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Erasmus University Rotterdam Rotterdam, (Zuid-Holland), 38 hours per weekJob descriptionFunction title: Scientific researcher/PhD candidateWe are looking for a candidate with a strong interest for sustainable development and corporate social responsibility. Your job is to prepare and conduct academic research in the area of “Corporate governance and trust in Europe: A legal

YAYASAN INTITUTE INDONESIA UNTUK EKONOMI ENERGI Company Description The Foundation of Indonesian Institute for Energy Economics (IIEE) is an independent and not-for-profit organization involves in research and advocacy activities. IIEE is recruiting for Researcher in Energy Economics (Code: RSCH) with following requirements: Researcher in Energy Economics (Code: RSCH) Requirements:

Comprendo que muchos no entiendan mi moderado pero real entusiasmo. A los que no se dediquen a esto les pongo brevemente en antecedentes: mi primer apellido es singular, tanto que en el mundo de los investigadores y asimilados no lo comparto con nadie. Con J. Fernández o M. Smith no pasa lo mismo. El resultado es que a la hora de buscar sus publicaciones en lugares especializados, como el ISI Web Of Science, es imposible tener la seguridad de qué han escrito porque se mezclan con cientos de homónimos. Les comenté hace un tiempo la existencia de una cosa llamada DOI (vean el post Recovecos de Internet) o Digital Object Identifier, un identificador único, público y persistente de cada “objeto” existente en la red. Los DOI se están utilizando para identificar los artículos cient

Apple’s MacBook Air has become the best advertisement for why companies should use LED (light-emitting diode) backlights in notebook screens, and is driving adoption, according to market researcher DisplaySearch. LED backlights in display screens are an improvement over old CCFL (cold-cathode florescent lamps) technology for several reasons, including a stunning picture due to more vibrant contrasts, [...]

PhD-researcher Mathematics (1.0 fte)(Utrecht) , 38 hours per week Utrecht University Job descriptionThe candidate is expected to perform researchat the interface of number theory / arithmetic... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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A Closeburn researcher has investigated the links between spirituality, mental health and social behaviour as part of a groundbreaking new study. Dr Rosemary Aird, a University of Queensland School of Population Health PhD graduate, found that moving away from traditional religious beliefs to trendy, self-focused spirituality is not making young adults happier. According to the findings of the

PhD-researcher Monetary and Non-monetary Quantification of the Environmental Health Impacts. (Utrecht), 38 hours per week Utrecht University Job description Function title: PhD-researcher... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Key additions by Professor Darren Crowdy to the Schwarz-Christoffel Formula helped solved the 140-year-old Math problem.A formula, now known as the Schwarz-Christoffel formula, was developed by two mathematicians in the mid-19th century to enable them to carry out this kind of mapping. However, for 140 years there has been a deficiency in this formula: it only worked for shapes that did not contain any holes or irregularities.Now Professor Crowdy has made additions to the famous Schwarz-Christoffel formula which mean it can be used for these more complicated shapes. He explains the significance of his work, saying:"This formula is an essential piece of mathematical kit which is used the world over. Now, with my additions to it, it can be used in far more complex scenarios than before. In i

Senior Researcher in Security Studies, Oslo The International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO) is seeking to hire an experienced researcher with expertise in the field of security studies. PRIO was one of the first centres of peace research in the world when it was founded in 1959. Today, it is an independent, multidisciplinary research institute with approximately 50 researchers. PRIO

Obesity is on its way to being deadlier than smoking as a cause of cancer, a leading researcher said. Being obese is currently associated with about 14 percent of cancer deaths in men and 20 percent in women, compared with about 30 percent each for smoking, Dr. Walter C. Willett of the Harvard School of Public Health, told the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. "As smoking goes down and obesity goes up it won't be long before obesity is the No. 1 cancer killer," Willett said at a symposium on cancer prevention. Added Dr. Douglas R. Lowy of the National Cancer Institute: "Cancer prevention begins at home. ... Not all of us always act in our own best interest." Willett said research is producing increasing evidence associating

