Sentences with phrase «more of an academic publishing»

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A study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that, when asked to rate junior scientists based on scholarly accomplishments and job interview performance, academics in the traditionally male - dominated STEM fields rated female candidates as being more hireable than their equally qualified male applicants.

A professor of information engineering at the University of Cambridge, he's published more than 250 academic papers and in 2014 received a $ 750,000 Google Award for an artificial intelligence project.

Private money going to startups more than four years past their first funding round «has grown by a factor of 20 since 1992,» according to an academic paper published last year by the California Institute of Technology and Cornerstone Research.

Where copyright led to books being priced as luxury goods in the U.K., the threat of piracy forced German publishers to produce cheap editions for the masses alongside their premium - priced editions, resulting in a period that Höffner believes may have been the most lucrative ever for authors — he discovered, for example, that an obscure Berlin chemist earned more in royalties for a tract on how to tan leather than Mary Shelley did for writing Frankenstein — prompting more academics to publish their findings, and encouraging the spread of practical manuals in fields like medicine, engineering and agriculture.

And keep your eyes open: I'll be publishing another list of fiction favourites to empower women, a list for empowering young girls, and another one for the more scholarly / theological / academic folks among us in the next week or two!

The Australian Beverages Council, representing the local energy drinks industry, has responded to research published in the journal Academic Pediatrics from the Yale School of Public Health which links the consumption of energy drinks to a more likely risk of hyperactivity and inattention symptoms in middle - school children.

More than 40 heads of charities and leading academics specialising in family care today publish an unprecedented call on the Government to transform support for separated families.

Scientists from the University of Melbourne in Australia used a computer program to determine the number of men and women authors listed on more than 10 million academic papers in nearly 5,000 academic journals and about 120 arXiv.org subcategories, published from 2002 to 2016.

BN: Results that are novel are more likely to be published, and the primary currency of an academic scientist is a publication — a good publication record in prestigious journals helps you get a good academic job, funding and awards.

In an analysis published on December 7 in Clinical Infectious Diseases, scientists from Rutgers University, Harvard University, Yale University, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the NIH and other academic centers, industry and public health agencies say new diagnostic methods offer a better chance for more accurate detection of the infection from the Lyme bacteria.

AMSTERDAM — For more than 3 years, virologist Ron Fouchier has battled the Dutch government over a fundamental question in the balance between academic freedom and biosecurity: Did he need a government license to publish his hotly debated gain - of - function (GOF) studies on the H5N1 influenza strain?

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.)»

A paper published this year in JAMA Internal Medicine found that male academic physicians get an average of 8 percent more than females, regardless of specialty, years of experience or productivity, which translates to an average salary bump of about $ 20,000, although the extent of the disparity varies widely.

More were soon discovered, and 122 nonsense conference papers were ultimately retracted by Springer, the academic publishing giant based in Heidelberg, Germany, and by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, based in New York City.

Most critically, it doesn't adequately address the reuse rights needed for the public to do more than simply read individual articles,» says Heather Joseph, executive director of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC).

Prof. Patrinos has more than 160 publications in peer - reviewed scientific journals and textbooks, he is the Editor of the textbook Molecular Diagnostics, published by Academic Press, now in its 2nd edition, while serves as Communicating Editor for the prestigious peer - reviewed journal Human Mutation.

An interview published this week with NPR asks education professor Diane Schanzenbach of Northwestern University about her motivation to gather the research on academic redshirting in her recent article for Education Next «Is Your Child Ready for Kindergarten: «Redshirting» may do more harm than good,» which challenges Malcolm Gladwell's assertion that being among the oldest in one's peer group is always an advantage.

Support Slipping for Common Core, Especially Among Teachers, Poll Finds Education Week, 8/19/14 The poll of 5,000 adults, conducted this past spring by Education Next, a journal published by Stanford University's Hoover Institution, shows that more than two - thirds of adults support the idea of shared academic standards.

The Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning published both a program review of 80 social - emotional learning programs and more recent meta - analysis of 213 such programs.

It can also help students make significant gains in academic achievement — on average, a gain of 11 percentile points in reading and math, according to a 2011 review of more than 200 studies published in the journal Child Development.

A Mercury News investigation published in April revealed how the state's online charter schools run by Virginia - based K12 Inc., the largest for - profit charter operator in the country, have «a dismal record of academic achievement» but has won more than $ 310 million in state funding over the past dozen years.

But, the government is expected to release a consultation at the start of the next academic year, in September, where more details will be released, and then sample materials will be published in December.

