most residences of the northern parts of golestan province, have historically used rooftop rainwater for drinking. its adoption rate and continued use have declined in recent years for various reasons. based on a survey of 380 cases, this research attempted to identify what factors are contributing to the adoption of these systems. the results demonstrated that the adoption changes in response ...

The diffusion of ideas is often closely connected to the creation and diffusion of knowledge and to the technological evolution of society. Because of this, knowledge creation, exchange and its subsequent transformation into innovations for improved welfare and economic growth is briefly described from a historical point of view. Next, three approaches are discussed for modeling the diffusion o...

The diffusion of ideas is often closely connected to the creation and diffusion of knowledge and to the technological evolution of society. Because of this, knowledge creation, exchange and its subsequent transformation into innovations for improved welfare and economic growth is briefly described from a historical point of view. Next, three approaches are discussed for modeling the diffusion o...

The global health agenda has been dominating the current global health policy debate. Furthermore, it has compelled countries to embrace strategies for tackling health inequalities in a wide range of public health areas. The article by Robert and colleagues highlights that although globalization has increased opportunities to share and spread ideas, there is still great asymmetry of power accor...

Suppose that homogeneous agents fully consume their time to invent new ideas and learn ideas from their friends. If the social network is complete and agents pick friends and ideas of friends uniformly at random, the distribution of ideas' popularity is an extension of the Yule–Simon distribution. It has a power-law tail, with an upward or a downward curvature. For infinite population it conver...

Although both praised and contested for its advanced conceptual elaboration ineffective practical implementation, respectively, participatory planning has largely been considered a Yugoslav national legacy point of diversification compared with other similar contexts. However, there little research on the roots features public participation as observed through lens international influences spat...

this study tries to make a distinction between factors affecting adopters and non-adopters of domestic rainwater harvesting (drwh) in golestan province, iran. in order to better comprehend the differences, nine dimensions were considered in this study, including (1) social background (including respondents’ demographics, water sources, issues in accessing water sources, primary awareness of the...