The paper discusses the cause and consequences of the deterioration and depressing condition of higher education in Muslim countries. The study establishes the links between academic research and economic development. Alternative hypothesis to envisage the causes of sustainable economic...

There is an emerging consensus in the scientific community that climate change has the potential to significantly alter prevailing hydrologic patterns in California over the course of the 21st Century. This is of profound importance for a system where large investments have been made in...

Srinivas S. and Viljamaa K. Emergence of economic institutions: analysing the Third Role of universities in Turku, Finland, Regional Studies. How do universities become economic development institutions? The normative 'Third Role' in Europe refers to universities taking on explicit economic...

Learning is often perceived as a cost-reducing endogenous by-product of production processes. In many applications this by-product is modeled as a learning curve; that is, a simple function of time or of cumulative production experience. In an earlier paper we presented an alternative explanation...

The simple but powerful model used by our brain to create, organize and execute all of our common activities of life represents the most effective way to approach the many more sophisticated projects we are involved in as well. In fact, the natural way our minds plan, when applied to individual...