BACKGROUND The study investigated the perspective of people with mobility limitations (PWML) in Zambia, firstly of their accessibility to public buildings and spaces, and secondly of how their capacity to participate in a preferred lifestyle has been affected. OBJECTIVES Firstly to provide insight into the participation experiences of PWML in the social, cultural, economic, political and civi...

The increasing incidence of obesity among children and young adults is of major concern to governments. This has led to the conduct of a range of current research to support the development of policies and programs to address this issue. These include addressing the question of the amount of time children spend on sedentary activities such as watching television and playing computer games; whet...

The study assessed gender participation and decision making role in economic activities using data collected from 120 respondents. The results revealed that female participation was frequent in crop postharvest activities and poultry management while male participation was frequent in crop pre-harvest operations only. Female respondents participated occasionally in home gardening, goat rearing,...

MyUniversity is a European project to foster the eParticipation in European higher education institutions and allow their members to influence the final decision making performed by the institutions’ authorities. A framework, composed of the two existing interactive tools Gov2Demoss and Pnyx.eVoting, and a methodology to manage eParticipation initiatives have been created for this purpose. This...

This study reports the impact of high sensitivity to early exchange in 11-grade, CSCL triads solving welland ill-structured problems in Newtonian Kinematics. Analysis of the evolution of participation inequity (PI) in group discussions suggested that participation levels tended to get locked-in relatively early on in the discussion. Similarly, high (low) quality member contributions made earlie...

This article defines the principle of adversariality and equality parties to trial in specified Action Strategy, main areas activity prosecutors, participation prosecutor economic process, court first instance, procedure for appeal, conclusion case, appeals cassation protests, work done on expanding prosecutor, statistics ensuring powers proceedings, recent changes additions legislation prosecu...

public participation in urban decision-making process is one of the main elements of a democratic system, which can help establish balance and harmony between different sections of the society. this paper mainly aims to study the effect of economic and social welfare on the degree of citizen participation in urban affairs. our main hypothesis emphasizes that there is a strong positive correlati...

The present study examines the soci-demographic profile and participation restriction level of the respondents and the association of gender socio-economic status (SES) and deformity status of the respondents with their respective participation restriction level. 245 leprosy patients have been selected for the present study. Socio-economic scale, participation scale and in-depth interviews were...