With its opening in March 1994, the Annette and Irwin Eskind Biomedical Library at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, launched a new era at the university's medical center. The new building is the culmination of much effort, involving the time and talents of many dedicated individuals. Because of its advanced technological features and its modernistic design, the building might be r...

Successful creativity management is the hallmark of a vital and prosperous advertising agency: "The most important function of an agency is designing creative ads" (Tellis, 1998: 93). It is the only organizational instance in which Creativity is the name of a department headed by a Creative Director. Creative thought is so valuable in advertising agencies that entire business structures are som...

There are errors in the Funding section. The correct funding information is as follows: This project was funded by the Ministry of Agriculture of the People’s Republic of China (2015NWB046) and the Program for the Top Young Talents in Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences (1630052015049). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or ...

Talents are the most important factor of all in the efforts to establish an innovative country. In universities and colleges, the bases for talent cultivation, the turnover of teachers in an explicit or recessive way calls for our urgent attention. This article aims at analyzing the complex causes of college teachers’ turnover from the perspective of institutional economics including Limitation...

Educational model innovating and capability improving of engineering education is the driving source of cultivating engineering talents. Combining with educational ideas and educational cycles of CDIO model, a new educational model is constructed for engineering education. The operating process of the new educational model is demonstrated according to objective conceiving, planning and designin...

1. A globalizing sports economy 1.1 The Economic Significance of Sport 1.2 From Sport Participation to Global Sport Markets 1.3 Sports and Economic (Under-) Development 2. Sports economics: the economic determinants and impact of sport activities 2.1. The economic determinants of sport performances 2.2. The economic impact of sports megaevents 2.3. The economic theory of professional team sport...

Correspondence: Jim Thomas, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, PO Box 999, MSIN K7-10, Richland, WA 99352, U.S.A. Tel: +15093752210. E-mail : [email protected] URL: http://NVAC.pnl.gov Abstract An emerging field of study, visual analytics, is briefly described, including its motivations and the emerging partnerships that are bringing the best talents and technologies to missions such as ho...

The depth and breadth of pathophysiology content, foundational for nursing practice, is well suited for traditional lecture delivery. Use of creative strategies can deepen students' understanding while respecting students' diverse talents and ways of learning. The authors discuss strategies they used, including case studies, questions asked during lecture using immediate feedback technology, cr...

Global neuroscience projects are producing big data at an unprecedented rate that informatic and artificial intelligence (AI) analytics simply cannot handle. Online games, like Foldit, Eterna, and Eyewire-and now a new neuroscience game, Mozak-are fueling a people-powered research science (PPRS) revolution, creating a global community of "new experts" that over time synergize with computational...

This article describes a detailed study on the background of “studying-training integration” system, a special athlete cultivation method in China. Using methods such as investigation , interview and literature review , the article searches the direction and opportunity of the reform on the cultivation system for athletes and proposes suggestions that we should restructure the sports talents cu...