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The potential of political science to contribute to debates over public issues has long been hindered by tensions in the discipline's goals of achieving scientific rigor while also serving America's democracy. Those tensions have been exacerbated by recent trends in American higher education working to separate research and teaching activities and to rely more on external donors to finance both. Collectively these trends suggest that political science faces growing pressures to steer away from unpopular topics in both research and teaching, and to abandon the traditional teacher/scholar model of academic careers. It is advisable for the discipline both to seek more actively to promote engagement between different forms of political science scholarship in order to achieve cumulative knowledge that is pertinent to important political issues, and to preserve and strengthen its commitments to effective teaching about politics.

This article examines competing strategies for supporting and utilizing applied social science and the policy sciences in public decisions and program operations. It argues that tension and conflict are the normal, expected state of affairs between decision makers and the social science and policy science communities. This is so because of very different strategic perspectives governing the scientific standing, decision utility, and political "morality"of applied social research and policy research. The article suggests conflict can be dampened, but never completely eliminated, by two things: (1) sequential research designs that simultaneously produce both partial scientific truths and information useful to decision makers, and (2) more attention to overall quality control and utilization possibilities. However, such improvements require changes in the incentive and value systems of social scientists, policy scientists, and decision makers. The engineering of change m these three communities is itself a formidable unsolved problem.

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to advise the reader of non‐governmental efforts to help form national/international science policies, using as a highlight the endeavor of the Citizen Science Foundation.Design/methodology/approachThe approach is journalistic: science policy is explained, what is had led to in innovative research, what specialized yet non‐official groups are doing to supplement official science policy, especially the ethical implications of science leading to sometimes controversial technology.FindingsThe efforts of public participants (societies, associations) in this line are explained, with particular consideration for the ethics of the new biotechnologies. A brief history of the origins of science policy leads to the citing of multiple, current but non‐official initiatives to make new research ethical, environmental and in the service of humankind.Originality/valueThis is a topic seldom seen in even interdisciplinary media, establishing thereby an originality of its own. The text is accessible to non‐scientists. The topic has not previously been treated in foresight.

19 Autism Spectrum Disorder20 The Suicidal Student; 21 Response to Survivors of Campus Sexual Assault; 22 Brief and Medium-Term Psychosocial Therapies at Student Health Centers; 23 Innovation, Technology, and Student Well-Being; Part IV Fostering Mental Health for Distinct Student Populations; 24 First-Generation College Students; 25 Students of Color; 26 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer/Questioning Students; 27 Transgender Students; 28 Student-Athlete Mental Health; 29 Military and Veteran Students; 30 Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Fellows

Introduction & overview of malaria and plasmodium / Virander S. Chauhan, Chetan E. Chitnis, Deepak Gaur -- Exoerythrocytic development of plasmodium parasites / Volker T. Heussler, Annika Rennenberg, and Rebecca R. Stanway -- Molecular basis of erythrocyte invasion by plasmodium merozoites / Deepak Gaur, Chetan E. Chitnis, Virander S. Chauhan -- The biology of malaria transmission / Robert E. Sinden -- Comparative and functional genomics of malaria parasites / Martine M. Zilversmit, Sittiporn Pattaradilokrat, and Xin-zhuan Su -- Gene regulation : new insights and possible intervention strategies / Artur Scherf, Nicholas A. Malmquist, Rafael M. Martins, Shruthi S. Vembar, and Jose-Juan Lopez-Rubio -- Molecular genetic approaches to malaria research / Brendan Elsworth, Mauro F. Azevedo, Brendan S. Crabb, and Paul R. Gilson -- Transcriptomics and proteomics / Archna P. Gupta, Zbynek Bozdech, and Peter R. Preiser -- The biochemistry of plasmodium falciparum : an updated overview / Hagai Ginsburg -- Signaling in malaria parasites / Pushkar Sharma, and Sudhir Kumar -- Membrane transport proteins as therapeutic targets in malaria / Sanjay A. Desai, Kempaiah Rayavara, Paresh Sharma, Sayeed K. Syed, Wang Nguitragool, and Praveen Balabaskaran Nina -- The proteolytic repertoire of malaria parasites / Puran Singh Sijwali, and Philip J. Rosenthal -- Development of medicines for the control and elimination of malaria / Jeremy N. Burrows, and Timothy N.C. Wells -- Antimalarial drug resistance / Naman K. Shah, and Neena Valecha -- Epidemiology of plasmodium falciparum malaria / Alberto L. García-Basteiro, Quique Bassat, and Pedro L. Alonso -- Malaria pathogenesis / Bronner P. Gonzalves, Michal Fried, and Patrick E. Duffy -- Host genetics / Thomas N. Williams -- The immune response in mild and severe malaria : two sides of the same coin / Michael Waisberg, Peter D. Crompton, Louis H. Miller, and Susan K. Pierce -- Progress in development of malaria vaccines / Chetan E. Chitnis, Deepak Gaur, and Virander S. Chauhan -- Plasmodium vivax : insights on burden and patho-biology / Ivo Mueller, Quique Bassat, Marcus V.G. Lacerda, and Hernando A. del Portillo.

6. Complications of TB and TB-control EffortsBiological Complications of TB; Population-specific Complications of TB; Systemic Complications; 7. Institutional Actors on the Global Scene; The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria (Global Fund); The World Health Organization's Global TB Programme; Stop TB Partnership; International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (Union); KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation; Direct U.S. Government Support for Control of Global TB; 8. TB in the United States Reflects the Global TB Burden; 9. Overarching Challenges; 10. Closing Comment.

Quantitative Research Methods for Political Science, Public Policy and Public Administration for Undergraduates: 1st Edition With Applications in R is an adaption of Quantitative Research Methods for Political Science, Public Policy and Public Administration (With Applications in R). The focus of this book is on using quantitative research methods to test hypotheses and build theory in political science, public policy and public administration. This new version of the text omits large portions of the original text that focused on calculus and linear algebra, expands and reorganizes the content on the software system R and includes guided study questions at the end of each chapter. ; https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-oer/1004/thumbnail.jpg

How do Norwegian migration and diversity researchers experience and maneuver participation in public debate? And do their experiences and strategies fit with Michael Burawoy's image of Norwegian social science and with his model of public sociology? In this article, the concept of public sociology is expanded to public social science, encompassing communication of research not just from sociology but social science in general. Semi‐structured interviews with 31 Norwegian migration and diversity scholars from 10 academic institutions about their experiences of, and views on, public research communication constitute the empirical material. The article concludes that Burawoy is right about the relatively high participation in public debate among social scientists in Norway. And his ideal‐typical distinction between four types of sociology is helpful in analyzing how researchers relate differently to the science‐public interface. Yet the results indicate that his perspective on public sociology is overly optimistic and not sufficiently attuned to the normativity already attached to highly politicized issues in public debate.