urban public spaces are the most important instruments to strengthen the participation of civil society as an arena of all groups both men and women. women as half of the public spaces users should use urban public spaces as well as men easily and they must feel comfortable in these kinds of places. however, experiences and also the result of researches have shown that women do not benefit equa...

The innate host response system is comprised of various mechanisms for orchestrating host response to microbial infection of the oral cavity. The heterogeneity of the oral cavity and the associated microenvironments that are produced give rise to different chemistries that affect the innate defense system. One focus of this review is on how these spatial differences influence the two major defe...

background public and private health sectors both play a crucial role in the health systems of low- and middleincome countries (lmics). the tuberculosis (tb) control strategy in india encourages the public sector to actively partner with private practitioners (pps) to improve the quality of front line service delivery. however, ensuring effective and sustainable involvement of pps constitutes a...

Melanoma is the most common form of cancer that originates in the skin; decades of intensive investigation generated large datasets that are currently provided to the open public. Large public datasets such as The Cancer Genome Atlas (referred to as TCGA), reveal that the majority of cases for both melanoma and papillary cancer (originating in the thyroid gland) harbor mutations affecting the B...

Geographers increasingly advocate placing research in the public arena and the creation of work that is useful for public policy makers. Existing literature indicates some approaches that have bearing on these goals, such as using participatory action research, clarifying positionality, and attending to the nature of discourse. It does not, however, generally offer empirical cases of addressing...

Unspecified DOI: 10.1017/S2045796012000376 Posted at the Zurich Open Repository and Archive, University of Zurich ZORA URL: http://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-64369 Published Version Originally published at: Hengartner, M P; Loch, A A; Lawson, F L; Guarniero, F B; Wang, Y P; Rössler, W; Gattaz, W F (2013). Public stigmatization of different mental disorders: a comprehensive attitude survey. Epidemiolog...

At least nine different criteria are relevant for decisions about public spending for health care. These include economic efficiency criteria (public goods, externalities, catastrophic cost, and cost-effectiveness), ethical reasons (poverty, horizontal and vertical equity, and the rule of rescue), and political considerations (especially demands by the populace). Sometimes one criterion should ...

Although public sector expatriates are becoming increasingly common, research on them is very limited. There is reason to believe that public sector expatriates cross-culturally adjust differently than private sector expatriates. This study investigated U.S. Department of Defense administrators assigned to U.S. embassies worldwide. Results showed that self efficacy, role clarity and role discre...