The Municipality of Jeddah adopted a ‘smart growth policy’ to address issues of urban sprawl and housing affordability that resulted in the adoption of new zoning regulations in 2007. The new regulations intended to generate urban intensification and vertical expansion. Jeddah Municipality have permitted six-storey dwellings with a parking level in areas of existing low rise detached housing, w...

BACKGROUND Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common disorders in early childhood. However, not many studies have been conducted on the prevalence and effect of ADHD on school performance in Ghana. This study sought to ascertain the prevalence of ADHD and its effect on school performance among primary school pupils in the Hohoe municipality of Ghana. METHODS Th...

globalization and high pace of technological processes,achieved by information technology, increase the pressure on private andpublic organizations to compete for providing new services. the servicesector accounts for the largest employment growth and value-added indeveloped economies. therefore, extensive studies on developing newservices and their success factors have become more important. i...

the present article aims at analyzing and evaluation of citizens ' satisfaction of the performance of urban management is a municipality and city in the council on the basis of the findings of a field study in kashan is prepared of organizations citizens satisfaction in three dimensions of urban management, i.e. economic, physical dimension – social and cultural environment – the analy...

from the perspective of the public budgeting sector ,time inconsistency, is testable by significant deviation of performance(tafrigh) budget efficiency from the approved. one way to avoid the problem of time inconsistency is to follow, the delegation approach. according to this approach, for any executive monetary or fiscal decision making and planning, an independent monetary or fiscal plannin...

Taking the highly competitive markets into consideration, organizations need to be involved in activities that yield not only high performance, but also a competitive advantage. The present study was conducted to investigate the effect of collaborative structure and competitive intensity in the relationship between process management and organizational performance in Shiraz Municipality. The pr...

BACKGROUND There is a great variety in how emergency medical communication centers (EMCC) are organized in different countries and sometimes, even within countries. Organizational changes in the EMCC have often occurred because of outside world changes, limited resources and the need to control costs, but historically there is often a lack of structured evaluation of these organization changes....