From time to time the Bulletin carries reports on operations in the five States that supplement the unemployment insurance benefit with a small allowance for dependents of beneficiaries . This article discusses sources from which data on the dependents of wage earners can be obtained and the use of such information in estimating the extent to which inclusion of dependents’ allowances aflects th...

external costs of environmental degradation are often ignored in economic analysis of projects. the mail goal of the paper is to economically analyze the current alternatives of meighan wetland utilization including extraction of sodium sulfate, aquaculture of artemia and integrative alternative considering external costs of wetland degradation. in order to detect eventual degradation of wetlan...

Agile processes are expected to follow a set of well known agile principles and practices. This paper analyses the utilization of an agile process in a project that imposes certain difficulties in meeting such principles and practices in their totality, particularly those that refer to daily face-to-face communication among team members and frequent delivery of new versions of the product in sh...

background: lesson planning has a distinct role in enhancing education quality, as well as maintaining the friendly and dynamic atmosphere of the academic environment and increasing student's initiatives for achieving better educational attainments. lesson planning is a process for defining the goals, understanding the needs, and specifying available tools and possible limitations. lesson plann...

To evaluate whether the Ochsner Health System’s Hypertension Digital Medicine Program (HDMP) improved enrollee blood pressure (BP), and utilization. Patients with hypertension (HTN) could enroll in Ochsner’s HDMP. benefits include tele-monitoring home, pharmacy management in-depth education. had to be residents of Louisiana have no history a heart or kidney transplant. The treatment group inclu...

The growing rate of energy consumption is a reason for establishment of new power plants which leads to increment in fault current level. One of the solutions to overcome this problem is utilization of fault current limiters (FCLs). Another concerning issue in energy generation is the satisfactory voltage quality in grid and to deal with it, a power electronic based device, known as dynamics vo...

background : the aim of this study was to explore saudi cancer patients' views regarding cancer information disclosure and whether differences existed between regions or gender. methods : in this cross-sectional questionnaire-based prospective survey, we interviewed 332 saudi cancer patients who received oncological care at king fahd university hospital, al-khobar, saudi arabia from july 2002 t...

Since the onset of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan attention has increased on the importance of mental health with military service members. An integral component, although far less studied, are the ties between mental health and military spouses. Military deployments place considerable stress on military families. This study analyzed the mental health utilization of military spouses of active...

information and communication technology (ict) has influenced all aspects of human life and has been the cause of many economical and social changes. applications of ict are making dramatic changes in educational development. ict has been the cause of a new revolution in the world which is called information revolution. it has had many advantages and facilities. this research attempts to study ...