Numerous opportunities exist for successful careers in the fields of hematology and oncology. Trainees must choose between dedicated training in one or both disciplines, and between careers in private practice or academic medicine. Individuals who favor academic careers must decide between patient-oriented clinical investigation and laboratory research. This article addresses the factors that i...

Conventional approaches for academic research on the Internet are strongly tied to Western reductionism and tend to narrow the scope of research into specific fields, and they sometimes fail to grasp the Internet as architecture. There are so many activities and technical developments that have occurred outside academic societies. It has passed six years since the Internet Architecture (IA) Tec...

The emerging multidisciplinary field of computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) has the potential to address several theoretical, political, and praxis issues within academic librarianship. Conversely, librarians are uniquely situated to contribute to the ongoing development of CSCL, and the library is an ideal “place” for the development, implementation, and evaluation of collaborativ...

Qualitative research is becoming more prominent in academic medicine and health care fields, and an increasing number of publications using qualitative methods are featured in prominent journals1–3; thus, recognizing the different available approaches can benefit researchers of all types. While a debate may wage between proponents of qualitative versus quantitative research, both sets of method...

This paper investigates the characteristics of US colleges and universities that were early adopters of post-1970 academic growth fields. It examines hypotheses drawn from four analytical perspectives on sources of organizational change: organizational ecology, inter-institutional stratification, demographic composition, and historical traditions. Focusing on 20 ‘‘newly established’’ and ‘‘emer...

In my contribution on “Science as Utopia” at the Preparatory Meeting last year, I touched upon the concept of transdisciplinarity, pointing to the fact that research is moving beyond its disciplinary limits. Let me add a few remarks and observations to this concept. In the course of a long institutional route, our academic system has become disturbingly unfathomable.1 This is the case not only ...

The 21st century is an era of convergence. The ideas of crossover and fusion have long in popular science and technology. Practical exercise learning draws inspiration from sport, medical science, nursing, literature, humanities, social welfare, and recreation. Exercise borrows ideas from many different sports games. You can no longer categorize exercise in terms of academic fields. Rehabilitat...

The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between self-efficacy, cognitive meta cognitive strategies with academic achievement among students high school boys nomads of Fars Province. The research method is descriptive – correlational. The population of this study, all high school students nomads of of Fars province is in the 90-91 school year were enrolled. Cluster sampl...

Background: in order to evaluate educational courses, usually different criteria of student and academic staff are being used. These criteria for students include their number, fields, the ratio of post-garaduate students to all students, and for staff, they are composed of their number, their rank in the academic pyramid, as well as the ratio of students to academic staff classified based on t...

Background: The dramatic increase in the number of general practitioners and their limited job situations has increased the desire to continue studies in specialized fields. However, different fields are not desired in the same way. Therefore, to plan for the guidance of general practitioners towards fields needed for the society, understanding the motives for choosing a field is necessary. The...