People seeking academic careers usually pursue degrees in various institutions, looking for the best combinations regarding their intellectual interests, their personal means and the opportunities that arise in their lives. This can be perceived by looking at the stages in the education of current researchers, as recorded in their curricula vitae. We define the academic trajectories of research...

This paper describes 2 studies that evaluated a new instrument, the Perceived Ethnic Discrimination Questionnaire–Community Version (PEDQ-CV). The PEDQ-CV can be used across ethnic groups to assess perceived racism or ethnic discrimination. The scales measure several subdimensions of racism, permitting the examination of different forms of this race-related stressor. The first study evaluated t...

BACKGROUND Web-based, free-text documents on science and technology have been increasing growing on the web. However, most of these documents are not immediately processable by computers slowing down the acquisition of useful information. Computational ontologies might represent a possible solution by enabling semantically machine readable data sets. But, the process of ontology creation, insta...

When the camera was first connected to the endoscope in 1984, we did not imagine the undergoing revolution yet! At that time the pessimists claimed that nothing could be better than the human eye. But plugging this camera not only enhanced the quality of vision, improved the surgeon’s comfort and the ergonomic, but also allowed to share the vision to all the actors of the surgery. Above this an...

the physician role as a base. There might be perceived sexual gain or exploitation involved (about two-thirds of boundary cases have been such). But it might also involve perceived personal or ªnancial exploitation. (In the cases of boundary violations, we carefully use the word perceived because this is so often contended.) The second range of ethical misconduct is self-serving ªnancial gain o...

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