(n.) One holding the philosophy of Socrates and Plato; a Platonist.
(n.) A member of an academy, college, or university; an academician.
Example Sentences:
(1) Basing the prediction of student performance in medical school on intellective-cognitive abilities alone has proved to be more pertinent to academic achievement than to clinical practice.
(2) Rather, academics need to involve themselves in managerial roles.
(3) If women psychiatrists are to fill some of the positions in Departments of Psychiatry, which will fall vacant over the next decade, much more attention must be paid to eliminating or diminishing the multiple obstacles for women who chose a career in academic psychiatry.
(4) This is not an argument for the status quo: teaching must be given greater priority within HE, but the flipside has to be an understanding on the part of students, ministers, officials, the public and the media that academics (just like politicians) cannot make everyone happy all of the time.
(5) and (4) Compared to the instruction provided by instructors from other medical and academic disciplines, do paediatric residents perceive differences in the teaching efficacy and clinical relevance of instruction provided by paediatricians?
(6) Correlations between measures of learning style and academic performance yielded low, nonsignificant positive correlations and were found to be inadequate predictors of academic performance.
(7) In the Netherlands, researchers studied the medical records of and followed-up on 151 women of advanced maternal age (at least 36 years old) who underwent amniocentesis or chorionic villus sampling (CVS) and elected to terminate the pregnancy due to an abnormal genetic finding (105 and 46 women, respectively) at Academic Hospital Rotterdam-Dijkzigt between January 1980 and December 1989.
(8) The mentor's administrative or academic rank, rather than gender, was the chief determinant of sponsoring effectiveness.
(9) One of the reasons for doing this study is to give a voice to women trapped in this epidemic,” said Dr Catherine Aiken, academic clinical lecturer in the department of obstetrics and gynaecology of the University of Cambridge, “and to bring to light that with all the virology, the vaccination and containment strategy and all the great things that people are doing, there is no voice for those women on the ground.” In a supplement to the study, the researchers have published some of the emails to Women on Web which reveal their fears.
(10) A commercial medical writing company is employed by a drug company to produce papers that can be rolled out in academic journals to build a brand message.
(11) Using cumulative nursing GPAs, the likelihood of predicting success on NCLEX-RN increased at the end of each academic year.
(12) The refreshing aspect of the success of this campaign was that a grassroots movement started in the community, rallied widespread support including academics, artists and politicians, and took control of deciding what constitutes racism and the bounds of acceptability.
(13) They are most commonly described as conduct disordered and hyperactive, appear heir to a variety of deficits in verbal and abstract cognition, and perform more poorly in the academic environment.
(14) By comparison in the Netherlands, where there is a better technical training provision, every secondary school is built with an additional 650 square metres of non-academic training space; an investment of more than £1.5m per school.” The Association of School and College Leaders criticised the absence of more funding for students studying for A-levels.
(15) Seventy-nine percent of academic middle managers for baccalaureate nursing reported that they did not plan to continue in their current management positions, or advance in academic leadership positions (George, 1981).
(16) In such conditions, proposals which subvert fundamental academic principles meet no effective opposition.
(17) "In recent years, though, the increased threat of costly libel actions has begun to have a chilling effect on scientific and academic debate and investigative journalism."
(18) fbi justified homicide chart Academics and specialists have long been aware of flaws in the FBI numbers, which are based on voluntary submissions by local law enforcement agencies of paperwork known as supplementary homicide reports.
(19) In three new medical schools, the library is considered an academic department, and other schools are considering such designation.
(20) We give only a brief account of them, due to limited space, and have therefore included topics of most relevance to assisted conception as opposed to those more involved with academic research.
Polytechnic
Definition:
(a.) Comprehending, or relating to, many arts and sciences; -- applied particularly to schools in which many branches of art and science are taught with especial reference to their practical application; also to exhibitions of machinery and industrial products.
Example Sentences:
(1) In comparison with the reference identification (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg), both systems of incubation identified 91 of 99 strains (92%) correctly.
(2) Police investigating the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University massacre, which left 33 dead, mainly students, blamed Cho, a fourth-year English student who lived on the campus, for earlier incidents ranging from stalking women to setting fire to a dormitory.
(3) This paper describes a case study of the Ibadan Polytechnic workers.
(4) He was expelled from South East Essex college and also studied at Chiswick Polytechnic and Goldsmiths College, London.
(5) She took business studies at a polytechnic instead, but dropped out.
(6) The couple met at Nottingham Polytechnic in 1986, and moved to London in the early Nineties - just as the Young British Artist phenomenon gathered steam and media attention - where Noble studied sculpture at the Royal College of Art .
(7) Education Rainsford Comprehensive; King Edward VI's Grammar, Chelmsford; Polytechnic of Central London, BA film and photographic art; London School of Economics, MSc development.
(8) From St Bede's college , a Roman Catholic grammar school, he went to study for two years at Ushaw College in Durham, a seminary for trainee priests, and then at Birmingham Polytechnic, now Birmingham City University , where in 1976 he received a certificate in residential care of children and young people.
(9) Professor Caroline Gipps, vice-chancellor of Wolverhampton University, a former polytechnic where the average fee will be £8,500 next year, said: "What it is intended to do is put more universities like ours into a position where we drop our average fee below £7,500.
(10) I think it’s really great how subcultures transform and mutate over time.” Tony James of Generation X plays bass with Sham 69 at Central London Polytechnic, September 1978 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tony James with Sham 69, 1978.
(11) Some 8,000 policemen were seconded to patrol the boulevards of Athens as a sea of Greeks paid tribute to those killed when the military junta sent a tank crashing through the polytechnic's gates to repress a student revolt.
(12) It was established that during the learning process basic changes in the formation of the above functions occurred during first 3 months from the beginning of polytechnical practical studies.
(13) A modified Delphi survey method was utilized to gain a consensus of opinion regarding the leadership role that the Hong Kong Polytechnic's newly established Nursing Studies Section should play.
(14) Bolognesi, D. P. (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y.), and D. E. Wilson.
(15) Given that the commonwealth’s annual funding for skills and training to the states and territories amounts to $7bn over the budget cycle, properly directed commonwealth funding would in time build a new Tafe Australia network that would rival the great polytechnics of France and Germany,” Rudd said.
(16) Nadezhda Dvornikova, a 57-year-old pensioner, held her grandson by the hand as she walked the halls of Moscow's Polytechnical College.
(17) In this case, responsibility does have to fall on to both individuals and the club as a whole, and individuals will be sanctioned separately in addition to this decision concerning the club.” Buckley-Irvine also spoke out against the derogatory references to “poly” students, referring to former polytechnics which have now been converted into universities “The persistence [with] which the club references ‘polys’ and abuses ‘polys’ is not fitting of the LSE community,” the statement continued.
(18) The accuracy of the RapID-ANA II system (Innovative Diagnostic Systems, Inc., Atlanta, Ga.) was evaluated by comparing the results obtained with that system with results obtained by the methods described by the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
(19) For those of tender years, I should explain that polytechnics were institutes of higher education, for the young who missed university entrance: for those who were bright enough to say affinity , but still wore cheap nylon coats.
(20) My father, with his French roots might have associated the latter with the famous Polytechnic of his native Paris.