This comparison of state funding, while useful, is conceptually flawed, in that it promotes the assumption that all programs and thereby all students cost the same. A more interesting comparison is to look at state funding as a percent of total revenue. In Michigan this ranges from a high of 51% at Wayne State University to a low of 28% at the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor. Removing resear...

this study focuses on the effect of social and cultural determinants on generation gap in tehranian families in 2011. the purpose of this study is to determine effective factors on generation gap in tehranian families, analytical and empirical patterns and be surveyed by related theories and effective factors. the research was prepared by questions including whether there is a relationship betw...

In this paper we discuss recent developments in rankings of universities and the impact of these rankings on academia in the context of international benchmarking and evaluation. We focus on technical and methodological problems behind these rankings, particularly those based on bibliometric methods, with special attention to the social sciences and humanities. We criticize the recent expert-ba...

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today, sustainable development has a key role in national policy. a strong case has been made for the need for communities to pursue economic, social, and environmental policies and practices that will reduce the risks associated with present practices, that will be sustainable in long run, and that will enhance the well-being of future generation. with this approach, many universities in iran ...

The European Global Product Realization (E-GPR) project represents the main practical part of the E-GPR course organized by 3 European universities: the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne, the Technical University of Delft and the University of Ljubljana. It is defined in collaboration with the industrial partner(s) of the E-GPR course and consists of developing a global product ...

The use of computer networks and information technology are becoming an important part of the everyday work in almost all professions, especially in scientific areas, and facing new education concepts, many universities and education organizations decided to plan new strategies concerning computer based technologies. As a result of these developments Computer Aided Education (CAE) methods came ...

The Transregional Collaborative Research Center SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition was established by the German Science Foundation (DFG) at the Universities of Bremen and Freiburg in January 2003. 13 Research projects pursue interdisciplinary research on intelligent spatial information processing. This article introduces the research field of spatial cognition and reports on aspects from cognitive psy...

in this paper, second law analysis for calculations of the entropy generation due to the flow andheat transfer of water-al2o3 and ethylene glycol-al2o3 nanofluids inside annuli is presented. thephysical properties of the nanofluids are calculated using empirical correlations. constant heatfluxes at inner surface of the annuli are considered and fully developed condition for fluid flowand heat t...