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12. Recommendations II: Strengthening Physics Research - Partnerships, Federal Science Agencies, and Physics Information
Pages 168-172

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... National laboratories are a resource of enormous capability for the United States. They can cross disciplinary boundaries, serve scientists from universities and industry, and address problems of national importance.
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... Recommendation 6. The federal government, universities and their physics departments, and industry should encourage mutual interactions and partnerships, including industrial liaison programs with universities and national laboratories; visitor programs and adjunct faculty appointments in universities; and university and national laboratory internships and sabbaticals in industry.
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... Peer Review The federal government supports scientific research for the broad goal of general societal good and for specific programmatic goals. Predicting which researchers and research projects will best accomplish these goals can never be perfect.
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... The peer review advisory process for the allocation of federal government support for scientific research has served our nation well over many decades and is a model worldwide for government investment in research. The peer review process should be maintained as the principal factor in determining how federal research funds are awarded.
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... It should continue to do so, promoting the use of electronic methods and asserting its preeminent role in the processes of peer review and validation of research results. Recommendation 9.
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