having proper house and shelter is one of the basic human rights this because of various roles and functions of housing.housing satisfaction is a multidimensional and complex variable which includes social, economic and managerial dimensions of houseand their surrounding environment’s. for this reason, evaluation of housing, from points residentsviews is very important.satisfaction in this case...

BACKGROUND The relationship between people's perception and utilization of public health services was investigated. METHODS A survey of 840 households across selected urban, peri urban and rural communities, in the Southeast of Nigeria, was conducted using the mixed methods approach. RESULTS Of the nine (9) demographic variables, only the locality and status of the health system (strong or ...

we apply the two-sector production function developed by ram (1986) to estimate the threshold regression model for iran, concerning the effect of government size on economic growth. three government size indicators are used to find out the different threshold points. the results show a non-linear relationship of the armey curve in iran, in which the threshold effects corresponding to total gove...

Low population density and large distance from civilization centers generate high costs of isolation. Immigration reduces these costs for veteran residents but reduces social and cultural cohesion, increases the demand for scarce resources and affects the rate of urban unemployment. An expected net benefit maximization model for determining the optimal population size and the equilibrium urban-...

urban management in any context has a different economic, social and political structure, which is in harmony with the existing models of organization. in spite of these differences, in order to reach a sustainable urban development, several different conferences should be referred to. in the “brundtland commission 1987” about urban sustainable development these definitions have been given: “pr...