introduction youth, as constructors of the future community, play an important role in rural economy and agriculture of developing countries. rural youth accounts for around 55% of the world youth population. it was estimated that by the year 2050, 700 million youth are in rural areas. they develop the skills, knowledge and attitudes that enable them to take an active role in society. but as is...

Abstract Future space programmes pose some interesting research problems in the field of non-Keplerian dynamics, being Moon and cislunar central proposed roadmap for future exploration. In these regards, deployment a station on orbit lunar vicinity is fundamental milestone to be achieved. The paper investigates natural orbit-attitude dynamics attitude stabilisation coupled motions extended bodi...

Our evaluation study identifies facilitators and barriers to participation among families participating in the treatment arm of Stanford ECHALE. This culturally tailored obesity prevention trial consisted of a combined intervention with two main treatment components: 1) a folkloric dance program; and 2) a screen time reduction curriculum designed for 7-11 year old Latinas and their families. We...

in iran, new centralization characteristic, especially during pahlavi dynasty, has been convergence and its vast use in bureaucracy. historical sociological studies have consensus on the issues of centralization, power centralization, and political sovereignty in iran; however, these issues have some divisional interruptions and different levels of strength in some parts of the history. this es...

INTRODUCTION Present study was aimed to analyze the impact of education, employment and financial independence in breastfeeding practices among Indian women. METHODOLOGY Present explorative questionnaire based survey included 256 women (128 pairs) in the final analysis. A pair means--a) pregnant lady (in her third trimester) representing younger generation and b) her mother/mother in law repr...

Social Thought & Research, Vol 28 Address all correspondence to: Mark Vermillion, Department of Kinesiology and Sport Studies, Sport Administration, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS 67260-0016 Tel: (316) 978-5444. Email: [email protected] The purpose of this research is to examine the relationship between sport participation and school defined deviance in eighth grade adolescents...

Public participation in science and gamification of science are two strong contemporary trends, especially in the area of emerging techno-sciences. Involvement of the public in research-related activities is an integral part of public engagement with science and technologies, which can be successfully achieved through a participatory game design. Focusing on the participatory dimension of educa...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to assess the knowledge and views of faculty members on criteria for authorship by International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), their current practice of choosing the authors, views on gift authorship and problems they had faced concerning authorship. METHODS It was a cross sectional survey from January 2011 to July 2011 among faculty ...