the main purpose of this survey was to identify and analyze the barriers in women’s economic participation in the rural regions of the zanjan province. the study was an analytical- explanatory research regarding its method. the statistical population of the study were consisted of all the rural women in the abhar-rod rural district (n= 1300). according to the krejcie and morgan table, a sample ...

Bilateral and multilateral development cooperation agencies are to an increasing extent promoting and adopting a sector-wide approach (SWAp) in their development cooperation. The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), for example, joined their first sector-wide approach cooperation in the late 90s, and today they are involved in SWAps in countries in Africa, Asia and Latin...

European regional policy has increasingly been focused on innovation and knowledge during the last three decades. Yet, its INTERREG funding regime is still supporting a wide range of different cross-border topics, more concentrated on integration efforts than on pure innovation policy. In four of the 52 cross-border programs also Swiss regions are participating. Since 2008, cross-border coopera...

Evidence suggests that in Iwaija, a non-Pama-Nyungan language of northern Australia, the Intonation Phrase (IP) is an integrated entity, one which is typical of a cursus language (Pulgram,1970) like French, in which words in connected speech give up some of the properties they exhibit in isolation. A salient feature of the prosody of this language is syllabification across content word boundari...

this commentary on potts et al provides a critical view on their thesis that increasing the level of education among women is likely to reduce terrorism. presence of a strong family planning program enables women to control family size resulting in women’s public participation more likely and facilitating the emergence of small birth cohorts who are less likely to become unemployed. in spite of...

Studies on experts' understanding of the public have mainly focused on the views of scientists. We add to the literature on constructions of the public by analyzing the views of decision-makers, professional science communicators and scientists involved in 'space' communication on the public and public participation in policy. Findings show that contextual situations and roles determine the way...

p. (x) l. 5, “Chapter 4” should read “Chapter 6”. p. 24–25: As it stands, the proof of Lemma 2.2.3 is wrong, because ψ is not necessarily surjective. However, if P is a finitely generated projective module, then the proof works. So at the beginning of the section, one should make the further observation that P = F ′(ΓΓ) is a finitely generated projective module. This is because among all projec...