Chirac downgrades science in re-shuffle of ministries

Comparative Analysis of effective factors on Formation and Development of Academic Spin off in two Ministries of Science and Health

Introduction: Nowadays, academic Spin off have been created as one of the entrepreneur phenomena in countries and study the factors affecting them is one of the most important priorities of universities. The purpose of this study was to compare the importance of effective factors on formation and development of these companies in Ministries of Science and Health. Methods: This was a descriptive...

Feedback Effects of Rating Downgrades

This paper addresses whether credit rating downgrades feed back on the asset value of the downgraded companies, causing real losses. To investigate this issue we construct a structural credit risk model incorporating ratings and the feedback loss. To estimate the parameters of the model we develop a maximum likelihood estimator using time series of equity prices and credit ratings. Implementing...

Philosophical Evaluation from Science and Technology in a Replacing Civilization with Emphasis on Critical Re-reading of Modern Science

In the present study, the dignity of science and technology in modern civilizations is evaluated as the vital status of the ontological and of "Being" and "Not-Being" type, while emphasizing that the problem description in religious models of new civilization cannot be reduced to the acquisition of modern and strategic science and technologies; Accordingly, this article, while reviewing and cri...

Performance Management in Foreign Ministries

Representation and Re-Presentation in Litigation Science

Federal appellate courts have devised several criteria to help judges distinguish between reliable and unreliable scientific evidence. The best known are the U.S. Supreme Court's criteria offered in 1993 in Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. This article focuses on another criterion, offered by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, that instructs judges to assign lower credibility to "l...