background : many studies have been conducted in iran in order to investigate the status of social determinants of health (sdh) and their associations with health indicators. this study aimed to review the iranian studies conducted on sdh. methods : a systematic review of all iranian persian and english languages articles published between 2005 and 2014 on the sdh was conducted using the search...

this systematic review was conducted to develop a conceptual framework that addresses various factors associated with return to work among cancer survivors. databases medline, embase, proquest, pubmed and sciencedirect were systematically searched using medical subject headings [mesh] for studies published in english from 1990 to 2013. studies that described adult cancer patients’ self-reported...

With the aim of building a ”Semantic Web”, the content of the documents must be explicitly represented through metadata in order to enable contents-guided search. Our approach is to exploit a standard language (RDF, recommended by W3C) for expressing such metadata and to interpret these metadata in conceptual graphs (CG) in order to exploit querying and inferencing capabilities enabled by CG fo...

We introduce a conceptual history of knowledge expansion in the entrepreneurship field based on a logical mechanism of conjecture and refutation. Our undertaking interprets and explains the emergence, rise, re-emergence, and decline of key problem situations and theories through prehistoric, economic, and multidisciplinary movements in entrepreneurial thought.

India is touted as a new entrepreneurship powerhouse and the next Asian miracle. There have been some successful and many unsuccessful attempts to promote entrepreneurship and small business development in India. There are also some well-founded rationales as well as a number of misinformed and ill guided viewpoints about the friendliness of environment to support entrepreneurship and small bus...

Entrepreneurship is a primary catalyst for economic growth and regional development. Recognizing its importance, state and local policymakers are now devoting considerable resources to fostering entrepreneurship. After a brief discussion of the data and theories of entrepreneurship, this paper presents a framework for thinking about government’s role in the entrepreneurial process. We then exam...

This study, based on the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB), assesses the impact of entrepreneurship education programs (EEPs) on entrepreneurial intentions of 205 students following entrepreneurship courses at six Iranian universities. Data were collected by a questionnaire before and after completing EEPs. Result indicated that EEPs significantly influence perceived behavioral control and subj...

The paper investigates the inequalities within entrepreneurship which are hindering Chinese socio-economic development. We take an institutionalist and gender-based approach. We establish the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic development and create a historical framework from which we examine contemporary female entrepreneurship. We find that females in China often engage in en...