This paper examines the dimensions of social capital in Tehran. The data were collected by means of questionnaire. 2400 residents of Tehran were selected by stratified sampling who were over 15 years old. The theories of scholars such as Pierre Bourdieu, James Coleman, and Robert Putnam in definition of social capital are applied. Social capital has been studied in five aspects including associ...

Abstract In Gaum and Others v. Van Rensburg NO , the South African High Court held view that a decision taken by Synod of Dutch Reformed Church, which included condition life celibacy for gays lesbians in order to be ordained as ministers church, along with prohibition against solemnizing same-sex civil unions resulted violation right equality unfair discrimination based on sexual orientation h...

Fiber volleys (FVs) from the stratum lucidum of rat hippocampal area CA3 were recorded extracellularly from in vitro slices in the presence of 10 mM kynurenic acid. In agreement with previous work, bulk stimulation of the dentate gyrus (DG) near the hilar border leads to an asynchronous FV. Transection of the stratum lucidum between the DG stimulation site and the CA3 recording site reduced or ...

Songbirds learn to sing in a two stage process. First, the bird forms a sensory template by listening to and memorizing its father's song. Second, the bird practices singing and learns to match its song to the memorized template. Two experimentally well-supported hypotheses locate song sequence generation in nucleus HVc, and the sensory template in the anterior forebrain pathway (AFP). However,...

BACKGROUND Computational discovery is playing an ever-greater role in supporting the processes of knowledge synthesis. A significant proportion of the more than 18 million manuscripts indexed in the PubMed database describe infectious disease syndromes and various infectious agents. This study is the first attempt to integrate online repositories of text-based publications and microbial genome ...

A host of studies on wealth inequality in pre-industrial Europe has recently been published. Out these, a narrative emerges rising context emerging markets and growing state taxation, punctuated by calamities. By surveying the available material, this article highlights an element that is less systematically discussed literature: role associational organizations. They developed regressive forms...