Regional Contest of Fundamental Research Projects Performed by Young Scientists: Interim Outcomes and Prospects (Krasnoyarsk Krai)

A questionnaire distributed to the participants of the Sixth Australian Bat Conference in January 1994 sought views about priorities for Australian bat research. The results demonstrate that there is a primary requirement for the funding of broad-based fundamental research and many of the research projects proposed by the participants are listed here. Bat research was considered to be hindered by lack of funding, cost of capital equipment and inaccessible research results buried in unpublished studies. Species of the genera Pteropus and Nyctophilus and cave-dwellers were thought to be good potential subjects for research, but there was little support for research and development of an industry based on commercial utilization of flying foxes. Most importantly, the results reveal the concern of bat specialists that bat conservation in Australia be based on a thorough understanding of bat biology.

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Contribution of Academic Science to the Development of a University: to the 100th Anniversary of the Kuban State Medical University

Kuban Scientific Medical Bulletin ◽

10.25207/1608-6228-2020-27-5-18-45 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 27 (5) ◽

pp. 18-45 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

S. N. Alekseenko ◽

A. N. Red’ko ◽

I. L. Cherednik ◽

D. V. Veselova ◽

T. A. Kovelina ◽

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Keyword(s):

100Th Anniversary ◽

Academic Science ◽

Teaching Staff ◽

Research Projects ◽

Russian Academy Of Sciences ◽

Close Interaction ◽

Fundamental Research ◽

The University ◽

Medical University ◽

Academy Of Sciences

The academic potential of the Kuban State Medical University has been formed as a result of close interaction between university and academic science. Such collaboration encourages the development of highly qualifi ed academic and teaching staff, increases the importance of conducting fundamental studies and forms an information basis for boosting research and educational processes in the university. Over a century, academicians and corresponding members of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) have contributed to the development of the Kuban State Medical University by taking part in fundamental research projects and creating scientifi c schools. The Kuban State Medical University has received ongoing intellectual support from representatives of academic science both in the formation of long-term developmental strategies and implementation of individual scientifi c projects. The collaboration between RAS and the university has been carried out under different socio-economic and political conditions. The Kuban State Medical University will continue implementation of fundamental research projects in close interaction with the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) in the foreseeable future. This article presents a brief biography of 15 RAS academicians and corresponding members having made a signifi cant contribution to the development of the Kuban State Medical University, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year.

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Re-Invigorating Hibar Research for the 21st Century: Enhancing Fundamental Research Excellence In Service to Society

Technology & Innovation ◽

10.21300/21.2.2020.153 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 21 (2) ◽

pp. 153-167 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Lorne A. Whitehead ◽

Scott H. Slovic ◽

Janet E. Nelson

Keyword(s):

World War Ii ◽

Financial Constraints ◽

Research Projects ◽

World War ◽

Fundamental Research ◽

Generation Capacity ◽

Research Excellence ◽

Research Alliance ◽

Oriented Research

More than ever, society needs research breakthroughs to address major problems. Universities have a key role to play in discovering the required new knowledge and guiding its application. However, since World War II, universities have been encouraged to focus mainly on curiosity-based research, with corporations carrying out practical work. This division worked well in the last half of the 20th century, when there was considerable funding for long-term research in the laboratories of major corporations. Today, however, those firms face greater competition, and the resultant financial constraints have foreshortened their research time-horizons. Universities are poised to compensate by re-emphasizing long-term, application-oriented research, but great care must be taken to strengthen fundamental research as well. These objectives can be achieved simultaneously by bolstering a time-honored class of research projects labelled Highly Integrative Basic And Responsive (HIBAR), each of which combines fundamental and applied approaches through partnerships with practical experts. This approach will help repli- cate, within universities, the breakthrough-generation capacity that once flourished in major corporate laboratories. Toward this end, a network of universities called the HIBAR Research Alliance (HRA) has recently formed to strengthen HIBAR research, both by helping universities to encourage it (while also improving equity, diversity, inclusion, and academic freedom) and by helping researchers to carry out HIBAR research projects (while also advancing their careers). The HRA aims to increase the rate of HIBAR research projects in universities—from about one project in 20 today to one in five by 2030—while strengthening all types of research excellence.

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Vision and Robotics

AI Magazine ◽

10.1609/aimag.v41i2.5299 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 41 (2) ◽

pp. 49-65

Author(s):

Thomas Strat ◽

Rama Chellappa ◽

Vishal Patel

Keyword(s):

Early Research ◽

Grand Challenge ◽

Research Projects ◽

Fundamental Research ◽

And Robotics ◽

Advanced Research Projects Agency

Vision and robotics has the well-defined goal of meeting or exceeding human-level capabilities in perception, locomotion, and manipulation. Not surprisingly, that is perhaps easier said than done. Beginning in the 1970s, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency started the ambitious Imaging Understanding program that would continue for more than 20 years. The Imaging Understanding program began with fundamental research and slowly evolved into a host of more applied efforts with specific systems goals. Robotics programs followed a similar arc as the early research-oriented programs generated capabilities from which practical systems could be built. A culmination of the vision and robotics research was the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Grand Challenge, which turned the impossibility of a self-driving car into an imminent reality. This article tells the story of how some of the modern-day technologies we enjoy today trace their evolution from research sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency over the last 40 years.

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Fundamental Research into Thin Films in a Developing Country

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100095753 ◽

1972 ◽

Vol 30 ◽

pp. 500-501

Author(s):

J.A. Eades ◽

E. Grünbaum

Keyword(s):

Thin Films ◽

Growth Process ◽

Empirical Process ◽

Nucleation And Growth ◽

Research Groups ◽

Film Research ◽

Fundamental Research ◽

Controlled Deposition ◽

The One ◽

The University

In the last decade and a half, thin film research, particularly research into problems associated with epitaxy, has developed from a simple empirical process of determining the conditions for epitaxy into a complex analytical and experimental study of the nucleation and growth process on the one hand and a technology of very great importance on the other. During this period the thin films group of the University of Chile has studied the epitaxy of metals on metal and insulating substrates. The development of the group, one of the first research groups in physics to be established in the country, has parallelled the increasing complexity of the field.The elaborate techniques and equipment now needed for research into thin films may be illustrated by considering the plant and facilities of this group as characteristic of a good system for the controlled deposition and study of thin films.

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