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Academia is a collective term for the scientific and cultural community engaged in higher education and peer-reviewed research, taken as a whole. The word comes from the akademeia just outside ancient Athens, where the Gymnasium was made famous by Plato as a center of learning. The sacred space had formerly been an olive grove, hence the expression "the groves of Academe". By extension Academia has come to connote the cultural accumulation of knowledge, its development and transmission across generations and its practitioners and transmitters. In the 17th century, English and French religious scholars popularized the term to describe certain types of institutions of higher learning. The English adopted the form academy while the French adopted the forms acadème and académie.
An academic is a person who works as a researcher (and usually teacher) at a university or similar institution in post-secondary (or tertiary) education. He or she is nearly always an advanced degree holder who does peer-reviewed research. In the United States, the term academic is approximately synonymous with that of the job title professor. In the United Kingdom, various titles are used, typically fellow, lecturer, reader and professor (see also academic rank), though the loose term don is often popularly substituted. The term "scholar" is sometimes used with equivalent meaning to that of "academic" and describes in general those who attain mastery in research discipline. It has wider application in its being also used to describe those whose occupation was scientific or pseudo-scientific research prior to mass organised higher education.
Academic administrators are not typically included in this use of the term academic.
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@zedshaw You have any concrete plans with RDF? If so I'd be interested in them (for my MSc thesis on SW dev for non-academic devvers)
timmolendijk (Tim Molendijk) Sun, 03 Jan 2010 16:08:07 -0000
@zedshaw You have any concrete plans with RDF? If so I'd be interested in them (for my MSc thesis on SW dev for non-academic devvers)
2009 ALL-STATE AND ALL-STATE ACADEMIC GIRLS GOLF TEAMS (Birmingham Eccentric): (Presented by the Michigan Inter.. http://bit.ly/6amHQ3
in_golfing (Tweet 4 All) Sun, 03 Jan 2010 16:07:39 -0000
2009 ALL-STATE AND ALL-STATE ACADEMIC GIRLS GOLF TEAMS (Birmingham Eccentric): (Presented by the Michigan Inter.. http://bit.ly/6amHQ3
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Abnormal Sexual Differentiation - Article from the Archives of Hellenic Medicine intended for the urologist facing the diagnosis and management of patients with sexual differentiation disorders.
American Academy of Pediatrics - Policy statement on Evaluation of the Newborn With Developmental Anomalies of the External Genitalia intending to help the primary care pediatrician identify which newborns need to be screened for intersexuality and to suggest indications for referral. Also includes an outline of the embryology of the external genitalia indicating where errors can arise.
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The AnswerSleuth's Intersexuality - A page of bibliographies, studies, and papers on intersexuality, both for and from academic sources.
True Hermaphroditism: Considerations in the Management of Patients Presenting in Early and Adult Life - Study of a twenty-seven year old man with penoscrotal hypospadias and unilateral undescended gonad who was diagnosed with lateral true hermaphroditism during an evaluation for infertility.
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