47 research outputs found
Blog: Recognizing Reviews for Grant Applications Using ORCID - An Interview with Jason Gush, Royal Society Te Apārangi
No full textWe continue our Peer Review Week celebrations in this interview with the New Zealand Royal Society Te Apārangi’s Jason Gush, who tells us about their work to implement ORCID’s peer review functionality for Marsden Fund review panelists
ORCID Peer Review Week 2018 Webinar: Asserting Peer Review with the NZ ORCID Hub
No full textTo celebrate Peer Review Week 2018, ORCID hosted two webinars about how ORCID is helping increase recognition for peer review. These slides were presented by Jason Gush (Royal Society Te Apārangi) at the Asia-Pacific webinar on 2018.09.14.A full recording can be found at https://doi.org/10.23640/07243.7087169</div
The effect of public funding on research output: the New Zealand Marsden Fund
No full textThe Marsden Fund is the premiere funding mechanism for blue skies research in New Zealand. In 2014, $56 million was awarded to 101 research projects chosen from among 1222 applications from researchers at universities, Crown Research Institutes and independent research organizations. This funding mechanism is similar to those in other countries, such as the European Research Council.
This research measures the effect of funding receipt from the New Zealand Marsden Fund using a unique dataset of funded and unfunded proposals that includes the evaluation scores assigned to all proposals. This allows us to control statistically for potential bias driven by the Fund’s efforts to fund projects that are expected to be successful, and also to measure the efficacy of the selection process itself. We find that Marsden Funding does increase the scientific output of the funded researchers, but that there is no evidence that the final selection process is able to meaningfully predict the likely success of different proposals
U.S. Interagency Coordination on Countering Violent Extremism Abroad
No full textCVE is complex. It requires combatting the narratives and ideology of many extremist groups around the globe, constructing environments with appealing alternatives to extremism, and most importantly, sensitivity to the variety of circumstances in which CVE takes place to effectively battle the root causes of extremism. Constructing a complete CVE effort thus requires a great variety of skills, coordinated to efficient implementation. Despite notional commitment, U.S. CVE abroad lacks interagency coordination. JIATF-S offers a strong model of interagency coordination, from which lessons may be applied to the formation of an interagency CVE effort. Interagency coordination would bring extensive expertise and resources to bear on CVE operations
BLOG: All About the New Zealand ORCID Hub
No full textThe ORCID New Zealand consortium has enabled ORCID adoption on a national scale by implementing the NZ ORCID Hub, a simple-to-use platform that enables consortium members to easily share information into their researchers’ ORCID records. They recently released a video about the Hub - learn more in this guest post by Jason Gush and Jill Mellanby of consortia lead organization, Royal Society Te Apārangi
In vitro biosynthetic studies of the bryostatins, anti-cancer agents from the marine bryozoan Bugula neritina.
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National ORCID Strategy New Zealand
No full text"National ORCID Strategy New Zealand" was presented at the 2019 South Africa ORCID Workshop on November 12, 2019
Messianic movements and the sacralization of the territory
No full textThis article focuses on contemporary Messianic Judaism. The author deals particularly with the Chabad and Gush Emunim movements, which have established many settlements in the West Bank, Sinai Peninsula, Gaza Strip. and Golan Heights. These settlements not only satisfy a vital need for living space but are also the expression of strong Messianic tension. This tension produces a mundus imaginalis (Corbin), the boundaries of which come between heaven and earth, betweenthe biblical contours of the Promised Land and the harsh reality of a territory marked by war. The object of analysis is the toponymic politics developed by these Messianic movements in order to sacralize the territory in view of the coming of the Messiah.This article focuses on contemporary Messianic Judaism. The author deals particularly with the Chabad and Gush Emunim movements, which have established many settlements in the West Bank, Sinai Peninsula, Gaza Strip, and Golan Heights. These settlements not only satisfy a vital need for living space but are also the expression of strong Messianic tension. This tension produces a mundus imaginalis (Corbin), the boundaries of which come between heaven and earth, between the biblical contours of the Promised Land and the harsh reality of a territory marked by war. The object of analysis is the toponymic politics developed by these Messianic movements in order to sacralize the territory in view of the coming of the Messiah
INFRARED ABSORPTION IN SOLID ORTHO-ENRICHED HYDROGEN
No full textAuthor Institution: McLennan Physical Laboratories, University of Toronto; Department of Physics, University of British ColumbiaAbsorption in the region from to (the fundamental vibrational band) has been recorded for the case of solid 92% orthohydrogen. At temperatures below the hcp-fcc phase transition part of the absorption is associated with the creation of ``spin-wave'' excitations which correspond to the propagation of disturbances in the state of orientational order of the ortho molecules
The effect of public funding on research output: the New Zealand Marsden Fund
No full textWe estimate the impact of participating in the NZ Marsden Fund on research output trajectories, by comparing the subsequent performance of funded researchers to those who submitted proposals but were not funded. We control for selection bias using the evaluations of the proposals generated by the grant selection process. We carry out the analysis in two data frames. First we consider the researcher teams behind 1263 second-round proposals submitted 2003- 2008, and look at the post-proposal publication and citation performance of the team as a whole, as a function of pre-proposal performance, the ranking of the proposal by the panel, and the funding. This estimation does not deal with individual researchers’ multiple proposals and funding over time. To disentangle these effects, we consider the 1500 New Zealand researchers who appeared on any of these proposals, and estimate a model predicting annual individual performance as a function of previous performance, recent proposal activity, ranking of any recent proposals, and funding received through recent proposals. Overall, we find that funding is associated with a 6-15% increase in publications and a 22-26% increase in citation-weighted papers for research teams. For individuals, funding is associated with a 3-5% increase in annual publications, and a 5-8% increase in citation-weighted papers for 5 years after grant; however, the lag structure and persistence of this effect post-grant is difficult to pin down. Surprisingly, we find no systematic evidence that the evaluation of proposals by the Marsden system is predictive of subsequent success. We conclude that the Marsden Fund is modestly successful in increasing scientific performance, but that the selection process does not appear to be effective in discriminating among second-round proposals in terms of their likely success
