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...

development of a numerical model which describes launching of offshore jackets from barge is presented in this paper. in this model, in addition to capabilities of commercial softwares, water entry forces on jacket members and an implicit newmark solution technique are included. the results are in general agreement with other numerical software’s available (sacs). fluid forces acting on jacket ...

the empowerment of women has been widely acknowledged as an important goal in international development. the main aim of this study was to investigate empowerment levels and rate among the members of tafihan rural women’s association.those who were subject to research consisted of all members of the tafihan women’s association (418 members), out of which, a total number of 200 members were sele...

congenital cutis laxa is an exceptional condition. no large scale pedigree has been reported from iran. we report a family with 106 members with two members affected with cutis laxa. our cases were two patients (male and female) with pre- and postnatal growth retardation, cutis laxa, characteristic facies and other manifestations which proved that they were affected with cutis laxa. their famil...

Rolf Br€ uggemann and Gisela SchmidKrebs, Verortungen der Seele: locating the soul. Psychiatriemuseen in Europa /Museums of psychiatry in Europe, Frankfurt am Main, Mabuse-Verlag, 2007, pp. 206, illus., d29.90 (paperback 978-3-938304-48-8). Nicholas Coni,Medicine and warfare: Spain, 1936–1939, Routledge/Ca~nada Blanch Studies on Contemporary Spain, NewYork and London, Routledge, 2007, pp. xxv, ...