Science Education: Best Practices of Research Training for Students Under 21 (NATO Science: Science and Technology Policy, Vol. 47)

This book is intended to provide a treatment of the theory and applications of Stochastic Neural Networks,that is networks able to learn random processes from experience, on the basis of recent developments on this subject. The mathematical frameworks on which the theory is founded embrace the approximation of non-random functions as well as the theory of stochastic processes. The networks so defined constitute an original and very promising model of human brain neural activity consistent with the need of learning from a stochastic environment. Moreover, the problem of speech modeling, both for synthesis and recognition, is faced as concrete and significant application in the field of artificial intelligence of the theory is presented.IOS Press is an international science, technical and medical publisher of high-quality books for academics, scientists, and professionals in all fields. Some of the areas we publish in: -Biomedicine -Oncology -Artificial intelligence -Databases and information systems -Maritime engineering -Nanotechnology -Geoengineering -All aspects of physics -E-governance -E-commerce -The knowledge economy -Urban studies -Arms control -Understanding and responding to terrorism -Medical informatics -Computer Sciences Title page......Page 1 Contents......Page 5 Introduction - Opening Addresses......Page 9 Peter Csermely......Page 11 Ragnhild Sohlberg......Page 13 Leon Lederman......Page 16 Environment and Help of Research Training......Page 17 WAYS: The Permanent Global Network of Young Researchers......Page 19 The FEBS Educational and Youth Policy......Page 23 The Stockholm International Youth Science Seminar......Page 26 Use of Mentoring in Precollege Science Education Programs of Howard Hughes Medical Institute Grantees......Page 32 The Role of the Inner and Outer Environment on Science Education and Research Training......Page 40 Successful Practices of Research Training - Israel, the USA and Korea......Page 43 Science Education for Gifted Students in Israel Via Distance Learning......Page 45 Preparing for Tomorrow by Involving High School Scientists in Leading Edge Research on a National Level......Page 55 Shrinking the World by Expanding Research Opportunity......Page 60 Recruitment to Howard Hughes Medical Insitute/National Institutes of Health/Montgomery County Public Schools, Student and Teacher Internship Program......Page 64 Out of School Science Programs for Talented Students: A Comparison......Page 67 Science Mentorship Program for High School Students in Korea......Page 73 Education of Gifted Elementary and Middle School Students with University Faculty in Korea......Page 78 Successful Practices of Research Training - Western Europe......Page 85 Life Sciences in Austrian Schools: How Do We Get There?......Page 87 EMBO Educational Activities......Page 94 Extending the German Pupils Academy to Younger Secondary School Pupils: The German Junior Academies......Page 99 ....You Do and You Understand: Hands-on Experiments at the XLAB......Page 105 Giftedness and Thinking......Page 110 Field-work Experience as a Research Initiation for Students: The Case of Applied Geophysics......Page 114 Euroscience's Activities in Greece......Page 118 The Irish Centre for Talented Youth: Motivating Young People towards Science......Page 121 The Hands-on Science Project......Page 128 Promoting Biochemical Research in the Secondary School......Page 139 Bioinformatics for All: Scientific Outreach at the European Bioinformatics Institute......Page 144 The English Patient: Biotechnology Education in the UK......Page 151 Successful Practices for Research Training - Central-Eastern Europe......Page 161 Weekend Scientific Seminars And Lectures For High School Students......Page 163 Talent Support in the Czech Republic from the Gifted Children's and their Parents' Point of View......Page 166 Work with Gifted Students for Physics in the Czech Republic......Page 170 Parents' Concept about their Gifted Children......Page 176 Research Training Program in Primary Schools of Hungary......Page 183 Nationwide Mentorship Network for Talented High School Students in Hungary......Page 194 Biotech Program for High School Students in Hungary......Page 199 Science Festival School: Molecular Biology for Common People......Page 204 The Romanian Experience within the Comenius Project "Hands-on Science"......Page 208 The 2nd Transylvanian Conference of Students' Research Clubs (TUDEK 2003)......Page 220 The Student Research Movement in Vojvodina......Page 224 Petnica Science Center: Model of Intensive Extracurricular Science Education of Gifted Students......Page 228 Recruitment of Talents for Life Sciences in Slovakia: State of the Art......Page 234 Concluding Remarks and Perspectives......Page 240 Author Index......Page 243 This book is a unique survey of the best science education practices with special emphasis on scientific research training of motivated young students up to 21 years old. Its content provides a great help to all teachers dealing with talented students and to all scientists and activists in the field of science education. A key point is the science education of high school students, who are in a very susceptible age to ask clear questions about the world around them and to seek answers in a methodological way, as science does Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Science Education: Best Practices of Research Training for Students under 21, Budapest, Hungary 1-3 October 2004. Edited By Péter Csermely, Tamás Korcsmáros And Leon Lederman. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Mode Of Access: World Wide Web.