In the past few years, audience response technology (ART) has been widely adopted on college campuses, and is especially popular among instructors of large lecture classes. Claims regarding ART’s benefits to students have received only limited empirical evaluation, and prior studies exhibit methodological limitations. The current study provides a multi-dimensional evaluation, utilizing a newly-...

Background: ART contracts involving third parties have been created while clinical reproductive treatments are globally widespread. Iran is pioneer in applying these treatments in middle-east due to shii’at jurisprudence prescribing them. This key role in region, has raised Iranian jurists’ responsibility in developing a legal system regarding administration of ART. The most significant part of...

in the modern era and through abstraction, art turns to a path in which the beginning and end of an artwork get closer together than in any other era in an attempt to make the minimum space between the subject and the object, or the work and viewer so that the work is created while receiving the minimum influence from the external world and maximum closeness to the very essence of abstraction a...

This study explores the little understood process of evaluating the performance of department chairs/division heads in dental schools. Specifically, this research aimed to elucidate the methods, processes, and outcomes related to the job performance of department chairs/division heads. Forty-three deans and 306 chairs completed surveys with both close-ended and open-ended questions. In addition...

The large dining room is quiet. Residents sit in a grouping around the piano. Several are wide awake, their eyes bright with anticipation; two are conversing with the young lady in a white lab coat, others are dozing in their seats, and still others are walking aimlessly around the room. A young man enters carrying a music case. He greets several residents by name, welcoming them to the group. ...

the goal of this research is to study the policy of democratization of culture and is trying to find out whether democratization of museums leads to democratization of art or its only result is accumulation of artistic behaviors. deploying pierre bourdieu’s theory who believes that “the love of art” is the result of cultural capital and utilizing surveys with the method of quantity evaluation a...