1 Tissue Repair Laboratory, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics (IBB), University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, 2 Research Center for Neural Repair (RCNR), University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, 3 Department of Orthopedic and Trauma Surgery, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, 4 Joint Reconstruction Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran,...

Ali RASSOULI*, Alwan AL-QUSHAWI, Fatemeh ATYABI, Seyed Mostafa PEIGHAMBARI, Mehdi ESFANDYARI-MANESH, Gholam Reza SHAMS Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran Department of Pharmaceutics, Faculty of Pharmacy, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Department of Avian Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tehra...

Department of Gastroenterology, Imam Khomeini Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Digestive Disease Research Center, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Department of Radiology, Imam Khomeini Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Department of Pathology, Imam Khomeini Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Scie...

A prominent example of LSM in urban sub-Saharan Africa is the Urban Malaria Control Program (UMCP), Dar es Salaam, initiated by the City Council in collaboration with Ifakara Health Institute and overseas academic institutions [1-2]. In 2004, mosquito surveillance systems were established and after one year of intensive baseline data collection (2005-2006), operational larviciding with Bacillus...

Although low voter turnout in national elections has garnered considerable attention and concern, much lower turnout in municipal elections has often been largely ignored. Using a survey of cities in California, this article examines a series of institutional remedies to low turnout in mayoral and city council elections. Moving local elections to coincide with the dates of national elections wo...

Successful change in local government can only exist if we take into account both the complex machinery of public sector service delivery and also the values and beliefs inherent within those services. This unique organisational arrangement requires a distinctive approach to change; evident in the reinterpretation of change methods within the public sector. This argument transpires from a longi...