Development is one of the basic and key issues of the social sciences that due to its importance and the particular status that it has in the transformations of human society, it has attracted the serious attention of many scholars. Given the fact that people’s attitudes usually influences their actions and behaviors, and also because attitudes are among the important factors that have an impac...

Background The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) availed opportunities for scaling up service coverage but called for stringent monitoring and evaluation (M&E;) focusing mainly on MDG related programs. The Sustainable Development Goals 3 (SDGs) and the universal health coverage (UHC) agenda present a broader scope and require more ...

m.a. abdoli 1 , b. tavakoli *1,2, m.h. menhaj3 1- dept. of environmental engineering, university of tehran, faculty of environmental science, tehran, iran. 2-dept. of environment, faculty of natural resources, university of guilan, someh sara, iran 3- dept. of rural development, faculty of agricultural sciences, university of guilan, rasht, iran *corresponding author's e-mail: babak_13...

This paper focuses on the evaluation of quality perceptions from users of an electronic government website. As government organizations have begun to enhance transparency, communicate and interact with citizens via the Web, developing appropriate online services has demanded heightened understanding of the requirements of users and appropriate tailoring of solutions. The site examined in the pa...

this paper aims to study the role of women in agricultural promotion and its effect on rural development. research method in this study was based on a survey and the required information was collected through questionnaire from a sample of women especially rural women. the data were analyzed using logit model. the results showed that women had a major role in farming including producion, conser...

E-government initiatives have large potentials in developing better services for citizens and a potential to transform government structures. However e-government initiatives face a number of challenges of complexity and risk – it is not an easy matter to realize its potentials. A key research issue for the e-government field, as well as the information systems field in general, is to understan...