Effective partnerships between local and state public health agencies and schools of public health have tremendous potential to improve the health of communities nationwide. This article highlights successful collaboration between local public health agencies (LPHA), state health departments, and Academic Centers for Public Health Preparedness (ACPHP) in schools of public health developed throu...

A fast-growing theoretical literature on the political economy of reform has provided a sizable collection of models that have deepened our understanding concerning how distributional conflict manifests itself in the political process and can prevent efficiency-enhancing economic reform from taking place (see e.g., Allan Drazen [2000 Ch. 10, 13] for an insightful review). Unfortunately, systema...

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In this study, leaching experiments were carried out by both continuous and alternate ponding methodsin the south of Khouzestan province. In equal applied water leaching, alternate ponding leachingmodel had a better performance than continuous ponding method in desalinization and dealkalization.In term of alternate method,there was not ayn difference between 5 and 8 day periods in one-meterdept...

PURPOSE This study evaluates the extent to which bilingual children produce the same or overlapping responses on tasks assessing semantic skills in each of their languages and whether classification analysis based on monolingual or conceptual scoring can accurately classify the semantic development of typically developing (TD) bilingual children. METHOD In Study 1, 55 TD children (ages 4;0 [y...

This paper analyzes the impact of biased beliefs on the structure of informational equilibria in classical self-selection models. Using the intuitive insurance market example of Rothschild-Stiglitz (1976) I show that biases of high-risk individuals have fundamentally different effects on equilibrium contracts than biases of low-risk individuals. Whereas equilibrium contracts of both groups are ...

INTRODUCTION Suicide is one of the most prominent problems in health care system in current Iran. It could be impacted by various factors such as social, economic, individual and so on. Researchers show that socio-economic factors and suicide has significantly related. The people in low social class may more engage with social problems than higher social class. They may confront to problems suc...

Through joined two sensitive methods solvation and cloud point extraction separated and determined micro amount of Ce(III) from aqueous solutions by using organic reagent 2,4-Dimethyl pentan-3-one (2,4-DMP) as extractant and non-ionic surfactant 1% TritonX-100 , the experimental study shows the solvation species of Ce+3 extracted into cloud point layer (CPL) have a wavelength for maximum absorb...

Çal??mada ülkelerin sosyal sermaye, ekonomik de?er alg?s? ve politik kültür ile inovasyon düzeyi ba?lant?s? karma??k uyarlanabilir sistem bak?? aç?s?yla nitel kar??la?t?rmal? analiz yöntemi incelenmi?tir. Çal??mada, Dünya De?erler Anketi, Avrupa Küresel ?novasyon Endeksinden al?nan ikincil veriler kullan?lm??t?r. Ara?t?rma sonuçlar?, ülkelerde genel güvenin, kurumlara normlar?n, alg?s?n?n kültü...

Bu çal??mam?zda ?slami bak?? aç?s?yla ?slam ekonomisinde sürdürülebilir iktisadi büyüme ve kalk?nma incelenmektedir. ?ddiam?z, ?slam’?n ilkelerinin kapitalist toplumlara nazaran insan?n huzurunu sa?lama hayat?n? kolayla?t?rma noktas?nda daha tutarl?, mant?kl? yararl? sonuçlar do?urdu?udur. Kapitalist materyalist düzene düzeninin kalk?nmay? tesis etmedeki farkl?l?klar? ara?t?r?larak ortaya konul...