in the mid 14th century, fars state was a suitable destination for immigrants from everywhere and various classes and nations, because of some reasons like the mongol invasion toward its surrounding in comparison to its security and stability, flourishing in the commerce and civil life in shiraz. so ethnologically, fars state had a complex combination of native zoroastrians, new converted musli...

For social, economical, or political reasons, unstructured environments may have to be studied and explored. However, the areas that need to be studied may not be safe (areas with dangerous radioactive materials or front lines in battle fields) and may pose problems including loss of life, for a human to explore by himself physically. For these and other similar reasons, autonomous surface expl...

—Use of e-learning and blended-learning strategies in European universities seems to be currently fuelled by political, social, or economic reasons. However, very often these reasons are not enough to completely captivate teachers and students. This paper tells the role the Centre for Innovation in Higher Education of the Public University of Navarre (Spain) has decided to play within the insti...

contrary to other jewish communities of iran, kashan’s jewish community has undergone positive social and political developments during qajar period. although they could never enjoy equal social privileges as citizens, in comparison to other iranian jews and comparing the safavid period, they made considerable achievements in social relationships and political experience. the present research f...

The observation of surgical procedures is a fundamental cornerstone of surgical education. However, often the training surgeon is limited in their experience by the cases that are present at their institution. Furthermore, in some parts of the developing world, travel to the developed world is prohibitive for cost or political reasons, which further limits the training opportunities for surgeon...

among others internal, regional, international, political, economic, technical, social and cultural factors are reasons that theorists introduce for beginning of integration at a region. by looking at the functions of the shanghai cooperation organization and the association of southeast asian nations (asean), we understand that there are two basic pragmatic factors, the support of the great po...

Recently, the call to combine land change science (LCS) and political ecology (PE) in the study of human-environment interactions has been widely discussed by scientists from both subfields of geography. In this paper, we use a hybrid ecology framework to examine the effects of conservation policies on the environment and the livelihood of the people of the Korup National Park (KNP). Using tech...