the purpose of this research was identified barriers to the successof water users' cooperatives in dashte azadegan and hoveyzeh townships, khuzestan province, iran. this research was an applied study and the research method was descriptive. members of water users' cooperatives considered as statistical population. the sample size was 256 farmers based on krejcie & morgan table. after ...

background: zinc is an essential trace element required for the functional activity of several enzyme systems. several studies have been carried out to assess the effect of zinc supplementation on children’s growth, but controversy exists as to the effect of zinc on growth and gh-igf-i system. objective:  the aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of zinc supplementation on linear growth ...

The scope of this study was to evaluate the influence of the social determinants and the provision of primary care services in relation to the use of emergency dental care services in a medium-sized municipality. Data recorded for the 57,231 users of emergency care between 2007 and 2009, in accordance with age, gender, date and period of dental care, social exclusion indices of the suburb in wh...

1 This research was supported by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada and Communication and Information Technologies Ontario. At the University of Toronto, I have received support from the Centre for Urban and C ommun ity Studies, the Department of Socio logy, and the Knowled ge Media Design Institute. I would like to express my appreciation to B arry Wellman, my collabo...

The current study sought to explore discrepancies between children's stated snack food motivations and actual food choices, using the Implicit Association Test (IAT) as a measure of implicit attitudes towards 'healthy' and 'unhealthy' foods. Participants were children aged 6-12 years (n=118), from two primary schools on the South Coast of NSW, Australia a public school in a semi-rural suburb so...

As cities grow, what happens to urban form and how does that change traffic conditions? How does growing traffic affect urban structure? These questions have received considerable theoretical and empirical attention over the last 25 years. They relate to the NIMBY debate, which associates most new development with traffic problems. Yet, until recently, substantial evidence tended to show that u...