In this article we report on the manner in which participatory action research (PAR) was utilised by teachers in developing a Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) school plan, in collaboration with university researchers. The need for a structured HIV and Aids school plan emerged during the course of a broader research project (of which this study for...

Background Due to high prevalence of infertility, increasing demand for infertility treatment, and provision of high quality of fertility care, it is necessary for healthcare professionals to explore infertile couples’ expectations and needs. Identification of these needs can be a prerequisite to plan the effective supportive interventions. The current study was, therefore, conducted in an atte...

the main goal in carrying out this paper was to investigate the impacts of government’s support policies on income risk of egg producers in iran during years 1989-2008. index ccv, was employed to assess the variation in income of the producers. the results revealed that, market price support along with the overall support policies lead to a lowering of the percentage variations in income risk o...

A new approach to military planning and execution has been proposed. This approach seeks to merge planning and execution, and replaces reaction to events with anticipation of events. Anticipatory Planning can benefit from automation. This paper presents a methodology for building an automated system to support Anticipatory Planning. A Plan Description is developed to manage the many branches th...

Sentence planning is a set of inter-related but distinct tasks, one of which is sentence scoping, i.e. the choice of syntactic structure for elementary speech acts and the decision of how to combine them into one or more sentences. In this paper, we present SPoT, a sentence planner, and a new methodology for automatically training SPoT on the basis of feedback provided by human judges. We recon...

HUB SIAASHING is a knowledge-based system that recommends contingency plans for American Airlines System Operations Control (SOC) during inclement weather or other airport disruptions where severe schedule reductions must be made. The system evaluates the current situation to determine flight cancellation, delay, and overfly candidates that will provide relief at the hub airport with minimal im...

ICTs are intended to be a powerful tool in support of government transition to the “Digital Age”. The purpose of this paper is to emphasize the importance of integrating a socio-technical perspective into the body of eGovernment practices. The current realisation in Italy of an “Action plan for eGovernment” is a source of interesting preliminary evidence for our purpose. 1 Standard (Tool) Model...

understanding various aspects of the problems, challenges and constraints of agricultural activities such as mushroom ventures and trying to plan and policy for solving problems are suitable strategies for developing agri– businesses. the purpose of this qualitative study was to explain the challenges and constraints of developing mushroom venturesin kermanshah province. information were collec...