And, if I hear of one more self - published person, with no academic or publishing credits whatsoever, who has no excuse whatsoever for presuming to give anyone advice, who has set up a fake seminar where they're offering «advice for writers,» (and, of course, mentioning their «book» every five seconds) I'm going to vomit.

Unfortunately, the world of academic publishing is even more notoriously difficult to break into than the world of trade publishing.

There's also the newly formed Author's Alliance, although their noble cause of furthering open access is more appropriate for non-fiction authors of academic publishing.

CN Times Books is the New York City - based U.S. subsidiary of Beijing MediaTime Book Co. LTD, a leading Chinese trade publisher that publishes more than 600 fiction and nonfiction titles per year, including books for children and titles of scholarly and academic interest.

The owner of Speculations Editing Services and Robisch Editorial Services (the academic branch of my business), I am a published author and independent editor with more than 20 years of experience in the publishing industry and more than 15 years of experience as a full - time, independent editor.

What has happened in the wake of this frustration at academic publishing is a number of companies have grown to meet this need for the individual consumer, often bypassing the school or institution altogether, and often creating a much more dynamic product for the learning consumer.

To do so, young people need to know about publishing, and the wide range of jobs on offer, and just how much the term «publishing» represents: consumer, academic, professional, educational, children's, apps and e-books and much more.

SUNY has partnered with textbook produce Kno to bring even more options to the academic landscape for college students this spring by working to digitize thousands of SUNY press titles.This collaboration means Kno now works with some of the largest university presses, including Indiana University Press, MIT Press, Oxford University Press, Princeton University Press, SUNY Press, University of Chicago Press, University of Nebraska Press, University of North Carolina Press, University Press of Mississippi, University of Virginia Darden Business Publishing, and Yale University Press.

What has happened in the wake of this frustration at academic publishing is a number of companies have grown to meet this need for the individual consumer, often bypassing the school or institution altogether,... [Read more...]

In «considering the hard - won lessons of the academic publishing journey,» our FutureBook 2015 programme this month was organised by Bookseller editor Philip Jones to place... Read more

It may seem as if they are maintaining academic integrity but they are more likely protecting themselves from the fact that they collect thousands of previously published essays from a number of sources, and a simple plagiarism check by a university would prove that your purchased paper is far from original.

«We're one of the few independent presses publishing academic books, an important role given that such books should be made more accessible to a wider audience.»

Just a bit over a year ago, I said goodbye to the academic world of publishing and jumped... [Read more...]

It shows how the academic researchers in this field are pressured to perform only research that helps the industry big shots and to refrain from doing research that would help millions to invest more effectively when publishing such research would undermine the industry's most cherished marketing slogans (the phrase «timing never works» has been repeated so many times that millions of investors assume that there MUST be research supporting the claim).

Video game accessibility is a much bigger, better explored topic because it fits more neatly into the usual academic publishing niches — it's a reasonable fusion of Ludology and Human Computer Interaction.

This group of portraits includes well - known figures such as playwright, actress, and author Alice Childress; the sociologist Horace R. Cayton, Jr.; the community activist Mercedes Arroyo; and the widely published academic Harold Cruse; alongside more anonymous individuals of a nurse, a ballet dancer, a taxi driver, a businessman, and a local kid who ran errands for Neel.

This group of portraits includes well - known figures such as playwright, actress, and author Alice Childress; the sociologist Horace R. Cayton, Jr.; the community activist Mercedes Arroyo; and the widely published academic Harold Cruse; alongside more anonymous individuals of a nurse, a ballet dancer, a taxi driver, a businessman, a local kid who ran errands for Neel, and other children and their families.

Her scholarly work has been commissioned and published in edited anthologies, academic journals and exhibition catalogues, including Exhibiting Craft and Design: Transgressing the White Cube Paradigm 1930 - present (Routledge 2017), Danica Maier: Grafting Propriety from Stitch to Drawn Line (Black Dog Books 2017), More Caught in the Act: Performance by Canadian Women (YYZ Books 2016), The Handbook of Textile Culture (Bloomsbury Academic 2015), the Journal of Modern Craft online, and Textile: Cloth and academic journals and exhibition catalogues, including Exhibiting Craft and Design: Transgressing the White Cube Paradigm 1930 - present (Routledge 2017), Danica Maier: Grafting Propriety from Stitch to Drawn Line (Black Dog Books 2017), More Caught in the Act: Performance by Canadian Women (YYZ Books 2016), The Handbook of Textile Culture (Bloomsbury Academic 2015), the Journal of Modern Craft online, and Textile: Cloth and Academic 2015), the Journal of Modern Craft online, and Textile: Cloth and Culture.

