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Career Profile: Greg Coxson, Mathematical Engineer

Career Profile: Greg Coxson, Mathematical Engineer

Many New Faces, but Nothing New? The Sociodemographic and Career Profiles of German Bundestag Members in the Eighteenth Legislative Period

The 2013 Bundestag election saw a very high turnover in MPs. The FDP, which previously held ninety-three seats in the Bundestag did not get re-elected, and about 100 members had announced their retirement prior to the election. This article looks at whether the 217 new members have a significantly different sociodemographic and career profile to the re-elected members. While providing an insight into the sociodemographic profiles and career tracks of German MPs, the article finds that not much has changed in sociodemographic profiles and career tracks to the Bundestag. Changes in the occupational structure, however, signal that for more and more MPs politics is becoming a long-term career.

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Update on the status and future of acute care surgery: 10 years later.

Ten years ago, the specialty of trauma surgery was considered to be in crisis. Since then, the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST) created a position paper, and acute care surgery (ACS) has matured. A repeat survey of EAST members is indicated to evaluate the progress of ACS. A survey was e-mailed to EAST members. Results were evaluated and compared with the previous position paper and survey. The response rate was 15%. More than three fourths of the respondents were male, and just less than one fourth of them were female. More than half of the respondents were in practice for less than 10 years. Seventy-three percent were involved in research, although only 16% were allotted protected time. Most respondents felt that reimbursement for their effort was inadequate: 54% thought reimbursement was fair for trauma care, 59% for critical care, 49% for nontrauma ACS, and 62% for general surgery. The biggest incentive to a career in ACS was that it was a challenging and exciting activity; the biggest disincentive was working at night. Seventy-two percent expressed satisfaction with their career profile, and 92% were either very or somewhat happy with their career. Sixty-six percent did feel either somewhat or very burned out. Surgeons were interested in learning more about contract negotiation, business/managerial issues, and billing/coding. Compared with the previous survey, overall career satisfaction seems stable. Most surgeons are satisfied with a career in ACS. There are still some facets of the career that warrant improvement. Focus on surgeon satisfaction may lead to enhancements in patient care.

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Anthropology NewsVolume 55, Issue 5 p. e46-e76 Section News Section News First published: 08 October 2014 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1556-3502.2014.55506.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Abstract ASSOCIATION OF LATINA AND LATINO ANTHROPOLOGISTS | Siobhán Mattison and Adam Boyette, eds. “The Discriminatory Politics of Typesetting” by Rocio Magana CULTURE AND AGRICULTURE | Elizabeth Olson and Greg de St Maurice, ed. “Robert M Netting Best Student Paper Prize” SOCIETY FOR EAST ASIAN ANTHROPOLOGY | Heidi Lam and Yi Zhou, eds. “The Anthropology of Confucius Institutes” by Jennifer Hubbert MIDDLE EAST SECTION | Rehenuma Asmi, ed. “Interview with Neha Vora, Author of Impossible Citizens: Dubai's Indian Diaspora” SOCIETY FOR LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY | Aaron Ansell and Susanne Unger, eds. “Auctioning American Democracy” SOCIETY FOR URBAN NATIONAL AND TRANSNATIONAL/GLOBAL ANTHROPOLOGY | Susan Falls, ed. “(De) Criminalizing Homelessness in Columbus, OH” by Maegan Miller SOCIETY FOR THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF RELIGION | Christian S Hammons, ed. “Review of ‘The On and the Many’” by Rachel Jones ASSOCIATION FOR FEMINIST ANTHROPOLOGY | Damla Isik and Jessica Smith Rolston, eds. “Transforming Discourses and Practices through Informal Dialogue” by Aisha Rios ASSOCIATION FOR POLITICAL AND LEGAL ANTHROPOLOGY | Leo Coleman and Allison Fish, eds. “Demystifying the APLA Section Presidency” by Susan Bibler Coutin SOCIETY FOR MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY | Megan Carney, ed. “Developing Obesity Prevention Programs and Resources Targeting Preschool and Kindergarten Children in Mississippi” by Ginger Cross, Julie Parker, Sydney Hall, Lisa Long, Sara Gallman, Gloria Broughan, Laura Walton, Donna Loden and Chiquita Briley NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE PRACTICE OF ANTHROPOLOGY | Jo Aiken, ed. “NAPA Career Profiles: Ted (Edward C) Green” by Kristy Keller SOCIETY FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY | Nadia El-Shaarawi, ed. “SPA 2013 Prize Winners and Lemelson Funding Recipients” SOCIETY FOR THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF NORTH AMERICA | Maggie Dickinson, ed. “Kim Hopper, Carol Vance and the Precarious Professoriate” SOCIETY FOR ANTHROPOLOGY IN COMMUNITY COLLEGES | Barbara Jones, ed. “Food for Thought at SACC Fest 2014” NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE PRACTICE OF ANTHROPOLOGY | Jo Aiken, ed. “LTG Associates Receives Grant to Explore Childhood Obesity Prevention” by Nathaniel Tashima, Cathleen Crain, Reiko Ishihara-Brito and Lillie Dao COUNCIL ON ANTHROPOLOGY AND EDUCATION | Melissa Fellin, ed.“Anthropology is Elementary and Can Be Taught There” by Christopher D Lynn, Virgil Roy Beasley, Anna S Cohen, H Francois Dengah II, J Lynn Funkhouser, Kelsey Herndon, and A Brooke Persons ASSOCIATION OF BLACK ANTHROPOLOGISTS | Diana Burnett and Tiffany Cain, eds. “US Prisons” by Orisanmi Burton Volume55, Issue5May 2014Pages e46-e76 RelatedInformation

