in iran, entrepreneurship is a new phenomena and the research in this subject especially on women entrepreneurship is very limited. in spite of the fact that most of the iranian women cooperate in economic, social aspects and especially in higher education, the society is not rewarding their contribution and efforts in economic affairs. in this national and broad research, all the factors effec...

Although the environment determines important individual differences in cognitive ability, most home environment variables that correlate with children's intelligence are more strongly associated with the pleiotropic effects of genes than with causal pathways of environmental transmission. Here, we demonstrate that community variables, a hitherto understudied set of constructs in research on co...

Environmental sustainability research suffers from a paucity of comprehensive, cross-cultural investigations and lacks insight into the interplay human values environmental beliefs behaviors. In addition, despite importance understanding why consumers engage in active attempts to protect environment, studies examining role activism remain scarce, poorly integrated, ill-defined. Against this bac...

According to Hofstede’s theory of cultural dimensions, cultures differ in cultural values 13 and norms; values and norms that may influence differences in trendsetting, creative traits and 14 behaviors, and pro-environmental behaviors. Further, because men and women have been 15 socialized within particular cultures, gender differences may exist in trendsetting, creative traits 16 and behaviors...

the human being attitudes, customs and their style of life are explained through their musical system design. so far the music is a part of the culture, therefore, to understand a culture one should also consider musical aspect of that culture. the human being attitudes, customs and their style of life are explained through their musical system design. so far the music is a part of the culture,...

Our cultural heritage is made with almost all type of materials produced by the nature and used by men to realize several types of artefacts from very simple mono-components to complex structures integrating inorganic and organic matters. These cultural heritage objects, even if made with the more “resistant” stones and metals, are influenced by the environmental parameters, which can modify th...

This study developed a systematic decision-making process for water supply capacity expansion using the analytic hierarchy process. The decision-making criteria were categorized into environmental, economic, technical and socio-cultural aspects. Capacity expansion of three water resources (Kpong, Weija and Teshie plants) of Accra-Tema Metropolitan Area (Ghana) was studied as a test case. The re...

environmental protection has become one of the main concerns in developed economies, which is why an increasing degree of commitment in the field is required from all public and private bodies. environmental protection in firms must cease to be a secondary, barely profitable objective, involving the performance of sporadic remedial actions, and become just one more element of their organization...