Background: Social and environmental factors are increasingly recognized for their ability to influence health outcomes at both individual and neighborhood scales in the developing urban world.Yet issues of spatial heterogeneity in these complex environments may obscure unique elements of neighborhood life that may be protective or harmful to human
Sustainability requires a combination of meaningful co-production of locally relevant solutions, synthesis of insights gained across regions, and increased cooperation between science, policy and practice.The Programme for Ecosystem Change and Society (PECS) has been coordinating Place-Based Social-Ecological Sustainability Research (PBSESR) across
Recent legislative approaches to improve the quality of rivers have resulted in the design and implementation of extensive and intensive monitoring programmes that are costly and time consuming.An important component of assessing the ecological status of a water body as required by the Water Framework Directive is characterising the hydromorphology
In this paper, we present an empirical investigation on various factors affecting ADSL service selection in city of Tehran, Iran.The proposed model of this paper uses a standard questionnaire and distributes it among randomly selected customers who have some experiences on internet based ADSL products.The study implements factor analysis as well as
The article deals with names given the 16–17th centuries ruling elite in order to study influence of the confessional and other factors on naming.The author focuses on the male names of Württemberg and Dresden rulers within period after the Augsburg Peace to the Thirty Years’ War.Concerning house of Württemberg, offspring of Duke Friedrich I