Saturday, August 20, 2011

Belgium PhD Scholarship in Biosensors at Hasselt University

Hasselt University offers Doctorate Studentship Biosensors (miniaturised biosensors for marker-proteins), Belgium
Study Subject(s):Biosensors (miniaturised biosensors for marker-proteins)
Course Level :P hD
Scholarship Provider: Hasselt University
Scholarship can be taken at: Belgium
Eligibility: -Master in physics, engineering or biomedical sciences (or equivalent).
-Final-year students are (likewise) encouraged to apply.
-The candidate has research interest;
-Good knowledge of English; research experience (eg master thesis) is considered as a benefit willingness to perform research in a interdisciplinary context
Scholarship Open for International Students: Yes

Scholarship Description: The starting point are nano- and en microstructures (nanowires, waveguides) based on semiconducting materials such as synthetic diamond, silicon, and conjugated polymers, which serve as an immobilization platform for the coupling of specific receptor molecules. The molecular recognition of marker proteins will be detected on basis of the resulting changes of the electronic and optical properties of the underlying nanowires. This project combines elements from several scientific domains including electronics and photonics at the nanostructure level, the biochemistry of surfaces, and the medical diagnostics. Within the framework of this project, there will be a close interaction with the Faculty of Engineering at Ghent University and the Faculty of Bio-engineering at the Catholic University Leu.
How to Apply: Online
Scholarship Application Deadline: no later than 31 August 2011
Further Scholarship Information and Application

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

In Future Math Whizzes, Signs of ‘Number Sense’


  Children as young as 3 have a “number sense” that may be correlated with mathematical aptitude, according to a new study.
Will Kirk/JHU
Melissa Libertus, a post-doctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University.
Melissa Libertus, a psychologist at Johns Hopkins University, and colleagues looked at something called “number sense,” an intuition — not involving counting — about the concepts of more and less. It exists in all people, Dr. Libertus said, including infants and indigenous peoples who have had no formal education.
The researchers measured this intuition in preschoolers by displaying flashing groups of blue and yellow dots on a computer screen. The children had to estimate which group of dots was larger in number. Since the display was fleeting, they had to use their number sense rather than count the dots.
Children with a better number sense were also better at simple math problems the researchers posed. The children were asked to count the number of images on a page out loud, read Arabic numbers and make other simple calculations.
Previous studies have shown that there is a connection between number sense and mathematical ability in adolescents. But this is the first study to explore the connection in children with little formal education.
“We were interested in the earliest math abilities that children have, from before they enter school,” Dr. Libertus said. Understanding this could help level the playing field in mathematics among children.
Dr. Libertus hopes that, with more insight, games or training programs could be developed for children to improve their number sense.
The research is reported in a recent issue of the journal Developmental Science.

Friday, August 12, 2011

Join Us for MySQL Webcasts in August

Get the Latest Information on the World’s Most Popular Open Source Database
Don’t miss your opportunity to learn about the latest MySQL developments via our free Webcasts in April. The free sessions include live presentations and interactive Q&A.

