In 1989, APS requested information from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Faculty Roster System (FRS) concerning the status of two groups of faculty members in US medical schools: 1) faculty who hold PhD degrees in physiology and 2) faculty members with appointments in departments of physiology. The data provided by the AAMC were used by the Long Range Planning Committee in th...

Adolescents identified before the age of 13 (N = 320) as having exceptional mathematical or verbal reasoning abilities (top 1 in 10,000) were tracked over 10 years. They pursued doctoral degrees at rates over 50 times base-rate expectations, with several participants having created noteworthy literary, scientific, or technical products by their early 20s. Early observed distinctions in intellec...

The work presented outlines my doctoral research in emotion and action based human computer interfaces, with the approach to create an open source framework. The idea is to find the suitable abstractions and interfaces to integrate different approaches to process input data to interpret user’s emotions and actions. Fusing and comparing alternatives for processing will help to find the appropria...

High expectations are set towards doctoral education in technology, management and business administration in any university, for instance, in terms of a four year time goal for a doctor’s degree. An increasing number of doctoral candidates pursue their studies on a part-time basis. Four-year throughput times and tightly scheduled doctoral programs do not necessarily apply for part-time doctora...