The Russian academicians we spoke to, all ostensibly devoted to peace and solidarity, were horrified that they might be asked to actually do something practical.
And from Charles Saumarez Smith, secretary and chief executive of the Royal Academy: "On behalf of the Royal Academy of Arts and the royal academicians, we are delighted that the art history A-level exam has been saved.
Hence, to learn about what could be the most provocative idea of the season, we turn to academicians, who have nothing at stake in the election, and so are free to speak their minds.
As healthcare professionals and academicians we have a responsibility to ensure ultrasound education and practice are done well and are held to the high standards of our profession.
The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6963/13/408/prepub We thank the academicians and patient support groups who participated in the email surveys.
Year after year the feeling of the academicians is, 'We run this place and there's no need for change".' The academicians, who alone elect new members, have this autonomy because, unlike most British museums, the academy receives no government subsidy.
The main reasons of having a qualitative component in this study was to get a better understanding about the views of the academicians; besides, we wanted to elaborate responses to open questions in the questionnaire such as "chose five words to describe violence against women".
Second, we observed a disconnect between academicians, on the one hand, and policymakers and aid workers, on the other.
We wrote emails to 15 academicians in eight most established public (n = 6) and private medical schools (n = 2) to seek information on training and education.
We conducted qualitative interviews with academicians, members of advocacy groups, clinicians, policymakers, and researchers who had voiced their opinions in the media and professional and lay literature in an attempt to elicit from them a systematic ethical analysis of the CDC recommendations.