If you want to try and make some money at university but a part time job is not for you, then it is possible to make money from being an online researcher for companies such as Texperts and AQA.These companies make money by customers texting in random questions and a researcher replies with the answer.How To ApplyOn the Texperts website you can take a quiz called 'Have you got the Tex-Factor?' in which you have to get 100% on each round of the quiz in order to have the possibility of working for them. It is very difficult to pass this quiz, shown by the fact that a high proportion of their employees are Oxford and Cambridge graduates. I have recently passed the test and am waiting to here from them.On the AQA website in order to apply for a job you have to send them an email and they send

Security maven Mary Landesman is in the midst of piecing together a who-done-it involving the infection of hundreds of websites that are generating an enormous amount of traffic. Or maybe it's a how-done-it.Either way, she's mostly drawing blanks.Landesman is a researcher for ScanSafe, a company that monitors the web surfing of employees at large companies and provides them with real-time intelligence about what sites are spreading malware. When a client visits a site that has already attacked someone else, the service automatically blocks the site from loading in the end user's browser. Viewing some seven billion web requests per month, companyresearchers see a fair amount of internet gremlins.Over the past four days, 15 per cent of the blocked malicioustraffic has come from just a few hu

Position DescriptionA full-time postdoc researcher position in the area of Wireless Mesh Networking is available at CREATE-NET (www.create-net.org).The successful candidate will be working on the MIUR-funded Italy-Israel WING project (www.wing-project.org), focusing on wireless mesh networks as an access architecture for the next- generation Internet.The project aims at advancing the state-of-art in research on wireless mesh networks (WMN), while at the same time developing software prototypes and demonstrators.ResponsibilitiesWe seek candidates with strong hands-on research experience in wireless communications and networking.Areas of specific of interest include:Multi-channel mesh networks architectures and protocolsDistributed monitoring for WMNs Distributed channel assignment/switching schemes for WMNs Network coding for WMNs prototyping and experimental measurements. QualificationsApplicants should have a Ph.D. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Communications Engineerin

A major researcher from NIMH, Ellen Leibenluft, MD, Chief, Unit on Affective Disorders, Pediatrics and Developmental Neuropsychiatry Branch, Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program, has made an unequivocal statement about bipolar disorder in children. Not surprisingly, she asserts bipolar disorder is "rare" in children. This article is a follow up to this one. Psychiatry Weekly “Clearly,” Dr. Leibenluft says, “some children do meet the DSM-IV criteria for bipolar disorder. However, these children are relatively rare. Far more common, perhaps as many as 3% of children in the community, are those who are extremely irritable and have ADHD-like symptoms, but don’t meet the DSM-IV criteria for bipolar disorder. A diagnosis of bipolar disorder requires distinct manic episodes, during which time one’s mood is altered, sleep and activity patterns change, and there are differences in reward-seeking behavior. More commonly, children present instead with chronic and nearly constant irritab

According to Progressive News Daily: The report looked at 378 cities with at least 75,000 people based on per-capita rates for homicide, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary and auto theft. Each crime category was considered separately and weighted based on its seriousness, CQ Press said. The top ten list of most dangerous cities in America included: CITY, STATE & POPULATION 1 Detroit, MI 884,462 2 St. Louis, MO 346,879 3 Flint, MI 118,256 4 Oakland, CA 398,834 5 Camden, NJ 80,071 6 Birmingham, AL 233,577 7 North Charleston, SC 87,655 8 Memphis, TN 680,828 9 Richmond, CA 103,106 10 Cleveland, OH 452,759 The top ten list of America’s least dangerous cities were as follows: 1. Brick, N.J. 2. Amherst, N.Y. 3. Mission Viejo, Calif. 4. Newton, Mass. 5. Troy, Mich. 6. Colonie, N.Y. 7. Irvine, Calif. 8. Cary, N.C. 9. Greece, N.Y. 10. Coral Springs, Fla. Local cities on the least dangerous cities in America include: 166. Murfreesboro, Tenn. 184. Clarksville, Tenn. 297

