Indeed, we show that differences in academic background can fully account for the cross-race disparities in persistence in the natural sciences, engineering, and economics.
There are many challenges faced in bioinformatics education that are commonly encountered throughout the world, for instance, the diversity in academic background of students (see Section 3); and the breadth of the discipline, ranging from life sciences through computer science to statistics.
It often occurs in international settings when, owing to differences in material possessions, academic backgrounds, or political and historical circumstances, some people think they are better than others.
Throughout the study it was important to acknowledge that as researchers we had some pre-existing concepts in mind due to our academic backgrounds in dentistry and public health, although we deliberately remained open to what patients would tell us about their experiences [ 4].
Basic demographic characteristics, industry affiliation, position in employment and academic backgrounds were registered for each participant.
The intervention package was delivered in 2008 09 by 6 university level facilitators with experience working with youth and with academic backgrounds in public health, psychology or education.
Since not all subjects showed up in time, 192 (instead of the invited 200) subjects from various academic backgrounds participated in total, and each subject participated in one session only.
Ben Bernanke at the Federal Reserve and Obama-administration advisors like Christina Romer all have academic backgrounds in the discipline.Can economic historians give policy-makers advice on the basis of what they believed caused the Great Depression?
