Finding appropriate way for combination and use of existing resources in order to increase efficiency is one of the questions which has been raised in recent decade in academic strategic management literature. A large number of experimental studies tested this question that which kind of solution or technical and financial strategy leads to better efficiency. One of proposed technical solution ...

Proximity-based Social Interaction (PSI) apps are emerging on mobile platforms. While both industries and academic communities have developed frameworks to simplify the PSI app development, our framework, Crossroads, brings a set of features to balance the development overhead and developer expressiveness. We argue that APIs with application hints give developers the expressiveness, and core se...

In the medical education field, the prediction of variables that have an impact on the academic performance of students is highly important as supporting programs can be implemented to avoid dropouts or failing scores. Several studies have confirmed the relationship between student performance during the first months at college and the one afterwards; nevertheless, every medical school has its ...

Human resource capacity has become a critical issue for contemporary universities in enabling them to deliver multiple agendas in complex environments (Gordon & Whitchurch, 2007). In recent years, many governments have proceeded with deregulation and developed schemes to assure the quality of higher education. Today, universities have a greater autonomy under the new quality assurance systems b...

This study explores the impact of workload on teachers' efficiency and their students' academic achievement at public sector university in Lahore, Pakistan. The research design was a qualitative case approach, which allows for an in-depth exploration experiences perceptions teachers students about affiliation between achievement. Total 30 semi-structured interviews were conducted with 15 studen...