Sentences with phrase «by academic field»

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The ballot of nominees for the Edison Awards ™ was judged by a panel of more than 3,000 leading business executives including past award winners, academics and leaders in the fields of product development, design, engineering, science and medical.

As an academic field, economics is owned by multinationals, hedge funds, Wall Street and the like.

[6] At the academic level, the field of New Testament studies has shown its sensitivity to various theories emerging from diverse fields by wrestling with the challenges issuing from such theories.

It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.

However, the 2015 - 16 academic and athletic year was by far Robards» greatest on the playing fields.

The award recognizes the school in the Big East with the best performances by their student athletes in academics and citizenship in addition to success on the various fields of play.

As a neuroscientist, and and a proponent of Waldorf Education, I seek evidence - based support for the principles of this education system, and I am particularly intrigued by evidence from brain research, the academic field I chose.

The term «Gifted» is defined by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act as Students, children, or youth who give evidence of high achievement capability in areas such as intellectual, creative, artistic, or leadership capacity, or in specific academic fields, and who need services and activities not ordinarily provided by the school in order to fully develop those capabilities.

The Professional Education Committee has created an AT Teaching Tips video series to recognize and share innovative teaching and learning ideas by academic professionals in the field of athletic training.

The forum brings together scholars from a range of different fields — including political science, history, law and literature — to supplement the horse - race coverage provided by political journalism and showcase academic research.

First, it appointed in 2009 a seven - member Constitutional Committee comprising mostly academics from a range of fields, including law, literature, and science, thus implicitly acknowledging that the constitution is not exclusively, and not even principally, a legal document, but primarily a social compact, a political declaration that supersedes ordinary legislation by virtue of the fact that the people are superior to Parliament.

To facilitate more complex analysis by academic researchers and the media, the site has more options to export data, and significantly more fields of data available.

ENDS Notes to Editors UK Alcohol duty context For a short video summary of the issues around alcohol pricing, please visit: https://vimeo.com/191959217 Following heavy lobbying from the alcohol industry, the last four Budgets have seen real terms cuts in alcohol duty Alcohol is 60 % more affordable than it was in 1980 — the alcohol duty escalator, introduced in 2008, which ensured that duty rose above inflation, helped mitigate this trend, but this progress has reversed since the duty escalator was scrapped in 2013 In real terms, spirits duty has halved, and wine duty fallen by a quarter since 1978 - 9 The Government estimates suggest that the duty cuts since 2013 will cost the Exchequer # 2.9 billion over four years The University of Sheffield estimated that an additional 6,500 people would be hospitalised each year as a result of the alcohol duty cuts in 2015 The report The report was peer reviewed by academic experts the fields of economics, public health and public policy prior to publication.

Duncan Smith's calculations will be viewed with caution by academics working in this field.

Most academics in the sciences contribute to their fields by building research groups, populated with staff and students.

NSF, primary supporter of academic basic research in most non-biomedical fields, is also a winner, with 4.8 percent more to spend this year than it had in FY 1994, aided by a significant increase in last year's appropriations cycle.

The fact that AI is a young field also works in China's favor, argues Chen Yunji, by encouraging a burgeoning academic effort that has put China within striking distance of the United States, long the leader in AI research.

Published material in professional publications, written by others about the foreign scientist?s work in his / her academic field;

«Academic field» is defined by INS as «a body of specialized knowledge offered for study at an accredited United States university or institution of higher education.»

Evidence of the foreign scientist?s authorship of scholarly books or articles published by scholarly journals with an international circulation in the academic field.

Like many undergrads in science fields, Cindy Wu was intrigued by an academic career in research.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is known for its scholarly involvement in fields like oceanography and the weather, but one program seeks to increase minority participation in the marine, environmental, and atmospheric sciences by offering internships and academic courses in these fields.

Her candidacy was helped, she believes, by the fact that her employers valued her time in more than one academic research field, which gave her a rich network of experts — and expertise — to tap into for this role.

First, by comparing the number of Ph.D. graduates in a field each year to the number of people in faculty jobs in those fields — both using U.S. data — we can estimate what proportion ends up in academic careers.

A report released by the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee of the U.K. Parliament on Thursday calls on universities and the government to review academic career paths and find ways to level the playing field for women.

Academic: includes lectures by international leaders in the different fields of science diplomacy (energy, environment, climate, water, global health, nuclear nonproliferation, space, etc.), exclusive online learning tools, interactive case studies, and experiential learning through role - playing exercises and simulations.