He said cheating often occurs because researchers are under intense pressure to publish, win awards, and raise more money each year just to keep their labs going, employ research assistants and provide their academic institutions with 40 - 50 % of each grant for «overhead.»

Not being academic, I haven't published so much, but I am easy to find in Google Scholar, and some of those papers were rather more influential than indicated by moderate citation counts.

Some deal more than others with the relevant legal issues and some, perhaps to justify their academic aspirations, spend time on the history and culture of publishing.

Robert, my thinking is that expanding their lists of quality practitioner texts was a way for the university presses to strengthen their bottom line and enable them to publish more strictly academic works than would otherwise be possible.

To others, the work of academics will be seen as an unwelcome challenge to the established order, i.e. still more back seat drivers, some without first hand publishing experience, engaged in second guessing the decision makers in an industry that is being overwhelmed by the forces of change.

A publishing business of which I am a director, Dunedin Academic Press, still aiming for brevity, requires around 10 books, 9 authors and over 1500 pages to describe more or less the same mythology, so my gratitude is due.

With more than 10 years of experience in academic publishing and research dissemination, she has supported many journals in their transition to digital publishing and Open Access.

In total, Slate has published more articles by legal academics than any law review, and because of the blog, probably more total words (I havenâ $ ™ t counted or anything â $ «Iâ $ ™ m just eyeballing) by law professors in the past year than any other publication.

Among other things, some terrific doctrinal scholarship is being published these days, although it is curious and deserving of notice that we seem to have returned so enthusiastically to doctrinal work even as the legal academy has hired more people trained in other academic disciplines.

