Instead, he has spent the last few years writing scholarly papers for a European medical journal and perfecting his suicide device, which allows a patient to inject himself with lethal doses of drugs by pushing a button.
The purpose of this document is to "translate" scholarly research for a concerned public audience, which may include but is not limited to parents, caregivers, educators, and practitioners.
She speaks with Thompson about some of her recent and most popular pieces (on the science of yawning, why we eat and gain weight, and the problem with open-office work environments), explains how immigrating to the U.S. from Russia as a child sparked her interest in language and psychology, and describes the appeal of writing about scholarly research for a popular audience.
The mission of SMS is to provide a scholarly forum for a holistic approach to Mamluk studies, and to foster and promote a greater awareness of the Mamluk sultanate (1250 1517).
Although Czech has received considerable scholarly interest for a Slavic language, this interest has focused primarily on modern standard Czech and ancient texts rather than dialects.
We used the 308 questionnaires completed by individuals who indicated that they undertook KTE activities (but not exclusively commercialization activities) in the hope that research on the topic would be considered and/or acted upon outside the scholarly community, for a response rate of 64% [ 368-60)/(544-60)] among those who indicated that they met this criterion (Table 1).
Many of these are concerted, scholarly efforts (for an example, see the Digital Mozart Edition) which warrant their own post, so stay tuned for an overview of those collections in a future post!
Rice University, which has been pushing alternative distribution mechanisms for scholarly publications for years, has announced a new initiative, by which they hope to publish free, high-quality textbooks in core subjects like physics and biology via a non-profit publisher called OpenStax College.
Elrington brought a breath of fresh air when he arrived in 1954, combining, as he did, a twinkling irreverence with a scholarly commitment and a gift for encapsulating complex matters in a simple elegant phrase.
For me education is not some lofty ideal reserved for scholarly debate or a mere talking point for political exploitation, it is the difference between life and death'.
Dr. Berlin received honors including the American Historical Association's Award for Scholarly Distinction, a lifetime achievement award.
