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Most of the world's children live in resource-poor countries where people are at a relatively high risk of exposure to catastrophic situations arising from conflict and natural disasters.(6) Given the potential social, psychological and psychiatric consequences of exposure to disaster, mental health and psychosocial support programmes are increasingly part of humanitarian aid. A minimum standar...

Generalized analysis is presented extending recent work of the charging of a perfectly conducting sphere from a single charge carrier to two charge carriers of opposite polarity, with different values of volume charge density and mobility and including an ohmic lossy dielectric region surrounding a perfectly conducting sphere. Specific special cases treated are: (1) unipolar positive or negativ...

Abstract In recent decades, because of the vast socio-cultural changes which occurred in Iran, Iranian women have experienced new values and identities and they have achieved more advanced education and consciousness, so that they oppose the gender stereotypes which attribute inferior characteristics to women and cause inequalities and limitations in their everyday life. Although gender stereo...