Dr. John Samuel Banerji, SIU Scholar The Soci et e Internationale d’Urologie offers Training Scholarships (SIU) for young doctors with basic surgical or urological qualifications. The SIU Scholarships involve training in a recognized Urological center of excellence located in the candidate’s geographical region. These SIU-accredited centers provide an excellent environment for learning and, in ...

"^"^ Then today's students complete %/%/ their schooling, many of them T T will be functionally illiterate, unprepared to participate in or guide our scienceand technology-oriented soci ety. This situation, though bleak, is hardly surprising. More than 200 national reports on science education have described the current curriculum as obsolete. "In a great many cases, precollege education in the...

The present contribution contains the formalisation of a method (not based on bibliometric indicators) for assigning analytical scores to the scientific production of researchers who challenge in an open competitive exam in a Soci‐ oeconomic Scientific Sector. The preliminary decisions of the evaluation board are described subdividing them into six decision steps. The role of decisionmaking abo...

Cet article esquisse un tableau de l’élite l’industrie du numérique à travers l’examen son histoire, sa sociologie et idéologie. Cette nouvelle bourgeoisie mobilise imaginaire méritocratique la limite darwinisme social, une croyance déterministe aux bienfaits technologie, conception tolérante des mœurs vision libérale questions soci...

Background: To determine maternal risk factors and perinatal outcomes of preterm births in south-western Nigeria. Methods: A retrospective study of preterm and term deliveries in a tertiary hospital in Nigeria. The delivery records were reviewed and case files of preterm births were identified and retrieved. Perinatal outcomes were determined by review of the postnatal and special care baby uni...

This essay asks two related questions about the discipline of sociology in the United States during the middle decades of the twentieth century. The first of these questions is historical and comparative, and relates to the dominant epistemological orientation in U.S. sociology in the two decades after World War II. What accounts for the postwar narrowing of sociology’s epistemological and meth...

Johar Raza Syed, SIU Scholar. The Soci et e Internationale d’Urologie (SIU) offers Training Scholarships for young doctors with basic surgical or urological qualifications. The SIU Scholarships involve training in a recognized urological center of excellence located in the candidate’s geographic region. These SIU-accredited centers provide an excellent environment for learning and, in many inst...

Societies tend to partition into factions based on shared beliefs, leading sectarian conflict in soci-ety. This paper investigates mistrust as a cause for this partitioning by extending an established opinion dynamics model with Bayesian updating that specifies the underlying mechanism disagreement and, ultimately, polarisation. We demonstrate is at foundation of Detailed analysis and results r...