26 Janet Creaser, Department of Mechanical Engineering Evaluation of Minnesota’s

The ability to measure population health trends and improvements can be enhanced through collaborative efforts to describe existing knowledge and via shared development opportunities. This paper highlights a project undertaken in Alberta which has created an inventory of health status indicators in use in the province, and provides a framework for strategic progress in the development and use o...

BACKGROUND Among the available data provided by health information systems, data on mortality are commonly used not only as health indicators but also as socioeconomic development indices. Recognizing that in Iran accurate data on causes of death were not available, the Deputy of Health in the Ministry of Health and Medical Education (MOH&ME) established a new comprehensive system for death reg...

Social capital is the effective contribution of social groups through providing a context for cooperation, sense identity, and perception norms. Urban parks are important components cities, helps building within urban societies. This study examines Tehran, Iran, using three main criteria: informal control, cohesion, leverage. A stratified random sample 330 users were selected asked to rank crit...

Low birth weight (LBW) is one of the key reproductive health indicators whose outcome is influenced by consumption of reproductive health care. Rosenzweig and Schultz (1983) argue that one of the key measures of child health is that of birth weight. Birth weight is a good gauge of health of the child in the womb because the weight is taken immediately after birth. Consequently, a malnourished f...

A rigidification phenomenon for certain thin slender parabolic shells, with curvature in the transversal direction to the main length was addressed in a previous work. The main results are generalized here to the case when the shape of the middle surface is no longer cylindrical, but incorporates a very small curvature in the longitudinal direction (it is “slightly hyperbolic”). The structure o...

These notes are loosely based on lectures given and to be given at the CERN Winter School on Supergravity, Strings and Gauge theories, February 2009 and at the IPM String School in Tehran, April 2009, respectively. I have focused on a few concrete topics and also on addressing questions that have arisen repeatedly. Background condensed matter physics material is included as motivation and easy ...