Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: bahare fallahi Author-Name-First: bahare Author-Name-Last: fallahi Author-Email: fallahi.bahare@yahoo.com Author-Workplace-Name: university Putra Malaysia Title: Assessment of housing satisfaction among Iranian immigrant?s homeowners in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Abstract: This study evaluated housing satisfaction of Iranian immigrants homeowners in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, with twenty eight variables grouped into two components ?dwelling features and dwelling services. Findings from the study indicate that the residents are satisfied with housing. Socio economic characteristics of the residents such as length of time have been in Malaysia, number of bed rooms, price of residential unit, and total earned income earner are correlated with housing satisfaction, whereas age, size of household, and number of children, are not correlated with housing satisfaction. A Multiple Linear Regression (MLR) model has been estimated for the study and the model provides 57% explanations to determine housing satisfaction. The high beta coefficients of the model propose that housing satisfaction of Iranian immigrant?s homeowners can be enhanced through improving the dwelling features and dwelling services. Similarly, the future dwelling should as well consider their space, design and other constructions in order to improve quality of life of the Iranian immigrant?s homeowners in the Malaysia. The main goal of this study to examine the key factors whose developments can improve housing satisfaction level of the inhabitants. Classification-JEL: Keywords: Housing satisfaction, Dwelling features, Dwelling service, Socio- economic characteristic. Journal: International Journal of Social Sciences Pages: 1-16 Volume: 7 Issue: 2 Year: 2018 Month: September File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-social-sciences/publication-detail-1812 File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-social-sciences/publication-detail-1812?download=1 Handle: RePEc:sek:jijoss:v:7:y:2018:i:2:p:1-16 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jahangir Jahangiri Author-Name-First: Jahangir Author-Name-Last: Jahangiri Author-Email: jjahangiri@gmail.com Author-Workplace-Name: Shiraz University Author-Name: Mohammad Hassan Heidarian Author-Name-First: Mohammad Hassan Author-Name-Last: Heidarian Author-Email: mohammadhassanheidarian@gmail.com Author-Workplace-Name: Shiraz University Author-Name: Mohammad Taghi Iman Author-Name-First: Mohammad Taghi Author-Name-Last: Iman Author-Email: iman@shirazu.ac.ir Author-Workplace-Name: Shiraz University Title: Investigating Work Ethic and its pertinent Factors: a Cross-sectional Study in Shiraz, Iran Abstract: The main purpose of this paper is to study socio-cultural and economic factors related to work ethic. Accordingly the first step of the study was to test and analyze the subject of the research. Then the national and international researches related to the subject were studied and some of them were reported. Subsequently, various sociological theories were reviewed and, finally, Weber's theory was chosen as the theoretical framework of the research. The statistical population of the study consisted of nurses working in private and public hospitals of the Shiraz for which 390 individuals were selected as the study sample through multi-stage cluster sampling method. A questionnaire was used for data collection. The validity of the questionnaire was verified through the validity of the translation and facial validity, and its reliability was confirmed by Cronbach's alpha coefficient. The data gathered by questionnaires were analyzed using SPSS. After analyzing the data and testing the hypotheses, the findings of the research were presented in descriptive and inferential sections. The descriptive findings of the research indicate that the work ethic has been at a low level for 2.1% of the respondents, at a medium level for 69.2% of the respondents, and at a high level for 28.7% of the respondents. In the present study, 14 hypotheses were developed, where 4 hypotheses were confirmed via one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) after analyzing the hypothesis. The findings in this section of the data analysis showed that 4 variable, including place of birth, social class, media consumption, and religious identity have a significant relationship with work ethic. In addition, the results of multivariate regression analysis showed that four variables, i.e. religious identity, media consumption, place of birth, and work history, with 15.6, 7.5, 1.3, and 1 percent, respectively, predict 25.4% of the total work ethic changes. The obtained results are analyzed and discussed in final section of the study. Classification-JEL: A13, C30, C83 Keywords: ethic, work ethic, work, nurses, hospital, Shiraz. Journal: International Journal of Social Sciences Pages: 17-35 Volume: 7 Issue: 2 Year: 2018 Month: September File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-social-sciences/publication-detail-6981 File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-social-sciences/publication-detail-6981?download=2 Handle: RePEc:sek:jijoss:v:7:y:2018:i:2:p:17-35 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Rui Kang Author-Name-First: Rui Author-Name-Last: