A The new global sustainability ethics 4 B. The new and emerging sustainability challenges 10 C. The new and emerging security challenges 14 D. The World Summit for Sustainable Development (WSSD) advances and retreats 19 E. The critical path forward 26

abstract background: application of a reliable and authentic behavioral tool for measuring patients’ pain, hospitalized in intensive care units who are not able to establish relationship, is needed severely. therefore, this study is conducted with the aim of validating critical care pain observation tool (cpot) in patients hospitalized in surgical wards. materials and methods: cpot was first tr...

the field of elt is constantly witnessing the introduction of new instructional approaches: one such perhaps recent initiative is critical discourse analysis (cda). accordingly, the present study was an attempt to investigate the impact of cda instruction on iranian efl learners’ descriptive and argumentative writing ability. to fulfill the aforementioned purpose, a sample toefl was primarily p...

This study intended to investigate the interplay of critical thinking explicit instruction, academic writing performance, critical thinking ability, and critical thinking dispositions of Iranian students. To this end, 140 students of Jahrom University of Medical Sciences (73 males and 67 females) were selected. They were divided into the experimental and control groups. Both groups received ins...

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Critical Path Profiling is a technique that provides guidance to help programmers try to improve the running time of their program. However, Critical Path Profiling provides only an upper bound estimate of the improvement possible in a parallel program execution. In this paper, we present a new metric, called Slack , to complement Critical Path and provide additional information to parallel pro...