It is necessary to establish an International Agency for Research on Aging

International Agency for Research on Cancer.

Is It Necessary to Restrict Forex Financial Trading? A Modified Model

The Central Bank of Iran banned online currency trading through Forex brokers in November 2016. However, some Iranian speculators still trade in the online Forex market. Is this prohibition on Forex trading reasonable? According to reports, the majority of Forex day traders fail and leave the market within six months to a year. Some scholars attribute this failure to the changeable characterist...

Is “teaching” an obstacle to “research”?

Introduction. Regarding the role of research in developing and improving a better culture, society and economics, 95% to 97% world finance in research belongs to developed countries while only 3%-5% to developing countries. Although the universities as the major organizations are to do research works, it seems that there are some problems to bring this true. We tried to find out if a load of t...

Why and How Is Compassion Necessary to Provide Good Healthcare? Comments From an Academic Physician; Comment on “Why and How Is Compassion Necessary to Provide Good Quality Healthcare?”

This is a short commentary to the editorial issued by Marianna Fotaki, entitled: “Why and how is compassion necessary to provide good quality healthcare.” It introduces the necessity of a more cognitive approach to explore further the determinants of behavior towards compassionate care. It raises questions about the importance of training towards a more patient-care and values driven healthcare...

'Is it mine, is it yours? it is ours.' shared epistemic agency in collaborative research activities

Knowledge creation entails collaborative learning processes, involving groups of students that act collaboratively in order to create new knowledge. In this study, we discuss shared epistemic agency as one of the main concepts capturing the process and evolution of collaboratively creating knowledge. A multiple-method approach was employed when analyzing the data collected from a research modul...