Conservation of heritage buildings deserves special attention, because these are not only a distinctive feature the wisdom and creativity ancients, conveying abundant historic technical information, but often they also symbol culture represent local community as whole [...]

T h i s paper presents a m e t h o d for a p p l y i n g s t a n d a r d i n fe renc ing mechan isms to a b roader class of sentences t h a n t h a t wh i ch was possi b le before. T h e logic of proposition surrogates al lows rep resen ta t ion of and reason ing w i t h a class of sentences ( the so ca l led opaque sentences) t h a t pose specia l d i f f icu l t ies fo r s tan d a r d logics....

evaluation of clinical skills in midwives graduated from mashhad nursing and midwifery faculty and employed in mashhad health care centers     mirzakhani k [1] *, jahani shorab n [2] , golmakani n [3] , tafazoli m [4] , ebrahimzadeh s [5]     received: 29july, 2011 accepted: 28august, 2011     abstract   background & aims : suitable midwifery skills could prevent many deaths of maternal, fetal,...

From an evolutionary point of view, the function of moral behaviour may be to secure a good reputation as a co-operator. The best way to do so may be to obey genuine moral motivations. Still, one's moral reputation maybe something too important to be entrusted just to one's moral sense. A robust concern for one's reputation is likely to have evolved too. Here we explore some of the complex rela...

a bstra ct   background: clinical education is the heart of the nursing education program. effective nursing clinical instructors are needed for graduating the future qualified nurses. there is a well - developed body of knowledge about the effectiveness of clinical teaching and the instructors. however, translating this knowledge into a context - based evaluation tool for measuring the effecti...

Introduction Many commentators have argued that distance education requires a qualitatively new pedagogy built on a unique relationship between the instructor and the learners. Traditional education or one-way televised learning at a distance often produces boredom. Students learn passively because the instructor is the sage and the source of knowledge (Markel. 1999). Besides, adult learners al...

At its simplest a course management system is a tool that allows an instructor to post information on the web without that instructor having to know or understand HTML or other computer languages. A more complete definition of a CMS is that it provides an instructor with a set of tools and a framework that allows the relatively easy creation of online course content and the subsequently teachin...

Markets for Reputation: Evidence on Quality and Quantity in Academe We develop a theory of the market for individual reputation, an indicator of regard by one’s peers and others. The central questions are: 1) Does the quantity of exposures raise reputation independent of their quality? and 2) Assuming that overall quality matters for reputation, does the quality of an individual’s most importan...