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EARLE3407 Old Dobbin Road, Montgomery, Alabama 36116 - 1903Home Phone: [phone] Cell Phone: [phone] Fax: [phone] E-mail: [email protected] position managing legal discovery and document review with opportunity to assist attorneys with civil litigationBAR ADMISSIONAlabama State Bar, 1999LAW - RELATED EXPERIENCELaw Firm, AlabamaResearch Attorney for Special Projects, Mass Torts Department, November 2001 — February 2008 • Managed Multi-District Litigation (MDL) Document Depository (September 2002 to February 2008) o Reviewed more than 1 million pages of evidentiary documents for litigation purposes and for inclusion in electronic databaseso Coordinated document review assignments with attorneys at local depository and at other sites across the USo Retrieved, reviewed and coded documents in Concordance and Summation legal databaseso Prepared memoranda and spreadsheets providing detailed analysis of discovery materials • Aided attorneys and support staff with processing and preparation of personal injury claims and litigationo Conducted legal research and drafted pleadingso Conducted supplementary online research for additional documents and information pertinent to litigationo Assisted with preparation of correspondence to clients and referring attorneyso Contacted clients for additional information needed in case preparation, litigation, and potential settlementso Prepared and input case intakes and referrals into databaseLaw School, AlabamaStudent Intern, Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program (ADAP), August 1996 — June 1997 • Participated in law school clinical program under third - year law student practice rule (as authorized by Alabama Supreme Court) o Assisted attorneys and advocates in cases involving mentally ill patients confined to state mental health facilitieso Interviewed clients in person (at state facilities) and over the phoneo Worked with clients, attorneys, and social workers to investigate and resolve issues concerning involuntary confinement and treatmento Aided in legal research on an appellate brief submitted to the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (ruling granted in favor of our client) Faculty Research Assistant for Library Services, Bounds Law Library, March 1996 — June 1997 • Prepared research and teaching materials for law school faculty; worked 20 hours per week while matriculating 10 - 15 hours per semester) o Investigated copyright issues related to procuring and reproducing texts for academic useo Conducted legal research using WESTLAW, LEXIS and the InternetADDITIONAL RELEVANT EXPERIENCEManufacturing Company (MC), Montgomery, AlabamaAdministrative Assistant and Cost Analyst, Materials Purchasing Department, April 1999 — September 2001 • Assisted materials buyers in negotiating and preparing commodities contracts between raw materials suppliers and MC for manufacturing plants in the US and Mexicoo Assisted Legal Department at MC's corporate headquarters with coordination and preparation of documents for litigationo Notified and educated suppliers about MC's freight - on - board policy and its corresponding Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) provisions; result was the reduction of freight claims for both the company and its supplierso Prepared contracts and purchase orders for raw materials and capital projects involving plant maintenanceo Solicited price quotations from current vendors and established Excel spreadsheet format which simplified quote submission process and allowed MC to track and compare usage volumes and costs over timeo Prepared and analyzed cost reports used by materials buyers and production planners in purchasing decisions, including cost reductions, materials consolidation, and selection of vendorso Acted as liaison between vendors and the Purchasing, Transportation and Accounting Departments on issues concerning inbound freight, commercial carriers, and payment terms for commodities, resulting in reductions in freight costs and greater payment discounts for raw materialso Established online databases and printed directories for the Purchasing Department, allowing buyers to have easier and faster access to current vendor informationo Completed Year 2000 (Y2K) compliance project, which involved data collection and communication with MC's past, present, and potential materials suppliers and service providersNot - For - Profit Organization, AlabamaAdministrative Assistant, Combined Federal Campaign, September 1998 — January 1999 • Aided Campaign Director with 1998 Federal Campaigns (CFCs) in City 1 and City 2, which together generated nearly $ 700,000 for more than 1,000 local, national and international charitieso Prepared weekly reports on donations using WordPerfect, Microsoft Word, Excel and dBase IVo Wrote script for Talent Showcase at City 1's 1998 CFC Kickoffo Assisted Director with merger of the City 1 and City 2 CFCs in 1999Regional Bank, AlabamaAdministrative Assistant, Year 2000 (Y2K) Department, March — June 1998 • Worked with Vice President of Corporate Projects on short - term project for the bank's Y2K Departmento Analyzed and processed data on Y2K readiness for all branches of Bank throughout the southeastern USo Organized meetings for personnel of Banko Communicated with vendors of computer hardware, software, and office equipment to request information on Y2K complianceo Prepared compliance files for Federal Reserve auditso Prepared in - house memoranda and reports using Microsoft Word and ExcelRecord / Music Promotion Company, AlabamaRecord Pool Co-Founder; Office Manager, September 1990 — December 1991 • Co-founded record pool to enhance promotion of music in Alabama and the southeastern USo Procured and distributed records from major and independent labels for club, radio and mobile disc jockeyso Coordinated jointly sponsored promotional events with record companies, radio stations and clubso Designed, wrote, and published bi-weekly reports and brochures to inform the music industry of the progress and popularity of music and performers in the region, with specific focus on the Alabama music sceneMajor University, AlabamaGraduate Research Assistant, AUM Department of Marketing, June 1989 — August 1990 • Worked 13 - 20 hours per week as a research assistant to Marketing faculty while carrying a full course load in the MBA programo Analyzed consumer surveys used in academic researcho Assisted Conference Chairperson with coordination for Atlantic Marketing Association (AMA) annual meeting (October 1989) o Co-authored five - year index and classification of AMA Proceedings (published Fall 1991) EDUCATIONLaw School, AlabamaJuris Doctor (JD), 1997 • Scholarshipso Seybourn H. Lynne Scholarship, 1996 - 97o Dexter C. Hobbs Memorial Scholarship, 1995 - 96o E. W. Godbey Memorial Scholarship, 1994 - 95 • Honorso Who's Who Among American Law School Students, 1996 - 94o Arthur Davis Shores Award, 1997 • Activitieso Frederick Douglass Moot Court Team Manager, 1996 - 97 Southern Regional Competition, Second Place National Competition, Eighth Placeo John A. Campbell Moot Court Competition, Spring 1996o Black Law Students Association Delegate, BLSA National Convention, 1997 Co-Chairperson, Public Relations Committee, 1996 - 97 Chairperson, Public Relations Committee, 1995 - 96 BLSA President's Award, 1996 and 1997o American Bar Association, 1996 - 97 Entertainment and Sports Industries Forum Intellectual Property Section Law Student Divisiono LAWS Student Group Leader, 1995 - 96Major University, AlabamaMaster of Business Administration (MBA), 1990Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (B.S.B.A.), 1988 (Major: Marketing — Advertising and Promotion Track) • Honorso Dean's List • Activitieso National Student Advertising Competition Team, 1988 - 90 Seventh District Competition: Third Place, 1990o Marketing Club, 1987 - 90 Vice President — Career Development, 1988 - 89o Public Relations / Advertising (PR / AD) Club, 1988 - 90 Charter Member, 1988 Active in fund - raising and membership driveso Theater Guild, 1988 - 90 Screening Committee, 1989REFERENCESAvailable upon request