university autonomy and accountability have been playing such a vital role in all aspects of university governance that their importance cannot be over emphasized. autonomy can be defined as “the right of a group of people to govern itself or to organize its own activities” and being autonomous means “being independent and having the power to make your own decisions”. on the other hand, account...

Reliable multicast is useful for replication and in support of publish-subscribe notification. However, many of the most interesting applications give rise to huge numbers of multicast groups with heavily overlapping sets of receivers, large groups, or high rates of dynamism. Existing multicast systems scale poorly in one or more of these respects. This paper describes QuickSilver Scalable Mult...

Cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) has become an accepted and empirically validated therapeutic approach in psychotherapy for a number of different presenting concerns. However, it is unclear whether there is empirical evidence to illustrate the efficacy of CBT with individuals from visible ethnic minority populations. Therefore, the aim of this project was to conduct a literature review to as...

purpose: to examine link between conflict management styles used by university library managers with such demographic attributes such as gender, education, academic vs administrative status, experience, and their full vs. part time involvement with their role as library managers. methodology: data was secured by questioning library managers about their preferred treatment of staff conflicts. th...

Introduction: Shahid Motahari Annual Educational Festivalaims to improve the quality of medical education in the IslamicRepublic of Iran, and has held since 2008. The present study wasperformed to determine the satisfaction level of Iranian medicaluniversities’ faculty members about holding Shahid MotahariAnnual Educational Festival during the past six years, from 2008to 2014.Methods: This cros...

Introduction: Virtual social networks are increasingly beingused by academics and students in health sciences. It is necessaryto examine opportunities and challenges of these networks basedon the views of faculty and students to describe the existingsituation and planning for proper use. The purpose of this studywas to explore the experiences of students and faculty membersabout opportunities a...

conclusions regarding the control of aggressive behaviors, paying attention to male, young students living in dormitory, especially in non-governmental universities has the highest priority. results a total of 381 (47.2%) male and 428 (52.8%) female students participated in the study. mean (sd) age of the respondents was 21.79 (2.86) years. overall mean aggression score (sd) in the students was...