MySQL Replication: Tips and Tricks
Thursday, August 11, 2011, 9:00 A.M. PT  (English)
Replication is a versatile tool to solving many problems in today's highly dynamic modern web architectures, as well as offering many ways to simplify maintenance.In this session, the MySQL replication developers will present a bag of useful tips and tricks related to the MySQL 5.5 GA and MySQL 5.6 Development Milestone Release.
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Building High Performance and High Traffic PHP Applications with MySQL - Part 2: Best Practices
Tuesday, August 16, 2011, 9:00 A.M. PT  (English)
This session will cover the following topics to enable you improve the performance of your PHP applications, including: connection options and costs, buffered and unbuffered queries and handling multi-statement and multi-result. Join this technical session and learn the first-hand knowledge from the PHP experts from MySQL!
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What’s New in MySQL 5.6
Thursday, August 18, 2011, 9:00 A.M. PT  (English)
In the first session of this 5-part Webinar series, we’ll cover the highlights of those enhancements to help you begin the development and testing efforts around the new features and improvements that are now available in the latest MySQL 5.6 Development Milestone and MySQL Labs releases.
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MySQL Workbench for ISVs and OEMs: Better MySQL Database Applications by Design 
Tuesday, August 23, 2011, 9:00 A.M. PT  (English)
In this webcast, you will learn how MySQL Workbench can increase your productivity and database design through improved conceptualization, communication, building, and maintenance of key business metadata. Learn how to use MySQL Workbench to create new data models; modify existing database designs;perform database change control and document all your databases.
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MySQL Cluster: Scaling Web Databases with Auto-Partitioning and SQL / NoSQL Access
Friday, August 26, 2011, 10:30 A.M. Mumbai Time, 13:00 Singapore Time  (English)
This webcast will discuss best practices in scaling services on-demand for high volumes of reads and writes, and provide insight on the range of NoSQL and SQL access methods available to developers.
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Building High Performance and High Traffic PHP Applications with MySQL - The Fundamentals
Tuesday, August 30, 2011, 10:00 A.M. CET  (French)
In this webcast we will walk through the fundamentals of creating dynamic web content using MySQL and PHP. We will also discuss many of the building blocks and key considerations when you architect your PHP applications, including the frameworks, APIs, security features, and asynchronous queries.
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Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Oracle University. Be Our Guest! Web Seminar on MySQL 5.5 Features

FREE Web Seminar!
MySQL 5.5 Feature Enhancements

Oracle University invites you to join us for a FREE one-hour Web Seminar that introduces you to the features of MySQL 5.5. This seminar, presented by Oracle expert trainer Ron Soltani, will review all the feature enhancements from 5.1, added for better database performance, more intelligent management, and high availability.

This MySQL 5.5 Features Web Seminar covers:
  • Overview of MySQL database and its structure
  • Storage engines and 5.5 enhancements
  • Upgraded utilities to better manage performance using system monitoring and alerts
  • The new Performance_Schema to better monitor performance and wait events
  • Enhancements in High Availability, replication and clustering
  • Educational offerings and certification
See how you can learn locally when you take your Oracle training.
Oracle University now features Live Virtual Classes, online learning with live delivery of lectures and labs. The trainers are Oracle University expert instructors who deliver an educational experience that is comparable to our traditional in-class training—without the need for expensive travel. In this Web Seminar, you will see online learning in action.

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Monday, August 8, 2011

USA: Boren Scholarships for Undergraduate Students to Study Abroad

Abroad-2011
Study Subject: science, technology, engineering and mathematics
Employer: Institute of International Education
Level: Undergraduate and Graduate
Scholarship Description: Boren Scholarships and Fellowships provide unique funding opportunities for U.S. undergraduate and graduate students to add an important international and language component to their educations. We focus on geographic areas, languages, and fields of study that are critical to U.S. national security, broadly defined, and underrepresented in study abroad.
Boren Scholarships promote long term linguistic and cultural immersion, and therefore study abroad proposals for two or more semesters are strongly encouraged. Preference will be given to undergraduate applicants proposing a full-year academic study. Boren-funded programs can begin no earlier than June 1. Summer-only programs must be eight (8) weeks or more and are limited to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) students. To learn more about this special STEM.

Scholarship Application Deadline:
February 9, 2012

Sunday, August 7, 2011

EU/UK Postgraduate Research Degree Studentships (Design and Media) Read more: EU/UK Postgraduate Research Degree Studentships (Design and Media)

Norwich University College of the Arts is a dynamic, modern and creative community providing art, design and media education from a unique campus in the heart of Norwich. We have an international reputation for producing world-class research in Art, Design and Media Interpretation and Curation, and Moving Image and Sound.
The University College is offering two fees-only Postgraduate Research Degree Studentships in Design or Media to suitably qualified applicants who wish to undertake full or part time research study towards an MPhil or PhD qualification, starting in October 2011. Due to funding, the studentships are open to EU and UK applicants who wish to pursue either practice-based or text-based research.
We welcome research degree proposals in the areas of Design and Media Practice, Interpretation and Curation. In these areas we can offer supervisory expertise in the subjects of Animation, Sound, Curation, Design History, Textile Design, and Typography.
Closing date for applications: Wednesday 31st August 2011
Application packs available at www.nuca.ac.uk/job-opportunities, email jobs@nuca.ac.uk or telephone 01603 756243.


