Science and Engineering Labor Force

[Excerpt] Like most developed economies, the United States increasingly depends on a technically skilled workforce, including scientists and engineers. Workers for whom knowledge and skill in S&E are central to their jobs have an effect on the economy and the wider society that is disproportionate to their numbers: they contribute to research and development, increased knowledge, technological innovation, and economic growth. Moreover, the knowledge and skills associated with science and engineering have diffused across occupations and become more important in jobs that are not traditionally associated with S&E

RAPID: A regional plan to rescue the orphaned University of Louisiana Monroe Fish Collection

Award to enable the rescue of the orphaned Fish Collection of the University of Louisiana Monroe by a consortium of other regional fish collectionsNational Science FoundationIntegrative Biolog

Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering: 2015

Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering provides statistical information about the participation of these three groups in science and engineering education and employment. Its primary purpose is to serve as an information source. It offers no endorsement of or recommendations about policies or programs. National Science Foundation reporting on this topic is mandated by the Science and Engineering Equal Opportunities Act (Public Law 96-516). This digest highlights key statistics drawn from a wide variety of data sources. Data and figures in this digest are organized into topical areas—enrollment, field of degree, occupation, employment status, and academic employment. Surveys conducted by the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) at the National Science Foundation provided a large portion of the data used in this report. NCSES has a central role in the collection, interpretation, analysis, and dissemination of objective data on the science and engineering enterprise

Report in Response to America COMPETES Act: SEC. 7022

This report is written in response to the America COMPETES Act request that the NSF Director report on the NSF broader impact merit review criterion. This report includes background on the NSF implementation of the broader impact criterion and responds to each of the five specific requests made in the COMPETES Act Sec 7022

DataNet: An emerging cyberinfrastructure for sharing, reusing and preserving digital data for scientific discovery and learning

No abstract.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/64341/1/12085_ftp.pd

How home country weaknesses can constrain EMNE growth: the example of India

This paper discusses the opportunities and limitations that the location-specific (L) assets of the home country represent for MNEs, particularly at the early stages of internationalization. The systemic weaknesses of the home country can constrain the long-term competitiveness of its firms, and ultimately, the competitiveness of its MNEs. It is the contention of this paper that many of the emerging countries have a constrained set of L assets from which their firms are able to develop ownership-specific assets. Are their economies developing improved L assets that will promote a new generation of EMNEs? We examine data for the case of India, an economy regarded as having considerable potential to expand to knowledge-intensive sectors. At the macro level, India’s performance is not different from countries of similar economic structure, and its current pockets of excellence are a reflection of its L assets. Our analysis suggests that the failure to foster and upgrade the L assets of emerging economies is likely to stunt the growth of their domestic firms, and ultimately any new MNE activity in the long-term

Almost sure and moment exponential stability of Euler-Maruyama discretizations for hybrid stochastic differential equations

Positive results are derived concerning the long time dynamics of numerical simulations of stochastic differential equation systems with Markovian switching. Euler-Maruyama discretizations are shown to capture almost sure and momente xponential stability for all sufficiently small timesteps under appropriate conditions

A systematic approach in analyzing sustained oscillations in an NF-kB signal transduction pathway system

Oscillation phenomenon is very common in biological systems. It is crucial to study oscillatory behaviors to understand gene regulation functions. Model-based analysis in combination with experimental study provides a new and systematic way to investigate biological oscillations. The nuclear factor-kB (NF-kB) signaling is an important signaling pathway that is involved in a variety of cellular processes including immune response, inflammation, and apoptosis. Recent studies revealed damped oscillations of NF-kB activity both experimentally and computationally, etc. In this work, based on a differential equation model, bifurcation analysis was used to examine whether it was possible for this system to produce sustained oscillations (limit cycle oscillations) rather than damped oscillations. Both one- and two-parameter bifurcation analyses have been performed and it was found that certain conditions could possibly result in sustained oscillations of nuclear NF-kB activity. The parameter regimes corresponding to such oscillations were calculated with this method