Physical geography continues to have complex relationships both with Geography as a whole and the natural sciences. At time when nature future of physical its sub-disciplines has been questioned, I explore these changing their impacts on discipline itself our collective ability understand address environmental crises. The exploration is through themes disciplinary shape institutional change, ge...

results urban patients were more likely to receive supplementary information and being strongly encouraged by their nephrologists to seek transplant. all participants acknowledged “independence” as the main advantage of transplantation. increased freedom to travel and improved life expectancy were mentioned only among the urban groups. the main themes in all groups regarding perceived barriers ...

Background & Aims: Major depression is one of the common psychiatric disorders imposing negative effects on patients and their families. There are several treatment methods for depression. The purpose of the present study was to determine the effect of combination of cognitive behavioral group therapy, family psycho-education and medication versus medication alone on the improvement of major...

the purpose of this study is to examine the psycho-social aspects, coping methods, as well as the quality of social relationship in two groups of patients with hiv infection. this study is ex-post-facto research. subjects are 10 patients (7 male, 3 female with mean age of 31.5) infected with hiv who lived with their families. the patients were screended by the well-being questionnaire and were ...

The article revealsthe topic of psycho-correctionand prevention a high level personal anxiety in students 1-2 courses. Previously, was detected 81 students. There need for psycho-correctivework focused on the development social interaction skills and reducing excessive self-control. Participants were invited to attend group sessions with psychologist according pre-developed correctional program...

Introduction Peter Dicken (2004) lamented geographers' missing out on globalization and becoming more parochial in terms of research, and called for a revitalization of regional geography. Indeed, I often feel unsettled by the fact that, from time to time, geographers have to defend the position of geography, especially in recent response to the argument that globalization means the end of geog...

mokr?n, an iranian district, is located south of baluchistan on northern coasts of mokr?n (oman) sea. its particular geographical situation has caused a promoting economic position since longs ago and its harbors have had an excellent commercial position and a significant economic improvement through the history. mokr?n benefits a thousands-year history and precious civilization. there are diff...

Behavioral geography is an approach to human geography that attempts to understand human activity in space, place, and environment by studying it at the disaggregate level of analysis—at the level of the individual person. Behavioral geographers analyze data on the behavior of individual people, recognizing that individuals vary from each other. A key tenet of behavioral geography holds that mo...

Abstrac t . This paper defines the notion and concepts of N a i v e Geography, the field of study that is concerned with formal models of the common-sense geographic world. Naive Geography is the body of knowledge that people have about the surrounding geographic world. Naive Geography is envisioned to comprise a set of theories that provide the basis for designing future Geographic Information...