Regional inequalities represent an ever present development challenge in most countries especially those with large geographic areas under their jurisdictions. Globalization heightens these challenges as it places a premium on skills. With globalization skills rather than the resource base of regions determine their competitiveness. Skilled workers gain at the expense of unskilled ones. As typi...

sepahan is a new bread wheat cultivar derived from progenies of a cross made between azadi cultivar and some high yielding and resistant to rust advanced lines. all selections were made in kelardasht and iranshahr stations and early evaluations in karaj. it was also studied in regional uniform yield trials in moderate stations including kaboutar abad. results revealed that this line is more tol...

BACKGROUND Most comparisons of health data in Europe take place at the national level. However, there is increased interest in looking at health data at a sub-national level. This is because of the increased importance in many European countries, of regions and devolved powers to them. This study aimed to establish the availability of health data at a regional level and to construct an experime...

this paper deals with the importance of regionalism in iran's foreign policy. some of the existing outlooks view the characteristics of iran's power structure and politics in such a way that make any security-political, economic and cultural coalition and cooperation difficult in the region. but the author holds that political, security and geopolitical changes in the middle east regi...

the regional studies discipline (which considers regions as connecting links between nation-states to the grand level of the international system) studies conflict, war, crisis, cooperation and integration among the countries located in a region. to study the characteristics of the countries found in a region needs a model. the author suggests a pre-model for comparative study of regional const...

The purpose of this paper was twofold: firstly to measure and partially validate the rates of work done (powers) by the joint reaction forces and moments on the leg segments and secondly to explain the changes in mechanical energy of the segments by the transfer, generation or absorption of energy by the muscles and/or the transfer of energy through the joints. Measurement of the powers require...