Modern industrial society grants little status to old people. In fact, such a society has a system of built-in obsolescence. There is no formal system for continuing our education throughout our life in order to keep up with rapidly changing knowledge. When our education and job skills have ...
The answer: almost certainly Stanford, which receives significantly more funding via federal grants, tax breaks for donors and forgone taxes on the institution’s endowment. To be sure, as Robert Kelchen, an expert on higher ed finance and head of the University of Tennessee’s Education ...
His story:Sam Bradley’s passion for history began when he was in a predominately white high school. He took on leadership roles there and in college by becoming the first Black high school class president and leading the minority student alliance group in college and becoming a ...
on intercollegiate sports (to stimulate alumni donations), and on faculty “stars” who can attract research grants and impress parents and alumni. Other consequences include light teaching loads for faculty stars as a form of untaxed compensation, student pandering (beyond provision...
As beliefs can be shaped by education [34, 35, 39], it is reasonable to suggest that the following reasons may account for this; first, there may be lack of resources and opportunities to access contemporary evidence-based clinical guidelines in the more geographically-remote regions. It has ...
The lengthening of this training period is reflected in the aging pool of recipients of R01 grants, the key funding mechanism for biomedical science laboratories, administered by the National Institutes of Health. The average age of first-time recipients hascrept up to 42, while the proportion of...
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” was initiated to support one of the main objectives of IYC 2011: the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to Mme Curie. Generously supported by the American Chemical Society (ACS) as one of its IYC 2011 Challenge Grants the goals of the project ...
This work was supported by grants from the Instituto de Salud Carlos III-FEDER (PI15/00552) and from the Network for Research into Healthcare in Chronic Diseases, REDISSEC (RD16/0001/0002). These funding bodies did not have a role in the design of the study, in the collection, analysis...
This research aims to examine the impact of virtual environments interface on the exploration process, construction of cognitive maps, and performance of orientation tasks in real spaces by users who are blind. The study compared interaction with identic