During 2007 all Danish university curricula were reformulated to explicitly state course objectives due to the adoption of a new Danish national grading scale which stipulated that grades were to be given based on how well students meet explicit course objectives. The Faculties of Science at University of Aarhus and University of Southern Denmark interpreted “course objectives” as “intended lea...

Severe underrepresentation of African-Americans among postsecondary faculty is often linked to educational pipeline “supply” problems, while institutional variations in “demand” for black faculty labor and barriers to their recruitment and retention receive less empirical attention. Using a nationally representative sample of college faculty from a wide array of institutions and science discipl...

In this paper I support the view that NDEs provide empirical support for mind-body substance dualism and argue that a systems-theoretical analysis of the evidence is required to obtain valid insights into the nature of the mind as a substantial object existing in addition to the body. Without such an approach, systems phenomena such as property emergence and property masking could lead to misch...

Results: Primary authors numbering 223 generated 271 medical papers, each receiving ≥72 (95% CI 72; 263) citations. The articles cited herein were of a level of top global 8-10% papers. Half of the articles were published in 1997-2004. Compared with about 25-28 papers annually 10 years previously, it is estimated that currently only 20 papers are generated in Turkey annually, representing a glo...

Currently there is a problem with information management at many major post secondary institutions. Information was historically acquired, stored and maintained in silos such as Human Resources, Materials Management, Departments or Faculties, Information Technologies centers, Administration units etc. With the arrival of Enterprise Solutions such as People Soft® or SAP®, situations improved bec...

In this study, national and international collaboration at the University of Bergen is analysed. The study is based on CRIS data which enable us to obtain a complete overview of the collaboration profile as reflected in co-authorships of scientific and scholarly publications. The applied data set includes all types of scientific and scholarly publications, from books to articles. The focus is o...

Radon is considered a significant contaminant that affects indoor air quality. However radon is only known to few people, and there is limited documented research on its health hazards in Nigeria. We therefore assessed the awareness of radon and its health risk among employees of Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife, Nigeria. Academic and non-academic staff members from all the 13 faculties were ...