background: continuous improvement of quality in higher education is the ultimate goal of any medical school. evaluation of research and educational status makes it possible to judge about the quality of educational achievements in a system. thus we evaluated the educational and research status of microbiology and virology department, faculty of medicine in mashhad university of medical science...

introduction: patient satisfaction is crucial to the long-run success in health care center. with regard to the highest patients’ referral to the emergency department and the existing challenges due to the patient’s need to urgent care, we aimed to evaluate health care services quality in this unit to find out whether the patients have different expectations from health care providers and if th...

1: Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Postbus 2040, 3000 CA Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2: Agency of Public Health of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain 3: Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Zurich, Switzerland 4: Department of Preventive Medicine and Public health, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain 5: Division of Epidemi...

The aim of this study is to examine the master's and doctoral thesis written on early marriage according year publication, type, university, department, institute, language in which it was written, title consultant, research method used, distribution keywords themes. A total 35 were examined research. sample consists related subject CHE (The Council Higher Education) Thesis Center. Research dat...

*Richard E. Barrett was awarded the Ph.D. in sociology in 1978 by the University of Michigan. He is now Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois, Chicago Circle. The author would like to thank Martin Whyte, Ronald Freedman, John Knodel, Arthur Wolf, William Lavely, and John Casterline for their suggestions and criticisms; of course, final responsibility f...

Methods for group comparisons using predicted probabilities and marginal effects on probabilities are developed for regression models for binary outcomes. Unlike approaches based on the comparison of regression coefficients across groups, the methods we propose are unaffected by the identification of the coefficients and are expressed in the natural metric of the outcome probability. While we d...

Even though pedagogy courses in sociology are on the rise, many departments do not offer or require a course on teaching sociology or a teaching proseminar series. However, faculty in such departments do have other options for incorporating and integrating pedagogical issues into their standard curriculum. In this note, I offer one suggestion for incorporating teaching and learning into the cur...

The Contradiction/Correspondence between Secondary Educational System’s Objectives and Regulations F. Mohammadi* M. Noghaanidokht Bahmani, Ph.D. ** M. Kermaani, Ph.D. *** K. Khaaleghpanaah, Ph.D. ****    To improve the quality of education in Iran any contradiction between the regulations and objectives needs to be rectified and correspondences strengthened. To this end,...

Verbal irony use in personal blogs Juanita M. Whalen a , Penny M. Pexman a , Alastair J. Gill b & Scott Nowson c a Department of Psychology , University of Calgary , 2500 University Dr NW, Calgary , Alberta , Canada , T2N 1N4 b Centre for Research in Social Simulation, Department of Sociology , University of Surrey , Guildford , GU2 7EX , UK c Appen Pty Ltd. , NorthTower, Level 6, Chatswood Cen...