Third Sector Organisations (TSOs) have multiple purposes, i.e. financial stability as well as their mission, often operate in complicated circumstances and report to multiple stakeholders. This paper shows that information is not being used as effectively as it could be for regulation and performance management in this sector. A preliminary study of secondary cases indicates that Enterprise Per...

experiences from urban development plans and assessments of their concrete and tangible results in the past decades indicate lack of adequate success of our urbanization system to responding needs of our citizens. this has resulted in need to find a fundamental solution to transforming the centralized system into decentralized. recent changes in regard to a change of approach from master plan t...

Although there is no consensus on the definition of the peri-urban interface, there is growing recognition among development professionals and institutions that rural and urban features tend increasingly to co-exist within cities and beyond their limits. There is also recognition that the urban–rural dichotomy that is deeply ingrained in planning systems is inadequate for dealing with processes...

The present study investigated the effects of protein malnutrition and environmental stimulation on biochemical and behavioral parameters in rats. The concentrations of polyamines in the frontal cortex, striatum, and hippocampus, as well as plasma corticosterone levels, were measured. The exploratory behavior was analyzed using the elevated plus-maze (EPM) test. Rats received either 16% (well-n...

Die Energie-Prozess-Management-Produktlinie (EPM-Produktlinie) der BTC AG baut auf dem gemeinsamen EPM-Architekturstil und der EPMReferenzarchitektur auf. Deren Anwendung stellt die technische und fachliche Interoperabilität innerhalb der Produktlinie sicher, und ermöglicht es, die effiziente Wartbarkeit, Testbarkeit sowie die erforderliche Variabilität in den nichtfunktionalen Anforderungen un...

haraz-ghareh su is one of the seven sub-basins of the caspian basin, located on the southern shores of the caspian sea, and as such, is in danger of water crisis due to absence of proper systematic policy and strategy. in this study, the pressure factors on the haraz-ghareh su water resources were identified using dpsir model. then, the pressure parameters on the freshwater resources in the cas...