Governance in the 21st Century

The Legal Strength of International Health Instruments - What It Brings to Global Health Governance?

Public health instruments have been under constant development and renewal for decades. International legal instruments, with their binding character and strength, have a special place in this development. The start of the 21st century saw, in particular, the birth of the first World Health Organization (WHO)-era health treaties – the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) and i...

The Challenges of Cognitive Neuroscience in the 21st Century

Element of learning in 21st century from the Students' view points, in summer school of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences

Introduction: The aim of education process is learning and change in behavior which has been revolutionized in the 21st century due to the rapid changens in technology and sciences. The traditional approach to education does no longer meet the learners' needs, entailing new changes in educational curricula. This study was designed to determine the factors influencing learning in the 21st centur...

16th century Persian tiles in dialogue with 21st century digital tiles in the Sadrian universe

This article brings together tiles of 16th century Persian architecture and 21st century digital tiles of moving image to explore new potentials beyond the perceived image. As minimal parts of a bigger image, they both appear still and motionless. However, Persian Islamic philosopher, Mulla Sadrā Shirazi’s (1571-1640) theory of ‘substantial motion’ (al-harakat a...

Medical Education in 21st-century

Medical education play an important role in health of people in 20st-century, but this system has to change overtime. Medical education must respond to not only the demand of community at larg but also to changing in new technologies. Medical education have been criticized in last two decades of 20st-century, because of producing too many specialists focus on treatment instead of health, insuf...

P O LI C Y IN SI G H T N o . 5 6 21 st Century Regionalism : Filling the gap between 21 st century trade and 20 th century trade rules

In a nutshell, 21st century regionalism is not primarily about preferential market access as was the case for 20th century regionalism; it is about disciplines that underpin the tradeinvestment-service nexus. This means that 21st century regionalism is driven by a different set of political economy forces; the basic bargain is “foreign factories for domestic reforms” – not “exchange of market a...