Reform of medical schooI selection has generated concerns that the process favours male applicants. The gender profile, HPAT-Ireland and Leaving Certificate scores of all applicants in 2009-2011 (n = 9582) and the gender profile of entrants from 2008-2011 is presented. Small gender differences favouring males are evident in total HPAT-Ireland scores and subsection scores less than 7 and 4 point...

Combining different data sets with information on grant and fellowship applications submitted to two renowned funding agencies, we are able to compare their funding decisions (award and rejection) with scientometric performance indicators across two fields of science (life sciences and social sciences). The data sets involve 671 applications in social sciences and 668 applications in life scien...

In an external review of the admissions process for the Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Canada, it was suggested that admissions policies be modified to increase the enrolment of students more likely to practise in rural locations, by selecting a cohort of students with attributes reflecting potential for rural practice. A broad-based Working Group devised a framework for scoring p...

We consider a matching market, in which the aim is to maintain a popular matching between a set of applicants and a set of posts, where each applicant has a preference list ranking a subset of posts in some order of preference. A matching M is popular if there is no other matching M′ such that the number of applicants who prefer their partners in M′ to M exceeds the number of applicants who pre...

The disadvantage of previously convicted applicants, an often overlooked social group, at the labor market represents an important and complex issue. Despite plausibility, a proper proof of discrimination with typically available data is extremely difficult. In this paper we systematically investigate whether and how previously convicted applicants suffer from distrust in their search for a job...

Objective: To investigate the rate of EEG abnormalities among men who had applied to participate in the screening process of phase I clinical trials of an agent that could possibly act on the central nervous system held at the Kitasato University East Hospital. Methods: All the applicants were admitted to our ward for 1 week and were investigated. Routine diurnal EEGs were recorded as part of t...

CONTEXT Although concerns have persisted for decades about the production of new physician clinical scientists and their success in receiving and sustaining research supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), no comprehensive analysis documents the experiences of first-time investigators with an MD over a long period. OBJECTIVE To ascertain the perseverance and comparative success ...

This study investigated the frequently used language learning strategies (LLS) by Indonesian learners in English for a high-stakes exam, IELTS. In addition, differences LLS use among participants with different proficiency were examined. Using quantitative approach, data collected using an online survey utilizing Oxford’s Strategy Inventory Language Learning (SILL) as instrument. Sixty-one adul...