Wide eyed and wet behind the ears, the rookie researcher steps into the lab for the first time. Armed with several years’ knowledge mined from text books, lectures and undergrad labs he feels ready to take his place amongst the worldwide legions of scientists who battle daily in the pursuit of knowledge. Little does he suspect the pitfalls that lie ahead, the classic mistakes and unknown dangers lie in his path. Here are four rookie researcher disasters. All are true stories that I have witnessed (and one that I made myself - I’ll let you guess which). Each of you will likely have your own tales to tell, please share them in the comments section below and let this serve as a guide, helping rookie researchers of the future avoid the mistakes of others. 1. Pipette inferno. A pristine set of micro-pipettes hang in their holders above the bench. Tools of precision, and of considerable value. Filled with anticipation, the rookie is performing his first ever culture inoculation.

Indonesian Muslim scholar Dr. Luthfi Assyaukanie has been declared the first foreign student of Melbourne University to win Chancellor`s Prize for his doctoral dessertation in the field of humanities and creative arts. Assyaukani`s dessertation which focuses on Islam and politics in Indonesia is one of the four dessertations considered the best among around 500 dessertations presented by doctorate students to the university last year, a source said on Tuesday. The winners of Chancellor`s Prize were officially to be made public later in the day, it said. Assyaukani who works for the Jakarta-based Freedom Institute deserves the prestigious prize for his significant contributions to the development of Islamic and political literatures in Indonesia, it said.Indonesia News Blog: http://indosnesos.blogspot.com

Sydney - We have always known that obesity is a class issue: Australian children from low-income families are twice as likely to be very fat as children from high-income families. What's become clear from a Sydney University study is the link between obesity and some ethnic groups: Australian children of Middle Eastern ancestry are four times more likely to be very fat than those from white families. "It really was quite a clear relationship," said lead researcher Jenny O'Dea, noting that Pacific Islander children were more likely to be very fat than even Arab children and that Aboriginal and southern European children were twice as likely to be rotund. Her study, based on a sample of 8,500 children aged six to 18 years, is the first in Australia to measure social class, ethnicity and obesity. Almost one in 10 children from low-income families were obese compared with around one in 20 in high-income families. A full 17 per cent of children of Middle Eastern et

An infamous hacker gang is sending malicious PDF docs, stealing financial dataA notorious Russian hacker gang is responsible for ongoing attacks using malicious PDF documents, a researcher said today.Users can thank the Russian Business Network (RBN), a well-known collective of cybercriminals, for the malware-armed PDF attachments that began appearing in in-boxes yesterday, said Ken Dunham, director of response for iSight Partners Inc. If the rigged PDFs succeed in infecting the target Windows system, the attack code installs a pair of rootkit files that "sniff and steal financial and other valuable data," said Dunham via e-mail.The rogue PDF documents are attached to spammed e-mail and arrive with filenames such as BILL.pdf, YOUR_BILL.pdf, INVOICE.pdf or STATEMET.pdt, said Symantec Corp. in a separate advisory yesterday. They exploit the "mailto:" protocol vulnerability disclosed more than a month ago by U.K.-based researcher Petko Petkov.Link to complete story: http://www.computerwo

“Dr. Anthony Atala of Wake Forest University is building organs in his lab. Last year he publicized his success of growing bladders - the first actual living human organs created in a lab and grown unattached to a human being. Correspondent Tamara Krinsky visits with Atala and learns how he “cooks” and grows these organs. We also visit the McGowan Institute of Regenerative Medicine where we learn about the future of regenerative medicine and the challenges that lie ahead.” See the Weird Science video about Dr. Atala here.

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The Department of Accounting and Finance of the University of Antwerp will recruit a full-time pre-doctoral researcher / Ph.D. student for a research project on ‘Business groups, political...

The University of Antwerp is a knowledge centre with 3.400 co-workers that performs ground-breaking and innovative research of international standing. The university takes special care to ensure...

