While poverty and violence are not limited to one geographic region of the United States, unique demographic and geographic factors pose distinct problems in specific areas. In Escondido, CA, the city council linked poverty and crime to illegal immigration and proposed an ordinance forbidding landlords to rent to illegal immigrants. This article explores that case and examines implications for ...

Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Psychiatry Section, Karolinska Institute, Psykoterapienheten City, Karlavägen 53, 11449 Stockholm, Sweden 2 Transcultural Centre, Stockholm County Council, S:t Göran’s Hospital, Stockholm Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Psychiatry Section, Karolinska Institute, S:t Göran’s Hospital, Stockholm Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Psychiatry Section, Karo...

Copyright: © 2013. The Authors. Licensee: AOSIS OpenJournals. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. Background: In 2006, about 50% of the children whose parents brought them to the Francistown City Council clinics in Botswana for consultation had fungal skin infections. Most of these parents did not include the fungal skin conditions in the list of presenting com...

1Department of Pediatric Gastroentrology, Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2Advanced Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology Research Center (ADIR), Imam Khomeini Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 3Department of Radiology, Imam Khomeini Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 4Department of ...

1. Molecular Medicine Research Center, Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Bandar Abbas, Iran 2. Dental Research Center, Faculty of Dentistry, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 3. Orthodontic Department, Dental Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran 4. Molecular Immunology Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 5. Nature of Gene Mutat...

On June 2, 2014 a sandstorm hit Tehran, the capital city of Iran which killed 5 and injured 44 people. The early warning system did not operate properly and the alarm was not transferred to at risk population and the related organizations in time and in a right manner. Additionally, people who were exposed to the winds didn't know the appropriate safety measures. Focusing much more on establish...

the vast expanse of the urban distressed areas in the country and multiple damages that their inhabitants face on economic, social and cultural aspects remind the need for higher attention to these constructions. meanwhile, tehran's distressed areas with more than 3268 hectares (5.3% of the area of ​​tehran) has a population of one million and three hundred thousand people in it, is one of...

climate change impacts are seen within growing numbers of cities in low- and middle-income countries, so there is growing interest in the adaptation and mitigation plans and programs put forward by city authorities. this paper aims to provide a better understanding of the constraints which cities face them in this subject by analyzing the case of tehran. city has a commitment to decentralizatio...

The main objective of Present study is based on meteorological variables to estimate monthly Global Solar Radiation (GSR) on a horizontal surface. Monthly mean of maximum air temperature, relative humidity, sunshine hours and wind speed values between 1974 and 2008 for Tehran city in Iran (35_41N, 51_19E), are used in this study. In order to investigate the effect of each meteorological variabl...

Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Amirkabir University (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran. email: [email protected] Ph.D. Student, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Amirkabir University (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran. email: [email protected] Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran. email: kerach...