Increasing attention is being focused on the role(s) that obesity may play in the development of cardiovascular disease, particularly congestive heart failure (CHF).1,2 Several indirect or associated effects are potential culprits. For example, obesity is strongly associated with many atherosclerotic risk factors, including arterial hypertension, insulin resistance, diabetes, and dyslipidemia.3...

the progress and excellence of females in the islamic society is one of the fundamentalconcerns of imam khomeini in his interviews and speeches. he would frequently admit theimportance and influence of women in the islamic movement, as well as their important rolein the progress of various fields in iran. according to imam khomeini’s belief, womencompared to men had an equal, and even sometimes...

Today development projects, in particular the development of complex products, are in many cases no task of a single company anymore. They usually require the active involvement of suppliers and sometimes even of customers. Since all involved partners have to invest time and money in the development activities it has to be ensured that the new product generates concrete value for the potential ...

Does Equal Pay Legislation Reduce Labour Market Inequality? This paper considers a labour market model of monopsonistic competition with taste-based discrimination against minority workers to study the effect of equal pay legislation on labour market inequality. When the taste for discrimination is small or competition is weak, the policy removes job segregation and the wage gap completely. How...