achieving the millennium development goals has proven to be a real challenge. providing evidence on cost-effective interventions did not prove to be sufficient to secure the trust of national authorities, health care providers and patients. introducing change in a health system requires a good understanding of the relationships between the actors of the system. social network analysis can provi...

As online education expands in the wake of recent global events, concerns over privileging dominant languages, cultures and epistemologies gain prominence. Despite explicit biases assumptions found within hegemonic learning contexts, however, inquiry domain computer-assisted language (CALL) typically manifests via decontextualised interpretations. Consequently, this aims to contribute theoretic...

In this article, the set of institutions which embody the form and contents of the economic system of Islam is introduced. By institutions, it is meant the economic freedoms, the government, ownership, motivation, the mechanism for coordinating economic activities, power, organization and bureaucracy. After explaining Islam’s outlook regarding these institutions, the form and the contents of th...

Often, when several norms are present and may be in conflict, individuals will display a self-serving bias, privileging the norm that best serves their interests. Xiao and Bicchieri (J Econ Psychol 31(3):456–470, 2010) tested the effects of inequality on reciprocating behavior in trust games and showed that—when inequality increases—reciprocity loses its appeal. They hypothesized that self-serv...

Race is a product of social conflicts between different groups of people, and hence it is guided by the interests and politics of privileging some groups over the others. Omi and Winant (2002) define race as “a concept which signifies and symbolizes social conflicts and interests by referring to different types of human bodies” (p. 123). Race, when defined loosely, is taken interchangeably with...

This research has concentrated on the physical and socio-economic impacts of vegetation-based management scenarios targeting on flooding and soil erosion issues in the Ramian watersheds. The Ramian watershed with an approximate area of 24000 ha is located in Golestan, Iran. For each sub-watershed, four biological actions (activities) and 16 management scenarios have been considered. Physical im...

This paper looks at assessment views held by Alberta Education in regards to teaching and learning for educators Alberta. The standardization model of excludes Indigenous thought systems articulated through rigorous processes the nehiyaw mâmitoneyihcikan – Cree mind intelligences. Infusion, integration, indigenization models that privilege dominant educational design continue perpetuate an invi...

This paper analyzes how variation in participant take-up rates affected the impacts of the New Hope project, a random-assignment, anti-poverty program. New Hope offered experimental members four benefits—child care subsidies, wage subsidies, health insurance, and, if needed, a temporary community service job—that were available to families working full time. Take-up of the benefits was far from...

development of the modern education system and iranian high interest in studying the new science and broad government support government over the last century of the modern educational system, and high costs to expand and improve its quality by no means imply the entrance of science and scientific attitude to iranian relations. system of economic production and social relations and political st...