The funding body is due to contact higher education institutions in the UK, some of which already have online study facilities, asking them for feedback on the plans.
However the Cruise Scotland study said dockside facilities and the tours on offer needed to be improved.
The Inter-American Development Bank has commissioned a study of long-term care facilities in Uruguay, Argentina and Chile.
And in a study of people in publicly funded drug treatment facilities, men outnumbered women by more than two to one.
Some universities already provide more up-market facilities, such as superior meeting and study areas, for MBA students.
The study, which appeared in the Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities, notes that some bridges are particularly plagued by problems.
An October study by the American Small Manufacturers Coalition found that approximately 45% of manufacturers operate or partner in one or more production facilities outside the U.S. The study was based on a survey of 824 manufacturers, 87 percent of which were privately held.
The study, which is to include a business plan and will identify facilities and possible tenants, should be completed at the end of the year.
One such study, funded by the National Science Foundation, was conducted in senior residential facilities near Indiana's Purdue University.
At the end of the study, 55% of those who had six interviews plus 30 vouchers entitling them to free leisure facilities had increased their levels of physical activity compared to 35% of those who only received the chats.
The study will look at detailed health histories of hundreds of thousands of patients who live near wells and other facilities that are producing natural gas from the same Marcellus Shale formation that New York would tap.
The Geisinger study will look at detailed health histories of hundreds of thousands of patients who live near wells and other facilities that are producing natural gas from the same Marcellus Shale formation that New York would tap.
She also assisted in the establishment of a network of university-affiliated facilities and intellectual disabilities research centers at major medical schools across the United States, including centers for the study of medical ethics at Harvard and Georgetown universities in 1971.
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