This paper describes an alternative view of the internationalization process in higher education by comparing the traditional and non-traditional indicators on how the level of internationalization is measured; additionally, barriers that exist on both sides are reviewed and discussed. As higher education institutions are very accustomed to and focused on the number of international students, i...

We analyse governance in two mega construction projects (MCPs): Shanghai Hongqiao Integrated Transportation Hub (SHITH) project and Shanghai Hongqiao central Business district (SHCBD). We suggest that the governance of mega construction projects in China needs the participation of construction headquarter and three coordination platforms, namely, design coordination platform, schedule platform ...

The haplotype inference (HI) problem is the problem of inferring 2n haplotype pairs from n observed genotype vectors. This is a key problem that arises in studying genetic variation in populations, for example in the ongoing HapMap project [5]. In order to have a hope of finding the haplotypes that actually generated the observed genotypes, we must use some (implicit or explicit) genetic model ...

The Sustainable Forestry and African American Land Retention Program is a comprehensive effort to address the long-standing problem of underparticipation of African Americans in forest management. We conducted rapid appraisal baseline research for pilot projects in this program in three Southern states using a carefully selected purposive sample to enhance our understanding of minority landowne...

SUMMARY seeQTL is a comprehensive and versatile eQTL database, including various eQTL studies and a meta-analysis of HapMap eQTL information. The database presents eQTL association results in a convenient browser, using both segmented local-association plots and genome-wide Manhattan plots. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION seeQTL is freely available for non-commercial use at http://www.bios.un...

We split each autosome in to non-overlapping segments of 80 SNPs and a new version of PHASE (v2.1) that deals with father-mother-child trios was applied to each segment in turn. We used the default settings of PHASE and took the most likely haplotype reconstruction returned by the program as the infered haplotypes. To link the haplotypes from each segment back together we used the information a...

UNLABELLED Recent technological developments in measuring genetic variation have ushered in an era of genome-wide association studies which have discovered many genes involved in human disease. Current methods to perform association studies collect genetic information and compare the frequency of variants in individuals with and without the disease. Standard approaches do not take into account ...