In 2009, the Great Lakes Native American Research Center for Health (GLNARCH) set out to generate a promotional video that highlights the successes of the program. Ten GLNARCH interns were interviewed and filmed for participation in the promotional video using a documentary production style. During the editing and transcription process, interviewer responses were noted for relevance to theoreti...

Health educators have embraced empowerment as an alternative to traditional frameworks that place greater emphasis on individual health behaviors than socio-political factors that promote or constrain life-style choices. A critical element of empowerment theory for health educators is the participatory process in which people might engage to improve quality of life. As a piece of participatory ...

ƒ The observed overall decline and increased heterogeneity in the risk indicators follow certain regulatory changes, such as the introduction of liquidity guidelines on funding in 1995 and the implementation of bankspecific leverage requirements in 2000. This suggests that regulatory changes have had significant and heterogeneous effects on the management of balance sheets by financial institut...

To explain the reason why momentum effect in emerging markets is much weaker than that in developed markets. We divide the traditional momentum returns into intra-style momentum and inter-style momentum effect on the basis of style investing. According to the result, intra-style momentum effect spreads widely in all of the twelve emerging markets, as the primary driving factor for the overall m...

The financial statement audit is the process of collecting, evaluating, and aggregating relevant items of evidence pertaining to various management assertions related to the financial statement accounts to determine whether the company’s financial statements present fairly its financial position. The Dempster-Shafer theory [1] of belief functions has been argued to be an appropriate framework f...

This is a review of an MIT Press book, Computers and Design in Context, edited by M. Kyng and L. Mathiassen (1997). The contributing authors shape an international research agenda based on conceptual tools forged through more than two decades of workplace computerization. The authors report attempts to extend old models such as end-user computing, end-user tailoring, participatory design, and s...

local community participation in development programs has a long history and wide range of development agencies have tried to involve people in development plans should. in this context, the main purpose of this study was to assess feasibility of participatory management of urban parks, in city of karaj. the study applied a descriptive-survey method of research. the statistical population inclu...