Saturday, June 28, 2014

Education App

Education app needs funding
Covington News
A Covington business owner and single mother of four felt a disconnect between parents and teachers when her children kept bringing home notes ...
Amazon releases new TenMarks math education app for Kindle
CNET
Amazon released a TenMarks education app on Monday, the first visible product from the two companies since Amazon bought the math tool more ...
Do Education Apps Keep Kids Sharp or Just Plugged In?
NBCNews.com
Adults should question whether the purpose of educational apps is “really to help children become deeper thinkers and more excited learners or for ...
[New App] Programming Education App Udacity Hits The Play Store With More Courses Than You ...
Android Police
The official Android app has been released in conjunction with the show, allowing you to learn programming at your own pace from your Android ...
English education app testing waters in China
Chinadaily USA
Without a penny spent on advertising, Duolingo, a United States-based language-learning application, has become the largest online educational app ...
National Winning Student Teams in Verizon Innovative AppChallenge to Show Their Apps at D.C. ...
MarketWatch
"Verizon applauds the winning teams and all the students who entered the App Challenge," said Justina Nixon-Saintil, director of education programs ...
Isygames Teaches Heart and Lungs Anatomy With Fun andEducational App
Consumer Electronics Net
MADRID, June 5, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Award-winning science and education app developer Isygames today released the Heart and Lungs Lab app ...
New Customized Verizon Education Tech Tool Available
MarketWatch
Educational app recommends tools based on student-specific guidelines to help keep students engaged during the summer and school year.
No1 in 17 countries; Dinosaur app roars into charts
Consumer Electronics Net
Walking with Dinosaurs - Inside Their World won the BestEducation App of 2012 at the prestigious Appy Awards in San Francisco, but chart success ...
Managing app sprawl in higher education
Tech Page One
That's because IT departments face all the typical IT challenges, including app sprawl, as well as many that are specific to higher education. For one ...
Med School, Cognitive Science Inspire Award-winningEducation App | Games and Learning
By Lee Banville
The Osmosis app uses quizzes and user-contributed content to crowd-source medical education. If there is a time when students are under intense ...
Games and Learning
Apple - Education - iPad - Apps, Books, and More
apple.com
The App Store features over 65,000 education apps — designed especially for iPad — that cover a wide range of subjects for every grade level and ...
https://www.apple.com/education/ipad/apps-books-and-more/
Top Free in Education - Android Apps on Google Play
google.com
Shop Google Play on the web. Purchase and enjoy instantly on your Android phone or tablet without the hassle of syncing.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/category/.../topselling_free
Google Apps for Education
google.com
Announcing a preview of Classroom, a new tool coming to Google Apps for Education in September. Classroom weaves together Google Docs, Drive ...
www.google.com/enterprise/apps/education/
Windows 8 Apps for Teachers and Students - from Microsoft inEducation
microsoft.com
Featured Windows 8 apps for Education. Explore apps that can improve comprehension, concepts, literacy skills, increase reading speed, and much ...
www.microsoft.com/education/ww/...8/.../windows-apps.aspx
Top free education apps | Windows Phone Apps+Games Store (United States)
windowsphone.com
Free applications in education. ... Phones · Features ·Apps+Games · How-to. Explore. My Phone. Sign in · My Phone · Find My Phone · Purchase ...
www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/top-free.../education
Support for Tablets and iPad Devices | Digital textbooks and standards-alignededucational ...
discoveryeducation.com
Techbook iPad App digital textbook Discovery Education and Apple help bridge the digital divide with the new Discovery Education Techbook appfor ...
www.discoveryeducation.com//.../support-for-tablets-and-ipad...
Starfall Education App Catalog
starfall.com
Numbers. Starfall Numbers. Explore numbers with the magic of curiosity: the Starfall way! Learn More... Learn To Read. Children around the world ...
more.starfall.com/info/apps/starfall-education.php
Educational Apps for Android and Apple - Verizon Wireless
verizonwireless.com
Discover Verizon Wireless's recommendations for top apps for Android and Apple phones and tablets. Educate your children outside of the classroom.
www.verizonwireless.com/wcms/.../education-bundle.html
iPad App | Digital textbooks and standards-alignededucational resources - Discovery Education
discoveryeducation.com
Discovery Education and Apple help bridge the digital divide with the new Discovery Education Techbook App for the iPad now available at no cost ...
www.discoveryeducation.com/what-we-offer/.../index.cfm
Amazon.com: EducationApps for Android
amazon.com
Online shopping for Education from a great selection at Appsfor Android Store.
www.amazon.com/b?node=2478842011

Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Students Job

Mbo-students unhappy with career guidance
NL Times
The Youth Organization Vocational Education (JOB) has monitored students looking for training positions, and found that they have a hard time doing ...
Students have options for employment on campus
Purdue Exponent
Purdue offers a wide range of job opportunities for studentslooking to supplement their financial aid or just earn some extra spending money.
Millcreek teacher reflects on long career
GoErie.com
The student who, when interviewing for job teaching middle school math, ... I have students in my class that have dealt with things adults have never ...
Job Corps Center names students of the month
El Paso Inc.
The David L. Carrasco Job Corps Center honored sevenstudents at its June 10 student assembly. Raymundo Labrado was named the most ...
Airtel takes part in JKUAT Career Fair to inspire students
BusinessGhana
Airtel Kenya sponsored the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) annual Students CareerFair that sought to provide ...
SNU students disappointed by uninspiring programs
The Korea Herald
One student said he felt as though the university programs were designed for the sole purpose of teaching practical jobskills, rather than to actually ...
Lean Education: What College Students Can Learn From Lean Startups
Huffington Post
College students often face similar realities after graduating. ... A prospective student could try applying for a job with a fake name and with a resume ...
Employers want students to take engineering, not metal shop
Greensburg Daily News
All that was left were mostly low-paying, low-skilled jobs. ... with the help of local employers, creates a pipeline forstudents into two of Indiana's fastest ...
Kolhan University approaches employment exchange
Avenue Mail
The five-year-old university has written a letter to the localemployment ... The university has been trying to makestudents place in good companies.
Master's Programs in Fundraising Are Helping Students MeetJob Demands
Chronicle of Philanthropy (subscription)
Jonah Cardillo credits the fundraising management master's program at Columbia University with helping him land his jobat St. Mary's Healthcare ...

Student Visa

J1 Visa Exchange students sparking unlikely friendships
Seacoastonline.com
Paul Sorli, owner of the Portsmouth Gas Light Co., poses with three seasonal workers at the Market Street establishment in Portsmouth. From left are ...
BRIC Language Extends Application Deadline for Popular Chinese Business and Language Course
Einnews Portugal
The success of the program is due to BRIC's ability to grant astudent visa, customization of course work, and job placement opportunities following ...
Merimbula illegal workers sent to Villawood
Bega District News
The woman held a student visa with work rights, but had her visa cancelled on Monday when she was found to not be attending her approved course ...
The future of BC-Korea international education exchange
The Province (blog)
Slowly, the number of Chinese students entering B.C. has eclipsed those coming from Korea, due in part to an easing ofstudent VISA restrictions on ...

