500 words) Age is a delicate matter, but the Swedish welfare state is ageing and has an increasingly larger proportion of elderly people, about 19 per cent (Sweden Statistics, 2014). Since the election campaign in 2006, the matter of appropriate housing and caregiving for older frail persons has been a reoccurring item on the political agenda. Governmental delegations and programmes have ventur...

Beginning with the demise of the socialist state system in 1990, Mongolia embarked on a process of neoliberal economic reform, initiating what is known among the Mongols as 'the Age of the Market'. The socialist health system has been replaced by a series of reforms initiated and substantiated by foreign donor organisations. This paper critically examines Mongolia's health system and discusses ...

Today's developing world makes environmental protection absolutely necessary. Numerous natural and man-made disasters were happening all around the planet. Forest fires are one such catastrophe. Once it starts, fire in dense forest quickly engulfs entire region, consuming everything its path igniting everything. On hot days, spreads more easily due to dry conditions, decimating grasses trees fo...

Biodiversity has become the talk of topic for so many years its rapid decrease worldwide. Due to geographical position and soil fertility Bangladesh is exceptionally endowed with a huge variety plant species. In Bangladesh, destruction species in forests protected areas continuous process due increasing population pressure, rural poverty, joblessness, lack knowledge, absence public awareness ot...

The study aims to find out the perceptions of university faculty who taught courses online during Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020. purpose is highlight issues students and involved new context teaching learning prepare them face technical academic challenges. A questionnaire circulated among universities Kingdom Saudi Arabia. majority from middle semester are satisfied with their teaching. Howe...

In South Africa and other countries, there has for many years been a plea moral regeneration. Moral decay is fast taking over, while sickness, poverty, crime, violence calamities are rapidly engulfing our beautiful nation. an effort to reintroduce morality into the lives of Africans, this research represents investigation whether African taboos—which in past governed directed people—may perhaps...

1.1 Motivations In modern technological societies, disasters, accidents, calamities or catastrophes have more and more large range, are always more frequently caused by human-made modifications of the humankind habitat, and, in consequence, may lead to various hardly recoverable losses, and represents the risk level not acceptable by public opinion. Nowdays, many serious disasters are complex, ...

AIM Natural calamities are known to result in higher stress conditions and also result in adverse health outcomes including development of non-communicable diseases. The impact of tsunami on mental stress and prevalence of hyperglycemic conditions was assessed in a population affected by the calamity in coastal populations of southern India. METHODS Two populations similar in demography and p...

In agrometeorology and management of meteorology related natural resources, many traditional methods and indigenous technologies are still in use or being revived for managing low external inputs sustainable agriculture (LEISA) under conditions of climate variability. This paper starts with the introduction of an “end-to-end” climate information build up and transfer system in agrometeorology, ...

Whenever one talks about the perception towards life and death of a community, society or a race of people it is generally related to the religion or philosophy of that particular group. Japan is such a country which is often associated with death whether it is in form of its ritual suicides like harakiri and kamikaze or large number of deaths which occurred in the atomic bombing during the Wor...