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- Research Data and materials - Research or scholarly data means data or materials that are original derivatives of research or scholarly activities generated during the course of research or scholarly activity collected through various processes including, but not limited to data collected through observations, interventions, interactions, surveys, chart reviews, interviews, case reports, sample data, research experiments, data collected through instruments, chemical structures, chromatograms, images, charts and graphs, samples, materials, simulations and modeling in engineering and education, performance engineering, 3D models, data mining, data analysis that are recorded in laboratory note books notebooks or in electronic format.
- Investigator - Principal Investigator (PI), co-principal investigator, co-investigators and any other University personnel (including faculty, non-faculty employees, residents, postdoctoral trainees and students), visiting scientists, visiting scholars who, in the course of their association with the University are or will be responsible for the design, conduct, administration, collaboration, analysis and/or generating data and materials, funded by external sponsors or university's internal funds or proposed for funding by any sponsor, or of unsponsored research or training activities.
- Records - include recorded information of any kind and in any form including writings, drawings, graphs, charts, images, prints, photographs, microfilms, audio and video recordings, data and data compilations, and electronic media, including e-mail.
- Research - A systematic investigation, study or experiment designed to develop or contribute to generalizable knowledge or validation in all areas of basic and clinical sciences, behavioral sciences, social sciences, engineering, material sciences, mathematics and other scholarly activities.
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