this study is a descriptive - survey and objective evaluation analysis of creation causes on informal settlement shadgholi-khan town of qom city. answer questionnaire by 200 protector of household in shadgholi-khan tow, economic, social and physical variables affective creation of informal settlements in the shadgholi-khan its spatial and local effects are investigated. research findings show t...

OBJECTIVE To document ownership and use of bednets with its determinants in the visceral leishmaniasis (VL)-endemic region where mainly non-insecticide impregnated nets are available through commercial channels, and bednets are being considered as a leishmaniasis vector control measure. METHODS In August-September 2006, semi-structured household (HH) questionnaires and observation guides were...

The nature of an individual document is often defined by its relationship to selected tasks, societal values, and cultural meaning. The identifying features, regardless of whether the document content is textual, aural or visual, are often delineated in terms of descriptions about the document, for example, intended audience, coverage of topics, purpose of creation, structure of presentation as...

Standardization of the language of gastrointestinal endoscopy is becoming increasingly important on account of international collaboration, standardized documentation requirements, and computer-based reporting. Version 1 of the Minimal Standard Terminology (MST) was devised to facilitate this development, and, through broad international collaboration, the document was developed and tested furt...

An extensive literature is devoted to differences between for-profit and non-profit health-care providers' prices, utilization, and quality. Less is known about for-profit and non-profit managers' compensation and its relationship with financial and quality performance. The aim of this study is to examine whether for-profit and non-profit nursing homes place differential weights on financial an...

The life of engine components is determined by a combination of the material properties and the applied stresses and temperatures. As a consequence of variability in these parameters, the component life is not fixed (deterministic) but stochastic (random) and may be characterised by a probability density function (PDF). In order to reduce the cost of ownership of ADF aircraft these PDFs need to...

We present a mechanism based on managerial incentives through which common ownership affects product market outcomes. Firm-level variation in causes and productivity across firms, leads to intraindustry intrafirm cross-market prices, output, markups, shares that is consistent with empirical evidence. The organizational structure of multiproduct firms the passivity owners determine whether highe...

Published in NEURON, Vol. 47, 143-153, July 7, 2005. Note that if you want to see detailed mathematical equations, it is better to read this document than the NEURON’s published version which uses some different fonts for the math equations and may have errors. Summary: A border between two image regions normally belongs to only one of the regions; determining which one is essential for surface...

The research reported in this document was supported by a grant received from the European Commission 7th Framework Programme, FP7-SSH-2007-1, Grant Agreement no: 225282, Processes Influencing Democratic Ownership and Participation (PIDOP), which was awarded to the University of Surrey (UK), University of Liège (Belgium), Masaryk University (Czech Republic), University of Jena (Germany), Univer...