the aim of this research is consider the importance of decision maker level of analysis in the study of foreign policy. this capability created by the regard to the role of man in foreign policy and international relations theories. however, the main research question is whether the decision maker level of analysis will be the theoretical support for the analysis of foreign policy and what are ...

BACKGROUND: Disease-related malnutrition is a major health problem in the elderly population, but it has until recently received very little attention, especially are management issues under-explored. By identifying residents at the risk of undernutrition (UN), appropriate nutritional care can be provided. OBJECTIVE: To investigate if study circles and policy documents improve the precision in ...

We investigate conditional expressions in the setting of ACP, an algebraic theory about processes. We introduce ACP, an extension of ACP with conditional expressions in which the conditions are taken from a free Boolean algebra over a set of generators, and also its main models, called full splitting bisimilation models. We add two simple mechanisms for condition evaluation to ACP; and we show ...

While many health services strive to be equitable, accessible and inclusive, peoples' right to health often goes unrealized, particularly among vulnerable groups. The extent to which health policies explicitly seek to achieve such goals sets the policy context in which services are delivered and evaluated. An analytical framework was developed--EquiFrame--to evaluate 1) the extent to which 21 C...

“economic empowerment” is the ability of vulnerable women to make a decent living for themselves and their family. this ability not only helps them to meet their essential needs continuously, but also decreases the stress level and mental strains caused by deficiencies in the process of satisfying these needs. a range of fundamental and prevalent social issues affecting various societies usuall...

the purpose of this research was to assess the role of educational factors in protecting urbanlandscapes in tehran metropolitan. this is a quantitative research, applied and descriptivecorrelationmethod was used. the research population consisted of all participants in educationalcourses held by tehran municipality (n=300) and 172 of them selected by using simple randomsampling method. to gathe...