CORE--PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT

CDHA的项目开发核心为试验性研究项目提供适度的内部管理的启动资金，这些项目显示出产生更大项目的希望，例如R03或R01。教师时间和五名研究或项目助理均可获得支持。在后者中，三个将由CDHA基金资助，两个由研究生院资助。有时还提供额外的试点资金作为核心赠款的行政补充。在这个提案中，我们描述了四个有希望的项目，每个项目在中心更新的前两年各两个：爱德华·弗里斯提出了新的方法来加强对社会保障需求的随机预测。Nora Cate Schaeffer和Douglas Maynard将通过分析标准化采访协议的选定特征来寻求提高对老年人的调查采访的质量 本轮威斯康星州纵向研究的录音。詹姆斯·雷莫和拉里·邦帕斯将合作研究老年人离婚的发生率、来源和后果，这些研究将使用几项主要的社会和经济调查数据。Heather Urry和Richard Davidson将合作研究脑形态和功能之间的关系以及局部创伤愈合过程的持续时间 威斯康星州纵向研究的参与者。CDHA的试点研究提案由指导委员会进行内部审查。在第一个P30 GRANT周期获得任何支持的29个试点项目中，19个项目产生了提案，12个项目获得了外部资助。

CDHA's Program Development Core provides modest, internally administered start-up funds for pilot research projects that show promise of yielding larger projects, e.g., R03 or R01. Support is available for faculty time and for five research or project assistants. Of the latter, three will be supported by CDHA funds and two by the Graduate School. Additional pilot funds are sometimes available as administrative supplements to the Core grant. In this proposal, we describe four promising projects, two each in the first two years of the center renewal: Edward Frees proposes new methods to enhance stochastic forecasting of the demand for Social Security. Nora Cate Schaeffer and Douglas Maynard will seek to improve the quality of survey interviews with older adults by analyzing selected features of standardized interview protocols in recordings from the current round of the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study. James Raymo and Larry Bumpass will collaborate in studies of the incidence, sources, and consequences of divorce among older adults that will use data from several major social and economic surveys. Heather Urry and Richard Davidson will collaborate in a study of the relationship between brain morphology and function and duration of the wound-healing process among local participants in the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study. Proposals for pilot research at CDHA are reviewed internally by the Steering Committee. Of 29 pilot projects receiving any support in the first P30 gr ant cycle, 19 yielded proposals, and 12 were funded extramurally.