Higher education has recently faced new challenges and responsibilities such as higher expectations to contribute to national and regional developments; considerable cuts in public funds, and the highly competitive educational markets. Previous research has suggested a positive association between development of human capitals in higher education institutions and their capacity to deal with the...

background: educational development center (edc) establishment is one of the procedures to improve quality of medical education. as positive knowledge and attitude of lecturers and students are essential factors to gain access to goals of these centers, the aim of this project was to assess knowledge and satisfaction of faculty members and students about edc activities, babol-2010. methods: thi...

this study deals with the degree of faculty members' teaching load, its relationship with their specialties and also the relationship between the teachers' satisfaction and the quantity and quality of their academic responsibilities based on three variables of faculty, gender, and academic rank. this study is both qualitative and quantitative. the required data were gathered through the study o...

A survey of some recent results on nonparametric on-line estimation is presented. The first result deals with an on-line estimation for a smooth signal S(t) in the classic ‘signal plus Gaussian white noise’ model. Then an analogous on-line estimator for the regression estimation problem with equidistant design is described and justified. Finally some preliminary results related to the on-line e...

a r t i c l e i n f o This paper presents a survey of the state-of-the-art in motion estimation of continuum objects such as elastic solids (e.g., human organs, skin, and biomedical tissues) and fluids (e.g., clouds, ocean flows, and air flows). The survey is focused on the estimation methodologies, rather than on specific applications. We begin by summarizing the main components and challenges...