there are some barriers for rangers to take part in range plan projects andevaluation. their participation is very useful for range managers to plan and provide solutionsfor solving problems. this study aims at comparing barriers of participating from rangers andexperts point of view in lar moor rangelands, tehran, iran. in this research, data werecollected based on documentation-library and fi...

abstract: with the changes that globalization created in political, economic, cultural and social areas, undoubtedly it influences the public administration in any country. the aim of this study is to examine the effects of globalization on public administration in iran from the viewpoints of public administration experts. in terms of purpose, this study is an applied research; in terms of appr...

integrated rice-fish farming requires very little input and provides off season employment tofarm labors. it has been observed that combination of rice and fish farming is mutuallybeneficial. although, in implementation, it can be faced with several challenges and it demandssome requirements. so, this study was conducted to identify challenges and requirements ofintegrated rice-fish farming in ...

Death brokering refers to the activities of medical authorities to render individual deaths culturally meaningful. Social scientists and others agree that mortality provokes existential ambiguity in modern life requiring cultural coping mechanisms. In contemporary Western societies, medical professionals have sequestered the dying in institutions, and have classified the causes of death to expl...

During the process of the transformation and innovation of traditional cultural and localized characteristics, we can make old things fashionable through creative design. Therefore, the main purpose of this study is to investigate the effectiveness evaluation on cultural creative design of consumers' perception and preference. This study was implemented in two phases. First, we undertook a prel...

Cultural Heritage encompasses a set of traditions and commodities inherited from our ancestors, and it is vital to convey and preserve them for the next generation. Cultural Multimedia applications and Serious Games form an important pedagogical and didactic medium, mainly for a young demography, which can learn while playing. In this paper is presented an innovative platform, named EI2VA (Engi...

Advances in text analysis, particularly the ability to extract network based information from texts, is enabling researches to conduct detailed socio-cultural ethnographies rapidly by retrieving characteristic descriptions from texts and fusing the results from varied sources. We describe this process and illustrate it in the context of conflict in the Sudan. We show how network information can...

The authors argue that commonly used ranking and rating methods of value surveys may have low validity in cross-cultural value comparisons because participants' reports about values can be affected by factors such as cultural differences in the meaning of particular value terms as well as the possibility that some value judgments are based on social comparison or deprivation rather than on any ...