Recent studies have called into question the effectiveness of international human rights treaties. In this study I examine the variations in compliance that governments display concerning the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). I argue that states will only keep their promises if the benefits of doing so outweigh the costs involved. In distinguish...

INTRODUCTION Hypertension is a leading cause of stroke, coronary artery disease, heart attack, and heart and kidney failure in the United States, all of which contribute to the rising costs of health care. The Georgia Stroke and Heart Attack Prevention Program is an education and direct service program for low-income patients with hypertension. This project evaluated the cost-effectiveness of t...

Cloud computing in governments has become an attraction to help enhance service delivery. Improving delivery, productivity, transparency, and reducing costs necessitates use cloud services. Since the publication of a review paper on adoption elements e-governments 2015, evolved into discussions factors. This concentrates governments, benefits, models, methodologies utilized, analysis techniques...

this research aims to study the relationship between the components of quality costs and quality in company. the relationship between the components of quality costs and quality in company has been studied separately for materials, manpower, machinery, and whole of company. in this study, traditional method was used to collect quality costs and paf model was used to determine the components of ...

Urban land-use planning in the U.S. has traditionally been bas ed on the Euclidean zoning model, the separation of land uses. The long-term impacts of this development pattern, often termed “urban sprawl”, have been a continued source of controversy (1). This research determines if expert opinion regarding sprawl’s negative effects, specifically, that regarding the public/ private capital and o...

The uptake of solar power globally as an important alternative energy source to fossil fuels, together with a rapid fall in the cost of photovoltaic (PV) systems, has been phenomenal during the past decade. This trend is widely anticipated to continue for the years to come. The decline in PV installation costs, like many other new technologies through history, has been largely driven by the lea...

recently, the existing mechanism of the market has been considered as an efficient method for allocating water resources in some developed and developing countries. the necessary conditions to establish an efficient water market and its economic consequents must be recognized before using this method in iran. the purpose of this study is to investigate the economic consequences and present prac...