Ademographic and career profile of municipalCAOsinCanada: Implications for local governance

AbstractLittle has been written about the Canadian municipal chief administrative officer (CAO). Given the growing importance of municipalities, it is an important gap in the literature. This article depictsCAOsas a group of older white men, highly educated and very experienced. Given the impending retirement of a significant number ofCAOs, municipalities have an opportunity to achieve a greater degree of representativeness. The authors identify a number of research trajectories to enhance our knowledge and understanding of this critical administrative position.SommaireIl existe peu de documents sur les chefs des services municipaux auCanada. Étant donné l'importance croissante des municipalités, cela représente une grave lacune dans la documentation. Cet article décrit les chefs des services municipaux comme un groupe d'hommes blancs d'un certain âge, ayant un haut niveau d'études et une grande expérience. Comme un grand nombre d'entre eux vont prendre leur retraite d'ici peu, les municipalités ont une occasion de parvenir à un plus grand degré de représentativité. Les auteurs identifient un certain nombre de pistes de recherche pour améliorer nos connaissances et notre compréhension de cette fonction administrative cruciale.

A tete-a-tete with Professor Xin Yao, President of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS), 2014-2015 [Career Profile

Prof. Yao, a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham, UK, whose works have won numerous awards, has served in various executive positions in IEEE CIS and other organizations for many years. Growing up in Fuzhou, Fujian Province in Southeast China, Prof. Yao moved to Hefei in 1978 to attend university then to Beijing in 1982 for his Masters before returning to Hefei in 1985 to pursue his PhD. In 1990, a few months after his PhD thesis was submitted,Prof. Yao accepted a postdoctoral fellowship in Australia. In 1999, Prof. Yao, together with his wife and their son moved to UK where he is currently based and especially enjoys teaching "Introduction to Evolutionary Computation" and "Introduction to Natural Computation".

The Making of Careers in Academia: Split Career Movements in Education Science

In this article the authors discuss developments in the Europeanisation of higher education policy context of Sweden, and in particular certain changes within the field of education science. Detailed career narratives from 30 interviews have been produced and analysed. These narratives illustrate how research careers in education are formed and conditioned by institutional demands, forms of career capital and the actions of researchers. In the making of careers in academia, the authors point out how some researchers get access to resources that make them competitive and influential, and that those with an already strong research career capital tend accumulate more of this. They also point out that researchers with a background in teaching seem to find it harder to develop research careers as they seem to be bound to forms of career capital that are seen as more needed in teaching. Accordingly, two career profiles have been identified: the successful and the supportive researchers, respectively.

Perfiles de carrera en Educación Superior: Un estudio en la Universidad Pedagógica de Mozambique

