Selection Mechanisms Underlying High Impact Biomedical Research - A Qualitative Analysis and Causal Model

BACKGROUND: Although scientific innovation has been a long-standing topic of interest for historians, philosophers and cognitive scientists, few studies in biomedical research have examined from researchers' perspectives how high impact publications are developed and why they are consistently produced by a small group of researchers. Our objective was therefore to interview a group of researchers with a track record of high impact publications to explore what mechanism they believe contribute to the generation of high impact publications. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: Researchers were located in universities all over the globe and interviews were conducted by phone. All interviews were transcribed using standard qualitative methods. A Grounded Theory approach was used to code each transcript, later aggregating concept and categories into overarching explanation model. The model was then translated into a System Dynamics mathematical model to represent its structure and behavior. Five emerging themes were found in our study. First, researchers used heuristics or rules of thumb that came naturally to them. Second, these heuristics were reinforced by positive feedback from their peers and mentors. Third, good communication skills allowed researchers to provide feedback to their peers, thus closing a positive feedback loop. Fourth, researchers exhibited a number of psychological attributes such as curiosity or open-mindedness that constantly motivated them, even when faced with discouraging situations. Fifth, the system is dominated by randomness and serendipity and is far from a linear and predictable environment. Some researchers, however, took advantage of this randomness by incorporating mechanisms that would allow them to benefit from random findings. The aggregation of these themes into a policy model represented the overall expected behavior of publications and their impact achieved by high impact researchers. CONCLUSIONS: The proposed selection mechanism provides insights that can be translated into research coaching programs as well as research policy models to optimize the introduction of high impact research at a broad scale among institutional and governmental agencies

The Fundamentals : a testimony to the truth Vol. 12

Rev. A.C. Dixon edited the first five volumes of \u27The Fundamentals . The next five books were taken in hand by the late Louis Meyer. Rev. R.A. Torrey edited volumes 11 and 12. The following are the names of the original committee to whom was committed full supervision of the movement: Rev. A.C. Dixon, Rev. R.A. Torrey, Rev. Louis Meyer, Mr. Henry P. Crowell, Mr. Thomas S. Smith, Mr. D.W. Potter, and Rev. Elmore Harris... Since the movement began, some 2000,000 letters have been received, including many requests for the continuance of this testimony in some form. In compliance with these requests it is planned to undertake its continuance through The King\u27s Business , which is published by the Bible Institute of Los Angeles...(https://digitalcommons.biola.edu/kings-business/) This volume is largely devoted to evangelism at home and abroad. Doctrines that must be emphasized in successful evangelism / L.W. Munhall Pastoral and personal evangelism, or winning men to Christ one by one / Rev. John Timothy Stone The Sunday School\u27s true evangelism / Charles Gallaudet Trumbull Foreign missions of world-wide evangelism / Robert E. Speer What missionary motives should prevail? / Rev. Henry W. Frost The place of prayer in evangelism / Rev. R.A. Torrey The church and socialism / Prof. Charles R. Erdman The fifteen books most indispensable for the minister or Christian worker Index of articles in the twelve volumes of The Fundamentalshttps://digitalcommons.biola.edu/the-fundamentals/1011/thumbnail.jp

The Fundamentals : a testimony to the truth (1917) Vol. 3

The biblical conception of sin / Rev. Thomas Whitelaw Paul\u27s testimony to the doctrine of sin / Prof. Charles B. Williams Sin and judgment to come / Sir Robert Anderson What Christ teaches concerning future retribution / Rev. William C. Procter The atonement / Prof. Franklin Johnson At-one-ment, by propitiation / Dyson Hauge The grace of God / C.I. Scofield Salvation by grace / Rev. Thomas Spurgeon The nature of regeneration / Thomas Boston Justification by faith / H.C.G. Moule The doctrines that must be emphasized in successful evangelism / L.W. Munhall Preach the word / Howard Crosby Pastoral and personal evangelism, or winning men to Christ one by one / Rev. John Timothy Stone The Sunday School\u27s true evangelism / Charles Gallaudet Trumbull The place of prayer in evangelism / Rev. R.A. Torrey Foreign missions, or world-wide evangelism / Robert E. Speer A message from mission / Rev. Charles A. Bowen What missionary motives should prevail? / Rev. Henry W. Frost Consecration / Rev. Henry W. Frost Is Romanism Christianity? / T.W. Medhurst Rome, the antagonist of the nation / Rev. J.M. Foster The true church / Bishop Ryle The testimony of foreign missions to the superintending providence of God / Arthur T. Pierson The purposes of the incarnation / Rev. G. Campbell Morgan Tributes to Christ and the Bible by brainy men not known as active Christianshttps://digitalcommons.biola.edu/the-fundamentals/1014/thumbnail.jp

Audiovisual multisensory integration

Over the last 50 years or so, a large body of empirical research has demonstrated the importance of a variety of low-level spatiotemporal factors in the multisensory integration of auditory and visual stimuli (as, for example, indexed by research on the ventriloquism effect). Here, the evidence highlighting the contribution of both spatial and temporal factors to multisensory integration is briefly reviewed. The role played by the temporal correlation between auditory and visual signals, stimulus motion, intramodal versus crossmodal perceptual grouping, semantic congruency, and the unity assumption in modulating multisensory integration is also discussed. Taken together, the evidence now supports the view that a number of different factors, both structural and cognitive, conjointly contribute to the multisensory integration (or binding) of auditory and visual information. © 2007 The Acoustical Society of Japan