Since this catastrophic crisis began, learning at universities has changed to distance mode reduce person-to-person transmission of the virus. Using a survey, article compares experiences international doctoral students in COVID with general quality and their various aspects university support. The descriptive results suggest that overall satisfaction was quite high among both Russian-speaking ...

In this conceptual paper, we address the problem that novice scholars in social sciences sometimes have in constructing conceptual or theoretical frameworks for their dissertations and papers for publication. In the first part of the paper, we discuss why the topic is important in the high pressure environment that novice scholars face, in which finishing a doctoral degree and getting published...

Dissertation writing is often the most challenging aspect of the doctoral program. In an effort to raise completion rates and lower time-to-degree as well as increase student satisfaction with the program, professors in an Ed.D. program developed a semester-long course to support students writing their dissertations. This case study describes the development of the course and the implementation...

Brazilian fish cytogenetics started as early as the seventies in three pioneering research groups, located at the Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP, Botucatu, SP), Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar, São Carlos, SP) and Universidade de São Paulo (USP, São Paulo, SP). Investigations that have been conducted in these groups led to the discovery of a huge chromosomal and genomic biodiv...

The Moens-Korteweg formula for the speed of propagation of pressure waves dates back to 1878 and was used by Kries in haemodynamics and Frizell, Joukowsky, Allievi and others in waterhammer to calculate the pressure variations in unsteady pipe flows. This paper describes the life and work of Dutchmen Isebree Moens and Korteweg. Their doctoral dissertations (in Dutch) are partly translated, revi...

The purpose fo the study was to analyze national scientific production on the contraceptives in adolescence. A quantitative descriptive research through systematic revision was performed in CAPES' database from 1997 to 2007. Out of the 43 ABSTRACTs, 35 were dissertations (81.4%) and eighth (18.4%) were doctoral theses. From 1997 to 2002 there was a wide number of publications. The health area p...

DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS A ato-D D 10 /2 13 Bioresorbable polymers are extensively studied materials for medical applications. In this thesis, novel bioresorbable polymers, hydrophobically-modified crosslinked poly(ester anhydride) networks, were developed and characterized with the aim of obtaining suitable matrices for drug release applications. In these poly(ester anhydride) networks were comb...

This study aimed to analyze the scientific production of nursing dissertations and theses with a phenomenological approach published from 1981 to 2002. A descriptive, retrospective and bibliometric research was carried out. The material analysis, which is part of the database of the catalogue Information on Nursing Research and Researchers, resulted in 217 studies, 71,9% from the master's cours...

For many years we have heard rumors of the downfall and death of GSS research. In this paper we will argue that the nay-sayers are wrong, as many have been in other disciplines in the past and that they would propose to stop seeking answers before the most important questions may have even been asked. We describe some of the many unanswered research questions left to be addressed in Group Suppo...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To review literature about oncology and nononcology nurses' attitudes toward spiritual care and the way that their spiritual well-being influences those attitudes. DATA SOURCES Published research and literature review articles, books, master's theses, and doctoral dissertations. DATA SYNTHESIS Spiritual considerations play an important part in the lives of patients with c...