There has been increasing interest at health science centers in improving the education of health professionals by offering faculty development activities. In 2007-08, as part of an effort to expand education-related faculty development offerings on campus, the University of Tennessee Health Science Center surveyed faculty members in an effort to identify faculty development activities that wou...

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Despite significant interest in the welfare of military service members and their families, there has been little scientific research on their household financial situations. More specifically, to the author’s knowledge, there have been very few comparative analyses between military members and their civilian counterparts, between members of the different military services or between different ...

BACKGROUND Increasing attention has been given to the transparency of potential conflicts of interest in clinical medicine and biomedical sciences, particularly in journal publishing and science advisory panels. The authors examined the degree and type of financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry of panel members responsible for revisions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental D...

So far, trust evaluation models depend highly on collected evidences, which are mainly in the form of ratings, to produce trust values [3]. However, many situations require agents to form groups to provide more complicated services (composite services); meanwhile, consumers rate the quality of a composite service as a whole rather than individual group members [2]. Namely, all providers, who ar...

The facility interest rate is one of the most important macroeconomic variables. The bank facility interest rate is associated with other macro-economic variables, one of which is the bank deposit interest rate. Using the time series data of the 1973-2017 period and the simultaneous equation system, the researchers estimated four equations using the three-stage least squares method.The result o...