In the present study we analyzed the simultaneous relation between the processes of career exploration and academic adjustment, in order to identify career profiles in Higher Education. The sample included 135 undergraduate students from the Pedagogical University in Maputo, Mozambique, enrolled in a Teacher Training program. A Career Exploration Scale and an Academic Adjustment Questionnaire were used as data collection instruments. Through the use of a clustering analysis, three distinct career action and experiential profiles were identified: resilient, constructive and conformist. The results showed that career exploration is related to different modes of academic adjustment and that intervention in higher education should consider inter-individual differences in academic and occupational development. In the present study we analyzed the simultaneous relation between the processes of career exploration and academic adjustment, in order to identify career profiles in Higher Education. The sample included 135 undergraduate students from the Pedagogical University in Maputo, Mozambique, enrolled in a Teacher Training program. A Career Exploration Scale and an Academic Adjustment Questionnaire were used as data collection instruments. Through the use of a clustering analysis, three distinct career action and experiential profiles were identified: resilient, constructive and conformist. The results showed that career exploration is related to different modes of academic adjustment and that intervention in higher education should consider inter-individual differences in academic and occupational development. In the present study we analyzed the simultaneous relation between the processes of career exploration and academic adjustment, in order to identify career profiles in Higher Education. The sample included 135 undergraduate students from the Pedagogical University in Maputo, Mozambique, enrolled in a Teacher Training program. A Career Exploration Scale and an Academic Adjustment Questionnaire were used as data collection instruments. Through the use of a clustering analysis, three distinct career action and experiential profiles were identified: resilient, constructive and conformist. The results showed that career exploration is related to different modes of academic adjustment and that intervention in higher education should consider inter-individual differences in academic and occupational development.

The Z-index: A geometric representation of productivity and impact which accounts for information in the entire rank-citation profile

We present a simple generalization of Hirsch's h-index, Z≡h2+C/5, where C is the total number of citations. Z is aimed at correcting the potentially excessive penalty made by h on a scientist's highly cited papers, because for the majority of scientists analyzed, we find the excess citation fraction (C−h2)/C to be distributed closely around the value 0.75, meaning that 75% of the author's impact is neglected. Additionally, Z is less sensitive to local changes in a scientist's citation profile, namely perturbations which increase h while only marginally affecting C. Using real career data for 476 physicists careers and 488 biologist careers, we analyze both the distribution of Z and the rank stability of Z with respect to the Hirsch index h and the Egghe index g. We analyze careers distributed across a wide range of total impact, including top-cited physicists and biologists for benchmark comparison. In practice, the Z-index requires the same information needed to calculate h and could be effortlessly incorporated within career profile databases, such as Google Scholar and ResearcherID. Because Z incorporates information from the entire publication profile while being more robust than h and g to local perturbations, we argue that Z is better suited for ranking comparisons in academic decision-making scenarios comprising a large number of scientists.

Career Profiles of the Generation Y in Brazil

Generation is presented as an emergent theme in people management in Brazil and other countries. Considering the need for empirical national studies, this research has the objective of identifying the career profiles of Generation Y members in Brazil. Career profile groups the subjects according to the presence of protean and boundaryless career attitudes. This research is descriptive, quantitative and the data collection was made through an electronic survey that was based on scales validated in the U.S.A. and Brazil. The sample is non- probabilistic and was composed by 2.376 respondents. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, cluster analysis and the chi-square were used to analyze the data. The results affirm the validity and reliability of the instrument. Eight career profiles were identified. The predominant profile was the “Protean Career Architect” that has high presence of the career attitudes investigated. The profile with smaller representation was the “Lost” that has low presence of these attitudes. The new careers are a reality for the young Brazilians. Nevertheless, there is a small part of the sample with low career attitudes in several dimensions, indicating that it is a movement and cannot be considered as a fact for all the people studied.

The Data Management Skills Support Initiative: Synthesising Postgraduate Training in Research Data Management

This paper will describe the efforts and findings of the JISC Data Management Skills Support Initiative (‘DaMSSI’). DaMSSI was co-funded by the JISC Managing Research Data programme and the Research Information Network (RIN), in partnership with the Digital Curation Centre, to review, synthesise and augment the training offerings of the JISC Research Data Management Training Materials (‘RDMTrain’) projects.DaMSSI tested the effectiveness of the Society of College, National and University Libraries’ Seven Pillars of Information Literacy model (SCONUL, 2011), and Vitae’s Researcher Development Framework (‘Vitae RDF’) for consistently describing research data management (‘RDM’) skills and skills development paths in UK HEI postgraduate courses.With the collaboration of the RDMTrain projects, we mapped individual course modules to these two models and identified basic generic data management skills alongside discipline-specific requirements. A synthesis of the training outputs of the projects was then carried out, which further investigated the generic versus discipline-specific considerations and other successful approaches to training that had been identified as a result of the projects’ work. In addition we produced a series of career profiles to help illustrate the fact that data management is an essential component – in obvious and not-so-obvious ways – of a wide range of professions.We found that both models had potential for consistently and coherently describing data management skills training and embedding this within broader institutional postgraduate curricula. However, we feel that additional discipline-specific references to data management skills could also be beneficial for effective use of these models. Our synthesis work identified that the majority of core skills were generic across disciplines at the postgraduate level, with the discipline-specific approach showing its value in engaging the audience and providing context for the generic principles.Findings were fed back to SCONUL and Vitae to help in the refinement of their respective models, and we are working with a number of other projects, such as the DCC and the EC-funded Digital Curator Vocational Education Europe (DigCurV2) initiative, to investigate ways to take forward the training profiling work we have begun.

