The objectives of this dissertation are to explain the production behavior of OPEC's member countries from 1971 to 1987 and to determine whether there was any structural shift in OPEC's production behavior after the organization attempted to assign a quota to each member. This s…
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The coastal plain called Tihama forms the principal agricultural zone which makes Jizan one of the main agricultural regions in the Arabian Peninsula. The Saudi government has keenly appreciated this wealth of Jizan and explored developing its potential in the mid-1940's. Howeve…
This dissertation documents the process used to quantify the relationship between traffic speed and roadway surface conditions. To estimate the effect of pavement roughness on traffic speed, substantial amounts of speed data were collected during day and night operations on care…
Post World War II has witnessed an ever-increasing trend in metropolitan concentration in both developed and developing nations. The post-industrial western economies have gone through an evolutionary process of urban concentration, deconcentration, and perhaps even reconcentrat…
Growth monitoring refers to the process of periodically weighing (or in some other way measuring growth) as a means of assessing the nutritional/health status of children. The information generated can be used for a variety of purposes including targeting of nutrition and health…
Environmentalists, both academics and practitioners, tend to deal with intergenerational problems of a global and rural nature, often neglecting the immediate environmental conditions that especially affect the current generation of urban poor. Much of the writings and actions o…
This thesis examines Canadian and Indonesian land use legislation to determine the extent to which each addresses, or could address, environmental concerns. It shows that both jurisdictions do presently provide some measure of protection, with Canadian planning statutes containi…
This study was designed to evaluate the educational and planning objectives of dental hygiene programs in Israel. The investigation attempted to determine: (1) if public access to preventive services has been increased; (2) if the structure of the curriculum reflects patterns in…
From 1971 to 1983, a significant upward trend occurred in the number of vehicles and, unfortunately, a dramatic increase in the number of road traffic accidents. In recent years, " (r) oad traffic accidents represent the second major medical problem in Saudi Arabia, second only …
A major housing problem facing the city of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, is not a housing stock shortage but rather the low design quality of the majority of new private-sector housing. This study explores the issues of poor design quality by examining the interactions among architects,…
This study investigates the characteristics of the City of Arriyadh's urban structure, and the determinants of residential development location in light of the monocentric model of urban structure and residential location. The Real Estate Development Fund, a major source of hous…
The people of Saudi Arabia are going through many changes. As this society passes from a rather provincial, traditionally oriented form of social organization to a more sophisticated, cosmopolitan urban style, familism values and familial behaviors are being modified. With the i…
This is a study of the determinants of family migration in a developing country. The objectives are twofold: (1) to analyze internal migration and migration differentials between migrant and non-migrant families; and (2) to analyze the influence of individual, household, and com…
The government of Egypt is conducting a number of improvement programs on the nation's irrigation system for the purpose of increasing agricultural productivity. One aspect of this effort is to work with farmers to better manage the system at the farm canal (mesqa) level of oper…
This thesis documents the consequences of foreign manufacturing investment decisions for regional development in Indonesia. Based on unpublished tabulations prepared from the 1982 Annual Survey of Large and Medium Scale Manufacturing Firms by the Central Bureau of Statistics (BP…
The study analyzes the process of urbanization in Iran during the period 1900-1976. More specifically, it focuses on the spatial implications of sectoral changes of employment in the country during 1956-1976. The empirical part of the study uses a recent formulation of the shift…
The housing conditions of the poor and low-income population of Iranian cities are characterized by ugliness, poor sanitation, overcrowding of buildings on the land or of people within the dwellings. The shortage of housing in Iran is being associated with political, economic, s…