Scholarship Phd Funding Program 2011-2012 from HONDA Malaysia

HONDA Malaysia Sdn Bhd and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) are looking for 20 determined, underprivileged youths for the Honda Dreams Fund (HDF) 2011 intake.

The company is encouraging youths aged between 17 and 24 who have dreams to fulfill but lack the funds to do it, to apply for the scholarship.

“It is always our hope to assist deserving underprivileged Malaysian students by providing the scholarship to young and aspiring minds. HDF is now into its fifth year. By this year, we will have 100 HDF scholars in total,” Honda Malaysia CEO Yoichiro Ueno told a news conference to announce the launch of the 2011 intake on Tuesday.

The scholarship is open to those who have at least completed and passed Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia or Sijil Tinggi Pelajaran Malaysia examination, with a combined household income of less than RM1,500 per month.

It is also a non-binding full scholarship and scholars are free to select their course of study at the institution of their choice. Successful applicants will also receive RM500 allowance per month and those living away from home will have their rental expenses covered too.

Honda Malaysia allocates about RM1 million for the HDF programme each year.

Applications for the scholarship opened on Jan 5 and since then, roadshows have been held in 13 locations throughout seven states to reach out to more underprivileged youths, especially those in rural communities. To date, close to 700 applications have been received.

The roadshows were held in Sabah, Negeri Sembilan, Malacca, Sarawak, Johor, Perlis and lastly, the Klang Valley. During the roadshows, on-the-spot applications were taken when applicants were interviewed instead of having to send in 500 word essays.

Ueno said this was better for students who are not so good at articulating their dreams in words.

Interested applicants may download the forms from the HDF website at www.honda.com.my/hdf. Closing date for applications is March 31

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2011 PhD Funding Positions at ICT International Doctoral School, University of Trento, Italy

Study Subject:Combining ontological and process-based reasoning,Mixing logical and statistical reasoning,Structured Data Indexing and Retrieval
Employer:University of Trento
Level:PhD
Scholarship Description:3 positions are currently available within the DKM research unit. These PhD positions are among the grants of the ICT International Doctoral School, University of Trento.This call is under project specific grants with FBK and will be jointly supervised by FBK and the ISTC-CNR, Laboratory for Applied Ontology, Trento. Semantic Business Process Management [4, 2] has the main objective of improving the level of automation in the spec- ification, implementation, execution, and monitoring of business processes by extending business process management tools with the most significant results from the area of Semantic Web. For instance, when the focus is on process mod- eling, i.e. the activity of specification of business processes at an abstract level, annotating process descriptions with labels taken from a set of domain ontologies can provide additional support to the phase of business analysis, or to the creation of valid process diagrams, which not only comply with the basic requirements of the process semantics, but also satisfy properties that take into account the domain specific semantics of the labels of the different process elements.

Humans solve the problems of interpreting multimedia documentation by both exploiting structural regularities in the data, as well as making use of common sense and specialized knowledge that explicitly represents the meaning of data. In spite of this simple observation, current approaches to processing content over the Internet are based either on a statistical approach, which exploits the regularities of the content encoded in a statistical model (using machine learning methodologies), or, alternatively, by logical approaches, by exploiting logical knowledge encoded via logical theories (semantic web and ontologies). In both cases this unilateral approach leads to a limitation in the performance or in the quality of the results.

Scholarship Application Deadline:16th of March 2011

Further Scholarship Information and Application

PhD Fellowship in the Cell Signaling Research Group, phd funding

The Cell Signaling Research Group, at the University Pompeu Fabra, searches one Doctoral Research Fellow. The successful candidate will form part of multidisciplinary research team on the research environment of the Barcelona Biomedical Reseacrh Park.
Our group studies how cells detect and respond to environmental changes. All organisms have sophisticated mechanisms to respond to environmental stress. Cellular stress results in activation of a conserved family of SAPKs (stress-activated protein kinases), which include the mammalian p38 and the yeast Hog1. We study the mechanisms by which SAPKs regulate cellular adaptation to stress such as gene expression, translation and cell-cycle progression.
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Description

Successful candidates will be offered a four-year PhD fellowship. Gross salary: 1.150 euro/month.
Ph D Supervisors: Dr. Francesc Posas and Dr. Eulàlia de Nadal.
Interested doctoral researchers might have a background in Biology/Chemistry/Biochemistry. It is desirable to have laboratory experience in molecular biology.
Average University Grade over 2.
Good knowledge of English.
Research Fields

Biological sciences

Candidates should apply with:
1. Letter of motivation
2. Curriculum Vitae.
Applications are welcome electronically at any time at montserrat.morillas@upf.edu.
Selection will start on July 15th 2010 and will continue until the position has been filled. It is expected that successful candidate will start working on the project around October/November 2010.