National Trade and Professional Associations of the United States

National Trade and Professional Associations of the United States

Author: Columbia Books Inc

Publisher: Columbia Books Incorporated Publishers

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781880873946

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The 2009 edition of National Trade and Professional Associations of the United States provides updated listings of all 7,800 national trade associations, professional societies and labor unions and their 20,000+ executives. Indexed nine ways so you can look up associations by subject, budget, geographic area, acronym, executive director and more.


Facilitating Interdisciplinary Research

Facilitating Interdisciplinary Research

Author: Institute of Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2005-04-04

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 0309165482

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Facilitating Interdisciplinary Research examines current interdisciplinary research efforts and recommends ways to stimulate and support such research. Advances in science and engineering increasingly require the collaboration of scholars from various fields. This shift is driven by the need to address complex problems that cut across traditional disciplines, and the capacity of new technologies to both transform existing disciplines and generate new ones. At the same time, however, interdisciplinary research can be impeded by policies on hiring, promotion, tenure, proposal review, and resource allocation that favor traditional disciplines. This report identifies steps that researchers, teachers, students, institutions, funding organizations, and disciplinary societies can take to more effectively conduct, facilitate, and evaluate interdisciplinary research programs and projects. Throughout the report key concepts are illustrated with case studies and results of the committee's surveys of individual researchers and university provosts.