A sense of fierce, global competition over resources, students, and faculty is driving universities worldwide to launch strategic exercises and branding initiatives. Universities, like corporations, articulate their vision and mission statements for brand differentiation and marketing campaigns. One result is that, with the guidance of marketing and branding consultants, universities across the...

always the vise physician, Dr. Means gives credit to the loyalty of the ward's benefactors and staff. The style is informal and lucid. Apparently writing for both medical and nonmedical readers, the author boldly explains complex metabolic interrelationships for the benefit of all-with the aid of a glossary that would serve handsomely in any textbook of medicine. To Dr. Means, Ward 4 symbolizes...

A performance-based funding system like the United Kingdom's 'Research Excellence Framework' (REF) symbolizes the re-rationalization of higher education according to neoliberal ideology and New Public Management technologies. The REF is also significant for disclosing the kinds of behaviour that characterize universities' response to government demands for research auditability. In this paper, ...

Art and science become inevitably intertwined in our appreciation of nature's forms. This concept is demonstrated by the creative team responsible for the cover images of Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences. Denis Weaire, Stefan Hutzler, Wiebke Drenckhan form a leading international collaboration with photographers Tim Durham and Michael Boran that explores the physics of bubble p...

This work presents a neural network model for the clustering analysis of data based on Self Organizing Maps (SOM). The model evolves during the training stage towards a hierarchical structure according to the input requirements. The hierarchical structure symbolizes a specialization tool that provides refinements of the classification process. The structure behaves like a single map with differ...

In the midst of rampant currents globalization, where humans are busy with modern concepts and thoughts, indigenous peoples trying to continue carry out maintain their traditions, so that culture remains preserved along development globalization. Dulohupa traditional house is one Traditional Houses in Gorontalo area, there local wisdom values have meanings principles various aspects life people...

BACKGROUND Vascular Access (VA) is an important aspect for blood circulatory in Hemodialysis (HD). Arteriovenous Fistula (AVF) is a suitable procedure to gain VA. Maturation of the AVF is a status of AVF, which can be cannulated for HD. This study aimed to discover the parameters that effectively reduce the duration between VA and start of HD, which symbolizes the maturation time (MT). METHOD...