But as the nursing shortage worsens, a growing number of schools and hospitals are establishing "fast-track programs" that enable college graduates with no nursing experience to become registered nurses with only a year or so of specialized training.

Jonathan Bishop, a researcher in Wales specializing in online communities, is more skeptical.

Advanced batteries are moving out of specialized markets and creeping into the mainstream, signaling a tipping point for forward-looking technologies such as electric cars and rooftop solar panels.

They underestimate themselves when selecting a university, said Dave Jarrat, a marketing executive for Inside Track, a for-profit organization that specializes in coaching low-income students and supporting colleges in order to help students thrive.

All of those specialized bulbs led to the building of specialized light fixtures, from the desk lamp you study by, to the ugly but beloved hand-painted Chinese lamp you inherited from your grandmother, to the ceiling fixture in your closet, to the light in your oven or refrigerator, and to the light that the dentist points at you.

She did not specialize in the study of law.

It was created by Ludwig Lazar Zamenhof, a Polish Jewish doctor specialized in eye diseases.

Esperanto is used internationally across language boundaries by at least 1 million people, particularly in specialized fields

I specialize in cultural psychology, examining similarities and differences between East Asians and North Americans.