Examining psychosocial challenges arising in strata titled housing

Exploring an analytic model of urban housing strata.

An analytic model of urban housing strata is developed which utilizes housing structure type, housing tenure type, floor size, physical quality, residential area, and number of rooms to calculate a housing deficit for each housing characteristic. The housing norm is subtracted from the actual housing conditions. Each housing deficit value is weighted according to the priority of the 6 variabl...

Housing and health : Examining the links

HIV Infection in the Elderly: Arising Challenges

Globally there is an increase in the number of people living with HIV at an advanced age (50 years and above). This is mainly due to prolonged survival following the use of highly active antiretroviral therapy. Living with HIV at an advanced age has been shown to be associated with a number of challenges, both clinical and immunological. This minireview aims at discussing the challenges encount...

Psychosocial issues in space: future challenges.

As the duration of space flights increases and crews become more heterogeneous, psychosocial factors are likely to play an increasingly important role in determining mission success. The operations of the International Space Station and planning of interplanetary missions represent important future challenges for how to select, train and monitor crews. So far, empirical evidence about psycholog...

Challenges arising from the conciseness of Islamic criminal law in the implementation of alternatives to imprisonment

  Due to the relatively emerging issue of alternatives to imprisonment, the Iranian judicial system has always faced various legal challenges, as the case may be, in the process of determining or implementing them. Authors with analytical and library method and with the knowledge of the wide range of legal challenges on the subject in terms of aspect and territory, only to a specific aspect an...