INTRODUCTION The current student generation have their own expectations toward professional life and pay particular attention to their work-life balance. Less interest in work-intensive specialties leads to a shortage of skilled candidates especially in surgery. In order to motivate students into a surgical residency, new priorities become important. A deeper understanding of the underlying arg...

In singleton pregnancies after IVF a high rate of preterm deliveries and an increased rate of small-for-gestational age (SGA) children in comparison to the general parturient population have been reported. However, due to differences between IVF mothers and their peers who conceived naturally, careful selection of the control group is necessary to assess whether IVF pregnancies really carry inc...

This work was partially supported by NSF grant ACI-9982274, by LLNL/DOE grant #B347714, and by Army High Performance Computing Research Center contract number DAAH04-95-C-0008. The content of this work does not necessarily reflect the position or policy of the government and no official endorsement should be inferred. Access to computing facilities was provided by AHPCRC and the Minnesota Super...

â  the aim of this study was to investigate the postgraduate students' views regarding their current and desired participation in curriculum development and compare their views with the curriculum experts' opinions. this study is a descriptive-analytical and both qualities and quantitative methods were used/ the population consisted of two groups. the first group consists of all curri...

teachers are evaluated in different ways. however, the most prevalent and controversial method is teacher evaluation by students. the present study was targeted at the examination of students’ view on the teachers’ evaluation criteria. methods: the population of this descriptive cross-sectional study was 107 students of paramedical faculty of urmia university of medical sciences that two of the...

background: awareness about the actual information needs is a necessity in correct decision making for developing or improvement of information centers. this study aimed on investigating the information needs of students and university professors of birjand university of medical sciences. methods: in this descriptive-analytical study conducted in 2009, 422 students were selected based on system...

Professor Fereydoun Malekzadeh was born in 1933 (1312 AHS) in city of Tabriz in state of Azarbaijan in Iran. After graduating from high school, he migrated to Tehran to attend college. In 1956, he obtained his B.Sc. in Biology at Tehran University and was subsequently hired as an instructor in the faculty of Science at the same institution. In 1959 and after receiving his M.Sc. degree in Mycolo...

The first reported incident of ambush marketing happened in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics when Fuji was the official sponsor for the Games. Kodak, who were not an official sponsor and had not paid any fees to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), still managed to benefit from the worldwide publicity of the event by sponsoring the UK track and field team. Since then, sporting organisations ...