organization

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Wixom ◽  
Hugh Watson
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Business Intelligence ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Strategic Vision ◽  
Blue Shield

Business intelligence (BI) is an umbrella term that is commonly used to describe the technologies, applications, and processes for gathering, storing, accessing, and analyzing data to help users make better decisions. For BI-based firms, BI is a prerequisite for competing in the marketplace. Though there are several possible BI targets, it is important to understand how they differ in terms of strategic vision, level of sponsorship, required resources, impact on people and processes, and benefits. Some companies like Harrah’s Entertainment, Continental Airlines, Norfolk Southern, and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina are exemplars of BI best practices. Despite the progress made with BI, there are still many opportunities for academic research.

scholarly journals Enabling a Conversation Across Scholarly Monographs through Open Annotation

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea C. Bertino ◽  
Heather Staines
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Annotation Tool ◽  
Peer Reviews ◽  
Digital Documents ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Digital Format ◽  
General Line ◽  
New Ideas

The digital format opens up new possibilities for interaction with monographic publications. In particular, annotation tools make it possible to broaden the discussion on the content of a book, to suggest new ideas, to report errors or inaccuracies, and to conduct open peer reviews. However, this requires the support of the users who might not yet be familiar with the annotation of digital documents. This paper will give concrete examples and recommendations for exploiting the potential of annotation in academic research and teaching. After presenting the annotation tool of Hypothesis, the article focuses on its use in the context of HIRMEOS (High Integration of Research Monographs in the European Open Science Infrastructure), a project aimed to improve the Open Access digital monograph. The general line and the aims of a post-peer review experiment with the annotation tool, as well as its usage in didactic activities concerning monographic publications are presented and proposed as potential best practices for similar annotation activities.

scholarly journals Interdisciplinary Global Health Forum: Conference Report

2013 ◽  
Vol 114 (2) ◽  
pp. 128-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Quinn ◽  
V. Rajaratnam ◽  
P. Smejkal ◽  
V. Bencko
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Conference Report ◽  
Main Function ◽  
Global Public Health ◽  
Public Issues ◽  
Public Health Systems ◽  
The University

In spring of 2012, students and staff at the First Faculty of Medicine at Charles University in Prague invited distinguished public health stakeholders and experts to engage in a Global Health Forum. The forum lasted an afternoon, was academically and clinically engaging and offered students and medical faculty a venue to discuss the most pressing global public health concerns. Main outcomes from the forum included describing outstanding public issues in public health policy and prevention, infectious disease and public health systems raised by the speakers, stakeholders and attendees. One major result of this forum is the establishment of the Prague Center for Global Health – an interdepartmental and interdisciplinary research collaborative to further the discussion and much needed field and academic research in global public health. The Prague Center for Global Health will include multiple international research centers and main function and results will include new courses at the university, publications based on best practices and research and a venue to learn, share and create in the academic space.

scholarly journals Fitness, Extrinsic Complexity and Informing Science

10.28945/3668 ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 037-061
Author(s):  
Grandon Gill ◽  
Matthew Mullarkey
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Evolutionary Biology ◽  
Resistance To Change ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Science Field ◽  
Rigorous Approach ◽  
Individual Effects ◽  
Research Stream ◽  
Definition Of

Aim/Purpose We establish a conceptually rigorous definition for the widely used but loosely defined term “fitness”. We then tie this definition to complexity, highlighting a number of important implications for the informing science transdiscipline. Background As informing science increasingly incorporates concepts of fitness and complexity in its research stream, rigorous discussion and definition of both terms is essential to effective communication. Methodology Our analysis consists principally of a synthesis of past work in the informing science field that incorporates concepts from evolutionary biology, economics and management. Contribution We provide a rigorous approach to defining fitness and introduce the construct “extrinsic complexity”, as a measure of the amount of information required to predict fitness, to more fully differentiate this form of complexity from other complexity constructs. We draw a number of conclusions regarding how behaviors under low and high extrinsic complexity will differ. Findings High extrinsic complexity environments are likely to produce behaviors that include resistance to change, imitation, turbulence and inequality. Recommendations for Practitioners As extrinsic complexity grows, effective search for problem solutions will increasingly dominate employing recommended solutions of “best practices”. Recommendation for Researchers As extrinsic complexity grows, research tools that rely on decomposing individual effects and hypothesis testing become increasingly unreliable. Impact on Society We raise concerns about society’s continuing investment in academic research that discounts the extrinsic complexity of the domains under study. Future Research We highlight a need for research to operationalize the concepts of fitness and complexity in practice.

