While philanthropic support for science has increased in the past decade, there is limited quantitative knowledge about the patterns that characterize it and the mechanisms that drive its distribution. Here, we map philanthropic funding to universities and research institutions based on IRS tax forms ...
Frontal circuits play a critical role in motor, cognitive and affective processing, and their dysfunction may result in a variety of brain disorders. However, exactly which frontal domains mediate which (dys)functions remains largely elusive. We studied 534 deep brain stimulation electrodes implanted ...
In 2011 ILS got acquired by Thomson Reuters and within a year Peter had left to form another property information venture, this time with a philanthropic organization called the Omidyar Network. In case you’re not familiar, this organization was established by Pierre Omidyar who founded eBay. By...
which allowed the company to collect high-resolution bathymetry while travelling to and between projects. Fugro’s philanthropic ‘in-transit’ bathymetry programme started in the Americas region with just one
In literature, CSR is defined as “Corporate social responsibility encompasses the economic, legal, ethical, and discretionary (philanthropic) expectations that society has of organizations at a given point in time” (Carroll, 1991, pp. 39–48). However, literature argues two standpoints on the ...
19 Global public and philanthropic investments for neglected disease R&D were $2·4 billion purchasing power parity-adjusted dollars in 2010, which is roughly 1% of total global Investments compared with norms The Consultative Expert Working Group report concluded with recommendations about countries' ...
as of July 2014. Topics discussed include the annual budget of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the spending of the National Science Foundation (NSF) of its budget on biological and related sciences and private philanthropic foundations and medical charities that support biomedical research....
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Patients diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP) show, in the advanced stage of the disease, severely restricted peripheral vision causing poor mobility and decline in quality of life. This vision loss causes difficulty identifying obstacles and their relative distances. Thus, RP patients use mobility...
Data from digital disease surveillance tools such as ProMED and HealthMap can complement the field surveillance during ongoing outbreaks. Our aim was to investigate the use of data collected through ProMED and HealthMap in real-time outbreak analysis. We