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 | | Behaviors less directly related to the research process itself ö such as sexual harassment or the embezzlement of grant funds ö are not generally considered to be research misconduct for the purpose of federal regulation.34 Often, serious incidents of misconduct do not resemble the offenses that have been defined by civil and criminal law. |
 | | In the most serious cases, active grants may be terminated and researchers may be debarred from receiving future federal funding.46 Debarment actions and lesser administrative sanctions are an efficient means of publicly condemning, punishing, and deterring scientific misconduct - especially in comparison to lengthy, expensive, and uncertain civil or criminal litigation. |
 | | Sharma, a researcher at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, submitted grant applications to National Institutes of Health (NIH) that he would later concede contained erroneous information.115 The statements at issue gave the impression that Sharma was in possession of research data that did not actually exist at the time the grant was submitted. |
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