We carried out a randomized controlled trial in Bogotá, the recipient of Colombia's highest number of internally displaced people (IDP), to assess whether the use of SMS to communicate eligibility to social benefits fosters the welfare of victimized internal refugees. Only a fraction of IDP are eligible to benefits. We inform eligibility via SMS to a random half of such households, and estimate...

T elimination of health disparities in the United States is a national priority and overriding goal for Healthy People 2010 (HP 2010). Surveillance of health indicators among minority populations is essential to eliminating disparities. Surveillance is critical for program planning, policy making, evaluating population-based strategies, and tracking progress toward national and state objectives.

Psychological reactance occurs in response to threats posed to perceived behavioral freedoms. Research has shown that people can also experience vicarious reactance. They feel restricted in their own freedom even though they are not personally involved in the restriction but only witness the situation. The phenomenon of vicarious reactance is especially interesting when considered in a cross-cu...

There are many similarities in gay, lesbian, and bisexual individuals’ coming out experiences, but bisexual people face unique challenges. Despite this, an explicit focus on bisexual people is missing from family research. Using family systems and cultural sociological perspectives, the authors analyzed how social and cultural factors shape disclosure processes for bisexuals as they come out to...

abstract human development and the importance of focusing on women’s participation has become one of the main concerns and issues attracting the attention of many people. in fact, many gender-related models and patterns have been proposed in this regard. accordingly, this paper is an attempt to evaluate the effects of development process on women’s participation in iran using an econometrics m...

Workforce population trends have increased the numbers and kinds of culturally diverse people who work together. Researchers in organizational behavior have often examined culture through values; however, cultural values can be based on collections of people other than traditional nation states. A cultural mosaic is presented as a framework to identify demographic, geographic, and associative f...

Summary The people of the two Koreas cannot communicate directly with one another. Since early 1990s, South and North Korea have allowed a limited number people-to-people exchanges. In this article, we map Korean government’s theories change regarding inter-Korean exchanges based on policy documents semi-structured interviews five high-level Ministry Unification bureaucrats. We also explore out...

Serious games have an important role in supporting access to cultural heritage through storytelling and game mechanics. These games, however, are more suitable for learning environments: in order to stimulate people to look for cultural content, other means are necessary. In this paper we present our view on the role playful games may have in eliciting curiosity and how a specific gaming mechan...

Background & Aims: Physical activity in leisure time can increase life expectancy in disabled people via increasing freshness, communicating with others, and participating in community activities and can prevent withdrawal and malaise. The aim of this research was surveying on barriers for wheelchair-user disabled people in their recreational activities in southeast of Iran. Methods: In functio...