"Academic Studies Need Calmness"

The need for academic generalists

Academia should be willing to shoulder some of the responsibility for the current dearth of new therapeutic drugs. Our research funding is predicated on the assumption that it will bring value to society, but our emphasis on scientific specialization hinders our ability to add value when a broader vision is required. A solution is the creation of an academy of science generalists motivated to b...

What academic libraries need from e-publishers

While electronic publications can greatly increase a university community’s access to information, they also pose many challenges to the libraries charged with collecting and managing them. In the print environment, libraries purchase and own content in perpetuity, while in the electronic environment, they generally lease access to content for limited time periods on a subscription basis. This ...

Dynamic learning need reflection system for academic

The paper suggests a new concept DLNR (Dynamic Learning Need Reflection) and its system practically used in the education at a Japanese University. The effects, particularly on the learning of software agents, are analyzed. DLNR’s goal is to increase students' learning motivation through dynamically clarifying and reflecting their learning need. To achieve this goal, DLNR includes “prerequisite...

Addiction Studies in Iran Neuroscientists Need to Do More

Do We Need Discipline-Specific Academic Word Lists? Linguistics Academic Word List (LAWL)

This corpus-based study aimed at exploring the most frequently-used academic words in linguistics and compare the wordlist with the distribution of high frequency words in Coxhead’s Academic Word List (AWL) and West’s General Service List (GSL) to examine their coverage within the linguistics corpus. To this end, a corpus of 700 linguistics research articles (LRAC), consisting of approximately ...