Troubled times for academic science.

Anthropology's Disenchantment With the Cognitive Revolution

Beller, Bender, and Medin should be congratulated for their generous attempt at expressive academic therapy for troubled interdisciplinary relationships. In this essay, I suggest that a negative answer to the central question ("Should anthropology be part of cognitive science?") is not necessarily distressing, that in retrospect the breakup seems fairly predictable, and that disenchantment with...

Troubled girls, troubled futures The adverse adult outcomes of detained adolescent females

The study of this thesis is the result of a collaboration between the department of child and adolescent psychiatry of the VU University Medical Center and the academic center of child and adolescent psychiatry Curium-LUMC. The first thesis based on this study was performed by Dr. Elsa van der Molen, who obtained her PhD at Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC). CONTENTS Chapter 1 General int...

Building Public-Private Research Partnerships in Troubled Times

The Indian government is launching a series of new initiatives to boost public-private research partnerships and to jumpstart science-driven economic growth. But will the current global economic downturn hamper these efforts?

Academic health centers: a troubled future.

A Corpus-driven Food Science and Technology Academic Word List

The overarching goal of this study was to create a list of the most frequently occurring academic words in Food Science and Technology (FST). To this end, a 4,652,444-word corpus called Food Science and Technology Research Articles (FSTRA), which included 1,421 research articles (RAs) randomly selected from 38 journals across five sub-disciplines in FST, was developed. Frequency and range-based...