China’s plan to recruit talented researchers

Attributes of researchers and their strategies to recruit minority populations: results of a national survey.

Despite NIH mandates for inclusion, recruiting minorities is challenging for biomedical and public health researchers. Little is known about how attributes of researchers affect their choice of recruitment strategies. The purpose of this study was to address this gap by examining how use of recruitment strategies relates to other researcher characteristics. To do this, we conducted an online su...

The PhD Ethos-Mythos: What Chances do Have Young Talented Researchers in Reality?

The nuclear tasks of universities did not change in the course of time. However, new responsibilities are added mostly depending on the en vogue zeitgeist, which does not necessarily facilitate strategic planning in an easy way. Because changes following the ideology of the spirit of the time are frequently not really adaptable to established structures. The classical parameters of university a...

Talented Imbeciles

The differential diagnosis of the type of feeblemindedness known as imbecility is by no means an artisan's job. No foot rule, scale, or point system has been devised or will ever be devised that will relieve the clinician of long, patient, and discriminating analysis in arriving at a diagnosis. An individual may be diagnosed or classified as an imbecile on the mental scale, on the intellectual ...

The highly talented child.

either before or during the period of immunosuppression does not necessarily confer protection. This is illustrated by two of our patients. Case reports Case 1. A boy, aged 3 years 5 months, first presented with a history of a progressive petechial rash. Physical examination showed pallor, bruising, and hepatosplenomegaly. A bone marrow aspirate confirmed a diagnosis of acute lymphoblastic leuk...

Gifted and talented students