Academic Writing at Graduate School: An Attempt at Its Demystification

Academic Writing for International Graduate Students

The high percentage of international students currently enrolled in many graduate engineering programs in North America presents an additional pedagogical challenge for faculty. Many professors find that they are spending an inordinate amount of their time doing something that is not explicitly stated in their job descriptions—correcting the writing of their international students. This paper d...

Unconscious phantasy and its conceptualizations: An attempt at conceptual integration.

That there is a lack of consensus as to how to decide between competing, at times even contradictory theories, and about how to integrate divergent concepts and theories is well known. In view of this situation, the IPA Committee on Conceptual Integration (2009-2013) developed a method for comparing the different versions of any given concept, together with the underlying theories and fundament...

An Attempt at Frankl’s Conjecture

In 1979 Frankl conjectured that in a finite union-closed family F of finite sets, F = {∅} there has to be an element that belongs to at least half of the sets in F . We prove this when | F| 10.

Developing an Effective Academic Leadership Model at Islamic Azad University

Effective academic leadership is a complicated issue to investigate because of its intangibility and potential consequences. In addition, it plays an essential role in the success of institutions as well as being an important factor in improving quality performance of faculty members, administrators and qualified alumni. In this study mixed methods was used to develop a model of Islamic Azad Un...

An Initial Attempt at Oil Shale Leasing