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Pages 24-26

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... Three examples are the heavy reliance of mathematics leadership on foreign talent, the 20- to 30-year age difference between materials equipment in the US and that in several other countries, and the influence of managed care on clinical research. Although most information did not contradict prevailing views, it is unlikely that the results of each report could have been achieved as efficiently by any other technique, given the paucity of the data and information required for a traditional quantitative approach.
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... Multidisciplinary fields like materials science and engineering and immunology pose special challenges. For example, the immunology panel had to extract data from collaborative and international research; had to compare large enterprises with multiple smaller ones; and had to extract information on the specific field of immunology from related research fields in large, aggregate databases.
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... That concern has been expressed in connection with the life sciences. However, as the mathematics panel indicated in its report, the United States could drop from being "the world leader" in mathematics research unless additional investments were made in some key subfields and unless more US students chose to enter the field.
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