Emphasis on research blamed for problems at US universities

Policies on faculty conflicts of interest at US universities.

CONTEXT Despite federal regulations on faculty conflicts of interest in federally funded research, academic-industry ties are common, and evidence exists that financial considerations bias the research record. Public scrutiny of these ties is increasing, especially in cases where researchers have financial interests in the corporate sponsors of their clinical research. OBJECTIVE To review pol...

Research Universities: Core of the US science and technology system

Research universities are a recent innovation, having emerged in Prussia in the early 19th century, and in the United States only in the aftermath of the Civil War. By 1940, perhaps a dozen American universities could be regarded as firstclass research institutions. However, they received virtually no financial support from the US government. The most farreaching recommendation of Vannevar Bush...

Transforming Science Education at Large Research Universities

global results on some nonlinear partial differential equations for direct and inverse problems

در این رساله به بررسی رفتار جواب های رده ای از معادلات دیفرانسیل با مشتقات جزیی در دامنه های کراندار می پردازیم . این معادلات به فرم نیم-خطی و غیر خطی برای مسایل مستقیم و معکوس مورد مطالعه قرار می گیرند . به ویژه، تاثیر شرایط مختلف فیزیکی را در مساله، نظیر وجود موانع و منابع، پراکندگی و چسبندگی در معادلات موج و گرما بررسی می کنیم و به دنبال شرایطی می گردیم که متضمن وجود سراسری یا عدم وجود سراسر...

Teaching translation at Gaza universities: Problems and solutions

It is obvious that translation plays an important role in the human communications. From ancient time up to now there has been debates about methods of translation. Some scholars preferred word for word and some others preferred sense for sense. Translators have a very important task to bring the sense of the text from one language to another language and alike. This study discusses the learnin...