suffering from disorder and chaos, tehran is a city capable of introduced as one of the most beautiful cities in the world for its historical and geographical capacities. unfortunately, in the modern era and after the islamic revolution when urban development destiny started to depend on engineers due to their increasing authority in urban management, culture role was undermined and tehran unde...

Community coalitions facilitate changes in community outcomes and conditions by addressing issues and determinants of health and well-being. The purpose of the present study was to examine the process of a community coalition, the Ivanhoe Neighborhood Council (INC), in addressing community-prioritized urban health determinants aimed at improving living conditions in a neighborhood in Kansas Cit...

Urban agriculture/community gardening in the Bronx has multiple roles, including health-promoting, economic, environmental, and cultural. These roles are particularly important in light of urban sustainability issues and environmental justice concerns, such as differential access to open space, recreation, and fresh produce in poorer communities and communities of color, as well as differential...

1.1 History of Accelerator Driven System Activities Since the early 1990’s, accelerator driven systems (ADS) – subcritical assemblies driven by high power proton accelerators through a spallation target which is neutronically coupled to the core – have been proposed for addressing certain missions in advanced nuclear fuel cycles. Institutes throughout the world have conducted numerous programs ...

This study provides the first set of estimates on schooling returns over a long time span in urban China. There has been a dramatic and consistent increase in returns to education in urban China. In 1988, the rate of return to education was only 4.7%. By 1999, it has risen to 11.5%. Most of the rise in returns to education occurred after 1992 and reflected in the wage premium for college (or ab...

in recent years the most powerful and effective negotiations to change elements of the united nations, the security council, has sparked a wide debate benefits and special privileges of members of the security council such as the right to veto the, imposing sanctions has forced some states to opposite white this order and 5 permanent members of the security council on the path to maintain the s...

purpose: to evaluate malpractice complaints against ophthalmologist referred to the iri. methods: this cross-sectional study was performed on medical council during years 2003 to 2008. spss software was used for analysis. results: during this period from 1869 cases of malpractice 115 (%6.1) have been related to the field of ophthalmology but in order to some problems we can’t analysis 24 files....

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the difference of iodine nutritional status between rural and urban residents under the universal salt iodisation policy. SETTING A multistage cluster sampling technique was employed in the present cross-sectional study. In total, 3300 rural and 3300 urban households were selected where the investigation was conducted. PARTICIPANTS A total of 8553 rural and 8909 urban...