Can focusing on gender help us to better understand the mobilization capacity of jihadi insurgent groups and their social roots in Sahel? A growing literature has explored factors that motivate people join such Africa. The Sahel provides a salient case, but prevalent focus agent-based explanations tended overlook role relations constructions. This article explores potential practice theory shed...

abstract rapid urbanization and concentration of population in urban areas is one of the main characteristics of today’s world. in developing countries lack of necessary infrastructures, disproportionate growth, insufficient planning skills and mismanagement have caused great disparities in the distribution of urban land uses. this brings insecurity among inhabitants and inhibits sustainable de...

Large amounts of jihadi video content on YouTube along with the vast array of relational data that can be gathered opens up innovative avenues for exploration of the support base for political violence. This exploratory study analyses the online supporters of jihad-promoting video content on YouTube, focusing on those posting and commenting upon martyr-promoting material from Iraq. Findings sug...

Contemporary terrorism is a complex phenomenon involving a range of non-state actors linked in networked organizations. These organizations, exemplified by the global jihadi movement known as al-Qaeda, are complex non-state actors operating as transnational networks within a galaxy of like-minded networks. These entities pose security threats to nation states and the collective global security....

abstract drastic precipitations in unmorally times always are one of the important factors that created abundant damages in different geographical areas. in this research, three precipitations that occurred in summer 2009 in mashhad were investigated. the investigation of variation graphs of meteorological parameters show significant decreasing of air pressure and temperature and increasing of ...

The main activities in project portfolio allocation management are selecting the right project components given a strategy. It is crucial to establish a scientific system of evaluation indexes to guarantee the closeness between strategy and project portfolio allocation optimally. With organizations growing in sizes, the functions and objectives of project components are becoming more and more d...

assessing financial performance is one of the most important in functional domains, because financial information is considered for the basis of making decisions. organizations use various indexes for assessing performance in quantitative techniques. although these sorts of assessments provide useful information, but the comprehensive concept will never be concluded because of considering all t...

background: survey of pollution and evaluation of water quality in rivers with oregon water quality index (owqi) and gis are effective tools for management of the impact of environmental water resources. the information in calculating the wqi of moradbeik river allowed us to take our tests results and make a scientific conclusion about the quality of water. gis can be a powerful tool for develo...