Purpose: The paper refers to a current discussion on the effectiveness and efficiency of Bielefeld University Library and concentrates on requirements and conditions of implementing customer intelligence in academic libraries. Moreover, a conceptual framework for a library management information system based on a data warehouse that links external and internal data to support strategic planning...

Available online at: http://npt.tums.ac.ir Background & Aim: Increasing students’ academic stress especially during taking final exams may result in sleep disorders, fatigue, poor academic performance and low functional efficiency. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between sleep quality with fatigue severity and academic performance of nursing students. Methods & Materials...

Purpose – This paper aims to examine how both the amount and type of coursework impact students’ conceptualizations of sustainability. Previous research demonstrates that academic coursework influences students’ environmental attitudes, yet few studies have examined the impact of coursework on how students conceptualize “sustainability”. Design/methodology/approach – Data are examined from the ...

purpose: the aim of present study was the comparative evaluation of content and support quality of iranian academic libraries websites’ and provide recommendations to improve them.methodology: this study is an applied research and methodology was comparative survey. data gathering tools were three checklists extracted from relevant studies which compare with 5 foreign library websites, and thei...

this study deals with the degree of faculty members' teaching load, its relationship with their specialties and also the relationship between the teachers' satisfaction and the quantity and quality of their academic responsibilities based on three variables of faculty, gender, and academic rank. this study is both qualitative and quantitative. the required data were gathered through the study o...

objectives: one of the education ministry’s concerns in high schools is the problem of academic achievement. the researches have mentioned that student’s false attribution and absence of scholastic counseling service are the most important factors affecting student’s low performance and achievements. the main goal of this research was to study the rate of cognitive reconstructive effect on attr...

in spite of the importance of academic entrepreneurship, universities and higher education institutions lack accurate information and measures to monitor and evaluate activities of academic entrepreneurship. indicators of academic entrepreneurship could be used as units of strategic information for planning entrepreneurial university development.  thus, this research aimed to identify and valid...

In this manuscript, the author has reviewed the technique used to improve the energy efficiency in buildings. Poor power factor caused by nonlinear loads in a building result several power quality problems from the point of view of energy consumption of buildings. Average energy consumption of an academic building is taken into consideration for estimation of the cost of energy consumption in t...

Encapsulation of actives comprises an area of exploration undergoing rapid growth in both academic and industrial research settings. Encapsulation processes are employed as a part of product synthesis processes for improved efficiency, enhanced stability, active ingredient compatibility, increased safety, targeted delivery, and novel performance of the end product. Such technical benefits enabl...