ALAN L. KOLATA Cities, and the larger political formations within which they are embedded, are dynamic congeries of political, economic, and social institutions that are shaped and reshaped by historical circumstance. This dynamism and mutability in the face of exogenou-s forces might suggest the impossibility of a coherent, general theory about the forms and forces of urban transformation of t...

background and objectives: health human resources is the major asset of the health system. the status of human resources in upstream and regulatory health organizations can exert high impact on the effectiveness of health policies and the performance of health system. this study, hence, was designed to explore the possible area of human resource damage to the employees of the iranian ministry o...

Road networks are an integral part of any human settlement, facilitating the movement people, goods, and information. The structural arrangement a road network can have profound impact on its performance, mobility access to critical infrastructure. This study takes advantage computational science approach examine configuration using geometric topological descriptions in districts covering 10 re...

The recent research has highly examined innovation of businesses to improve their competitive advantages and the probability of their success. This study aimed to examine the association between intellectual, psychological, and social capital and business innovation in knowledge-based and high-technology businesses in Iran and if organizational culture moderates the relationships between the va...

this question has always been put forward in the mind of curious people why some countries have developed termed in spite of very few natural resources and facilities while other countries have not developed in spite of having more suitable resources and facilities. various factors such as economy, culture, geography, etc. are perhaps a background to answer this question, but there is a more im...

This paper tests whether the Solow model augmented with multiple forms of human capitals can explain cross-country difference in growth and investigates the effect of health on the growth of per capita income. Following Knowles and Owen (1995), we introduce both education human capital and health human capital into the textbook Solow model and extend their cross-section analysis to a dynamic pa...