introduction promoting villages to towns is among the prominent characteristics of urbanization in few past decades and remains as a major challenge facing managers, policymakers and urban planners, particularly in developing countries. in iran, one of the growing impacts of rapid urbanization on the spatial structure of country is growing the number of urban centers via transformation villages...

sixty-year history of town and country planning in the world, raised a fundamental question: why following the successful models in the process of town and country planning don’t have always similar results? whether, the origin of differences and ambiguities are not in the boundaries, interrelation among the levels of decision making, policy making, uncontrollable democracy in land ownership, i...

Division of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Public Health & Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Anzio Road, Observatory 7925 Cape Town, South Africa Centre for Infectious Diseases Epidemiology & Research, School of Public Health & Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, South Africa ICAP, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, 10032 NY, USA *Author for corresponden...

J. Terblanche, Cape Town J.A. Myburgh, Johannesburg J. Krige, Cape Town P.C. Bornman, Cape Town L.C. van Rensburg, Stellenbosch C.J. Nel, Bloemfontein J.A. van Wyk, Medunsa E.M. Barker, Natal H.H. Lawson, Johannesburg V.O.L. Karusseit, Pretoria Chairman and national delegate Vice-chairman Secretary/treasurer Committee member Committee member Committee member Committee member Committee member Co...

1 Department of Environmental and Occupational Studies, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town, South Africa. 2 Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town, South Africa. 3 Department of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape T...

D. A. Auger, X. zhong, E. Meintjes, F. Epstein, and B. Spottiswoode MRC/UCT Medical Imaging Research Unit, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, MR R&D Collaborations, Siemens Medical Solutions, Atlanta, GA, United States, 3Departments of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville VA, United States, Radiology, University of Stellenbos...

Author details MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, Aviation House, 125 Kingsway, London WC2B 6NH, UK. Global Alliance for TB Drug Development, New York, NY, USA. Department of Mathematical Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa. Division of Pulmonology and Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town Lung Institute, Mowbray, Cape Town, South A...

BACKGROUND Recent attention has focused on access of communities to pharmacy services in rural areas. To increase access to pharmacy services in rural Western Australia some doctors have been granted a licence to dispense medication on the rationale that a pharmacy would not be economically viable in that community. However, there have been no studies conducted on whether a doctor dispensing se...

A40 Persistent circulation of highly divergent HIV-1M lineages in the Congo Basin Region M. Tongo, J.R. Dorfman, Tulio de Oliveira, D.P. Martin, Africa Centre for Population Health, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, Division of Computational Biology and Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, South Africa, Institute of Medical Research and Stud...

Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark, Department of Biogeography and Global Change, National Museum of Natural Sciences, CSIC, Calle José Gutierrez Abascal 2, 28006 Madrid, Spain, InBio/CIBIO, University of Évora, Largo dos Colegiais, 7000 Évora, Portugal, Metapopulation Research Centre, Department of Bioscienc...