Tabla de Contenidos: “…Log-Linear Models for Categorical Variables -- Regression Models for Categorical Variables -- Models for Event Histories -- Models for Multiple-Item Measurement -- Nonlinear, Nonadditive Models -- Geometric and Algebraic Models -- Scaling -- Ordered Factorial Systems -- Clustering -- Network Models -- STATISTICAL INFERENCE AND ANALYSIS -- Causal Inference -- New Statistical Techniques -- Internal Resampling -- Robust Techniques -- Many Interrelated Parameters -- Missing Data -- Computing -- Computer Packages and Expert Systems -- Exploratory Analysis and Graphic Presentation -- Combining Evidence -- OPPORTUNITIES AND NEEDS -- 6 The Research Support System -- HUMAN RESOURCES -- Colleges and Graduate Schools -- Undergraduate Education -- Graduate Education -- Postdoctoral Training and Collaboration -- Postdoctoral Fellowships and Traineeships -- Advanced Training Institutes -- Collaboration and Communication -- TECHNOLOGICAL RESOURCES -- Computers -- Neuroimaging Devices -- Animal Care -- DATA RESOURCES -- Large-Scale Data Bases -- Research Access to Government Data -- Corporate and Local Government Archives -- FUNDING RESOURCES -- Modes of Support -- Grant Size and Duration -- The Disciplines and Interdisciplinary Research -- Interdisciplinary Research Centers -- THE PROBLEM OF VOICE -- 7 Raising the Scientific Yield -- RESEARCH FRONTIERS -- Behavior, Mind, and Brain -- Motivational and Social Contexts of Behavior -- Choice and Allocation -- Institutions and Cultures -- Methods of Data Collection, Representation, and Analysis -- RECOMMENDED NEW RESOURCES -- Human Resources -- Technological Resources -- Data Resources -- Interdisciplinary Research Centers -- Investigator-Initiated Grants -- Research Agency Changes -- CONCLUSION -- Appendix A Trends in Support for Research in the Behavioral and Social Sciences -- FEDERAL SUPPORT…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Meeting the Nation's Biomedical and Behavioral Scientists -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- ESTIMATING NATIONAL NEEDS FOR RESEARCH SCIENTISTS -- Health Research as a National Priority -- Unknown Effects of Health Care Reform -- Advances in Research -- Demand of the Marketplace -- RECOMMENDATIONS -- Stipends -- Numerical Recommendations -- Basic Biomedical Sciences -- Behavioral Sciences -- Clinical Sciences -- Remaining Fields -- Minority Access to Research Careers -- ENHANCING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE NRSA PROGRAM -- Flexibility in Career Training at the Postdoctoral Level -- Monitoring Progress Toward NRSA Goals -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Chapter One Introduction -- ORIGINS OF THE STUDY -- CHARGE TO THE COMMITTEE -- THE COMMITTEE'S STUDY PLAN -- Definition of the Study Population -- Panel on Estimation Procedures -- Call for a Public Hearing -- Commissioned Papers -- Airlie House Retreat -- ORGANIZATION OF THE REPORT -- REFERENCES -- Chapter Two Approaches to the Estimation of National Need -- HEALTH RESEARCH AS A NATIONAL PRIORITY -- Patterns of Federal Support -- Trends in Industrial Support -- Other Factors -- Impact of the Budget Deficit -- The Economy -- Unknown Effects of Health Care Reform -- Regulatory Costs of Research Investments -- ADVANCES IN RESEARCH -- MARKETPLACE REQUIREMENTS -- Status Report on the Work of the Panel on Estimation Procedures -- 1989 NRC Model -- New Techniques for Estimating National Needs -- Summary -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Chapter Three Basic Biomedical Sciences Personnel -- ADVANCES IN RESEARCH -- ASSESSMENT OF THE CURRENT MARKET FOR BASIC BIOMEDICAL SCIENTISTS -- Degree Production and Career Patterns -- Degree Production -- Career Patterns -- Market Conditions -- Unemployment and Underemployment -- Postdoctorates -- Postgraduation Commitments -- Starting Salaries…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Long; University of Nevada, Reno; The Pragmatic Truth Criterion and Values in Contextual Behavioral Science; Kelly G. Wilson; Kerry Whiteman; Michael Bordieri; University of Mississippi; Part II; Advances in Basic Research on Relational Frame Theory; Relational Frame Theory: An Overview…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Welcome to your Journal of Clinical and Translational Science -- Certification of clinical and translational researchers: An ill-conceived notion -- Enhancing Clinical Research Professionals' Training and Qualifications (ECRPTQ): Recommendations for Good Clinical Practice (GCP) training for investigators and study coordinators -- Education and training of clinical and translational study investigators and research coordinators: A competency-based approach -- Best practices in social and behavioral research: report from the Enhancing Clinical Research Professional's Training and Qualifications project -- A consult service to support and promote community-based research: Tracking and evaluating a community-based research consult service -- Mapping the evolving definitions of translational research -- Understanding investigators' attitudes through a results-based accountability framework within a single CTSA institution -- From community engagement, to community-engaged research, to broadly engaged team science -- Interdisciplinary dissemination and implementation research to advance translational science: Challenges and opportunities -- The continued evolution of team science -- Patient-Centered Network of Learning Health Systems: Developing a resource for clinical translational research -- Uncertainty quantification in breast cancer risk prediction models using self-reported family health history -- Feasibility of common bibliometrics in evaluating translational science…”

“…The issues involved are important for advancing social, behavioral, and biomedical knowledge while appropriately respecting and protecting individual survey respondents…”