Ingredient or Function?

Cash transfers-magic bullet or fundamental ingredient?

How many more trials will be needed to endorse the use of small regular cash amounts to improve the health of the very poor? In their study in The Lancet Global Health, Audrey Pettifor and colleagues show that cash transfers reduce key HIV risk behaviours in adolescent girls (sexual activity in the past 12 months, unprotected sex in the past 3 months, and intimate partner violence as an additio...

Law Enforcement; a Function of Criminal Liability or Civil Liability

Despite the fact that in investigations and legal writings enough consideration has been paid to the founding principles and rules governing civil and criminal liability as well as damages of crime, the legal or disciplinary responsibility accompanying these two types of legal responsibilities has not been taken seriously into account and the people involved it - in particular, the authorities ...

Process Writing and Enhancement of Critical Thinking Ability: Is Writing a Vehicle or an Ingredient of Critical Thinking?

The study aimed to investigate the relationship between process writing (PW) and critical thinking (CT) ability of Iranian EFL learners. Furthermore, the role of PW in the enhancement of CT was investigated. In so doing, 125 upper-intermediate language learners were selected from Islamic Azad University based on convenience sampling. The results of pretest administration indicated that particip...

The Earth's missing ingredient.

IT H KA SN O T The deepest hole humans have ever dug reaches 12 kilometers below the ground of Russia’s Kola Peninsula. Although we now have a spacecraft on its way to Pluto—about six billion kilometers away from the sun—we still cannot send a probe into the deep earth. For practical purposes, then, the center of the planet, which lies 6,380 kilometers below us, is farther away than the edge of...

Structure Function Correlates - CT or lung function tests, or both