This panel shares the lessons learnt about the challenges and opportunities of running an IS PhD program in Africa by focusing on cases from Southern Africa, East Africa, and West Africa. The University of Cape Town, South Africa is running a successful PhD program on its own capacity, which can attract PhD candidates from many parts of the continent and beyond. Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia...

as medical sciences become more advanced and grow each day, so do the challenges of medical education. to overcome the new obstacles which are an inseparable part of science evolution, it is necessary to renew and improve the educational system .achieving this, requires individuals who are educated in the new methods of learning and therefore can lead others through educational system developme...

has met all requirements and is qualified for the medical study program, he/she is invited for an entrance examination. The applicant is informed about the date and place of the entrance examination in time. The examination is in the form of multiple-choice tests in Biology and Chemistry and it is carried out in English language. The test consists of 40 questions in each of the subjects and it ...

Modeling the optimal bid of wind power producers as price-makers is paramount for understanding the effect of their large-scale participation in electricity markets. We consider the problem of a wind power producer being a price-taker in the day-ahead market, but a price-maker in the balancing market, who aims at optimizing the expected revenues from these market floors. The problem is formulat...

Independent directors are normally elected to monitor management behaviour and protect the interests of minority shareholders, which maintains the effectiveness of internal governance. Based on the special context in China, where succeeding independent directors are often recommended by their predecessors, we examine the causes of this recommendation and the influence of these successors on cor...

Traditional underrepresented minority (URM) groups (African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Native Americans) remain underrepresented among physician-scientists. To address the dearth of URM physician-scientists, in 1993 the Weill Cornell/Rockefeller/Sloan Kettering Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program developed a pipeline program, Gateways to the Laboratory (Gateways), which focuses on increasing t...