OBJECTIVE To analyse the design and operational status of India's civil registration and vital statistics system and facilitate the system's development into an accurate and reliable source of mortality data. METHODS We assessed the national civil registration and vital statistics system's legal framework, administrative structure and design through document review. We did a cross-sectional s...

abstra every year a large number of boreholes are drilled in various areas of isfahan city and numerous tests are undertaken to determine the characteristics of engineering geology of quaternary deposits. however due to a lack of organized plan the results of these geological tests are not unfortunately used in next projects. nowadays, geotechnical data banks in different countries have already...

The effective factors on the economic growth of Iran during the first 5-year development plan are studied. The main characteristics of this period are that the first development plan began after the end of war during which some of the unused capacities of the war period were utilized. While the budget deficit was continued in this period the government also pursued policies such as devaluation ...

Introduction In 2006, even with the external support, most of the districts in Jharkhand state were unable to do health planning beyond an initial prospective planning. The key impediment was the lack of capacity to analyse the health situation in their districts and develop strategies and propose budgets to implement these. The Public Health Resource Network (PHRN) in partnership with the Nati...

Although the components of plan quality are well defined, little empirical research has been conducted to understand the degree to which policies are being implemented after plan adoption and the factors contributing to the variation in plan implementation. The authors test the efficacy of land-use planning and plan implementation in Florida by measuring the degree to which wetland development ...

The professionalization of Canadian anthropology in the first half of the twentieth century was tied closely to the matrix of the federal state, first though the Anthropology Division of the Geological Survey of Canada and then the National Museum. State anthropologists occupied an ambiguous professional status as both civil servants and anthropologists committed to the methodological and disci...

m r r Feeling was running high this week in the Division of Placement and Unemployment Insurance, as evidence mounted tha t a figure of 300 layoffs might rise to 400. Affected in the first 300 were 149 temporary employees and 30 permanent assistant interviewers in the NYC field offices, and 131 temporary employees in the Albany headquarters offices. Among the "temps" are many former permanent a...