State and non-state actors engaged in disputes to expand and limit abortion rights have engaged in legal mobilization-in other words, strategies using rights and law as a central tool for advancing contested political goals. Peru, like other Latin American countries, has experienced an increase in abortion rights legal mobilization in recent years, including litigation before national and inter...

the aim of this study was to identify sport marketing barriers in iran from sport managers’ perspectives. the statistical population involved top managers of sport and youth ministry, national olympic committee and sport federations (n=80). sample was equal to the population and 67 questionnaires were returned correctly. a researcher-made questionnaire (with 40 items) was used to measure sport ...

This paper describes a rule-based legal decisonmaking system (LDS) that embodies the skills and knowledge of an expert in product liability law. The system is being used to study the effect of changes in legal doctrine on settlement strategies and practices. LDS is implemented in ROSIE, a rule-oriented language designed to facilitate the development of large expert systems. The ROSIE language i...

background: infertility affects various aspects of personality and psychology, familial and career performances, and relationships. studies show that stress, anxiety, life dissatisfaction, and other psychological problems follow infertility . infertility issue, its tests and remedy are stressful and may lead to anxiety and depression and have destructive effects on couple relationships. objecti...

One of the major goals of the Sustainable Agriculture Farming initiatives at UC Davis is to provide information about the feasibility of adopting conservation tillage and cover cropping at the farm level. The project includes two tillage schemes: standard tillage (ST) and conservation tillage (CT), and three farming methods: conventional, organic, and winter legume cover crop. All three product...

Global biodiversity continues along a trajectory of decline despite enormous conservation efforts (Rands et al., 2010). This is also true in China, one of the most biodiversity-rich countries in the world (Liu and Raven, 2010; Ministry of Environmental Protection of China, 2010a). To fundamentally change this trajectory, it is essential to understand complex interactions among various forces af...