Pensyarah UPM, UM Menang 'Mass Young Researcher 2008'

Pensyarah Fakulti Sains Universiti Putra Malaysia, Prof Dr Taufiq Yap YUn Hin dan Dr Zurina Osman dari Fakulti Sains, Universiti Malaya merangkul anugerah 'Mass Young Researcher 2008' daripada The Malaysian Solid State Science and Technology Society sempena Persidangan Solid State Science and Technology ke-24 di Port Dickson, baru-baru ini

First CLADAG data mining prize : data mining for longitudinal data with different marketing campaigns

The CLAssification and Data Analysis Group (CLADAG) of the Italian Statistical Society recently organised a competition, the 'Young Researcher Data Mining Prize' sponsored by the SAS Institute. This paper was the winning entry and in it we detail our approach to the problem proposed and our results. The main methods used are linear regression, mixture models, Bayesian autoregressive and Bayesian dynamic models

Penyelidik UPM Terima Anugerah ‘Mass Young Researcher Awards 2008’

SERDANG, 5 Dis – Prof. Taufiq Yap Yun Hin dari Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) memenangi anugerah ‘MASS Young Researcher Awards 2008’ yang dianugerahkan oleh The Malaysian Solid State Science and Technology Society

Is being a young researcher always a positive learning experience?

Over the last twenty years there has been considerable interest in teaching children and young people to become social science researchers to empower their voices and give them an opportunity to develop new skills. However, there is a dearth of systematic and detailed enquiry into young people’s perspectives on their feelings and experiences as they learn how to be social science researchers. We asked seven young researchers aged 12 years (1 male and 6 females), who attended an after-school research club, to complete a questionnaire about the feelings they experienced as they learned about and undertook a range of activities during the various stages of their research (e.g. the creation of a research question, the design of a questionnaire, analysis of data, and public dissemination). The young researchers also participated in follow-up, individual, semi-structured interviews when they explained their questionnaire responses in detail. Our thematic analysis, and plots of how feelings changed across research stages, suggest that in the short term the young researchers’ engagement in self-directed research was at times problematic: it produced a range of negative feelings involving worry, uncertainty, tiredness and disenchantment. However, these negative feelings were experienced alongside a range of positive feelings associated with motivation, mastery and achievement. Feelings were, therefore, not simply positive or negative, but were always mixed and diverse. Findings from group interviews conducted eight months later suggest that overall the young researchers greatly valued their experience particularly in terms of the opportunity to engage in “proper thinking” which was not always possible in the classroom. Broader implications of these findings are discussed, including the value of informal learning in after-school clubs which are outside the constraints of the English classroom curriculum

Залуу судлаачдын эрдэм шинжилгээний бага хурал болов

English title: The first Conference of young researcher

The journey of a young researcher in the 21st century

Submission to the NUIG Health Psychology blog on Caes' research interests

Lettre a un jeune chercheur (Letter to a young researcher)

Devenir directeur de recherche à l’université… Quelles motivations ? Quelles difficultés ? Quels « sacrifices » ? L’auteur présente différents points, en particulier la pluridisciplinarité des matières et des approches, les grands types de recherche et le travail de recherche en équipe. Recommandations faites aux jeunes chercheurs qui se lancent dans l’aventure; ces conseils ne concernent pas directement les méthodologies de recherche qui sont du ressort des professeurs et/ou des directeurs de recherche, mais un ensemble de détails qui pourront permettre au chercheur débutant d’éviter un certain nombre de pièges. To become a director of research at University... What are the motives? What are the difficulties? what are the « sacrifices »? The author presents different points, in particular the pluridisciplinarity of subjects and of approaches, the main categories of research and the collective character of research. He makes recommendations to young researchers. These advices do not concern the methods of research which are the responsabilty of professors or research directors, but they consist in a set of details which may help the young resarcher to avoid some traps.young researcher, university

More frequencies of KUV 02464+3239

Preliminary results on KUV 02464+3239, a pulsating DA white dwarf are presented. Located near the red edge of the DAV instability strip, KUV 02464+3239 shows large amplitude and long period pulsation modes. Up to now only one mode was known from a 50-minute-long light curve. Our more extended observations allowed the identification of three additional frequencies. The presence of previously known harmonics were confirmed and weak subharmonics are also noticeable at some parts of the light curve. This suggests the dominance of nonlinear pulsation effects from time to time.Comment: 3 pages, 3 eps figures; has been accepted for publication in Astronomische Nachrichten (Vol. 8, 2007), proceedings of the British-Hungarian-French N+N+N Workshop for Young Researcher