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How postdocs benefit from building a union
eLife, 2014 Members of UAW 5810—the union for postdoctoral researchers at the University of California—describe how their union has led to improved terms and conditions for postdocs.
Benjamin Cain +4 more
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SystemsGlobal economic growth, marked by rising GDP and population, has spurred demand for essential goods including furniture. This study presents a comprehensive demand forecasting analysis for retail furniture sales in the U.S.
Melike Nur İnce, Çağatay Taşdemir
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A fair deal for PhD students and postdocs
eLife, 2013 The relentless expansion that threatens the sustainability of biomedical research in the US takes a heavy toll on young researchers.
Henry R Bourne
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The hidden perks of grad school [PDF]
Science, 2016 When I was in grad school, I couldn't wait to get out. The learning curve was distressingly steep, everyone seemed to know more than I did, and I was scraping by at just above the poverty line. That's why, after successfully convincing the university that I could graduate without being a total embarrassment, I was thrilled to take a job with a small ...
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Looking out for future scientists
eLife, 2014 Proposals to reduce the number of students who do PhDs are misguided, writes Eve Marder, because they would exclude young scientists with qualities that do not show up in exam results and interviews.
Eve Marder
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eLife, 2016 Faculty diversity is a longstanding challenge in the US. However, we lack a quantitative and systemic understanding of how the career transitions into assistant professor positions of PhD scientists from underrepresented minority (URM) and well ...
Kenneth D Gibbs Jr +3 more
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Graduate student dissonance: Graduate students of color in a U. S. research university [PDF]
, 2013 This qualitative investigation examined the experiences of a population of graduate students - graduate students of color - in a U. S. research university (a) to indicate reasons for their dilemmas, ambiguities, and decisions about choosing an academic ...
Haley, KJ, Jaeger, AJ, Levin, JS
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eLife, 2016 Recruiting PhD students can be a frustrating process, but Eve Marder looks forward to welcoming the latest crop in the autumn.
Eve Marder
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eLife, 2012 Following a career in science involves long hours and hard work, but as Eve Marder explains in the first of a series of columns, it can also be extremely rewarding.
Eve Marder
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The theorem about the transformer excitation current waveform mapping into the dynamic hysteresis loop branch for the sinusoidal magnetic flux case [PDF]
Serbian Journal of Electrical Engineering, 2015 This paper analyses aspects of the approximation theory application on the certain subsets of the measured samples of the transformer excitation current and the sinusoidal magnetic flux.
Petrović Nenad +2 more
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