Banberz, Banbor, and Sabziabad neighborhoods are three residential districts on the peripheryof Ilam city, and are facing a lot of problems namely social, economic, and physical, particularly in housing sectorincluding low quality, poor housing, limited-quantity housing. In order to assess the sustainability of housing, 75indicators and to rank districts, SPSS software (exploratory factor analy...

This paper is a continuation of the authors' theoretical investigation of inferential model (IMs); see Martin, Hwang and Liu (2010). The fundamental idea is that prior-free posterior probability-like inference with desirable long-run frequency properties can be achieved through a system based on predicting unobserved auxiliary variables. In Part I, an intermediate conditioning step was proposed...

A new model for representing PD-induced relations that are derived from DAGrepresentable relations through marginalization over a subset of their variables is introduced. The new model requires polynomial space and a polynomial algorithm is given for testing whether a given triplet is represented in the model. In addition a polynomial algorithm is derived for testing whether a marginalized DAGr...

One of the greatest health advances in the past three decades has been the continuing decline in the prevalence of smoking, which recently hit a modern age-adjusted low of 19% of adults in the United States, down from a high of 57% of men in 1955 and 34% of women in 1965.1 Credit for these spectacular decreases has rightly focused on policy interventions such as increases in tobacco taxes, ordi...

hysical illness affects biological, psychological, social, and sexual aspects of a patient (Kocaman et al. 2007). Ostomy is a surgery for creating a valve to discharge bodily fluids; It leads to bypassing the sphincter and loss of voluntary control (Kilic et al. 2007). The incontinence and other related problems make the patients feel abnormal with respect to social norms (Bonill-de-las-Nieves ...

Offers a look on how Australian humor describes the status of women in several literary works. Women writers' treatment of their marginalization in society; Creation of a world where gender power relations are reversed; Description of male myths of nationhood; Satirical presentation of gender bias..