The permanently changing information and communication technology (IT) makes it inevitable for IT professionals to keep up-to-date. However, the market for further education presents itself as being diversified and opaque at the same time. Especially for young professionals, the selection of the “right” training offering is difficult. This entails the necessity to develop methods and models to ...

extended abstract 1. introduction the quality of life can be considered as an operational tool to measure the overall health and welfare. in general, the concept quality of life is affected by various factors constituting the foundation of the life dynamics. since the concept quality of urban life is multidimensional and complex, it could be used in urban planning when an appropriate and reliab...

1. introduction extensive fires in the forests are examples of natural crises (hosseinali, 2005) and forest fire events are increasing in the conditions of changing climate and global warming; (azizi and yousefi, 2005). this phenomenon is considered one of the most destructive factors for forest ecosystems, causing irreparable damages (marozas et al, 2007). some of these damages include land us...

•Current diet of most Indian states is deficient in 11 out 25 essential nutrients•Sustainable will cost 1.5 times more than current states•Shift to sustainable massively reduce food-related GHG emissions•Filling the yield gaps crops can ensure sufficient domestic supply food Over half India's ice-free land devoted agriculture, employing over country's population. Food production for human consu...

In anthropology and across the humanities social sciences, zoos have tended to be theorized as places of spectacle. Scholars often focus on ways in which these institutions enable viewing other-than-human animals by human publics. This article, however, uses sound-focused ethnographic fieldwork engage with two UK describe a particular mode cross-species listening is enacted zookeepers. The conc...

Despite its highly extended and thinned crust, much of the western Cordillera in the United States is elevated over 1 km above sea level. Thus this region cannot be thought of as thick crust floating in a uniform mantle isostatically; rather, the lithospheric mantle and/or the upper asthenosphere must vary in thickness or density across the region. Utilizing crustal thickness and density constr...