The first experimental SAM for Iran was constructed more than three decades ago under the supervision of Prof. Pyatt. Based on this work Prof Pyatt had observed that the way in which Iran was spending oil revenues was likely to exacerbate urban—rural income differentials in Iran. In his approach to SAM he did not distinguish between factorial and institutional income distributions preferring to...

This paper provides an overview of the collaboration between the Perseus Project and the Digital Collection and Archives at Tufts University in moving the collections of the Perseus Project into the DCA’s Fedora based repository as well as a listing of potential services necessary to support a successful institutional repository.

This paper investigates the role of homophily and focus constraint in shaping collaborative scientific research. First, homophily structures collaboration when scientists adhere to a norm of exclusivity in selecting similar partners at a higher rate than dissimilar ones. Two dimensions on which similarity between scientists can be assessed are their research specialties and status positions. Se...

Over the past three decades, U.S. science and technology funding agencies have increasingly supported large-scale, centralized, lock grant-based research projects that often span multiple disciplines and institutions. This trend has developed at such a rate that esearch focused on understanding the management of these new collaborative models has largely not kept pace. We use two case tudies of...

BACKGROUND AND AIM: This study aims to explore the co-authorship in School of Dentistry at Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Iran, in three levels; individuals, other schools of KUU, and beyond the university.METHODS: This is a cross-sectional study which is a part of a larger study conducted from September 2014 to December 2014. A comprehensive search in Scopus was conducted to find relat...

1 Mayfest Welcome to Mayfest, a two-day workshop dedicated to language. Mayfest brings together leading researchers from a variety of disciplines and perspectives to present their work in relation to the theme, leaving ample time for active discussion to foster new insights and collaboration. This year, the University of Maryland, College Park, o cially joined the Committee on Institutional Col...

Despite the need for targeted HIV prevention interventions for prison inmates, institutional and access barriers have impeded development and evaluation of such programs. Over the past 6 years, the authors have developed a unique collaborative relationship to develop and evaluate HIV prevention interventions for prison inmates. The collaboration includes an academic research institution (the Ce...