The NGO-IDEAs 'Impact Toolbox' has been developed with a group of NGOs all of which are active in the area of saving and credit in South India. This compilation of methods to apply in impact-oriented steering was devised by the executive staff of the Indian partner NGOs, also known as the Resource Persons, in 2006 and tested from late 2006 to early 2007. At first glance, the approach may appear...

health promoting lifestyle is a valuable source for reducing the incidence and impact of health problems and improving the quality of life. the purpose of this study is investigating the health-oriented lifestyle of women of reproductive ages. the statistical population of study is women of reproductive age living in shiraz city. a sample of 392 person was selected thorough multiple stage clust...

It is a well known fact that software maintenance plays a major role and finds importance in software development life cycle. As object-oriented programming has become the standard, it is very important to understand the problems of maintaining object-oriented software systems. This paper aims at evaluating object-oriented software system through change requirement traceability – based impact a...

Academic Self-Efficacy as the Mediator between Self-Oriented Perfectionism and Test Anxiety A. Ardaani J. Fathaabaadi, Ph.D. O. Shokri, Ph.D. M.A. Mazaaheri, Ph.D. Given the predominant problem of test anxiety among students of all levels, it would be helpful to discover ways of combatting it through changes that could be brought about in factors involved in this phenomen...

Health impact assessment (HIA) on a strategic level focuses on the broad determinants of health. However, the evidence with regard to the health impacts is often necessarily 'soft'. The example of a health impact review on national housing policy in the Netherlands shows that HIA can be effective even in the absence of hard data. Strategies used to overcome the problem of not having hard data a...