OBJECTIVE Overweight has become a public health problem in most developing countries. Evidence suggests that adolescence is a critical period in determining adulthood obesity and its complications. The present study was carried out to assess the prevalence of overweight and obesity among secondary school students. DESIGN AND SETTING This descriptive study was conducted in Tehran city, 2000-20...

BACKGROUND There are no population-based data available for cancer in Tehran, a city that includes almost 10% of the Iranian population. This is the first report of cancer incidence in Tehran from a population-based cancer registry for the period of 1998-2001. METHODS The cancer registry collects data on all new cases of cancer diagnosed in the resident population of Tehran metropolitan area....

a n wa r s h a h w i t h s a n a s h a h 1 We will strive increasingly to quicken the public sense of public duty; that thus. .. we will transmit this city not only not less, but greater, better, and more beautiful than it was transmitted to us. —Oath of office required of council members in the ancient city of Athens

Seismic fragility analysis of bridges can be used to identify the probability different damage states under earthquake hazards. This study aims generate curve highway in Tehran, Iran, where these curves are not provided yet. To derive new curves, from studies all around world has been classified into categories, based on their structural designs, bridge materials, country, and analytical method...

General Santos City is one of a few local governments in the Philippines that has placed a priority on housing for the urban poor. While the case of General Santos is not a success story, the case is important in that it shows how a local government fulfilled the mandate of the Urban Development and Housing Act (UDHA) to provide land tenure to the urban poor. In this study, I explore the charac...

Much of the literature on citizen participation in the budget process links the council-manager form of government with higher levels of citizen participation, assuming the council-manager form represents professional administration. This is contradictory to the reality that different forms of government have “borrowed” features from each other and many now have mixed forms of government (i.e.,...

Understanding the appropriation of CSCW-Tools is key to their successful implementation. This paper explores the social and organizational appropriation of the Cuparla CSCW-environment in the Stuttgart city council. The city council work requires a CSCW design that is based on the notion of digital material in separated work contexts. Within these contexts, the appropriation of technology depen...

Nearly all Social Services Departments in the UK (SSDs) use computers for recording details of their clients (Barnes, 1996). It has been proposed that the direct use of these computer systems by professional staff "must surely be an objective if the systems are to support the direct delivery of services" (SOCITM, 1992). However, some practitioners resist using computerised records as they are n...