In the musical chairs game MC(n,m), a team of n players plays against an adversarial scheduler. The scheduler wins if the game proceeds indefinitely, while termination after a finite number of rounds is declared a win of the team. At each round of the game each player occupies one of the m available chairs. Termination (and a win of the team) is declared as soon as each player occupies a unique...

BACKGROUND One of the features of Mission Based Management is measuring the activities of faculty members and departments and their contributions to the school's mission. As it is important to assess the school's readiness for such a system, in this study we assessed the view points of Tehran Medical School's department chairs about faculty members' activities. METHODS We used focus group tec...

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It is an honor to be appointed as the chair of an academic unit. Chairs play a vital role in the life of the College and the University, connecting the upper administration with the faculty, and vice versa. This is an appointment that provides the incumbent an opportunity to set goals for the next chapter in the department?s history, in collaboration with department members, and to accomplish s...

ELECTRONIC AND OPTICAL MATERIALS A: Amorphous and Polycrystalline Thin-Film Silicon Science and Technology B: Concepts in Molecular and Organic Electronics C: CMOS Gate-Stack Scaling—Materials, Interfaces, and Reliability Implications D: Materials, Processes, and Reliability for Advanced Interconnects for Microand Nano-Electronics E: Science and Technology of Chemical Mechanical Planarization F...