New Arguments for a pure lottery in Research Funding: A Sketch for a Future Science Policy Without Time-Consuming Grant Competitions

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Nancy Cartwright: Understanding and misunderstanding randomized controlled trials

Nancy Cartwright is Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, University of Durham and at the University of California, San Diego ABSTRACTRCTs are valuable tools whose use is spreading i

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Simulated epidemics in an empirical spatiotemporal network of 50,185 sexual contacts

2011. PLoS Comp. Bio. 7(3):e1001109. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1001109 Abstract Sexual contact patterns, both in their temporal and network structure, can influence the spread of sexually transmitted inf

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