Graduate employment trends in the life sciences: implications for microbiology educators

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 56 ◽  
Author(s):  
John V Smith ◽  
Danilla Grando ◽  
Nina Fotinatos
Keyword(s):  
Life Sciences ◽  
Employability Skills ◽  
Job Market ◽  
Graduate Employment ◽  
The Past ◽  
Employment Trends

Graduates in the Life Sciences, including microbiology have experienced similar employment trends to graduates in other fields over the past 30 years. Recent downward trends in graduate employment levels have raised concerns among educators and the community in general. Awareness of the diverse opportunities for graduates of microbiology is needed. For many, explicit education in ‘employability skills' is also considered to be needed to enable graduates to succeed in the competitive job market.

LBE for Generalized Hydrodynamics

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sauro Succi
Keyword(s):  
Potential Energy ◽  
Electric Fields ◽  
Chemical Reactions ◽  
Soft Matter ◽  
Fluid Motion ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Scientific Discipline ◽  
The Past ◽  
Generalized Hydrodynamics ◽  
Internal Forces

This chapter presents the main techniques to incorporate the effects of external and/or internal forces within the LB formalism. This is a very important task, for it permits us to access a wide body of generalized hydrodynamic applications whereby fluid motion couples to a variety of additional physical aspects, such as gravitational and electric fields, potential energy interactions, chemical reactions and many others. It should be emphasized that while hosting a broader and richer phenomenology than “plain” hydrodynamics, generalized hydrodynamics still fits the hydrodynamic picture of weak departure from suitably generalized local equilibria. This class is all but an academic curiosity; for instance, it is central to the fast-growing science of Soft Matter, a scientific discipline which has received an impressive boost in the past decades, under the drive of micro- and nanotechnological developments and major strides in biology and life sciences at large.

scholarly journals The first 10 years of the international coordination network for standards in systems and synthetic biology (COMBINE)

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (2-3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dagmar Waltemath ◽  
Martin Golebiewski ◽  
Michael L Blinov ◽  
Padraig Gleeson ◽  
Henning Hermjakob ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Synthetic Biology ◽  
Data Model ◽  
Computational Models ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
The Past ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Stakeholder Workshop ◽  
Software Engineers ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Modeling In Biology

AbstractThis paper presents a report on outcomes of the 10th Computational Modeling in Biology Network (COMBINE) meeting that was held in Heidelberg, Germany, in July of 2019. The annual event brings together researchers, biocurators and software engineers to present recent results and discuss future work in the area of standards for systems and synthetic biology. The COMBINE initiative coordinates the development of various community standards and formats for computational models in the life sciences. Over the past 10 years, COMBINE has brought together standard communities that have further developed and harmonized their standards for better interoperability of models and data. COMBINE 2019 was co-located with a stakeholder workshop of the European EU-STANDS4PM initiative that aims at harmonized data and model standardization for in silico models in the field of personalized medicine, as well as with the FAIRDOM PALs meeting to discuss findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR) data sharing. This report briefly describes the work discussed in invited and contributed talks as well as during breakout sessions. It also highlights recent advancements in data, model, and annotation standardization efforts. Finally, this report concludes with some challenges and opportunities that this community will face during the next 10 years.

Editorial

2003 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-95
Author(s):  
Charles E. Lyman
Keyword(s):  
Impact Factor ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Editorial Board Member ◽  
Initial Letter ◽  
Strong Impact ◽  
National Library ◽  
The Past ◽  
Number Of Citations

Microscopy and Microanalysis has made significant strides forward over the past year, and I would like to comment on two of these. First, the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) ranked this journal third among the nine microscopy journals it indexes. The ranking was in terms of ISI's Impact Factor, which tracks the number of citations to papers published in the journal. A strong Impact Factor indicates that information in the journal is of interest to other workers in the field. Second, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) has selected Microscopy and Microanalysis to be indexed in MEDLINE (PubMed), beginning with the first issue of 2003. As any biologist will tell you, this listing is essential for the electronic visibility of papers in the fast-moving world of life sciences research. I thank Editorial Board member Dave Piston for his efforts in writing the initial letter of application to the NLM.

scholarly journals The rise and fall of machine learning methods in biomedical research

F1000Research ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hashem Koohy
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Biomedical Research ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Biological Data ◽  
Research Note ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Learning Methods ◽  
The Past ◽  
Machine Learning Methods ◽  
Learning Techniques

In the era of explosion in biological data, machine learning techniques are becoming more popular in life sciences, including biology and medicine. This research note examines the rise and fall of the most commonly used machine learning techniques in life sciences over the past three decades.

An Introduction to Industrial-Organizational Psychology

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Elizabeth L. Shoenfelt ◽  
Rosemary Hays-Thomas ◽  
Laura Koppes Bryan
Keyword(s):  
Professional Practice ◽  
Graduate Training ◽  
Doctoral Training ◽  
Master's Level ◽  
Job Market ◽  
Master's Programs ◽  
The Past ◽  
Industrial Organizational Psychology ◽  
Level I ◽  
Level Training

This opening chapter provides a brief introduction to the field of industrial-organizational (I-O) psychology. The authors define the field and explain the knowledge, skills, and abilities that master’s-level I-O practitioners will need. I-O master’s-level graduates may enter a wide variety of professional practice areas, and these are briefly outlined. I-O graduate training is introduced. The authors highlight the differences between master’s-level training and doctoral training. I-O master’s programs have grown exponentially over the past several decades, and there is growing demand in the job market for I-O practitioners. The authors conclude with a discussion of issues relevant to the master’s degree in I-O psychology.

scholarly journals Attitudes of graduating Canadian urology residents on the job market: Is it getting better or are we just spinning our wheels?

