this article contends that legitimacy in the exercise of power comes from the consent of those subject to it. in global health, this implies that the participation of poor country citizens is required for the legitimacy of major actors and institutions. but a review of institutions and processes suggests that this participation is limited or absent. particularly because of the complex political...

in this paper, a new continuous ant colony optimization (caco) algorithm is proposed for optimal reservoir operation. the paper presents a new method of determining and setting a complete set of control parameters for any given problem, saving the user from a tedious trial and error based approach to determine them. the paper also proposes an elitist strategy for caco algorithm where best solut...

aim and background: schizophrenia is a chronic psychiatric disease that has an important effect on patients’ quality of life and their function. the goal of this study was to evaluate the effect of compliance therapy on quality of life and global function of schizophrenic patient. methods and materials: in this randomized controlled trial 76 remission patients with schizophrenia were recruited ...

this essay approaches the challenges of global translation in the 21st century from what might still be considered a somewhat uncommon example: a direct translation of ismail kadaré's 1978 novel prill e thyër (broken april) from the original albanian into brazilian portuguese in 2001. not only does it examine and compare lexical elements in the source and target texts and the usage of translato...

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transportation is an important part of modern community life as well as one of the largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions in urban communities, the population growth of which can increase transportation capacity. monorail systems are relatively new rail transportation systems which are currently being designed and constructed in different countries. we have applied the intergovernmental pa...

the present article reviews the significance of accreditation standards while emphasizing the necessity of implementation of such standards by basic medical science council, with an eye on such international standards as those published by wfme. this review article had to decide on the key words and expressions, data bases, to review relevant literature, review higher and medical education jour...