Medical Journal

Medical pot rule changes criticized
Albuquerque Journal
By Dan Boyd / Journal Staff Writer ... SANTA FE – Patients and producers in New Mexico's 7-year-old medical marijuana program lined up Monday to ...
Cartels, illegal growers exploit medical marijuana program
Statesman Journal
(Photo: KOBBI R. BLAIR / Statesman Journal file ) ... Loopholes in Oregon's medical marijuana program coupled with Mexican drug cartels continue to ...
Childhood family violence alters DNA, Tulane study of New Orleans kids shows
The Times-Picayune
That's according to a new study of 80 New Orleans area children published Monday in Pediatrics, the medical journal of the American Association of ...
Facilities Managers Recognition Awards 2014: David Leighton, Kaiser Permanente Santa Rosa ...
North Bay Business Journal
By Gary Quackenbush, Special to the Business Journal ... (325,000 square feet), five medical office buildings, including clinical space in Rohnert Park ...
One in four NSW school kids are overweight or obese
Medical Xpress
... one in four New South Wales school children are overweight or obese according to a University of Sydney study reported in today's Medical Journal ...
Is Your Shower Curtain Making You Fat?
Sturgis Journal
The study appeared in the Journal of the American MedicalAssociation in 2011. Using data from the 2003 to 2004 National Health and Nutrition ...
New study aims to rapidly test lung cancer drugs
Marietta Daily Journal
Like a medical version of speed dating, doctors will sort through multiple potential drugs and match patients to the one most likely to succeed based on ...
Adelson supports Florida's anti-pot campaign
Las Vegas Review-Journal
(David Becker/Las Vegas Review-Journal) ... Bascom's group maintains that the medical marijuana measure has a loophole that will allow people to ...
OHK Medical Devices Announces Publication of Kingston Hospital Study Results
DigitalJournal.com
OHK Medical Devices the leading manufacturer of the HemaClear® tourniquet announces the Journal of Surgery Research and Practice publication ...
Ross University School of Medicine Recognizes 2014 Graduates
DigitalJournal.com
MIRAMAR, Fla.--(Business Wire)--Ross University School ofMedicine (RUSM) conferred medical degrees at its annual commencement ceremony ...

PhD Theses

Tips for finishing your PhD thesis on time
Times Higher Education
She interviewed several PhD candidates at her institution as they were writing up their theses, in a bid to understand the factors that facilitate or ...
Varsity faculty waste public fund in the name of research
Times of India
Meanwhile, Calicut University is planning to recover the salaries and allowances paid to the teachers who had failed to submit their PhD theses.
SFI protest against Kannur varsity VC
The Hindu
The allegation was that he had submitted his thesis in two-and-a-half years while the minimum period required for submitting the PhD thesis for ...
EU: PhD quality assurance is on universities
InSerbia News
The EC is aware of the public controversy sparked by the quality of PhD theses and degrees issued by certain private universities in Serbia, he noted.
British Library EThOS - Search and order theses online
bl.uk
Search over 350,000 doctoral theses. Download instantly for your research, or order a scanned copy quickly and easily.
ethos.bl.uk/
Thesis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
wikipedia.org
PhD theses are usually over two hundred pages. This may vary greatly by discipline, program and/or college or university. However, normally the ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thesis
Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge » CompletedPhD Theses
cam.ac.uk
Completed Phd Theses. Here is a list of PhD thesescompleted in the recent past at the Faculty of Education. Name, Topic, Supervisor, Year of ...
www.educ.cam.ac.uk/people/doctoralstudents/theses/
Useful Things to Know About Ph. DThesis Research - Computer Science - Harvard University
harvard.edu
Introduction; Why Ph.Dthesis could be really difficult for a student; Types of Ph.Dtheses (from Allen Newell)--not a topic of this talk; Growth of a star ...
www.eecs.harvard.edu/~htk/thesis.htm
EPFL PhD Theses - Bibliothèque de l'EPFL
epfl.ch
This database includes all EPFL PhD theses (from 1920). The library is the official distributor. See also: EPFL PhD electronic theses - call to authors.
library.epfl.ch/en/theses/
How not to write a PhD thesis | General | Times Higher Education
timeshighereducation.co.uk
In this guide, Tara Brabazon gives her top ten tips fordoctoral failure. ... Another examiner enjoyed a thesis on “cult” but wondered why there were no ...
www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/...to.../410208.article
Find Dissertations and Theses-The Library-University of California, Berkeley
berkeley.edu
Find Dissertations and Theses. The sources listed below help you identify master's theses and doctoral dissertations. The UC Berkeley Library does ...
www.lib.berkeley.edu/find/types/dissertations.html
ProQuest - Dissertations
proquest.com
Your Premier Partner for Dissertation Publishing and Ordering. Whether you are publishing or ordering adissertation or thesis, ProQuest is the only ...
www.proquest.com/products-services/dissertations/
Brown CS: PhD Theses
brown.edu
2014. Aguiar, Derek: Genome-wide algorithms for haplotype assembly, haplotype phasing, and IBD inference • Sorin Istrail, advisor; Baldimtsi, Foteini ...
cs.brown.edu/research/pubs/theses/phd/
How to Find University of Minnesota Doctoral Dissertations - University of Minnesota Libraries
umn.edu
What dissertations and theses are available? Plan A With minor exceptions, all doctoral dissertations and all "Plan A" master's theses accepted by the ...
https://www.lib.umn.edu/libdata/page.phtml?page_id=969

Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Life Sciences



Economic Times
Nectar Lifesciences rallies 20% on reports of stake sale plans
NEW DELHI: Nectar Lifesciences Ltd rallied as much as 19.86 per cent in trade on Monday to hit its fresh 52-week of Rs 35, after global private equity ...
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Economic Times
Nectar Lifesciences put on the block, promoters to offload 44.35% stake
Global private equity fund New Silk Route-backed pharmaceutical maker Nectar Lifesciences has been put on the block, and IDFC investment bank ...
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d-Wise launches Clinical Advisory and Modernization Services for Life Science Sponsor and CRO ...
d-Wise, the leading life science and healthcare technology consulting and solution provider, announced today they are rolling out new Clinical ...
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BEST award for students' calf-meal feeder project
Science, engineering, life sciences, software development and the creative industries were to the fore during these 'Business & Education through ...
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Raspberry ketone! Where and How To Find Best raspb...
A study report published in Life Sciences suggests that raspberry ketone may be used as a weight loss dietary supplement because it has an ...
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Environmental Sciences


Studying frozen volcanoes in Iceland leads to sciencedegree
Erica Massey, graduating from UBC with a bachelor of science degree in earth and environmental sciences from the Irving K. Barber School of Arts ...
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Education Fund


Their View: State education funding inadequate
Their View: State education funding inadequate ... Illinois makes up the needed funding by using property taxes to fund our schools, causing undue ...
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Washington Post (blog)
Did Bill Gates fund an 'educational coup'?
They got it in the form of Race to the Top, a multibillion-dollar competition for federal educational fundslaunched in 2009 by Education Secretary Arne ...
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Public schools turn to private fund-raising around St. Louis
Public schools turn to private fund-raising around St. Louis .... cost, but they foresee the Ladue Education Foundation playing a large role in the effort.
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Gulf Times
Proposed fund would give parents school cash
Called the "Parent Empowerment Education Savings Account Act," HB 353 would allow parents to place a percentage of the per-student funding that ...
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Education issues dominated this year's session
Education funding and debate over the national Common Core standards ... The $7 billion general fund budget that lawmakers approved last week ...
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IPPmedia
Science varsity coming up in Bagamoyo town
For her part, PPF Marketing and Public relations manager Lulu Mengele said her office has disbursed 4.6bn/- from an education fund for sponsoring ...
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Newsworks.org
3 commonsense solutions to adequatelyfund public education in Pennsylvania
Students from Cook-Wissahickon Elementary School sang songs outside of Pa. Gov. Tom Corbett's office on Thursday to advocate for increased ...
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Education ruling could put $1.7 billion hole in Arizona budget
The Arizona Supreme Court determined the state has failed to adequatelyfund education under 2000's Proposition 301. At issue now is exactly how ...
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GEF takes on larger role in city schools
The Gloucester Education Foundation, playing a growing role in supporting the city's school system, has released an annual report spotlighting a ...
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Low fund balances add to district stress
It's when they are gone the trouble really starts, education experts predict. ... Collectively, districts estimate they will use some $1.2 billion in fund ...
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