The views of privacy auditors regarding standards and methodologies

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 366-398
Author(s):  
Alan Toy ◽  
David Lau ◽  
David Hay ◽  
Gehan Gunasekara
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Data Privacy ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Privacy Rights ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Privacy Laws ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Privacy Issues ◽  
Organizational Issue

Purpose This paper aims to uncover the practices of different privacy auditors to reveal the extent of any similarities in such practices. The purpose is to investigate the drivers of practices used by privacy auditors and to identify potential for improvements in the practice of privacy auditing so that privacy audits may better serve stakeholders. Design/methodology/approach Six semi-structured interviews with seven privacy auditors and regulators and an analyst across Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the USA are used as the basis for our analysis. Findings The study shows that some privacy auditors view privacy as an organizational issue, which means that all staff within an organization should understand the privacy issues that are relevant to the organization and to its customers. Because this practice goes beyond a mere compliance approach to privacy auditing, it indicates that there is a way to avoid the approach of merely applying standards from national data privacy laws which is an approach that has been subject to criticism because it is not applicable to the current situation of global applications and cross-border data. The interview themes demonstrate that privacy audits face significant challenges, such as the lack of a privacy auditing profession and the difficulty of raising the awareness of organizations and individuals regarding information privacy rights and duties. Originality/value Privacy auditing is mostly unexplored by academic research and little is known about the drivers behind the practice of privacy auditing. This study is the first to document the views of privacy auditors regarding the practices that they use. It also presents novel results regarding the drivers of the practice of privacy auditing and the interests of the beneficiaries of privacy audits. It builds on research that argues for the existence of best practices for privacy (Toy, 2013; Toy and Hay, 2015) and it extends this argument by providing reasons why privacy auditors may benefit from the use of best practices for privacy.

scholarly journals Fitness, Extrinsic Complexity and Informing Science

10.28945/3715 ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grandon Gill ◽  
Matthew Mullarkey
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Evolutionary Biology ◽  
Resistance To Change ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Science Field ◽  
Rigorous Approach ◽  
Individual Effects ◽  
Research Stream ◽  
Definition Of

[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in Informing Science: the International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline (InfoSci)] Aim/Purpose: We establish a conceptually rigorous definition for the widely used but loosely defined term “fitness”. We then tie this definition to complexity, highlighting a number of important implications for the informing science transdiscipline. Background: As informing science increasingly incorporates concepts of fitness and complexity in its research stream, rigorous discussion and definition of both terms is essential to effective communication. Methodology: Our analysis consists principally of a synthesis of past work in the informing science field that incorporates concepts from evolutionary biology, economics and management. Contribution: We provide a rigorous approach to defining fitness and introduce the construct “extrinsic complexity”, as a measure of the amount of information required to predict fitness, to more fully differentiate this form of complexity from other complexity constructs. We draw a number of conclusions regarding how behaviors under low and high extrinsic complexity will differ. Findings: High extrinsic complexity environments are likely to produce behaviors that include resistance to change, imitation, turbulence and inequality. Recommendations for Practitioners: As extrinsic complexity grows, effective search for problem solutions will increasingly dominate employing recommended solutions of “best practices”. Recommendation for Researchers: As extrinsic complexity grows, research tools that rely on decomposing individual effects and hypothesis testing become increasingly unreliable. Impact on Society : We raise concerns about society’s continuing investment in academic research that discounts the extrinsic complexity of the domains under study. Future Research: We highlight a need for research to operationalize the concepts of fitness and complexity in practice.

scholarly journals Building capacity for collaborative research on opioid and other substance use disorders through the Clinical and Translational Science Award Program

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda B. Cottler ◽  
Alan I. Green ◽  
Harold Alan Pincus ◽  
Scott McIntosh ◽  
Jennifer L. Humensky ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Translational Research ◽  
Data Science ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Translational Science ◽  
Timely Response ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Science Community ◽  
Landscape Survey ◽  
Clinical And Translational Research

AbstractThe opioid crisis in the USA requires immediate action through clinical and translational research. Already built network infrastructure through funding by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) provides a major advantage to implement opioid-focused research which together could address this crisis. NIDA supports training grants and clinical trial networks; NCATS funds the Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) Program with over 50 NCATS academic research hubs for regional clinical and translational research. Together, there is unique capacity for clinical research, bioinformatics, data science, community engagement, regulatory science, institutional partnerships, training and career development, and other key translational elements. The CTSA hubs provide unprecedented and timely response to local, regional, and national health crises to address research gaps [Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, Center for Leading Innovation and Collaboration, Synergy paper request for applications]. This paper describes opportunities for collaborative opioid research at CTSA hubs and NIDA–NCATS opportunities that build capacity for best practices as this crisis evolves. Results of a Landscape Survey (among 63 hubs) are provided with descriptions of best practices and ideas for collaborations, with research conducted by hubs also involved in premier NIDA initiatives. Such collaborations could provide a rapid response to the opioid epidemic while advancing science in multiple disciplinary areas.

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