Globalization reflects the notion that the world has become a common social space through technological and economic forces so that development in a region of the world can have profound effects on the livelihood of individuals or societies in other regions. It is not difficult to find the relationship between this phenomenon and the civil society development. Globalization has had a profound i...

BACKGROUND The Korean War GI Bill provided economic benefits for veterans, thereby potentially improving their health outcomes. However potential spillover effects on veteran wives have not been evaluated. METHODS Data from wives of veterans eligible for the Korean War GI Bill (N = 128) and wives of non-veterans (N = 224) from the Health and Retirement Study were matched on race and coarsened...

Bidie, Deputy Surgeon-General (Madras), to act as SurgeonGeneral with Madras Government, vice S. G. Furnell. Koberts, Deputy Surgeon-General, now returning from Suakim, succeeds Dr. Bidie as Sanitary Commissioner. Crombie, Surgeon-Major A., Civil Surgeon of Dacca, has been appointed to succeed Dr. Cleghorn as Superintendent of the General Hospital, Calcutta. O'Brien, Surgeon-Major J., Civil Sur...

Economists and political scientists have argued that differences in the risk of civil conflict across countries and over time may partly reflect differences in the opportunity cost of participating in civil conflicts. One way to test for the opportunity-cost channel is to examine civil conflict risk following transitory income shocks. In this paper I propose two instrumentalvariables approaches...

Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Amirkabir University (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran. email: [email protected] Ph.D. Student, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Amirkabir University (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran. email: [email protected] Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran. email: kerach...

Milad Hooshyar Department of civil, Environmental, and construction Engineering, University of Central Florida. [email protected] Stephen C. Medeiros Department of civil, Environmental, and construction Engineering, University of Central Florida. Dingbao Wang Department of civil, Environmental, and construction Engineering, University of Central Florida. Scott C. Hagen Department o...

Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155, USA Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030, USA Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Department of Civil, Environmental & Construction Engineering, University of Central Florida,...

Some industry and policy actors are concerned about public opposition to civil drones, in particular because of their association with military drones. However, very little is understood about public reactions to the technology. Strategies to 'manage public acceptance' have so far relied upon several untested assumptions. We conducted public engagement activities to explore citizens' visions of...