Economic Growth Factors in 2011 – HI 2012

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Prioritizing Factors Affecting Students' Satisfaction with Educational Quality in Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences (2011-2012)

Background: Determining satisfaction level helps the development and improvement of universities. This study was designed to investigate satisfaction level and prioritize factors affecting students' satisfaction with educational quality in Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences. Methods: This is a descriptive-analytical study. The data gathering tool was a researcher made questionnaire consi...

Public Expenditure and Economic Growth in Nigeria (A Granger Causality Approach) 1983-2012

This paper examines the impact of government expenditure on the Nigerian economy for the period 1983 - 2012. The government expenditure components used as the explanatory variables in the model are: expenditures on Health, Education, Defense, Agriculture and Transportation and Communication. The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was used as a parameter for measuring economic growth. In order to esta...

Reading Suggestions ( 2011 – 2012 )

Introductions to Philosophy There are many good introductions to philosophy: [22], [53] and [1] have the advantage of being short and cheap. There are a few books [44, 11, 34] that introduce philosophical ideas by analysing films which raise philosophical issues. One of the advantages of these books is that they allow you to say that you are doing valuable research for this module while watchin...

Handout ( 2011 – 2012 )

There are many different kinds of philosophy. For example, there is Indian philosophy (which has its roots in the ancient body of oral tradition known as the Veda), Islamic philosophy, Japanese philosophy and Chinese philosophy. However, none of these have had any real influence on the scientific tradition in which cognitive science has grown up. That scientific tradition is Western science and...