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What are the benefits of strong collaborations between academia and the industry?
It is said that lack of relevant relationships between the industry and academia impede industrial innovations, as a strong bond between both can revolutionise global economy. What is your take on this and what benefits can such relationship between both parties bring?
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The motivation behind conducting a risk assessment
Hello, I understand the purpose of a chemical risk assessment (e.g., setting safe exposure limits). However, I am wondering, in practical terms, what (aside from regulations) causes agencies to conduct these assessments. Consumer concerns? Potential litigation? Political pressure? In other words, what signals do the EPA and other regulatory agencies get that convinces them to conduct an assessment? Thank you.
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What are the most reliable surrogate markers for early diabetic nephropathy progression in primary care settings without access to advanced biomarker panels?
I am an internal medicine physician conducting primary care based research on diabetic nephropathy in Pakistan. In our setting, advanced biomarkers such as KIM-1, NGAL and cystatin C are unavailable. I am seeking expert consensus on which routinely available markers including urine ACR, eGFR trajectory, blood pressure patterns, and HbA1c best predict early CKD progression in T2DM patients in resource limited environment.
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Do violations of basic ethical principles in research invalidate the results of a study?
I'm working on an ethics workshop for MSc-level anthropology students on the topic of 'Ethics in the Research of Contemporary Populations'. The question posted here will appear at the end of the class, and I would love to show the students as many answers as possible from scientists. Additionally, if the responses demonstrate significant interest, I will consider public dissemination on social media, so please reply anonymously.
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How can universities cultivate a stronger research culture among students? What distinguishes a good researcher from a great researcher?
In your opinion, what are the most effective ways universities and Research institutes can strengthen research culture among students? And what qualities distinguish a good researcher from a truly great researcher? I look forward to hearing perspectives from the academic and research community.
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How can deep learning architectures be designed to improve generalization under limited or noisy training data while maintaining robustness and interpretability?
Deep learning models have achieved remarkable performance across domains such as computer vision, natural language processing, and scientific modeling. However, challenges remain in areas including generalization beyond training distributions, interpretability of learned representations, and robustness to noisy or limited datasets. I am particularly interested in understanding which architectural innovations, training strategies, or theoretical insights have shown the most promise in...
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What is the current evidence for GLP1 receptor agonists as disease modifying agents in multiple sclerosis, beyond metabolic and weight effects?
I am conducting a PROSPERO registered systematic review and meta analysis on GLP-1 receptor agonists in multiple sclerosis (CRD420261385854). I am seeking expert perspectives on whether current preclinical and clinical evidence supports a disease modifying mechanism or whether observed benefits are secondary to metabolic and weight improvements.
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How does friccohesity chemistry act as global physicochemical property with quantum mechanical activity to nanoformulate the smart cosmetics, syrups, supplements, lubricants, antiwrinkle creams ?
Currently, the friccohesity measured using survismeter has emerged as global physicochemical property of smart research methodologies for nanoformulations to bring all the ingredients in a most aligned coordination for generating the extra mileage of each ingredient for applications.
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Which impact has Bempedoic Acid on atherosclrosis plaque stability ?
Mechanism of action
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For a change in the peer-reveiwing as an urgent need?
With an increasing number of Journal and other publication, the review by peer started to be difficult and very often nonqualified reviewers are solicited. Very often now the Journal send us a list that ressemble the directory a. This is a problem since many of the persons listed here do not have even a record over 10 and there are supposed to review works they don't know, and they are not qualified. I would like to start a huge discussion that can be sent to the main Journal to change the...
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