Successful APA Sponsored Program Continues To Attract Ethnic-Minorities Into The Biomedical Sciences; Receives New $1.6 Million Grant: 14 Educational Institutions Across U.S. Participate to Increase the Number of Minorities in the Biomedical Research Field

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
Biomedical Research ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Biomedical Sciences

Welcome Note from Editor-in-Chief

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Prof. Dr. Anna Maria Lavezzi
Keyword(s):  
Biological Sciences ◽  
Biomedical Research ◽  
Cell Biology ◽  
Biomedical Science ◽  
Process Time ◽  
Biomedical Sciences ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Health Initiatives ◽  
Science Domain

It is with great pleasure that I write this editorial to welcome you to the first issue of this new International journal, “Pakistan Biomedical Journal” (PBMJ). The topics covered by the journal are certainly broad and interesting. Biomedical science is a collection of applied sciences that help us understand, research, and innovate within the _eld of healthcare. It includes disciplines like molecular biology, clinical virology, bioinformatics, and biomedical engineering, among others. It's designed to apply the biological sciences to advance not only individual health but also the area of public health. Biomedical Research can help health professions better understand things like the human body and cell biology, making advances in our understanding of epidemics, health initiatives, and human health in the age of longer life expectancy. It aids our understanding of infectious disease and provides research opportunities into some of our most troubling health issues. The journal will continue to publish high quality clinical and biomedical research in health and disease later in life. Peer review will remain a vital component of our assessment of submitted articles. I am very happy to have a team of excellent editors and editorial board members from the top international league covering in depth the related topics. They will ensure the highest standards of quality for the published manuscripts and, at the same time, keep the process time as short as possible. We hope to bring best researches in the _eld of biomedical sciences that may serve as a guideline in health awareness, understanding the mechanisms and its management in future. We definitely look forward to receiving your excellent studies to making PBMJ synonymous with high quality in the biomedical science domain.

scholarly journals Are the biomedical sciences ready for synthetic biology?

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-31
Author(s):  
Maxwell S. DeNies ◽  
Allen P. Liu ◽  
Santiago Schnell
Keyword(s):  
Synthetic Biology ◽  
Biomedical Research ◽  
Molecular Level ◽  
Biological Systems ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Functional System ◽  
Biomedical Sciences ◽  
Present Evidence ◽  
Experimental Control ◽  
Discovery Science

AbstractThe ability to construct a functional system from its individual components is foundational to understanding how it works. Synthetic biology is a broad field that draws from principles of engineering and computer science to create new biological systems or parts with novel function. While this has drawn well-deserved acclaim within the biotechnology community, application of synthetic biology methodologies to study biological systems has potential to fundamentally change how biomedical research is conducted by providing researchers with improved experimental control. While the concepts behind synthetic biology are not new, we present evidence supporting why the current research environment is conducive for integration of synthetic biology approaches within biomedical research. In this perspective we explore the idea of synthetic biology as a discovery science research tool and provide examples of both top-down and bottom-up approaches that have already been used to answer important physiology questions at both the organismal and molecular level.

scholarly journals Skill Needs for Early Career Researchers—A Text Mining Approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 2789 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica Mihaela Maer-Matei ◽  
Cristina Mocanu ◽  
Ana-Maria Zamfir ◽  
Tiberiu Marian Georgescu
Keyword(s):  
Text Mining ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Skills Development ◽  
Data Handling ◽  
Job Requirements ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Job Selection ◽  
Shed Light

Research and development activities are one of the main drivers for progress, economic growth and wellbeing in many societies. This article proposes a text mining approach applied to a large amount of data extracted from job vacancies advertisements, aiming to shed light on the main skills and demands that characterize first stage research positions in Europe. Results show that data handling and processing skills are essential for early career researchers, irrespective of their research field. Also, as many analyzed first stage research positions are connected to universities, they include teaching activities to a great extent. Management of time, risks, projects, and resources plays an important part in the job requirements included in the analyzed advertisements. Such information is relevant not only for early career researchers who perform job selection taking into account the match of possessed skills with the required ones, but also for educational institutions that are responsible for skills development of the future R&D professionals.

scholarly journals The Present Shock and Time Re-appropriation in the Pandemic Era

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olivia Levrini ◽  
Paola Fantini ◽  
Eleonora Barelli ◽  
Laura Branchetti ◽  
Sara Satanassi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Science Education ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
School Science ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
School Students ◽  
Physics Learning ◽  
The World ◽  
Teaching Learning

Abstract The crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic led most people all over the world to deal with a change in their perception and organization of time. This happened also, and mainly, within the educational institutions, where students and teachers had to rearrange their teaching/learning dynamics because of the forced education at a distance. In this paper, we present an exploratory qualitative study with secondary school students aimed to investigate how they were experiencing their learning during lockdown and how, in particular, learning of science contributed to rearranging their daily lifetime rituals. In order to design and carry out our investigation, we borrowed constructs coming from a research field rather unusual for science education: the field of sociology of time. The main result concerns the discovery of the potential of the dichotomy between alienation from time and time re-appropriation. The former is a construct elaborated by the sociologist Hartmut Rosa to describe the society of acceleration in the “era of future shock”. The latter represents an elaboration of the construct of appropriation that the authors had operationally defined, starting from Bakhtin’s original idea, to describe the nexus between physics learning and identity. Thanks to the elaboration of the notion of time re-appropriation as feature of the “era of present shock”, the study unveils how school science, instead of preparing the young to navigate our fast-changing and complex society, tends to create “bubbles of rituals” that detach learning from societal concern.

