Partnership Direction

Fantuzzo, J. W., Coolahan, K., Weiss, A. (1997). Resiliency partnership-directed research Enhancing the social competencies of preschool victims of physical abuse by developing peer resources and community strengths. In D. Cicchetti S. Toth (Eds.), Developmental perspective on trauma Theory, research and intervention (pp. 463-514). Rochester, NY University of Rochester Press. 

We prepared our science advisors with training on how to interact effectively with teachers and students, and we developed an Education Resource Center where they could borrow both activity plans and equipment to help their teachers do interesting hands-on science activities in their classes. This resource center was stocked both with commercial educational materials, as well as selected surplus equipment. Computers turned out to be particularly popular items—we now loan out on an annual basis about 200 computers that are outmoded for our technical purposes, but that the schools are delighted to have. At the request of teachers, our science advisors have ended up doing many of the same things as the School Partnership participants. About 50% of them do at least some activities directly with students. Others provide help in understanding science content, coordinate access to the resource center, assist with science fairs, and provide support for teachers in a variety of other ways. 

When they cannot directly compete with conventional materials, the versatility of thermoplastics easily allows a partnership with them. Examples are numerous ... 

Whether there are any cost-effective, flexible pull mechanisms that can supplement the patent system, is, however, an open question. Below, I examine three proposals for pull incentive mechanisms. None of them is perfect. The question is whether any of them is likely to be worth investing the billions of dollars they would likely cost, diverting money away from direct research funding and public-private partnerships. 

Advocates of end-to-end systems often argue that nonprofit firms are less able to pick and develop winning drug candidates than their private-sector counterparts. Since many Private-Public Partnerships hire executives directly from private industry, this cannot be a matter of individual competence. If the effect exists at all, it must be a matter of incentives. 

We have presented the first method for directly imaging the position of functional tethers grafted onto the surface of a mesoporous material and, at the same time, validated a simple method by which one may direct the location of grafted functionality within mesoporous solids. This has been made possible by a strong partnership between supramolecular organometallic and solid state chemistry. The results presented now provide a foundation for the future examination of mesopore confinement effects on catalysis. 

In 1967, Walter Szarek returned to Queen s University as a faculty member, after a three-year absence in the United States, and was asked to direct J. K. s entire research group while J. K. was on sabbatical leave in Brazil and, subsequently, South Africa. This marked the beginning of the very close association and collaboration between J. K. and Walter Szarek, a partnership that continued until J. K. s death. The fruit of this close relationship was recorded in the numerous publications that ensued. These were primarily in the area of synthetic carbohydrate chemistry, and involved such topics as synthesis and... 

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