The assessment of scholarship assumes a central role in the evaluation of individual faculty, educational programs and academic fields. Because the production and assessment of scholarship is so central to the faculty role, it is incumbent upon decision makers to strive to make assessments of scholarship fair and equitable. This paper will focus on an approach to the assessment of the quantity ...

This paper defines scholarship as disciplined intellectual activity undertaken to help determine the truth of some matter or else to apply in a practical way some previously determined truth. More specifically, Bahá’í scholarship seeks to understand and/or apply truths contained in the writings of the Bahá’í Faith; it may also involve historical/critical studies of the Bahá’í Faith as a social ...

It is widely believed that a scientific revolution is underway, in which the deep connections between computer science and biological processes are exploited to enrich our understanding of science and medicine [1]. Two of the challenges of this revolution are to extract and interpret the information contained in the huge amounts of scientific data that are being generated and to provide computi...