Research Priorities for Airborne Particulate Matter III. Early Research Progress (2001) / Chapter Skim
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2. Evaluating Implementation and Progress of Research
2. Evaluating Implementation and Progress of Research
Pages 37-46
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The evaluation effort should help to ensure that the PM research program provides quantitative guidance on key issues, such as the dose-response relationships of PM and the association of PM characteristics with health effects. It should also help to ensure that the PM research program provides qualitative guidance on some topics, such as physiological mechanisms of PM toxicity and atmospheric processes that lead to airborne-particle formation.
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Where possible and appropriate, the committee applied quantitative indicators to evaluate progress in implementing PM research, but most of the indicators were qualitative and were based on professional judgment. Research-Outcome Criteria The first three evaluation criteria guided the development of the committee's research portfolio, including recommended research topics, estimated budgets, and approximate periods for conducting research (see Table ~ .31.
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Adequacy of addressing specific potential characteristics of PM and other factors that appear to be involved in PM-inciuced health effects. Usefulness of study results for forming hypotheses for future studies and for helping to build new research capacity and skills that might be valuable for addressing future questions about PM and other air pollutants.
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Usefulness of results in defining adverse effects and susceptible subpopulations. Usefulness of results in informing decisions concerning the setting and implementation of standards, including all four elements of a standard: Indicator the specific measurement (for example, mass, chemical form, or size fraction, such as PM2 5)
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This criterion is highly pertinent to the effective involvement of science managers during the planning and funding of scientific research. The success ofthe PM research program ciepends heavily on the ability of government and extramural scientists in a variety of institutions to collaborate across disciplines and organiza
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postproject analyses to fit the various pieces of the research puzzle together to provicle timely guidance and feedback for achieving scientific anti decisionmaking value. Performance indicators include the following:
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Planning to design and coordinate research projects within EPA and between EPA and other institutions and to include relevant activities from other research programs, and use of planning to address the process by which needed results will be interpreted and used as they become available. Speed and effectiveness of evaluation of new information and its incorporation into decisionmaking.
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Thus, the committee's evaluation represents an interim review of the PM research program anti is subject to update and mollification as additional data become available. Also, because of such constraints, the committee did not attempt to determine if any changes should be made to the resource estimates of the research portfolio.
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The committee examined published reports and written descriptions of ongoing research projects to sort relevant studies into appropriate research topics within the committee's research portfolio. Some studies were found to be relevant to more than one topic.
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and EPA for the next steps are development of procedures for regularly updating and improving the accuracy of the entries and development of a mechanism for tracking research results that emerge from the projects under way.
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