Fostering collaboration between scientific and professional groups that contribute to the advancement of global public health is one of the main constitutional responsibilities of the World Health Organization (WHO) [1]. In line with this responsibility, WHO has organized fifteen annual meetings with numerous non-governmental organizations (NGOs) concerned with prevention and treatment of neuro...

Previous research on university-industry collaboration in Canada concluded, using mean impact factors as a proxy, that the scientific impact of such research is not inferior to that of university research. Using field-normalized impact factors and citation counts, this paper reexamines the Canadian case. It shows that, when impact factors are field-normalized, university-industry papers are pub...

identity, which forms the personality of every society, is the cultural and social values that has today been kept by the academicians and is transferred to the next generation according to timely revolutions current needs. it is upon different codes of conduct and especially higher education systems to come up with the most suitable strategies in order to keep, revise and transfer cultural ide...

There is a complexity of challenges related to scientific and technological education in Brazil, including literacy in basic concepts and principles by students; better preand in-service teacher training; sufficient supply of computers, internet and other technological resources to all Brazilian public schools; provision of teacher training on how to effectively use such tools; and promotion of...