Unsettling Trends in Academia: A Review of the Predicament of Minorities and Members of the LGBTQ Community in Higher Educational Institutions in America

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 36-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Payal Dev Cascio
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Workplace Bullying ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Main Stream ◽  
Higher Educational Institutions ◽  
Intensive Research ◽  
Open Dialogue ◽  
Sociopolitical Climate

The current sociopolitical climate of the country (USA) is tumultuous and volatile. It is an era that recognizes and strives for change and open dialogue on topics that have otherwise been brushed under the rug. Such times call for open discussions on topics that may also be tabooed and bear a sense of unease and discomfort. Under this umbrella of racy and risky times emerged this study on the lived experiences and occurrences that have negatively impacted members of ethnic minorities and LGBTQ communities within academia. As an intellectual field that prides itself on its intensive research rigor and vitality, academia can no longer overlook this subject of workplace bullying in academia among faculty, staff, and students whose bullied experiences need to be addressed and shared by the main stream population so we can all move forward together and seek to find a resolve to the existing atrocities that the members from these minority groups currently face.

E-Collaboration in Biomedical Research

2014 ◽  
pp. 102-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen Gray ◽  
Fernando Martin Sanchez ◽  
Gabrielle Bright ◽  
Ardis Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Human Factors ◽  
Biomedical Research ◽  
Research Collaboration ◽  
Biomedical Sciences ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Web Technologies ◽  
Geographically Distributed ◽  
The Web

There are compelling arguments for using emerging Web technologies to facilitate research in the biomedical sciences. This chapter reviews current research and current technologies for e-collaboration in biomedical research. This chapter presents four case studies examining the use of Web-based tools to support the teamwork of geographically distributed biomedical researchers. It then reviews case study findings in light of the Web 2.0 e-collaboration enablers that are available. It concludes with surprising and concerning reflections about current practices in biomedical research collaboration as well as some promising future directions through the use of biomedical informatics to advance these practices by addressing human factors.

Priorities of Responsible Parenting for Raising Socially Confident Children

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Petya Konakchieva ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Personal Development ◽  
Preschool Education ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Social Adaptation ◽  
Family Education ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Parental Competence ◽  
Partner Interaction ◽  
Positive Support

The study is devoted to a contemporary issue important for the theory and practice of contemporary preschool education: raising social confidence in childhood. The research interest in the issue is related to the need to achieve a partnership between the subjects responsible for the socialization of the growing individualities. In this contemporary research field, the purpose of the research, i.e. the disclosure of the priorities of modern parents related to the raising of socially confident children, is also included. It is assumed that by exploring, analyzing, and defining the parental vision for children’s development and by registering family-significant practices of positive support for socially confident behaviour, it is possible to reveal reserves for developing collaborative programmes aimed at the timely manifestation and direction of the successful social adaptation of developing personalities. The survey was conducted in the form of a written survey. The representativeness of the sample is guaranteed by the number of people surveyed: 247 parents from different Bulgarian settlements. The scientific novelty of the work was projected into the following results: revealing the meaningful aspects of the parental vision for child development and the instrumental resource of family education to promote children’s social confidence; establishing the parental competence of parents to positively support the children’s social and personal development; outlining supports for the achievement of partner interaction between pre-school educational institutions and families in formulating joint goals to ensure successful social adaptation; drawing current problem areas for pedagogical counselling.

Governance of Biomedical Research in Singapore and the Challenge of Conflicts of Interest

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 288-296
Author(s):  
CALVIN WAI LOON HO ◽  
LEONARDO D. DE CASTRO ◽  
ALASTAIR V. CAMPBELL
Keyword(s):  
Advisory Committee ◽  
Biomedical Research ◽  
Conflicts Of Interest ◽  
The State ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Biomedical Sciences ◽  
Governance Framework ◽  
The Government

Abstract:This article discusses the establishment of a governance framework for biomedical research in Singapore. It focuses on the work of the Bioethics Advisory Committee (BAC), which has been instrumental in institutionalizing a governance framework, through the provision of recommendations to the government, and through the coordination of efforts among government agencies. However, developing capabilities in biomedical sciences presents challenges that are qualitatively different from those of past technologies. The state has a greater role to play in balancing conflicting and potentially irreconcilable economic, social, and political goals. This article analyzes the various ways by which the BAC has facilitated this.

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