discovering the effective factors in agricultural students’ academic success was the aim of this study. the statistical population consisted of all 194 junior agriculture students at the university of tehran. the study is of a correlation type with the information being gathered through questionnaires as well as through a study of students’ academic files. there was a positive significant corre...

the present research work was carried out to assess the relationship between outreach services of a faculty member, and his academic tasks of teaching performance and research productivity. a number of 95 faculty members from the colleges of agriculture and natural resources constituted the statistical population of the study. a questionnaire was employed for collection of data on outreach serv...

For the foreign student it is very important to own skills of the academic letter. It is an important indicator of professional and research competence of the student. The mobility of foreign graduates of the Russian higher education institutions depends on their level of proficiency in the academic Russian letter as communications between the educational and scientific organizations extend at ...

This paper provides the results of an applied research of forests engineers connected to their risk of mental stress occurrence in everyday work. This paper also has a component of a basic research, in which the adequacy and reliability of applied methodology in this kind of researches is examined. The mental stress induced risk is tested by usage of an e-mail survey which consists out of 23-pa...

Universities gather large volumes of data with reference to their students in electronic form. The advances in the data mining field make it possible to mine these educational data and find information that allow for innovative ways of supporting both teachers and students. This paper presents a case study on predicting performance of students at the end of a university degree at an early stage...

On the basis of the construction of index system, by the factor analysis and the model of coupled coordination degree, the coupled coordination degrees in 2005 and 2010 between development of urban land intensive use system and social economic system are studied in 17 ground level cities of Shandong province. The first results showed that f(x) and f(y) in 2010 were higher than in 2005, which in...

Scientific articles are not born equal. Some generate an entire discipline while others make relatively fewer contributions. When reviewing scientific literatures, it would be useful to identify those important articles and understand how they influence others. In this paper, we introduce J-Index, a quantitative metric modeling topic-level academic influence. J-Index is calculated based on the ...

This study explores the process of organizational change by examining localized social learning in organizational subunits. Specifically, we examine participation in university technology transfer, a new organizational initiative, by tracking 1,780 faculty members, examining their backgrounds and work environments, and following their engagement with academic entrepreneurship. We find that indi...

This paper is part of a longterm programme to develop combined Cauchy and characteristic codes as investigative tools in Numerical Relativity. In this, the third stage of the programme, attention is devoted to axi-symmetric systems possessing two spatial degrees of freedom. The method relies on being able to pass information backwards and forwards across an interface exterior to any central sou...