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A remarkable number of Iran's villages, in addition to the general earthquake hazard, are faced with other natural hazards including floods, landslides, and landslips. The village of Badleh Kuh is one example faced with a great danger of land thrust and flood. A wide range of field studies show that this village is greatly in danger of natural hazards and is located in a completely unstable area. The main aim of this paper is to define and assess the optimum approach and intervening method for this village.

The data of this paper are based on the main goals and project operations and are in line with securing and stabilizing life in the village of Badleh Kuh. The necessary data have been provided using two methods of attributive and field research, although the groundwork is put on field notations and experimental studies. The main map of this project was based on a scale of 1:50,000 which after conforming to aerial photos, the results were a scale of 1:20,000 and Landset satellite photos with separation power of 30 m and field withdrawal in the ArcGIS 9 program, resulting maps were processed and yielded at a scale of 1:25,000.

The paper finds that implementing the transfer plan of Badleh Kuh village to the new location necessitates joint and necessary cooperation between governmental and non‐governmental institutions and people; appointing local leaders to justify villagers for acceptance and better cooperation with the re‐occupancy plan; holding promotion, educational, and justification classes in order to improve knowledge and recognition of aims and components of the re‐occupancy plan; implementing the re‐occupancy plan in a stage‐by‐stage and systematic manner; providing a pilot and elaborative plan of the suggested location and predicting future developments of the village; carrying out land preparation operations and infrastructure projects; visiting the new location for approval may have a positive effect for villagers who might be opposed to the plan; inviting villagers' cooperation which are financially capable and abide seasonally in the village; regarding the fact that the village economy is greatly dependent on ranching, this issue must be kept in mind when separating housing units and levels of housing units; before implementing the plan, it is better to hold a seminar or conference with the presence of benefactors, executive authorities, and experts in the province in order to discuss the issue of transferring the village in danger; giving heed to the economic worries and assistance for increasing production and income rates and also giving variety to the villager's life quality will contribute to stable development; the aim of implementing the plan should not be just transfer of the village to another location, but must also comprise various cultural, social, and economic aims; securing the necessary credibility and acting upon commitments by the governmental and non‐governmental institutions may decrease consequences and have a significant effect on the plan's success; the plan must be contiguous and carried out in a specific time span and the incomplete implementation of the plan may decrease public cooperation.

This paper assesses and analyzes the optimum rehabilitation approaches for Badleh Kuh which will be relevant to other villages in Iran.

The purpose of this paper is to study the role of institutions (including civil law origin), financial deepening and degree of regime authority on growth rates in the Middle East and North Africa region.

This paper examines the implications of industrial firm-related and national factors for the determinants of economic growth using panel data through a fixed effect model.

The results reveal that English civil law origin and the establishment of the rule of law work with the development of financial institutions to increase economic growth in these economies; however, the democratization of the political institutions and foreign direct investment do not assist financial development in promoting economic growth.

Data covered is limited to four years.

The findings emphasize the prominence of overcoming institutional weaknesses and establishing transparent public policy governing businesses as a pre-requisite for successful universal integration in developing countries.

This paper contributes to the literature on the relationship between finance and economic growth in two aspects. First, the authors focus on the contribution of the institutional setting and its interaction with the financial development and how this affects economic growth of the manufacturing firms. Second, the authors explore the relationship between the role of institutions, governance, the country civil law origin and the economic growth.

This study examines how professional technicians' teaching styles and students' learning readiness affect cooking skills performance in culinary inheritance.

This study constructed a learning performance model from the situated cognition perspective using a sample of students at universities and vocational colleges on a professional technician course. A total of 4,000 questionnaires were mailed to students, of which 2,018 were returned.

Students regard technical professors as teaching experts and expect them to care for their learning, while professional technicians' knowledge sharing significantly increases students' learning performance. The findings provide insight into professional technicians' teaching styles for academics.

This study focuses on the situated cognition perspective and its correlation with students' learning performance and discusses professional technicians' knowledge sharing as an important influencing factor.

The Mongol invasion caused widespread destruction in many cities; this research studies the destruction course of cities after the Mongol invasion and their reconstruction during the reform period, the change that it brought to the cityscapes of Iranian cities and the difference between the urbanscape of the cities that flourished or were re-established after these destructions with the cities prior to them.

The method of research used is historical interpretation/analysis. The historical texts of pre-Mongolian Persia and texts from the Ilkhanid era are studied, references to the shapes and appearances of Iranian cityscapes are classified, and with the help of contemporary interpretations and existing physical evidence, the urbanscape of these two periods are redrawn and compared to each other.

The selection of scenic meadows to build the city, the presence of many gardens in the urban patterns and the construction of satellite towns around large cities have been the effects of the Mongol tradition of (Yurt) tent-dwelling on Iranian cities during the reforms. The declining population and the massive migration of artists together with the rethinking of the rulers made the existence of dense cities with multi-storey houses less likely. The tradition of pre-designing the city and buildings and designing open and right-angled pathways continued after the Mongol invasion.

The prevailing belief is that during the Mongol era, only the destruction of cities took place and the Mongols did not create any cities and had no influence on urban development. This research aims to challenge that.

This study presents a systematic literature review (SLR) of the interdisciplinary literature on drones in last-mile delivery (LMD) to extrapolate pertinent insights from and into the logistics management field.

Rooting their analytical categories in the LMD literature, the authors performed a deductive, theory refinement SLR on 307 interdisciplinary journal articles published during 2015–2022 to integrate this emergent phenomenon into the field.

The authors derived the potentials, challenges and solutions of drone deliveries in relation to 12 LMD criteria dispersed across four stakeholder groups: senders, receivers, regulators and societies. Relationships between these criteria were also identified.

This review contributes to logistics management by offering a current, nuanced and multifaceted discussion of drones' potential to improve the LMD process together with the challenges and solutions involved.

The authors provide logistics managers with a holistic roadmap to help them make informed decisions about adopting drones in their delivery systems. Regulators and society members also gain insights into the prospects, requirements and repercussions of drone deliveries.

This is one of the first SLRs on drone applications in LMD from a logistics management perspective.

The purpose of this paper is to explore perspectives of Somali refugees on female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and potential changes in these after migration.

Qualitative semi-structured interviews were conducted in Denver, Colorado, USA, with 13 Somali refugees. Thematic content analysis was used to analyze the data.

Change of perspectives regarding the support of FGM/C were noted among all participants, with most opposing infibulations, FGM/C type III, after migration but supporting Sunna, the cutting of the clitoris, FGM/C type I. Changes were prompted by education on FGM/C and resettling resulting in an awareness that infibulation is not a religious requirement nor undergone by all women. Cultural beliefs regarding the importance of virginity, purity and honor to the family underpinning the rationale of FGM/C were prevalent and some confusion in dealing with these cultural values was found. Women reported health care providers (HCPs) not being culturally prepared for women with FGM/C.

Despite limitations to the study, findings indicate the complex process of migration and acculturation, leaving communities with cultural values in a context where these are not accepted. More research and discussion with the Somali immigrant community is required to better understand the practice of FGM/C after immigration, and how to deal with these cultural values.

Findings suggest some girls may still be at risk of some types of FGM/C after migration. Public health professionals, social and immigration workers should be aware of a potential risk. HCPs should prepare for caring for women with FGM/C.