Focusing on stakeholder inclusion, this article investigates the consequences of implementing responsible research and innovation framework in a public funding regime. I use Norwegian transdisciplinary project as case study, demonstrating how Research Council Norway relies heavily assumption that stakeholders will pay for further development long they are appropriately engaged. In analysing my ...

this papers examines the counsel of the formation of the expediency discernment council in the islamic republic of iran. it aims to analyse the reasons why late imam khomeini decided to form the council. having demonstrated the reasons for the formation of the council, its functions, duties and responsibilities, the article pays a particular attention to the late imam khomeini. it shows that th...

Obesity at conception and excess gestational weight gain pose significant risks for adverse health consequences in human offspring. This study evaluated the effects of reducing dietary intake of obese/overfed ewes beginning in early gestation on fetal development. Sixty days prior to conception, ewes were assigned to a control diet [CON: 100% of National Research Council (NRC) recommendations],...

This paper describes and evaluates the background, methodology and successful application of a historic landscape characterisation project undertaken between 1999 and 2000 in Lancashire (NW England). It begins with a description of the need and context for the project, from the perspective of English Heritage as a part of a national programme, from the viewpoint of Lancashire County Council who...

The study intended to analyze the optimum solution to enhance utilization of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) services to the grassroots community in Dodoma Municipal Council (DMC) in Tanzania. The specific objectives of this study were to: identify the availability and use of ICT infrastructures for service delivery at grassroots level; identify possible Local Government Authorit...

terrorism is not a new phenomenon. history is full of terrorist acts which have taken or threaten many innocent people lives. increasing terrorist acts led the international community to expand its arrangements against them. consequently, approval of 12 world conventions and 7 regional ones is in parallel with the arrangements. through the un security council's resolution no. 1373 after 9/...

Amajor effort to establish “scientifically-based research” (SBR) in education has been under way for some time (Feuer, Towne, & Shavelson, 2002). Key manifestations of this effort are found in the No Child Left Behind Act and the reauthorization and reorganization of the Office of Educational Research and Improvement as the Institute for Educational Science (Eisenhart & Towne, 2003). The most d...