the local institutions in iran, like many countries in the world, have been established in order to realize decentralization system. the city councils are one of the most important institutions which conduct the affairs of the city with theirs executive organs. these councils make some important decisions in their legal jurisdictions which review on these decisions is very important. so the leg...

This paper presents a novel local feature selection approach for text categorization. It constructs a feature set for each category by first selecting a set of terms highly indicative of membership as well as another set of terms highly indicative of non-membership, then unifying the two sets. The size ratio of the two sets was empirically chosen to obtain optimal performance. This is in contra...

Recent poststructuralist theories of identity posit identities as being discursively constructed in interactions with society, institutions, and individuals. This study used a Linguistic Ethnographic framework to investigate the discursive identity construction of two English teachers, one ‘non-native’ English speaker, and one ‘native’ English speaker, teaching English in a tertiary institution...

Mobility and intermittent connectivity inject inaccuracy in determining group membership and exacerbate the time required to agree on the current group membership. In this paper, we present a group membership service based on partial member connectivity that allows members to agree on a shared approximation of the group membership based on local neighborhood connectivity. In particular, the con...

This paper investigates the growth over time of the size of higher education institutions (HEIs), as measured by the number of academic staff, and its association with HEI and country attributes. We analyse a sample of 837 HEIs from 18 countries derived from the European Tertiary Education Register (ETER) and from the European Micro Data dataset (EUMIDA) for the years 2008 and 2012. Our analysi...

OBJECTIVE Segmentation of populations may facilitate development of targeted substance abuse prevention programs. The authors aimed to partition a national sample of university students according to profiles based on substance use. PARTICIPANTS The authors used 2008-2009 data from the National College Health Assessment from the American College Health Association. The sample consisted of 111,...

HighereducationsysteminIndiahasbeenexpandedinaremarkableway,particularlyinthepostindependenceperiod,tobecomeoneofthelargestsystemsofitskindintheworld.However,the GrossEnrollmentRatio (GER) is farbelowwhencompared todevelopedandmanydeveloping countries.TheGovernmentofIndiahasfocusedonincreasingtheaccessandensuringequityduring successiv...