BACKGROUND As almost half of all refugees currently under United Nations protection are from Afghanistan or Iraq and significant numbers have already been resettled outside the region of origin, it is likely that future research will examine their resettlement needs. A number of methodological challenges confront researchers working with culturally and linguistically diverse groups; however, fe...

To the Editor:—We read with interest the article by Johnson and Swanson on procaine neurotoxicity, and are interested in why they decided to use undiluted 10% procaine instead of 5% procaine prepared with 10% procaine and equal volumes of either 10% glucose or cerebral spinal fluid. When the first report of transient radicular irritation with spinal anesthesia using 5% lidocaine appeared, our d...

. by using theorical sampling and using sampling techniques targeted (judgment) sampling and application of snowball (chain) and purposive sampling was carried out on the basis of 16 interviews with administrators, faculty and academic experts of acecr which were experienced in the field of exploitation and exploration and are expert in both fields. analysis of interview data in the process of ...

For inference from link-tracing designs, Frank and Thompson (1998) derived the likelihood function for the graph model. In addition, they provided the likelihood functions considered under the symmetric model and also an asymmetric model. In that paper, they used maximum likelihood estimators to est imate the graph model parameters. Here, we propose a Bayesian approach for the estimation proble...

bureaucracy is became dominant structure of government, however, language of government is largely became by language of bureaucracy. many of the problems of public administration are to be traced to, and found in, the language of bureaucracy. this thesis examines the nature of language of government in three decades of islamic revolution of iran and designs efficient pattern of language of gov...