University teaching and learning has been a contentious issue for many decades. This was largely due to the tension between the predominant functions of universities, namely, research, teaching, and service or leadership (Dewar, 2002). Traditionally, research has been perceived by academics as the more prestigious activity due to its potential to contribute to the knowledge base, build scholarl...

Objective: In this research, we are going to analyze the content of articles published in “Journal of Public Administration” dependent to University of Tehran as a prominent journal in the field of public administration in Iran. Methods: The research method applied in this research is content analysis and the statistical population is 291 articles published in the Journal of Public Administrat...

Purpose This article explores factors influencing the participation of industry professionals in Work-Integrated Learning (WIL) three Vietnamese public universities. The impact unique socio-cultural background Vietnam on WIL is also addressed. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative approach that included focus groups and 15 individual in-depth interviews was applied. In total, 30 key univers...

Agents in two-sided matching games vary in characteristics that are unobservable in typical data on matching markets. We investigate the identification of the distribution of unobserved characteristics using data on who matches with whom. In full generality, we consider many-to-many matching and matching with trades. The distribution of match-specific unobservables cannot be fully recovered wit...

Global climate change may add to the risk of infectious diseases faced by Canadians. A warmer climate may permit the northward expansion of certain disease reservoir animal hosts and vectors increasing the risk to Canadians from zoonotic diseases, i.e., diseases that are transmissible between animals and humans. A shorter, less severe winter would prolong the transmission season for many existi...

From 1884 onwards, Britain experienced a series of major droughts, which reached their peak in the 'Long Drought' (1890-1909). Despite being imagined as a wet part of the world, rural Wales was hard hit as many communities did not have access to reliable water supplies. As medical officers of health and newspapers talked about water famines, alarm focused on questions of purity and disease as d...

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