Prevailing poverty and culminating social crises in Egypt are the final products of development failure in the last 50 years, first in the context of state control and then the restructuring of uncontrolled capitalism. This bad mixture has ended up with less accumulation of all forms of capital assets and an uneven access to those assets, which resulted in deprivation of the absolute majority a...

Nowadays, poverty has become a multi-dimensional problem, including social factors, rather than just an economic problem. Especially recently, been addressed in terms of gender focused on women and men. Gender-oriented approach to the problem gradually increasing. In gender-based approach, inequalities between men are it is emphasized that poorer According this increasingly feminized, part grea...

The issue of alcohol abuse in Kenya is deeply rooted and continues to affect the well-being youthful population. A study conducted 2018, an estimated 45-50% alcohol-abusing youth Kiambu County had post-traumatic stress disorder. main purpose this paper review synthesize existing literature articles on effects PTSD associated Alcohol Abuse Kenya’s context. shows that PSTD related abuse, though n...

Voice over IP (VoIP) is becoming very popular due to the huge range of services that can be implemented by integrating different media (voice, audio, data, etc.). Besides, voice-enabled interfaces for those services are being very actively researched. Nevertheless the impoverishment of voice quality due to packet losses severely affects the speech recognizers supporting those interfaces ([8]). ...

The fate of the Brazilian Amazon is threatened by a new wave of frontier expansion following new infrastructure commitments worth US$40 bn from the federal Government. In a recent paper, alarming rates of deforestation and forest degradation have been predicted, which could be either pessimistic or optimistic depending on the scale of forest disturbance being considered. A more decisive prevent...

Ecological change is often hard to document because of a lack of reliable baseline data. Several recent then-versus-now surveys of temperate forest and grassland communities demonstrate losses of local plant species, but most are based on data from a single site. We resurveyed understory communities in 62 upland forest stands in northern Wisconsin (U.S.A.) for which quantitative baseline data e...

The increasing poverty rate for elderly women is a growing concern in Japan and is generally due to their lifestyle changes and the public pension system based on the pre-1980s (old) lifestyle. At that time, women were expected to get married and become homemakers. Therefore, the public pension system is generous for married women and widows but not for never-married and divorced women. Using a...