For most of his professional life, Tel Aviv University professor Michael Ovadia focused on snakes and the medicinal properties of their venom. But seven years ago, after meditating on a biblical passage, Ovadia's career focus began to take a twist... a cinnamon twist to be exact. Today the spiritual scientist from TAU's Department of Zoology is commercializing a unique cinnamon extract that is touted to quell viral infections from HIV to the Avian flu. Israel21C July 22, 2007

For most of his professional life, Tel Aviv University professor Michael Ovadia focused on snakes and the medicinal properties of their venom. But seven years ago, after meditating on a biblical passage, Ovadia’s career focus began to take a twist… a cinnamon twist to be exact. Today the spiritual scientist from TAU’s Department of Zoology is commercializing a unique cinnamon extract that is touted to quell viral infections from HIV to the Avian flu. A research and license deal on his patent-pending cinnamon extract was signed last week between TAU’s technology transfer company Ramot and Frutarom, a multinational nutraceutical company based in Israel. Frutarom is expected to use the extract in a whole host of applications from disinfecting the air as a spray against Avian flu in airports; to a daily supplement that protects people against the common flu. Those researching in the field of natural medicine know that snake venom, especially the notorious poisonous

These days, it’s easy for people to get confused about exercise — how many minutes a day should they spend working out, for how long and at what exertion level? Conflicting facts and opinions abound, but one Mayo Clinic physician says the bottom line is this: walking is good, whether the outcome measurement is blood pressure, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, joint problems or mental health. “Getting out there and taking a walk is what it’s all about,” says James Levine, M.D., Ph.D., and a Mayo Clinic expert on obesity. “You don’t have to join a gym, you don’t have to check your pulse. You just have to switch off the TV, get off the sofa and go for a walk.” The health benefit associated with walking is the subject of Dr. Levine’s editorial in the July issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings. Dr. Levine’s piece is entitled, “Exercise: A Walk in the Park?” and accompanies a Proceedings article that showcases the meri

[Belgium] Predoctoral Researcher in Molecular Genetics, The University of AntwerpScholarship Information from BelgiaThe University of Antwerp is an international university. Foreign students from all over the world make up 12% of the total student population. Around 100 foreign researchers work as part of UA-research teams. The UA participates in most European educational programmes and has established partnerships with universities around the world. The doctoral study programme (DSP) is one of the opportunities that is offered by the University of Antwerp to its PhD students.The VIB Department of Molecular Genetics is looking for a Predoctoral ResearcherJob description:The candidate will work on the following research topic:Some forms of motor disorders of the peripheral nervous system result in severe atrophy and wasting of distal limb muscles. We identified hotspot mutations in the small heat shock 22kDa protein 8 (HSPB8, HSP22) in several families with distal hereditary motor neuro

[Belgium] Predoctoral Researcher in Molecular Genetics, The University of AntwerpThe University of Antwerp is an international university. Foreign students from all over the world make up 12% of the total student population. Around 100 foreign researchers work as part of UA-research teams. The UA participates in most European educational programmes and has established partnerships with universities around the world. The doctoral study programme (DSP) is one of the opportunities that is offered by the University of Antwerp to its PhD students.The VIB Department of Molecular Genetics is looking for a Predoctoral ResearcherJob description:The candidate will work on the following research topic:Some forms of motor disorders of the peripheral nervous system result in severe atrophy and wasting of distal limb muscles. We identified hotspot mutations in the small heat shock 22kDa protein 8 (HSPB8, HSP22) in several families with distal hereditary motor neuropathy. The project aims to genetica

