after the second world war one of the most effective ways which could make an important impact on the life of minorities and deprived communities has been positive discrimination. of course, it has been always controversial in terms of its legitimacy as well as its real impact on changes. using positive discrimination to promote women's condition in many countries and fields such as enteri...

The herbicide paraquat is considered safe by industry and the bulk of regulators worldwide. However, determinants of exposure from 30 years ago persist in developing countries. Little is known about systemic absorption from occupational exposures. The relationships between exposure determinants, levels of external exposure, biomarkers of exposure, and outcomes are not clear. High rates of sever...

Although there are remarkable differences in drivers’ behavior as well as vehicles characteristics, road capacity estimationmethods in developing countries are same as developed ones. So, the discrepancy between the theoretical andpractical values of capacity is inevitable. Although, capacity estimation methods can be classified based on numerousparameters, in developing count...

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (unfccc) has the potential to become one the most important instruments to-date for addressing urgent global and local environmental and developmental priorities. It is also one of the most inclusive in that it incorporates important actors from government as well as private sector and civil society. Because of the importance of their fu...

Today export diversification has become one of the most important economic objectives of development strategies in the developing countries. For various reasons, such as preventing instability in export prices of primary products in global markets, reducing fluctuations in exchanges of them compared with industrial goods, producing dynamic benefits resulted from exporting various goods and incr...