Such rules include restrictions set up by the Department of Commerce and the State Department that prohibit the export of certain items, the hiring of foreign nationals to work in dual - use fields such as aerospace or biotechnology, or the sharing of information through academic papers or other means.

Previous work experience, an ability to work outside your degree field and a willingness to work overseas were at least as important as academic qualification in getting a job, so some new graduates would choose to brighten up their lives and employment prospects by «doing a year abroad».

FACES: Diversifying Engineering and Science by R. Arnette, 20 May 2005 The Facilitating Academic Careers in Engineering and Science (FACES) program is designed to significantly increase the number of African - American students receiving doctoral degrees in engineering and science fields.

Few U.S. college students have the necessary academic background to transfer into a STEM field, experts say, and many women and minority students who want to pursue STEM degrees are said to be frozen out by a chilly climate.

It elicits the best ideas and best work from highly motivated scientists because it chooses the grantees through a competitive system of merit rankings done by peer committees composed of academic experts in each field who serve as part - time judges.

Another way of pinning down high - profile MS academics is by flicking through a publication you will find in your library, Current Research in Britain, and a search on the Internet should come up with companies working in the field.

In a new study published in Nature, researchers in these two academic fields have joined forces at the University of Pennsylvania to solve an essential problem of how languages evolve: determining whether language changes occur by random chance or by a selective force.

Last month activists opposed to genetically modified food rattled academic scientists working in that field by submitting requests for their correspondence under state open records laws.

For the majority of scientists who won't get tenure - track positions — and may not want them — Research Universities states that the great need is to «better position new PhDs for the careers they will have by providing more information about career options and by providing opportunities to acquire, in addition to the knowledge of one's field, skills that are useful for academic positions (teaching, grant writing, publishing, presentations) and positions in government, business and non-profits (oral and written communication, project management, regulatory compliance, business ethics and innovation.)»

Second, biomedical scientists are considerably older than their peers in similar fields by the time they acquire a permanent academic position — in the increasingly rare event that they acquire one at all.

The peer review process for research published in academic journals helps verify that the methods and conclusions have been evaluated by experts in the field and meets rigorous standards for accuracy.

Text mining of more than 10 million academic papers by Luke Holman, Devi Stuart - Fox and Cindy Hauser identifies those fields of science that will retain a highly imbalanced gender ratio for many years to come.

National Center for Medical Information and Knowledge (NCMIK) Support easier utilization of health and medical information by establishing a data sharing system built upon the professional and academic information that covers medical science fields and the government's research outcomes.

Offered by the Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health, the Global Health Scholarship Program awards full - tuition scholarships to Master of Public Health or Master of Health Science students with extraordinary academic achievements and potential to contribute to the field of global health.

The graduates use these collaborations as the basis of a PhD programme of study and are supported by senior academic members of staff, all internationally - recognised experts in their fields.

They were selected on the basis of academic merit from a field of candidates nominated by university faculty nationwide.

David Dean, director of the Physics Division and ORNL Isotope Program, was nominated by the AAAS section on physics for «distinguished contributions to the field of nuclear theory, particularly for development and application of innovative computational techniques and for academic leadership and public service.»

For David Habin Song, MD, MBA, academic chair of the department of plastic surgery at Georgetown University School of Medicine and MedStar Health physician executive director for plastic surgery, the field of plastic surgery means saving limbs damaged by diabetes and using the most advanced techniques to help women who have had their breasts removed during cancer treatment.

We support the work of outstanding academics in several fields, by contributing to their research program.

Of course, you may have tried this and it may not have worked; in that case I'm useless to you, since I'm just a guy that has read the books and some of the research, but my interest is far from professional and neither is it backed by any sort of academic degree in the field.

The lab, led by a team of five PhDs with expertise in the fields of psychology, sociology and human relations, reflects eHarmony's academic roots.

The unique online dating site was developed by two columbia university students frustrated by the difficulty of meeting students in other academic fields.

It is a field enriched by active discussion group lists like Kinema Club (6) which reach out for numerous motivated students of Japanese cinema worldwide, and, no less importantly, by the fact that there are more academic positions held by Japanese film specialists than ever before.

Recently, the availability of low - cost editing platforms has also enabled the creation of a diverse — and now rapidly developing — videographic field, exemplified in its academic aspect by the award - winning journal [in] Transition.