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Saturday, August 6, 2011

PhD Research Studentship Climate-change adaptation of pig buildings: development of novel designs and energy conservation strategies to reduce the carbon footprint

This is an excellent opportunity to join a growing research team and develop a range of highly desirable transferable skills within engineering and precision agriculture principles applied to livestock production.
For intensive pig producers, rising energy prices are a serious concern, as a significant amount of energy is directly used for the ventilation and space heating of animals.  The application of novel materials and energy saving techniques has been given high priority in the built environment in recent times. Such adaptation measures can reduce energy costs significantly for the pig industry, as there is a growing need to adopt climate-adaptation measures for sustainable building use into the future.
The proposed project will analyse the current, most significant, energy saving technologies available for the built environment, ranging from building materials to microclimate control, in an effort to develop energy efficient building configuration for the UK climate of the future. During the project, a wide range of adaptation measures will be evaluated for indoor building environmental performance (thermal comfort), as well as heating and cooling energy consumption. The focus will be on adapting the building envelope by developing physical "scaled-down" models and numerical simulation. 'High-resolution whole-building simulation', which refers to the combination of Building Energy Simulation, Building Envelope Heat-Air-Moisture transfer models (BEHAM) and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) models, will be employed for different climate scenarios. This combination is particularly important for the evaluation of new materials and ventilation and energy conservation techniques for different climatic scenarios. The building envelope adaptation measures to be evaluated will include comfort, energy efficiency as well as active and passive heating/cooling measures, and therefore will allow the feasibility of hybrid natural/mechanical systems for use in pig buildings to be assessed.
This PhD studentship is funded by BPEX, a division of the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board that represents pig levy payers in the UK, along with contributions from HAUC.
For informal enquiries applicants may contact the Director of Studies, Dr Tomas Norton (HAUC) (tnorton@harper-adams.ac.uk).
The successful applicant will normally be expected to hold either a First or Upper Second Class Honours degree in an appropriate engineering related subject. Interest in instrumentation, computer programming and physical processes (heat, air, moisture and pollution transfer) in the built environment is essential.
Applications are invited from suitably qualified persons from EU and non-EU countries. A minimum level of competency in English is required. International applicants need to be classed as an overall Grade 6.5 using the International English Language Test System (IELTS) or equivalent Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) or PTE score.
Further information on Harper Adams University College and the above Studentship can be found at:  www.harper-adams.ac.uk         http://jobs.harper-adams.ac.uk
Closing date for applications: Friday 2 September 2011

