effective academic leadership is a complicated issue to investigate because of its intangibility and potential consequences. in addition, it plays an essential role in the success of institutions as well as being an important factor in improving quality performance of faculty members, administrators and qualified alumni. in this study mixed methods was used to develop a model of islamic azad un...

High-quality leaf area index (LAI) products retrieved from satellite observations are urgently needed for crop growth monitoring and yield estimation, land-surface process simulation and global change studies. In recent years, sequential assimilation methods have been increasingly used to retrieve LAI from time series remote-sensing data. However, the inherent characteristics of these sequentia...

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At Sophist 260e3-261a2, the Eleatic Stranger claims that in order to demonstrate falsehood is, he and Theaetetus must first track down what speech (logos), opinion (doxa), appearance (phantasia) are, then observe communion (koinōnia) speech, opinion, have with non-being. The Stranger, however, never explicitly discusses of Yet presumably their is implicit his account falsehood, given claim obse...

1 Marmara University, Faculty of Science and Arts, Department of Biology, 34722, Goztepe, Istanbul, Turkey Bartin University, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Environmental Engineering, 74100, Bartın, Turkey Erciyes University, Faculty of Science and Arts, Department of Biology, 38039, Kayseri, Turkey Int. J. Environ. Sci. Tech., 7 (3), 427-434, Summer 2010 ISSN: 1735-1472 © IRSEN, CEERS, IAU