BACKGROUND Preventing intimate partner violence (IPV) remains a global public health challenge. Studies suggest urban informal settlements have particularly high levels of IPV and HIV-prevalence and these settlements are rapidly growing. The current evidence base of effective approaches to preventing IPV recognizes the potential of combining economic strengthening and gender transformative inte...

The land of Turkey has hosted various civilizations throughout history, and it has diverse architectural heritages left from these civilizations. Rural areas and settlements can be seen as the pure reflection of geographical and cultural environment as well as historical and economical. However, today as a consequence of modernisation, the traditional architectural pattern in the rural settleme...

extended abstract 1. introduction urbanization is a process which leads to the growth of cities and urban changes due to industrialization and economic development. in other words, urbanization is an inevitable and demographic force and movement which should not be neglected. informal settlements, which took place in europe after the industrial revolution at the time of the transition from the ...

In developing countries like South Africa processed geographic information systems (GIS) data on land suitability, is often not available for land use management. Data in this article is based on a published article "The strategically located land index support system for humans settlements land reform in South Africa" (Musakwa et al., 2017) [1]. This article utilities data from Musakwa et al. ...

service oriented architecture (soa) technology enables composition of large and complex computational units out of the available atomic services. implementation of soa brings about challenges which include service discovery, service interaction, service composition, robustness, quality of service, security, etc. these challenges are mainly due to the dynamic nature of soa. soamay often need to ...

this study had been performed to analyzing relationship between performance management and service quality because of develop the banks service quality by means of improve specific sides of the performance management. the pma method was used for analyzing the performance management at isfahan melli bank and the systra-sq scale was used for assessing the service quality at there. in order to rel...

The old city of Xanthi (ThraceeGreece) is one of the biggest traditional settlements in Greece which has the specialty to exhibit mixed traditional Greek, European and Oriental architectural features. This paper presents a 3D reconstruction of a small part of the settlement. It deals with the idea of using open source systems in 3D graphics in order to produce realistic virtual walkthroughs for...

In modern times, the problems of rural administration are at centre scientific, official and community leaders' attention. The efforts Russian authorities focus on forming efficiently operating a system strategically sustainable, integrated development. most important element in this is institution municipal service. It professionalism these servants that determines competent, clear efficient i...

The movement from traditional regulatory hearings to negotiated settlements represents both a departure from cost of service regulation and a relaxation of regulatory oversight. Under negotiation parties are able to renegotiate inclusions in their cost of service while simultaneously creating a profit margin for the regulated firm where none existed under the cost of service outcome of a tradit...

n a typical day, the total value of payments settled by the Federal Reserve’s Fedwire Funds Service exceeds $1.8 trillion. On average, credit extended to banks using Fedwire is about $30 billion over the course of the day, while the peak intraday amount reaches $86 billion. Given this high level of credit extensions, it is worthwhile asking whether payment settlements could be managed with a lo...