MARY M. GROSSMANN, ALLEN G. COLLINS & DHUGAL J. LINDSAY Yokohama City University, 236-0027 Yokohama, Japan Okinawa Institute of Marine Science and Technology (OIST), 904-0495 Onna, Okinawa, Japan National Systematics Laboratory, National Museum of Natural History, MRC-153, Smithsonian Institution, P.O. Box 37012, Washington, DC 20013-7012, USA Japan Agency for Marine–Earth Science and Technolog...

Growing numbers of students from non-Portuguese speaking countries, designated as ‘non-Lusophone students’, signal the diversification international student population in Portugal. Until recently, came almost exclusively other Portuguese-speaking countries. Employing social network analysis, paper analyses enrolment patterns non-Lusophone Portuguese higher education – by institution type, quali...

Saket Kaushik is a researcher and an engineer in web technologies including Ontologies and Synopsis Web Services, currently at the last stages of completing a PhD in Information Technology at George Mason University, Consequently, he is seeking a research and development position in applying his knowledge and training in collaborative and secure usage of RDF, OWL, RuleML, BPEL, WSDL, WS-Reliabi...

The capacity to train public health professionals is far from sufficient to meet urgent global needs. Foreign aid programs hold much promise to deal with this challenge. A case study from Norway illustrates the possibilities. Since the early 1960s, Norwegian universities have offered English-taught masters and doctoral degree programs, with sufficient financial support that all Third World stud...

Franz Peherstorfer was born in Zwettl an der Rodl, a village near Linz, the provincial capital of Upper Austria. After attending elementary and secondary schools in and around Linz, he matriculated in the newly founded Johannes Kepler Universität Linz1 in 1970 where he obtained his university degrees, Masters (1975) and Ph.D.2 (1977), both with summa cum laude. He was appointed as Assistent the...

Sani Nassif received his Bachelors degree from the American University of Beirut in 1980, and his Masters and PhD degrees from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1981 and 1985, respectively. He worked at Bell Laboratories until 1996, then joined the IBM Austin Research Laboratory where he currently manages the Silicon Analytics department. He has authored numerous conference and journal publications...

Many colleges and universities across the globe now offer bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees, along with certificate programs in bioinformatics. While there is some consensus surrounding curricula competencies, programs vary greatly in their core foci, with some leaning heavily toward the biological sciences and others toward quantitative areas. This allows prospective students to choose ...