The question this paper tries to provide an answer is, why democratic transformation‎ was successful in Tunisia and Indonesia? theoretical approach‎ is primarily rooted descriptive-empirical actor theories, although cultural‎ theories were used as well, better understand the political ideas and‎ stances of Islamist actors. research strategy a binary comparative study‎ with same outcome on depen...

In a call for greater anthropological study of the body, Scheper-Hughes and Lock (1987) argue for examination of three, interrelated bodily forms: the body-self, the social body, and the body politic. Anthropologists of aging can most easily identify our work in the body-self when we study aging as a bodily and social experience that varies across cultural contexts (e.g. Sokolovsky 2009). The s...

The purpose of this research was to assess the role of educational factors in protecting urbanlandscapes in Tehran Metropolitan. This is a quantitative research, applied and descriptivecorrelationmethod was used. The research population consisted of all participants in educationalcourses held by Tehran municipality (N=300) and 172 of them selected by using simple randomsampling method. To gathe...

in this article, a numerical approximation to the solution of the newell-whitehead equation (nwe) and cauchy problem of ill-posed non-linear diffusion equation have been studied. the presented scheme is obtained by using the derivative of the cubic b-spline quasi-interpolation (bsqi) to approximate the spatial derivative of the dependent variable and first order forward difference to approximat...

introduction development of studies on the urban, environment and conservation of natural resources, due to increase of urbanization as common lifestyles of citizens, has improved the sustainable urbanization approach that tries to improve  human interaction with nature for sound behavior. cities are the origins of consumerism and consequently irregular use of natural resources and energies. th...

A MIDAS regression involves a dependent variable observed at a low frequency and independent variables observed at a higher frequency. This paper relates a true high frequency data generating process, where also the dependent variable is observed (hypothetically) at the high frequency, with a MIDAS regression. It is shown that a correctly specified MIDAS regression usually includes lagged depen...