Kang Author-Email: kangruideemail@126.com Author-Workplace-Name: School of Labour Economics, Capital University of Economics and Business Author-Name: George Leeson Author-Name-First: George Author-Name-Last: Leeson Author-Email: george.leeson@ageing.ox.ac.uk Author-Workplace-Name: Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, University of Oxford Author-Name: Kenneth Howse Author-Name-First: Kenneth Author-Name-Last: Howse Author-Email: kenneth.howse@ageing.ox.ac.uk Author-Workplace-Name: Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, University of Oxford Title: DOES USER SATISFACTION WITH HOME-BASED SERVICES INFLUENCE OLDER PEOPLE?S QUALITY OF LIFE? ??EVIDENCE FROM THE SURVEY IN BEIJING Abstract: There is high need for the Chinese government to build a perfect welfare system to cope with the challenge of population ageing at this stage. The goal of this paper is to achieve policy implications how to provide a better life for older people from the perspective of care and service of high quality. We outline the relationship between current quality of life (QOL) of older people in Beijing and their satisfaction with home-based services. We make the hypothesis that older people?s QOL is positively correlated with user satisfaction with home-based services. Essentially, older people who are satisfied with the home-based services are more likely to achieve a high QOL. The outcome from multiple regression analyses shows the trend that QOL is positively influenced by user satisfaction with the personal care services. We also find that the above services are the substitution for family support with regards to the QOL, which depends on the number of recipient?s children and their household expenditure per person. However, there is no relationship found between the QOL and satisfaction with the housekeeping services. The study supports the importance of providing health and diagnosed services as well as spiritual support in order to ensure high quality of older people?s rest lives. At the same time, flexible and hierarchical public funding or subsidies should be better targeted for the older people from different family backgrounds. Classification-JEL: I38, J14, J16 Keywords: older people, QOL, satisfaction, personal care Journal: International Journal of Social Sciences Pages: 36-61 Volume: 7 Issue: 2 Year: 2018 Month: September File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-social-sciences/publication-detail-1824 File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-social-sciences/publication-detail-1824?download=3 Handle: RePEc:sek:jijoss:v:7:y:2018:i:2:p:36-61 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Dorothy S. McClellan Author-Name-First: Dorothy S. Author-Name-Last: McClellan Author-Email: dorothy.mcclellan@tamucc.edu Author-Workplace-Name: Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Author-Name: Nikola Knez Author-Name-First: Nikola Author-Name-Last: Knez Author-Email: nikolaknez@ifilms-fx.com Author-Workplace-Name: 21st Century Society for Human Rights & Education Title: Post-World War II Forced Repatriations to Yugoslavia: Genocide's Legacy for Democratic Nation Building Abstract: This paper examines the long-term challenges to democratic nation building that have resulted from the forced repatriation of hundreds of thousands of Croatian civilians and military personnel to Yugoslavia at the end of World War II. Data suggest that violations of the Geneva Conventions led to the death of many of these asylum seekers at the hands of Tito's Partisans in death marches and mass executions. Through analysis of historical documents, newly released evidence of mass graves, and interviews with survivors/witnesses, confessed perpetrators, military officials and scholars, we examine the atrocities in the context of international human rights law, with discussion of subsequent promulgation of protocols for the protection of refugees, asylum seekers, and prisoners of war from crimes against humanity and genocide. Classification-JEL: K33, K42, D74 Keywords: forced repatriation, genocide, international law, democracy, violations of international law, Geneva Conventions, asylum seekers, communist crimes, Yugoslavia, human rights, prisoners of war Journal: International Journal of Social Sciences Pages: 62-91 Volume: 7 Issue: 2 Year: 2018 Month: September File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-social-sciences/publication-detail-6946 File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-social-sciences/publication-detail-6946?download=4 Handle: RePEc:sek:jijoss:v:7:y:2018:i:2:p:62-91 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Lubomir Popov Author-Name-First: Lubomir Author-Name-Last: Popov Author-Email: Lspopov@bgsu.edu Author-Workplace-Name: Bowling Green State University Author-Name: Franklin Goza Author-Name-First: Franklin Author-Name-Last: Goza Author-Email: gozaf@uww.edu Author-Workplace-Name: University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Title: Philosophical Foundations and Metatheoretical Considerations for Creating Frameworks to Collect Facility Programming Information Abstract: This study attempts to provide theoretical guidance to scholars who collect facility programming data. To facilitate the organization of their efforts and to enable them to become more efficient data collectors, we begin