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Career Profile - Marieanne Bubb-McGhee, Gloucestershire

Why promote sold‐out concerts? A Durkheimian analysis

PurposeThe aim of this research paper is to examine why concert promoters sometimes advertise sold‐out live music shows when nobody can buy tickets any longer.Design/methodology/approachDurkheim's theory of religion as a thrilling social activity is used to hypothesize that the advertising of sold‐out events reminds audiences that star performers are popular and therefore helps to generate the “buzz” around them. Interviews with a series of promoters from the USA, UK and Canada revealed, however, that they see more immediate and mundane reasons for advertising sold‐out shows, including building the artist's career profile and training consumers to buy next time round.FindingsIt was found that promoters could also organize the sales and advertising process to bring sold‐out events into being. While their explanations diverged from a Durkheimian schema, the results of their actions did not. In effect they serendipitously did cultural work to further the Durkheimian process without being consciously concerned by it as an explanation of motives.Originality/valueThis paper suggests that the Durkheimian model illuminates a point of connection between commerce and affect in the reception of star performances. Further research on live music using the model as a hypothesis may therefore be useful.

Interview with the President of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, Marios M. Polycarpou [Career Profile

Interview with the President of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, Marios M. Polycarpou [Career Profile

ОРГАНІЗАЦІЯ НАВЧАЛЬНОЇ ДІЯЛЬНОСТІ УЧНІВ З ДОПРОФІЛЬНОЇ ПІДГОТОВКИ У КОМП’ЮТЕРНО ОРІЄНТОВАНОМУ СЕРЕДОВИЩІ

Школи України з 2010 року перейшли на профільне навчання. Для обрання профілю навчання і майбутньої професії учні проходять навчання за курсом з допрофільної підготовки. Загальною тенденцією світового і європейського досвіду розвитку старшої профільної школи є її орієнтація на широку диференціацію, варіативність, багатопрофільність. У статті описаний досвід і дослідження впровадження елективного навчального курсу з допрофільної підготовки. Комп’ютерні технології в програмі використані як засіб розвитку і формування життєво необхідних навичок. Наведені цілі й завдання курсу і деякі результати впровадження курсу в загальноосвітніх навчальних закладах України. Розкриті особливості організації навчальної діяльності учнів з допрофільної підготовки у комп’ютерно орієнтованому середовищі.

Carreira tradicional versus carreira autodirigida ou proteana: um estudo comparativo sobre a satisfação com a carreira, a profissão e o trabalho

Este estudo objetivou verificar se as atitudes e os valores dos profissionais que atualmente se inserem ou se encontram no mercado de trabalho são mais aderentes à ideia da carreira tradicional ou à da carreira autodirigida/proteana. Buscou identificar, ainda, as âncoras de carreira dos entrevistados, o grau de satisfação com a carreira, com a profissão e com o trabalho, assim como a relação entre estas variáveis. O instrumento de coleta de dados utilizado foi o questionário, e a amostra foi composta por 113 estudantes de Graduação e de Pós-Graduação Lato e Stricto Sensu em Administração. Como resultado, encontrou-se a âncora de carreira “Estilo de Vida” com a média mais elevada, indicando a tendência de se buscar uma carreira que permita integrar as necessidades pessoais, familiares e de trabalho. Detectou-se aqui uma maior inclinação dos pesquisados para trilhar a carreira autodirigida ou proteana, e não foram encontradas correlações entre âncoras de carreira e satisfação com a carreira, indicando que não h determinada âncora que possa proporcionar maior satisfação profissional do que outra. O estudo contribui com a proposição de questões acerca do perfil de carreira que vem sendo adotado e com a identificação do nível de satisfação do profissional, além de recomendar uma revisão da escala de Âncoras de Carreira, de maneira a aumentar sua confiabilidade.

Interview with Professor Lotfi A. Zadeh [Career Profile

Interview with Professor Lotfi A. Zadeh [Career Profile

Interview with Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS) [Career Profile

Interview with Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS) [Career Profile