life style has three dimensions: behavioral, attitudinal, and motivational. the current study aims to investigate life style of young in mashhad from behavioral aspect based on eight factors including cultural consumption, body management, political behavior, derivative behavior, make up tendency, cloths consumption, food consumption, and religiosity. the sample of the current study includes 40...

The correlations among indicators of objective well-being, cultural dimensions, and subjective well-being were investigated using Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) data from 35 countries. The subjective well-being measures included life satisfaction as well as six positive and six negative indexes of experience. Positive and negative experience scores were subjected ...

BACKGROUND Self-management is rarely studied 'in the wild'. We sought to produce a richer understanding of how people live with diabetes and why self-management is challenging for some. METHOD Ethnographic study supplemented with background documents on social context. We studied a socio-economically and ethnically diverse UK population. We sampled 30 people with diabetes (15 type 1, 15 type ...

The need to operate commercial airlines world wide for 24 hours each day inevitably leads to problems of aircrew management: to the stresses of flying an aircraft must be added those of unsocial and irregular hours, time zone (transmeridian), climatic and cultural changes, sleep disturbances, and alterations to circadian rhythms. Fatigue is the main danger, since a decline in performance is lik...

Most of the studies carried out on identification of barriers to knowledge sharing have focused on developing and developed countries. The purpose of this study was to explore the barrier factors inhibiting knowledge sharing in smalland medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in transition economies that have different social, cultural, and economic conditions as compared to other developing and develo...

there are some barriers for rangers to take part in range plan projects andevaluation. their participation is very useful for range managers to plan and provide solutionsfor solving problems. this study aims at comparing barriers of participating from rangers andexperts point of view in lar moor rangelands, tehran, iran. in this research, data werecollected based on documentation-library and fi...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Ecosystem-based management Cultural capital Forest policy Silviculture Bureaucracy Forests in North America have been managed, or unmanaged, under a number of different policy regimes, most recently ecosystem-based management (EBM), which has emerged in response to perceived widespread ecological degradation. But as policy regimes shift, links between stated obje...