by developing philosophical and metatheoretical foundations that help create concrete theoretical levels and the related models, research designs, and protocols required for efficient data collection. Activity Theory and systems thinking permit the elaboration of the concept of activity within a dynamic and hierarchical organization. Specifically, sociospatial reality is viewed as a continuum starting with building users moving toward their goals, followed by activities for achieving these goals, identifying user needs that emerge in the process of these activities, and concluding with built environment structures that provide for and satisfy these needs. Because facility programming situations and projects are very different, we offer general guidelines intended to assist programmers develop both project specific frameworks and research designs.Together these methodological foundations ground our framework in the reality of sociospatial relationships and provide guidelines for collecting relevant and usable information for supporting decision making during the facility programming design process. Classification-JEL: R00 Keywords: facility programming, philosophy of programming, philosophical foundations of programmatic research, methodology of programmatic research, framework building Journal: International Journal of Social Sciences Pages: 92-108 Volume: 7 Issue: 2 Year: 2018 Month: September File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-social-sciences/publication-detail-6988 File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-social-sciences/publication-detail-6988?download=5 Handle: RePEc:sek:jijoss:v:7:y:2018:i:2:p:92-108 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Chisako Yamamoto Author-Name-First: Chisako Author-Name-Last: Yamamoto Author-Email: chisako.yamamoto@sums.ac.jp Author-Workplace-Name: Shonan University of Medical Sciences, JAPAN Author-Name: Tanji Hoshi Author-Name-First: Tanji Author-Name-Last: Hoshi Author-Email: star@onyx.dti.ne.jp Author-Workplace-Name: Tokyo Metropolitan University Title: Lifestyle and dietary factors associating with dementia status in the community-dwelling elderly aged 65 and older in a suburban town of Tokyo Abstract: Background: Dementia is a priority health issue worldwide. Building dementia-friendly communities was discussed at the 32nd International Conference of Alzheimer?s Disease International in April 2017 and followed in May by the adoption of Global Action Plan on the Public Health Response to Dementia by the 70th World Health Assembly (WHO). An unhealthy lifestyle and diet are likely to cause many diseases. Objectives: This study aims to clarify lifestyle and dietary factors associating with dementia status in the community-dwelling elderly aged 65 and older in a suburban town of Tokyo and to clarify gender differences in health behavior. Methods: Self-administered questionnaires were mailed to 2,069 elderly people in February 2004 and 1,538 responses were returned by addressees or proxies (response rate; 74.3%). Institutionalized ones were excluded. Analysis subjects were comprised of 52 people with dementia (PWD), 173 people with probable dementia (PPD) and 1,211 cognitively intact people (CIP). Mean age (sd) was 74.03 (6.55) in men and 75.56 (7.27) in women. Descriptive statistics, a chi-square, Kruskal-Wallis and Mann-Whitney U tests and Bonferroni?s multiple comparisons were performed in men and women, respectively. Significance was set at 0.05 (0.017 after Bonferroni correction). Lifestyle items included smoking, alcohol drinking, cooking, breakfast eating, walking/exercise, sleep duration per day including nap, going out, daytime lying duration in bed and the number of hobbies. Dietary items included meat/poultry, soybean products, eggs, oily fish, dairy products, fruits, vegetables, salted fish, deep-/stir-fried food, miso soup/soup, pickled ume plums and pickled vegetables. Results: Significant differences were detected in most lifestyle items except smoking and breakfast eating in men and women. As for dietary items, a significant difference was found only in pickled vegetables in men, however, in women significant differences were detected in items except eggs, salted fish, heavily seasoned food and pickled ume plums. Conclusion: Significant differences in lifestyle were detected in the same items in the CIP men and women. Exercise, social and mental activities like going out and hobbies, moderate alcohol drinking and dietary items above are recommended to prevent or delay the onset of dementia by Alzheimer?s Society. The results of this study showed the same implications. As for dietary items, significant differences were observed in nine out of 13 items in women, while only one item was clarified in men. Health behavior seems to be better in women. Classification-JEL: I10, I18, I19 Keywords: The community-dwelling elderly aged 65 and older, lifestyle and dietary habits, dementia status, risk reduction, health behavior, survey data. Journal: International Journal of Social Sciences Pages: 109-133 Volume: 7 Issue: 2 Year: 2018 Month: September File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-social-sciences/publication-detail-6901 File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-social-sciences/publication-detail-6901?download=6 Handle: RePEc:sek:jijoss:v:7:y:2018:i:2:p:109-133