The economic development of a nation or a region depends to a considerable extent on a highly educated and skilled workforce. This includes an appropriate supply of University graduates. The motivations of students to enter higher education are potentially many and various. However financial factors are known to be of considerable importance, particularly in subjects such as economics and busin...

Article history: Received 17 October 2010 Received in revised form 30 November 2011 Accepted 13 April 2012 Available online 21 April 2012 China's central government incrementally introduced various kinds of student financial aid since the late 1990s in response to public concerns about the rising burden of college prices. Despite the marked increase in financial assistance from governmental as ...

A number of citation indices have been proposed for measuring and ranking the research publication records of scholars. Some of the best known indices are designed to reward most highly those records x that strike some balance between impact I and productivity P ; a large number of publications with few citations per paper will not score well, nor will a very small number of heavily cited paper...

The Diffusion of Information Technology and the Increased Propensity of Teams to Transcend Institutional and National Borders This study examines the relationship between the diffusion of IT and changes in collaboration patterns across institutional and national borders. To undertake the research, the authors match an explicit measure of institutional IT adoption (domain names, e.g. www.umsl.ed...

This article covers the structural and optical property analysis of sillenite Bi12NiO19 (BNO) in order to characterize a new catalyst that could be used for environmental applications. BNO crystals were produced by combustion method using Polyvinylpyrrolidone as reagent. Different approaches resulting catalyst. Starting with X-ray diffraction (XRD), structure was refined from XRD data Rietveld ...

Aim: The alteration of the planetary climate, mainly because human activity, could trigger ecological, economic, and social impacts capable disrupting forms life on planet. In this context, influence psychosocial factors environmental awareness way in which these can for support pro-environmental behaviors is researched example students from a Chilean university.
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The article reveals issues of building the innovative ecosystem institutions problem in context growing role research Universities ensuring structural changes economy Ukraine. International comparisons actual state effectiveness and development potential Ukraine’s innovation have shown that it lags behind almost all indicators European Innovation Scoreboard. It is a confirmed necessity to form ...

College-educated workers are more likely than others to make lasting, long-distance moves, but little is known about the role of college itself in determining geographic mobility. Unobservable characteristics related to selection into college might also drive the relationship between college education and geographic mobility. Using the 5% sample from the 1980 U.S. Census, we provide instrumenta...

Baculoviruses are ubiquitous insect viruses well known for their use as bioinsecticides, gene therapy vectors, and protein expression systems. Overexpression of recombinant proteins in insect cell culture utilizes the strong promoter of the polyhedrin gene. In infected larvae, the polyhedrin protein forms robust intracellular crystals called polyhedra, which protect encased virions for prolonge...