Ethics in International Affairs IRL4527 L, Adibayeva Aigul

a process for randomly assigning subjects to different treatment groups in a clinical trial or other biomedical experiment.

an experiment, such as a clinical trial, in which subjects are randomly assigned to receive an experimental intervention or a control.

1. A type of law developed and implemented by a government agency. 2. The process of regulating or controlling some activity.

an agreement between two institutions in which one institution agrees to oversee human subjects research for the other institution for a particular study or group of studies.

in human subjects research, providing financial compensation to subjects.

the ability for an independent researcher to achieve the same results of an experiment, test, or study, under the same conditions. A research paper should include information necessary for other scientists to reproduce the results. Reproducibility is different from repeatability, in which researchers repeat their own experiments to verify the results. Reproducibility is one of the hallmarks of good science.

A systematic attempt to develop new knowledge.

 See Compliance.

1. Ethical conduct in research. 2. The study of ethical conduct in research. See Responsible conduct of research.

an institution, such as a university or government or private laboratory, which is involved in conducting research.