background:  cancer is the third leading cause of death in iran, and its trend is increasing in recent years. national reports state that cancer registries in shahroud district had 204% coverage in 2008. this study investigated cancer situation in shahroud with complete details between 2000–2010. methods: data was obtained from national cancer registry software and analyzed after removing the r...

The literature on ethnic occupational clustering and its impacts is large. However it mostly focuses on the lesser skilled sectors of the labour market or on entrepreneurship. In parallel, the extensive literature on employment of skilled migrants has focused on expanding diversity in the workforce, and on issues of representation of migrants and minorities. This article takes a fresh look at s...

Upward social mobility has been evident among British ethnic minority communities since the 1960s, and education appears to have had a key role in this process. Despite this, social scientists have been slow to consider the link between education, ethnicity and social stratiŽcation. The role of higher education has been particularly neglected. Although there has been some suggestion of an ethni...

Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on Journal blog. Conservation aims to improve ecological outcomes. The new Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework was adopted in December 2022 at 15th Convention Biological Diversity Conference of Parties (COP15) co-hosted by China and Canada, has potential change trajectory global biodiversity loss (https://www.cbd.int/doc/c/e6d3/cd...

Wildlife trade is driving species extinctions globally, and the Asian Turtle Crisis posing a threat in China as turtle are collected from wild sold at high prices. Local ecological knowledge increasingly used to determine status of threatened taxa, but there little understanding wider relationships between indices other conservation-relevant factors such market values traded species. To assess ...

The aim of this paper is to review the performance of the family planning program initiated in 1989 in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Following a quick look at the family planning program that existed before the Revolution (1967-1979), the paper documents the fate of the program during the first decade after the Islamic Revolution (1979-1988) and its official revival in 1989. It is shown that th...