This paper discusses the phenomenon of academic entrepreneurship and its significance to university education, societal development and economic development. It analyzes and presents academic entrepreneurship as a leadership process of creating value through acts of organizational creation, renewal or innovation within or outside the university that results in research and technology commercial...

leadership and management canons [2, 7−9]. Authorities within these domains suggest that innovative research and scholarship requires a culture that values these pursuits [2, 9]. Importantly, institutions that are successful in producing exceptional academic scholarship align the culture of their organizations with these goals [7, 9]. For more than a decade, medicine has characterized the acade...

Collocation has been considered a problematic area for L2 learners. Various studies have been conducted to investigate native speakers‘ (NS) and non-native speakers‘ (NNS) use of different types of collocations (e.g., Durrant and Schmitt, 2009; Laufer and Waldman, 2011).These studies have indicated that, unlike NS, NNS rely on a limited set of collocations and tend to overuse them. This raises ...

BACKGROUND Medical colleges want academic integrity in medical students. This will require measurement of professionalism. Dundee Poly-professionalism Inventory-1 is one of the few validated tools available to measure academic integrity. The purpose was to validate the Dundee Poly- professionalism Inventory-1 for use in Pakistan. METHODS In this cross sectional study words and statements in t...

There are several indicators that distinguish an academic discipline, including journals, conferences, and graduate programs. One of them is the presence of academic publications in well-regarded citation indices such as Web of Science (WoS). This study explored the bibliometric characteristics of publications on “second language writing” (SLW) covered in the Social Sciences Citation Index and ...

Background and Purpose: The family is the first founder of personality and intellectual values that plays a crucial role in determining the individual’s destiny and future lifestyle. Meanwhile, developing positive relationship between parents and children, results in motivation to obtain academic achievements. Therefore, the purpose of the present study was to determine the relationship of pare...

The smallest and most commonly used words in English are pronouns, articles, and other function words. Almost invisible to the reader or writer, function words can reveal ways people think and approach topics. A computerized text analysis of over 50,000 college admissions essays from more than 25,000 entering students found a coherent dimension of language use based on eight standard function w...

The growth and success of agile software development across industry and government has led to the application of these methods to other domains. This paper discusses common agile and iterative themes used on data warehouse and business intelligence projects by reviewing and analyzing academic and industry literature, and categorizing key words and phrases associated with agile across common th...

Let p n be a polynomial of m variables and total degree n such that & p n & C(K) =1, where K/R m is a convex body. In this paper we discuss some local and uniform estimates for the magnitude of grad p n under the above conditions. 1999 Academic Press Key Words: multivariate polynomials; convex bodies; gradient and directional derivative of polynomials.