prisons come at great cost to society and still result in inmates disassociated from society. incarceration is however our primary forms of punishment; therefore we need to define the purpose of punishment to be integrated into our goals for prisons. prison architecture is a complex area of study, the classification proposed in this paper can be an important research tool by taking into conside...

This article presents the results of a series of preliminary comparisons, between the Portuguese and Romanian cultural contexts, on the individualism-collectivism (IND/COL) cultural dimension. The IND/COL was evaluated with the Individualism-Collectivism Questionnaire - ICQ -, constructed in New Zealand by Shulruf, Hattie and Dixon (2003, Anonymous Questionnaire of Self-Attitudes - AQSA), and a...

Medication use during lactation is a matter of concern due to unnecessary exposure of infants to drugs. Although some studies have predicted the extent of drug transfer into milk from physicochemical parameters, drug concentration-time profiles in milk have not been predicted or even analyzed yet. In the present study, a drug transfer model was constructed by defining secretion and reuptake cle...

a blood uric acid analysis has been effected on 193 iranians of the intellectual group aged from 25 to 60, of which the normal average rate for 99 women and 94 men of a normal sta te are (47 .5 -+- '.73) and (53 .62 --'-- ?73) respectively. after ha ving controlled the uricemia of these subjects during a period of th ree years in the three states of healthiness, fatigue or physical strains and ...

Two studies were conducted to investigate cultural differences in opportunity cost consideration between Chinese and Euro-Canadians. Opportunity cost is defined as the cost of a benefit that must be forgone in order to pursue a better alternative (Becker et al., 1974). In both studies, participants read about hypothetical purchase scenarios, and then decided whether they would buy a certain pro...

Abstract The article studies the regulatory and legal framework of rural tourism in Kostroma region. It analyzes resource potential development agricultural region under consideration, substantiates relevance (agricultural) tourism. authors analyze natural, cultural, historical infrastructural region, consider main negative factors affecting Based on analysis tourist potential, identified regio...