The introduction of performance-based university research funding systems (hereafter PRFS) has widely spread and established in many countries since the 1980s. Such systems have been developed in order to allocate funds at the institutional level, leading to differences between academic institutions and a concentration of talent in those which rank higher in this evaluation benchmarks. Good exa...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the health of young Sami in Sweden and the relationship between health and experience of negative societal treatment due to ethnicity, as well as socio-demographic background factors. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional population-based questionnaire study. METHODS A total of 876 persons aged 18-28 and involved in Sami associated activities were addressed, and 516 (59%) r...

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) with considering the best condition for each decision making unit (DMU) assesses the relative efficiency for it and divides a homogenous group of DMUs in to two categories: efficient and inefficient, but traditional DEA models can not rank efficient DMUs. Although some models were introduced for ranking efficient DMUs, Franklin Lio & Hsuan peng (2008), proposed a...

introduction: although the initial hypothesis for the action of doxepin was based on the inhibition of the reuptake of neurotransmitters, it has been suggested that it may also involve other mechanisms. therefore, this study aims to investigate the effect of doxepin on spatial memory, tumor necrosis factor alpha (tnf-α) level, expression of pro-apoptotic (bad and bax) and anti-apoptotic (bcl-2)...