PhD Scholarship Optical and Quantum Optical Communications

The School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering has a doctoral training grant available for UK and EU students. These prestigious awards are made by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). Awards are available in the area of Optical and Quantum Optical Communications.
The available project addresses the future generation of optical communication networks where multiple users wish to utilise the same infrastructure, namely, optical fibre, for both classical and quantum communication applications. This is in essence similar to a classical multiple-access problem, such as that of mobile communication, where multiple users communicate via a shared communication channel. In such hybrid quantum-classical networks, this feature must be extended to include Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) applications, where we are dealing with optical signals as weak as a single photon.
QKD provides unbreakable, future-proof, security against the vulnerabilities of most cryptosystems currently in operation. To this point, QKD has been implemented mostly over dedicated channels and between two parties. Before current communication vulnerabilities are exploited, it is essential to facilitate the use of QKD technology for any two public users at any distance, via a network. This project includes theoretical study of various network configurations in terms of their secret-key generation rate, cost, and reliability, as well as their compatibility with existing/future optical communication networks.
The successful candidate will work at the intersection of quantum information science and optical communications, and will be in close contact with researchers and scientists in the Institute of Integrated Information Systems as well as the Quantum Information Group at the University of Leeds. All interested candidates with background in engineering, physics, or mathematics are encouraged to apply. The successful candidate should start no later than 1 October 2011.
How are they awarded?
To be considered you should make a formal application for PhD study either on line through the University website, or on the University's application form. Information of how to apply on line can be found on the University's pages. Please state clearly that you wish to be considered for a DTG award in the finance section.
How much are they worth?
The award covers academic fees, an annual maintenance award of approximately £13,590 in the first year (typically rising with inflation for subsequent years) and additional funds for fieldwork and travel. Awards are for 3.5 years, subject to satisfactory performance.
To be eligible for the award, you must have been resident in the United Kingdom for at least 3 years preceding the start date of the award, and eligible to pay fees at the home/EU rate. EU candidatures who have been resident in the UK for three years (including for education) are eligible for the full award. Other EU candidates may receive a fees-only award.
How many are available?   1
When's the deadline?   31 August 2011
If you have any questions regarding this scheme please contact the Graduate School Office, e: phd@engineering.leeds.ac.uk.

Timetabling Officer Examinations, Timetabling and Events (ETE)

Timetabling Officer - JC1021 (Ref: 1021)
This is an excellent opportunity to join the Registry and its Examinations, Timetabling and Events (ETE) Team. You will be reporting to the Registry Operations Manager and be part of a busy and changing environment. Whilst engaging with the full range of activities undertaken by the ETE Team, you will be responsible for the operational planning and management of the central Timetabling and Room Booking Service to assure the University's teaching provision.  You will also make an important contribution to improving student experience and space utilization helping to align the use of the University's teaching spaces with its Learning and Teaching Strategy. While the University has a well-established timetabling system, the timetable is still largely based on historical information and practices. You will have the opportunity to work closely with key administrators in the academic schools on the strategic aim of developing a timetabling process based on academic programme requirements and historical student choices.
Educated to degree level, you will have previous experience of timetabling, timetabling processes in an HE environment, data analysis and reporting and a systematic approach to complex problem solving. You will have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and oral, an understanding of principles of good data management and have a strong sense of customer focus. You will have the ability to work under pressure, be extremely organised and accurate with meticulous attention to detail.  You will be an expert in the use of Microsoft Office packages (Excel and Access), and show initiative and enthusiasm. 
Informal enquiries to Gail Davidson, Operations Manager, gr4@st-andrews.ac.uk
Interview Date: 6 September 2011
Ref No: JC1021
Closing Date: 19 August 2011
Further Particulars JC1021 FPs.docx
£29,972 - £35,788 per annum
Start: As soon as possible
Hours of work: 36.25

HR Officer, Staff Development

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a professional and customer focused person to step into the role of HR Officer, Staff Development.  Based in Human Resources, you will be part of a small but dynamic staff development function, with responsibility for administering the corporate staff development programme of events and associated budget.
The ability to plan workloads, work systematically and undertake administrative duties in an accurate and timely fashion is essential.
Together with 5 GCSE's grade C or above including Maths and English you will also need a good understanding of the theoretical and technological aspects of staff development.
If you are looking for a rewarding, varied and challenging role to develop into, then we look forward to receiving your application.  Interviews will be held on Thursday 8th September 2011.
Salary: £18,190 - £21,652 pa
Closing date for receipt of applications: Thursday 18th August 2011
Interview Date: 8th September 2011
For application forms and further details: www.uwic.ac.uk/jobs or Human Resources, UWIC, Llandaff Campus, Western Avenue, Cardiff, CF5 2YB or Tel: 029 2041 7026 or email: humanresources@uwic.ac.uk
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