This study aims to convert to tangible elements (i.e., physical structures of cultural tourism) the various cultural dimensions and past symbols of Tabriz (which are considered collectively as tourism goods) by partially revitalizing the historical Imam Khomeini Street which is considered to be an arena for social life and a suitable environment for visiting tourists. The SWOT method was implem...

Previous studies report a race and mental health paradox: Whites score higher on measures of major depression compared to African Americans, but the opposite is true for psychological distress (i.e., African Americans score higher on distress measures compared to Whites). Independently, race, age, and gender outcomes for psychological distress are well documented in the literature. However, the...

This article explicitly connects a growing body of specific literature, the political ecology of conservation, tosome of the often overlooked, main conceptual components emerging from political anthropology andgeography (sources of legitimacy, governmentality, territoriality, or state making), political economy(commoditization, market integration, niche markets, or gentrificatio...

the modern state is a renewable and evolutionary phenomenon and it cannot be evaluated so that it has single cause. therefore none of the fields of the human sciences alone cannot fully explain the emergence of the modern state without interaction with other disciplines. political superstructure in various countries, primarily influenced by the social and cultural systems of communities as the ...

A sociocultural stress and coping model to explain emotional distress among caregivers of family members who have dementia across ethnic and cultural groups is presented and explored in a sample of 41 African American and 128 non-African American caregivers. In this sample, African American caregivers reported lower levels of burden but equal levels of depression and anxiety. In the structural ...

Semantic maps are a graphical knowledge representation scheme in which nodes represent concepts and edges between them represent connections between concepts. Weighted semantic maps are semantic maps that have weights assigned to edges to correspond to the strength of the connection between two concepts. The objective of the work reported here was to investigate the feasibility of automatically...