Many students complete PhDs in functional programming each year. As a service to the community, twice per year Journal of Functional Programming publishes abstracts from PhD dissertations completed during previous The are made freely available on JFP website, i.e. not behind any paywall. They do require transfer copyright, merely license author. A dissertation is eligible for inclusion if parts...

We have searched MedLine (www.PubMed.gov) and journals of alternative medicine often having critical reviews not listed in MedLine, and we have included PhD dissertations and doctoral theses in the search. We found 7 metaanalyses and 4 reviews of whole groups of drugs. The search process was difficult as the concept "drug group" or similar high-level concepts were not commonly used, combined wi...

This work was carried out in the ASCI graduate school. ASCI dissertation series number 324.

For the 24th time in a row the Interuniversity Cardiology Institute of the Netherlands (ICIN-Netherlands Heart Institute) and the Netherlands Society of Cardiology (NVVC) supported the competition for the best three cardiovascular PhD theses published in the year 2012. The dissertation prize carries the name of one of the greatest Dutchmen in the history of cardiovascular medicine, Willem Einth...

The Ackermann Award is presented to the recipients at the annual conference of the EACSL. The jury is entitled to give more than one award per year. The award consists of a diploma, an invitation to present the thesis at the CSL conference, the publication of the abstract of the thesis and the citation in the CSL proceedings, and travel support to attend the conference. The first Ackermann Awar...

For the 27th time in a row the Netherlands Heart Institute (NHI, formerly ICIN) and the Netherlands Society of Cardiology (NVVC) supported the competition for the three best cardiovascular PhD theses, published in the year 2015 [1–5]. The dissertation prize carries the name of one of the greatest Dutchmen in the history of cardiovascular medicine, Willem Einthoven, who in 1902 for the first tim...

This paper analyzes the data now available in Australia’s coordinated Electronic Theses and Dissertations gateway to show the impact of high-level institutional policy decisions on population of the individual repositories. The paper shows that just like research article repositories, voluntary ETD deposition results in repositories collecting only about 15% of the available theses, whereas man...

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