Hello everybody! Welcome to this special issue of our Newsletter. It is dedicated to the first PhD-Day organized by the Society to give the opportunity to young Belgian Mathematicians to advertise their work as researchers in mathematics. Organizer of this event: the Belgian Mathematical Society On this day, opportunity is given to Belgian PhD students to present their research and to get to kn...

Success in academic medicine requires scientific and clinical aptitude and the ability to lead a team effectively. Although combined MD/PhD training programs invest considerably in the former, they often do not provide structured educational opportunities in leadership, especially as applied to investigative medicine. To fill a critical knowledge gap in physician-scientist training, the Vanderb...

A joint effort by the University of California at Berkeley and Delft University of Technology to develop a graduate engineering ethics course for PhD students encountered two types of challenges: academic and institutional. Academically, long-term collaborative research efforts between engineering and philosophy faculty members might be needed before successful engineering ethics courses can be...

s – Mini Symposia 34 MS 6 (Monday 22, 15:45 – 17:15) Room C Indonesian PhD Students Minisymposium 1: Statistics and Neural Network Organizer: W.M. Kusumawinahyu (Dept. of Math., ITB, Indonesia) Brodjol Sutijo, Subanar, Suryo Guritno 1) Mathematics Department, Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia 2) Statistics Department, Sepuluh Nopember Institut of Technology, Indonesia Title: Construction and Tr...

Fractional calculus was introduced in many fields of science and engineering long time ago. It was first developed by mathematicians in the middle of the ninetieth century. During the past decades, fractional calculus has gained great interest in several applications [1]. For instance, fractional order systems and controllers have been applied to improve performance and robustness properties in...

The aims of this thesis were to gather insights and investigate the factors influencing, outcomes and applications of medical students' motivation. This thesis consists of three literature reviews, four research papers and two application papers. Two research studies investigated the relationships of student motivation with study strategy, effort and academic performance through structural equa...

This dissertation consists of two articles written to address the context of type 2 diabetes care in African American women. In addition, the proposal and required Institutional Review Board (IRB) documentation are included as Appendices. The first article is a review of the existing literature regarding the psychosocial and spiritual aspects of type 2 diabetes management and outcomes in Africa...

The relentless expansion that threatens the sustainability of biomedical research in the US takes a heavy toll on young researchers.