Financing is one of the essential necessitates for science and technology development that many universities have paid attention to it and through establishing financing funds including endowment funds have realized this important issue. So endowment today has played a crucial role in financing and the issue of endowment, benefactors and strategic position of benefactors and donors has been one...

The journal "Proceedings of SPSTL SB RAS" is a keycommunication platform for discussing actual topical issues related to the activities scientific libraries and information centers that provide methodological support scientists specialists. These are actively discussed at library forums conferences, including annual conferences Russian Library Association (RLA). It brief report on meeting Secti...

Political Development in Social Sciences Textbooks: Content Analysis of the High School Texts M. Abtahi, Ph.D.* G.R. Mohammadimehr**   Political development, as an educational objective, could be achieved if certain concepts and values are dealt with in the textbooks. Chief among such concepts and values are rationality, scientific tendencies, law abiding, group work, consultation, ...

In recent years, as more and more innovative drug products are going off patents, the search for new medicines such as botanical drug products that can treat critical and/or life-threatening diseases has become the center of attention of many pharmaceutical companies and research organizations such as the United States National Institutes of Health (NIH). A botanical drug product is often recog...

The discovery and development of new medicines that promote human health and potentially extend natural life remains a remarkably challenging endeavor. In this Commentary, we identify key elements of communication required to successfully translate promising biological findings to novel approved drug therapies and discuss the attendant challenges and opportunities.

Commercial component-based software engineering practices, such as the CORBA component model, Enterprise JavaBeans, and COM, are well-established in the business computing community. These practices present an approach for managing the increasing complexity of scientific software development, which has motivated the Common Component Architecture (CCA), a component specification targeted at high...

The mounting and critical need for scientific data curation professionals was the impetus for the Data Curation Education in Research Centers (DCERC) program. DCERC is developing a sustainable and transferable model for educating Library and Information Science (LIS) students in data curation through field experiences in research and data centers. DCERC has established and implemented a graduat...

The paper analyses the digital library services for China’s scientific communities, explores the challenges toward sustainable digital libraries, presents a development strategy for digital libraries using Chinese Academy of Sciences as an example, and provides a layered design framework for a digital library in an e-science environment.

Radical Constructivism has been defined as an ‘unconventional approach to the problem of knowledge and knowing’. Its unconventionality is summarised by its claim that it is impossible to attribute unique meaning to experience-as no mind-independent yardstick can be assumed to exist against which to identify uniqueness, and hence to produce knowledge and knowing. In other words, it is claimed th...