During World War II, the U.S. government launched an unprecedented effort to mobilize science for war: the newly-established Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) entered thousands of R&D contracts with industrial and academic contractors, spending one to two orders of magnitude...

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, policymakers, researchers, and journalists have made comparisons to World War II. In 1940, a group of top U.S. science administrators organized a major coordinated research effort to support the Allied war effort, including significant investments in...

In this issue are included scientific articles which debate problems from social science, international relations, engineering and medical fields: security through competitive intelligence, effect of the mass media, nationalism - migration, Russian influence, international law system, the...

In this issue are included scientific articles which debate problems from social science fields, engineering sciences fields, legal sciences and medical sciences fields: the failure of liberalism, cost of life in Romania, Romania-Rusia, the myth of democracy, economic and political crises,...

There is growing public interest in alternatives to intellectual property including, but not limited to, prizes and government grants. We argue that there is no single best mechanism for supporting research. Rather, mechanisms can only be compared within specific creative environments. We...

In this issue are included scientific articles which debate problems from social science fields: a brief summary of the hospital for contagious diseases in craiova, multi-level governance, state - church relationship and religious context, nuclear safety, the new caliphate, role of stress...