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Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=52589#.VJujVcCAM4 Author(s) Josu Ahedo Ruiz * Affiliation(s) UNIR—Universidad Internacional de La Rioja, Logrono, Spain . ABSTRACT The 20th anniversary of the international year of the family has led to the General Assembly of the United Nations to ask for a review of family policies adopted by each country to achieve three objectives: eradication of poverty, full employment and social integration. However, an X-ray of the situation of the family according to the data provided by The Word Family Map (2013) says that it has decreased the rate of birth and marriage, while it has increased the cohabitation and births in other than ...

Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=52288#.VI-PY8nQrzE Author(s) Somanta Chan 1* , Nophea Sasaki 1,2 Affiliation(s) 1 Department of Policy and Management Informatics, Graduate School of Applied Informatics, University of Hyogo, Kobe, Japan . 2 School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia . ABSTRACT Carbon emission reductions through reducing deforestation and forest degradation or REDD+ scheme of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change could not be achieved without understanding the drivers of deforestation and forest degradation. Until recently, only a handful of study has focused on such drivers. Cambodia ex...

Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=51003#.VFHVH1fHRK0 Author(s) Ezeakukwu E. Nsoedo Nsoedo * Affiliation(s) Damascus, MD, USA . ABSTRACT A lot of factors magnified the severity of the Ebola outbreak in the West African region. The various regional governments lack the rudimental health care structure and support equipment necessary to checkmate outbreak of infectious diseases like Ebola. The overriding factor that impacted the management of the spread of Ebola disease is the lack of leadership among the various national governments to adapt available health information in the formulation of their national health care policies that should have led the way in train...