This University of North Florida grad student updates her pages at Facebook, a popular site for college students and older teens. In the mail this week I received a request from Emily Metzgar, a doctoral student in media and public affairs at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. Metzgar is researching the impact of blogs on state politics around the country. The Republican Party might take a look at the impact of blogs on national politics. Bloggers often drive traffic to candidates’ Web sites. The Star-Tribune (Minn.) looked at Web sites for political hopefuls from both parties. The Democratic data is impressive: Former senator John Edwards’ site had about 690,000 unique visitors in March, when his wife, Elizabeth, announced she had a recurrence of cancer, more than the combined number of unique visitors to the sites of Rudy Giuliani (297,000), Sen. John McCain (258,000) and Mitt Romney (76,000). Metzgar is asking readers and writers of blogs to take a survey she

Editor’s Note: I believe some of these jobs may be in Cincinnati, OH and some in Washington DC, but I’m not sure, so check before applying. The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, a powerful voice for working men and women, is seeking Researchers to work on campaigns to win justice and improve the livelihood of workers. The UFCW is leading the fight to build worker power in our workplaces, communities and the political and legislative arenas to insure that workers and their families participate fully in the rewards of the economy they help sustain. (more…)

During a training session called "Understanding Stealth Malware" at the Black Hat event in Las Vegas, Joanna Rutkowska, a security researcher known for picking apart the security mechanisms built into Windows, is to demonstrate new ways for hackers to invade Windows Vista. Rutkowska said she is aware of the need for discretion: "For ethical reasons we want to limit the availability of this course to only 'legitimate' companies." The training is aimed at security and OS developers, forensic investigators and penetration testers, Rutkowska said. Earlier this spring, Rutkowska demonstrated several methods that sophisticated rootkits can use to hide from even the most reliable detection method currently available – hardware-based products that read a system's RAM. The demonstration will cover such methods, but will be more comprehensive, including unpublished techniques, implementation details, new code and sample rootkits. The target will be Windows but will also focus on the 64-

BLOOMFIELD, N.J., April 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ONCONASE (ranpirnase), Alfacell Corporation's lead drug candidate, may have potential as a chemopreventive agent, according to world-renowned mesothelioma researcher Michele Carbone M.D., Ph.D., at this week's American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting.In a series of poster presentations, Dr. Carbone highlighted the growing worldwide problem of asbestos exposure and its link to malignant mesothelioma. Dr. Carbone presented data that show the early detection in patients at high risk for developing malignant mesothelioma is becoming more prevalent via the presence of certain biological markers in blood samples. Furthermore, he pointed out that ONCONASE's favorable toxicity profile and its well-documented mechanism of action, which directly affects the pathway that has been shown to cause asbestos carcinogenesis, position ONCONASE for potential early administration to populations "at-risk" for mesothelioma. If cli

Roughly 2 1/2 billion years ago, some algae began to photosynthesize, an astonishing development that led to the creation of plants and a myriad of complex life forms, including, incidentally, mankind.Today, Eric Linton, a Central Michigan University assistant professor of biology, is studying the gene makeup of single-celled euglenoids - single-celled organisms that acquired the ability to photosynthesize from algae - to learn whether that evolutionary step was a single hallmark moment or a series of events over time.Eventually, Linton hopes to learn whether dormant genes that once controlled photosynthesis in certain euglenoids can reactivate, shedding light on whether scientists can jumpstart long-dormant genes in other organisms, such as in humans to fight a host of diseases.With a 354,000 dollar grant from the National Science Foundation, Linton has begun a three-year project to perform complete genome sequencing of six forms of euglenoids, some of which long ago lost the ability

"Getting out there and taking a walk is what it’s all about," says James Levine, M.D., Ph.D., and a Mayo Clinic expert on obesity. "You don’t have to join a gym, you don’t have to check your pulse. You just have to switch off the TV, get off the sofa ...

"Getting out there and taking a walk is what it’s all about," says James Levine, M.D., Ph.D., and a Mayo Clinic expert on obesity. "You don’t have to join a gym, you don’t have to check your pulse. You just have to switch off the TV, get off the sofa ...

Your cellphone one day will not only be used for making a call, sending text messages or enjoying mobile entertainment, but also could be a tool for your medical imaging. Your doctor will transmit your medical information from his server into your mobile phone’s screen. Engineers at the University of California, ...