Inspired by Fairclough's suggestion of the idea of commodification in higher education, particularly in terms of "the marketization of the discursive practices of universities" (1993, p. 143), the author of the present paper proposes a theoretical basis within which the constitutive functioning of academic discourse in the mentioned process can be understood.  In this attempt, Althusser's chain...

John Brennan reports on an international study of the academic profession – the Changing Academic Profession project – a successor to the well-known Carnegie study carried out in the early 1990s. Its aim is to examine the changes experienced by academics in different countries and to consider differences and similarities between countries and between kinds of higher education institution, subje...

This article presents a study that compares detected structural communities in a coauthorship network to the socioacademic characteristics of the scholars that compose the network. The coauthorship network was created from the bibliographic record of a multi-institution, interdisciplinary research group focused on the study of sensor networks and wireless communication. Four different community...

This paper presents a background of a project undertaken at Sohar University to implement a web based plagiarism detection system for academic activities. Digital content in academic environments are created by academics and students. This Digital content is research publications and assessment submissions – assignments. Academic Digital content once created needs to be verified for non-violati...

PURPOSE We performed a retrospective study to analyze the effectiveness of implantable penile prostheses in the treatment of erectile dysfunction. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study included 249 patients who received implants between 2001 and 2008. A total of 139 patients who underwent penile prosthesis implantation were interviewed. RESULTS Approximately half of patients had previously used ...

Nipple-sparing mastectomies (NSMs) are increasingly used in the surgical treatment of patients with breast cancer and for prevention of breast cancer. The present study was performed to review the outcomes of patients undergoing NSMs at a single large university setting. A retrospective chart review was performed on all patients undergoing NSMs from 2008-2014. Charts were reviewed for demograph...

BACKGROUND Authorship of peer-reviewed publications can create conflict among academics. OBJECTIVE To document authorship conflicts of academics at a tertiary faculty. METHODS An anonymous questionnaire eliciting authorship conflicts and knowledge of authorship criteria was administered online to 154 academic staff members at a New Zealand university. RESULTS 43 academics responded, a res...