a tug which, according to towage contract, renders salvage services to tow, is not, principally, entitled to reward, although she has, practically, rescued the tow from danger. notwithstanding this, section 176 of iranian maritime act says: a tug has no right to remuneration for assistance to or salvage of the vessel she is towing or of the vessel cargo, except where she has rendered exceptiona...

Pressure to force or induce the consolidation of rural schools through legislation is common across the United States. Whereas consolidation was once chiefly about school improvement, today it is more likely to be about fiscal savings. Legislative battles have produced many lessons for rural school advocates which are discussed here. Consolidation is also on the agenda of many of the school ref...

Neighbourhoods have been described by the UK Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government as the “building blocks of public service society”. Despite this, difficulties in data collection combined with the concept’s subjective nature have left most countries lacking official neighbourhood definitions. This issue has implications not only for policy, but for the field of computational...

the main objective of this research is to understanding how and why some student are non-religiousness. for this purpose the life-world of these students is examined and the theories of burger and habermas are used as the theorical framework. the methodological approach of this investigation is qualitative; therefore, to collect data, the interview techniques of semi structure, the episodic and...

objective: the aim of the present research was to evaluate the psychological well-being and quality of sleep in addicts under methadone treatment for at least 6 months. methods: a total of 40 individuals were selected through purposeful sampling method among the referring addicts to 2 addiction centers in eastern tehran. participants took the ryff scale of psychological well-being (rspwb) and p...