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The purpose of Junior Research Fellowships is to allow highly-talented women* to pursue their research single-mindedly in a supportive academic environment. Fellowships are normally awarded to women just finishing their PhDs, or those in their first post-doctoral appointment.
We normally elect two women to Junior Research Fellowships each year, one each in the Sciences (including Mathematics and Engineering) and in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Research Fellows are appointed for a period of three years, although many leave sooner if they are successful in gaining faculty appointments in Cambridge or elsewhere. Both selection panels use the concept of “research age” in judging how long a candidate has been active in research, so that time out of research for professional or family reasons will not be a disadvantage.
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A PhD candidate is sought for the project Shade trees in cacao agroforestry systems: influence on roots and net primary production with the Department of Plant Ecology, University of Göttingen, Germany.
The project
The presence of shade trees in agroforests is often assumed to negatively affect growth and yield of cacao plants through competitive water use. In contrast, results from a previous collaborating project suggest no such negative effects due to clear differences in vertical partitioning of soil water uptake among cacao and shade trees. Our earlier project indeed showed different vertical rooting patterns and a different soil drought response of shade and cacao trees. However, there are still few information about systematic differences in fine root biomass, vertical rooting pattern, and below-ground productivity of cacao and shade tree species under different soil moisture regimes.
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Answer set programming (ASP) is a form of non-monotonic reasoning which is based on the stable-model semantics. Intuitively, an answer set program can be seen as a collection of rules on which non-deterministic forward chaining is applied. Among others, ASP has proven successful as an elegant and convenient vehicle for commonsense reasoning in discrete domains, and to encode combinatorial optimization problems in a purely declarative way. Extensions of ASP have been proposed with the aim of increasing the expressivity and application potential of traditional ASP.
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Post-doctoral Fellowships
Asian Institute of Technology, School of Management, Thailand
Due date for applications: 31 January 2010
The School of Management at the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, invites applications for resident fellowships in the areas of Socially and Environmentally Responsive Management and Innovation and Entrepreneurship for 2010.
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Function description
- You are conducting research on cognitive networking solutions in the framework of European-level and national research projects.
- You are analyzing the current wireless network technologies thoroughly and you are developing new network algorithms and concepts, e.g. intelligent cross-network negotiation strategies, distributed optimization algorithms based on gaming theory or machine learning, distributed network monitoring, wireless network management, auto-configuration techniques for wireless networks…
- You are building up hands-on experience by implementing these network concepts and by evaluating through experimental validation on a large-scale wireless testbed or through detailed simulations.
- Depending on your own interests and motivation, this research can lead to a PhD
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The Twelfth Travelling Fellowships in Transplantation,Royal College of Surgeons of England,UK
Job Description: Travelling Fellowships will usually be awarded annually. Their aim is to benefit transplant patients and to commemorate the work of the St John Ambulance Air Wing 1972-1993.
The purpose of the awards is to enable the recipient to visit other Transplant Centres in the United Kingdom or abroad to widen their knowledge and experience.
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