Cole and Espinoza (2008) have found ethnic minorities who identify with members of their own community in science do better, and our design was intended to provide peer identification as a first step for drawing students from these groups into the OMTT.
To increase Hispanic communities' interest in science, Joaquin Ruiz of the University of Arizona (UA) and Radio Universidad's Ana Romo-Lucero have been nurturing a science radio show for youngsters in Spanish.
have found substantial user communities in the science and engineering fields, relational systems remain the dominant database technology for business enterprises.
In this introductory paper to the special issue, we outline recent progress in this challenging research area and argue that synergies between methods developed by different communities in computer science, control engineering, and stochastic analysis should be exploited to allow progress in real life, large scale applications.
The NRC/NAE event built on the White House summit, while focusing on the changing roles of community colleges in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education.
The combination of non-threatening venue, the prospect of an evening spent with friends (often including some food) engaged in conversation around a popular book and elaborated upon by an interesting short video story, succeeded in raising the interest and comfort level of many participants in 100 communities (and counting) in science generally.
Indeed, such open antagonism between the academic and commercial communities undermines trust in science and medicine and, ultimately, does a disservice to the public.
She found a community in the science fiction genre, including Harlan Ellison, a successful sci-fi author who recommended she attend the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop early in her career, but science fiction, as a field, was no less dominated by white men than any other at the time.
By analysing these communities at the same level of detail as the study here performed, it would be possible to draw a bigger picture of the research community in Computer Science in Brazil.
The consensus statement and accompanying papers set out the priorities for the antidoping community in research, science and medicine.
