ôbjective: the problem of runaway girls is one of the social problems which has become more prevalent and is considered a serious challenge for families, welfare centers and governmental organizations in ïran. this study aimed at determining the demographic, personality and psychopathology characteristic of a sample of runaway girls in shiraz, ïran. methods: fifty girls who had escaped from the...

The study was conducted in the Mion District of Northern Region with objective evaluating impact community-led total sanitation (CLTS) and sustainability WASH services. design mainly quantitative, which a sample 225 employed to collect data. found that 73.4% indicated their toilets have hand washing facilities for hands after defecating, 62.2% respondents had facilities, running water, soap peo...

Citizens and governmental agencies interact through various channels. For example, a governmental agency may send me a letter telling me to pay my taxes and I may phone the tax agency to ask them why. A governmental agency has full control over the information it sends out, in terms of the channels they deploy to do so. However, in most situations, citizens are free to choose heir channels if t...

The adoption of high impact governmental e-services is not obvious. Especially small and medium sized companies hesitate to invest and adopt. Non-adoption endangers the realization of the 25% reduction objective within the EU’s Lisbon Agenda of the administrative burden of businesses by 2012. On the other hand governmental organisations gain from the use of these eservices. In several cases thi...

background: community‑based health programs (cbhps) with participatory approaches has been recognized as an important tool in health promotion. the goal of this study was to understand the nature of participation practice in cbhp and to use the data to advocate for more participation‑friendly policies in the community, academy and funding organizations. methods: in this qualitative study, 13 cb...

This study explores the impact of underlying assumptions in regulatory environments two national contexts, Turkey and Netherlands, on entrepreneurship Turkish women. It uses discourses gender, ethnicity entrepreneurship. The results indicate that these are immersed with male gendering ideology give a secondary position to women migrant entrepreneurs. Accordingly, entrepreneurs confined by suppo...

Along with the growing interest in greenhouse gas reduction, the effect of greenhouse gas energy reduction from implementing green buildings is gaining attention. The government of the Republic of Korea has set green growth as its paradigm for national development, and there is a growing interest in energy saving for green buildings. However, green buildings may have financial barriers that hav...

Health epidemics represent a unique test of governmental accountability. Compared to other disasters, the way the government responds is crucial to stop the contagion and limit the ultimate costs to citizens. However, political motives may distort the allocation of governmental resources. In this paper, I study the response of the Liberian government to the 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak, and ...