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 104-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory W. Hosier ◽  
Naji J. Touma
Keyword(s):  
Urban Area ◽  
Response Rate ◽  
Large Urban Area ◽  
Job Market ◽  
Employment Opportunities ◽  
The Past ◽  
Agreement Score ◽  
Strongly Agree ◽  
Ideal Practice ◽  
The Ideal

Introduction: There has been increasing awareness of employment difficulties for physicians, especially surgeons, in Canada over the past few years. Our objective was to elucidate the attitudes and experiences of graduating Canadian urology residents in obtaining employment.Methods: We surveyed four separate cohorts of graduating urology residents in 2010, 2011, 2016, and 2017. Responses from the 2010 and 2011 cohorts were combined and compared to the combined results of the 2016 and 2017 cohorts. Mean Likert responses were compared using unpaired t-tests. An agreement score was created for those responding with “strongly agree” and “agree” on the Likert scale.Results: A total of 126 surveys were administered with a 100% response rate. The job market was rated as poor or very poor by 64.9% and 58.4% of graduates in 2010/2011 and 2016/2017, respectively (p=0.67). Lack of resources was identified as the biggest barrier to improved employment in both cohorts. Networking at meetings and staff urologists at their institution were the most important factors aiding employment identified by both cohorts. The ideal practice was academic or academically associated community practices in a large urban area, with 5‒10 partners for both cohorts.Conclusions: The majority of graduating urology residents viewed the job market as poor or very poor and this did not change over a six-year period. It is unclear how much personal preference for location and practice type drove the somewhat negative outlook of employment opportunities, as the majority of residents were seeking large urban, academic, or academically associated community practices in competitive locations.

Older workers: Past, present and future

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 425-448
Author(s):  
Valerie Dawn Caines ◽  
Monique F Crane ◽  
Jack Noone ◽  
Barbara Griffin ◽  
Shiksha Datta ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older Workers ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Workforce Planning ◽  
Jel Classification ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Career Longevity ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
The Past ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
Employment Trends

In this article, we focus on the ever-growing numbers of older workers and considerations for workplace practices and policies that make the most from the qualities older workers bring. To begin, we explore the socio-political context examining employment trends for older workers and highlight policies and trends that inform workforce planning. We then extend the discussion of older workers from the perspective of person–environment (P-E) fit, entrepreneurship, resilience and cognitive functioning. Each of these perspectives have received increased research and practitioner attention over the past two decades. They present opportunities to increase our understanding of older people in a workplace context and how to support older workers in a socio-political environment focused on career longevity. We argue that a new national strategy is needed to guide future initiatives and policy development. We propose future research directions and practitioner intervention prospects. JEL Classification: M54

scholarly journals Personal View – The Evolution of Neurochemistry

Neuroforum ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 259-264
Author(s):  
Ferdinand Hucho
Keyword(s):  
Systems Approach ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Personal Account ◽  
Personal View ◽  
The Past ◽  
Time Period

Abstract This esssay is a personal account of the evolution of Neurochemistry in the past century. It describes in parallel the authors way from chemistry to biochemistry and finally to Neurochemistry and the progress of a most exciting chapter of the Life Sciences. It covers the successful time period of reductionist research (by no means comprehensively), which lay the ground for the recent and future systems approach. This development promises answers to fundamental questions of our existence as human beings.

scholarly journals Inceptions of Biomathematics from Lotka to Thom

2017 ◽  
Vol 100 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hugo A. Van Den Berg
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Biology ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Meeting Point ◽  
The Past ◽  
Special Place ◽  
Mutual Interest

Mathematical biology occupies a special place at the interface between the physical, mathematical and life sciences. Is this interface merely a meeting point for dabblers venturing out of their own proper domains to work on problems of mutual interest? Or is it an incipient science in its own right, with its own particular character, principles, and practices? The past century has seen vast advances in the application of mathematical and physical ideas and techniques to biological problems, in the process transforming many of them almost beyond recognition. Nonetheless, the question of a biomathematics as a new kind of science remains open, despite several fascinating, if sometimes problematic, attempts.

scholarly journals An Empirical Evaluation of Accounting Graduates’ Employability Skills from Jordanian Employers’ Perspective

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ghada Awad Altrawneh
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evaluation ◽  
Technical Skills ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Accounting Education ◽  
Employability Skills ◽  
Accounting Students ◽  
Job Market ◽  
Generic Skills ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Accounting Graduates

<p>In the specific case of accounting, compatibility is being sought between what accounting education provides, what accounting graduates possess and what the job market requires. Thus, from the employers’ point of view, this study will attempt to investigate the skills that accounting students have and the skills required by the labour market, and which will enhance the employability of graduates. The perception of employers of how important those skills are to the job market will be explored, as well as whether the importance of the required skills varies depending on type of sector, organisation and job position, all in the context of Jordan. In general, this study is intended to bridge the gap to the benefit of academia, professionals and students.</p><p>The objective of the study has been approached by developing a questionnaire that was distributed to all major Jordanian companies and organizations in both the private and public sectors. The study concludes that accounting graduates lack, in particular, the necessary (generic) skills, and that there is a significant gap between the skills employers need and consider important, and the skills accounting graduates actually possess and can demonstrate in practice. The results show that employers tend to be more satisfied with the level of technical skills that students have acquired, than generic skills.</p>

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