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Fertility And Racial Stratification, Tukufu Zuberi

Tukufu Zuberi

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This article focuses on expanding the way in which racial differences are viewed in fertility research. First, I briefly outline three major perspectives on race: essentialism, assimilationism, and racial stratification. Second, I describe the racial differences in fertility and family formation from the racial stratification perspective.

I then return to the three perspectives on race and comment on them, taking into consideration fertility and family formation. Finally, I make several suggestions concerning the future of fertility research in the United States.

Communicative Chinese For Intermediate And Advanced Learners, Jianhua Bai, Janet Zhiqun, Juyu Sung

Jianhua Bai

No abstract provided.

Whither Corporatism?: Political Struggles And Policy Formation In The Ontario Training And Adjustment Board, Neil Bradford, M. Stevens

Neil Bradford

No abstract provided.

F-Words And Other (Malagasy) Nominals, Ileana Paul

Ileana Paul

No abstract provided.

Aspects Of Singapore In The International Economy, William Rieber

William Rieber

Note: full-text not available due to publisher restrictions. Link takes you to an external site where you can purchase the book or borrow it from a local library.

Understanding And Preventing Hiv Risk Behavior, Kathryn Morris, W. Swann

Kathryn A. Morris

No abstract provided.

The Active Marker And Nasals In Malagasy, Ileana Paul

Ileana Paul

No abstract provided.

Producing Training Videos For End-User Training, John Stey, Linda Walton

Linda J. Walton

PMID: 10157848

The Influence Of Peer Affiliation And Student Activities On Adolescent Drug Involvement, Jeanne Jenkins

Jeanne E. Jenkins

Examines the importance of students' academic performance level and extracurricular activities as predictors of drug involvement relative to peer influence. Affiliation with drug-using friends; Peer relationships as dominating influence on drug involvement.

“Reconstructing Reality: Interpreting The Airplane Disaster News Story, Ana Garner

Ana Garner

No abstract provided.

Natural Selection And Self-Organization: Dynamical Models As Clues To A New Evolutionary Synthesis, Bruce Weber, David Depew

David J Depew

The Darwinian concept of natural selection was conceived within a set of Newtonianbackground assumptions about systems dynamics. Mendelian genetics at first did not sit well with the gradualist assumptions of the Darwinian theory. Eventually, however. Mendelism and Darwinism were fused by reformulating natural selection in statistical terms. This reflected a shift to a more probabilistic set of background assumptions based upon Boltzmannian systems dynamics. Recent developments in molecular genetics and paleontology have put pressure on Darwinism once again. Current work on self-organizing systems may provide a stimulus not only for increased problem solving within the Darwinian tradition, especially with respect …

The Impact Of Feminism And Religious Involvement On Sentiment Toward God, Sherrie Steiner, Armand Mauss

Sherrie M Steiner

No abstract provided.

The Cost Of Fighting Mother Nature: News Coverage Of The 1993 Midwest Floods, Ana Garner

Ana Garner

No abstract provided.

Yodeling Of The Indiana Swiss Amish, Chad Thompson

Chad L Thompson Ph.D.

No abstract provided.

Oral History Of Nurse Educator Florence Downs, Ph.D., Rn, Faan, Pg, Principal Investigator, $900, Sigma Theta Tau, Xi Chapter (Margaret Mahon, Ph.D., Rn, Co-Principal Investigator), Julie Fairman

Julie A Fairman

No abstract provided.

The Political Economy Of Subsidized Day Care, Ted Bergstrom, Soren Blomquist

Ted C Bergstrom

This paper presents a theoretical model of political support for public provision of day care. In an economy where there are high taxes on wage income, selfish taxpayers with no children in the day care system may favor substantial public subsidies to day care because such subsidies induce mothers to join the labor force and hence pay income tax. Our model makes explicit quantitative predictions of the relation between the distribution of wages, theincome tax rate, and the subsidy rate for day care that maximizes net tax revenue from parents of small children. Applying parameter values from Sweden and the …

Social Neuroscience: Principles Of Psychophysiological Arousal And Response, Stephen Crites, John Cacioppo, Gary Berntson

Stephen L Crites Jr.

No abstract provided.

The Malagasy Genitive, Ileana Paul

Ileana Paul

No abstract provided.

A Review Of Epa Criminal, Civil And Administrative Enforcement Data: Are The Efforts Measurable Deterrents To Environmental Criminals, Debra Ross

Debra E. Ross

No abstract provided.

With Craft And Guile: Canada's Jimmy Mclarnin And The Business Of Welterweight Boxing During The Great Depression, Don Morrow

Donald Morrow

No abstract provided.

A Variational Inequality For Marketable Pollution Permits, Anna Nagurney, Kathy Dhanda

Kathy K Dhanda

No abstract provided.

Market Regulation And Multimarket Rivalry, Owen R. Phillips, Charles F. Mason

Charles F Mason

Multimarket contact between duopolists in an X and a Y market is modelled with a trigger strategy. We show that mildly restrictive price-cap regulation in the X market decreases Y market quantities; but restrictive caps in the X market have a positive impact on Y market outputs. Behavior in laboratory markets confirms these propositions. Regulation that lowers X market prices by a small amount results in a statistically significant reduction in Y outputs. When the regulated X market price is reduced to the Cournot/Nash level, Y market outputs rise to a point statistically indistinguishable from the unregulated quantities.

Principles Of Selves: The Rhetoric Of Introductory Textbooks In American Psychology, Jill G. Morawski

Jill G. Morawski

No abstract provided.

The Representation And Comparison Of Hypertext Structures Using Graph Theory, Jonathan Furner, David Ellis, Peter Willett

Jonathan Furner

Our concern in the present chapter is with the logical structure of hypertext databases, rather than with any functional aspect of the retrieval system. Specifically, we are interested in the methods that may be used (i) in the representation of such structure, and (ii) in the comparison of representations of different structures. In Section 3, we describe how principles developed in the fields of graph theory and similarity measurement may be applied to these tasks. Firstly, however, we should explain the particular reasons we have for concerning ourselves with these matters; to this end, we outline in Section 2 the …

Nonsubstitution Theorems For A Small Trading Country, Ted Bergstrom

Ted C Bergstrom

In 1951, Paul Samuelson showed that a surprisingly rich class of economies the production possibility frontier is a linear and even with neoclassical substitution possibilities, as outputs adjust, firms continue to use inputs and outputs in the same proportions. This model is often thought to be of limited practical value since it assumes that there is only one non-produced factor, and no joint production. The single factor assumption rules out economies in which agriculture and mining are important and the lack of joint production leaves no good way to handle durable capital goods. In this paper, I extend the Samuelson …

Slope Versus Elasticity And The Burden Of Taxation, Philip E. Graves, Robert L. Sexton, Dwight R. Lee

Robert L Sexton

There is no abstract for this brief paper.

Canadian Prime Ministers In The House Of Commons: Patterns Of Intervention, J. Crimmins, Paul W. Nesbitt-Larking

Paul W Nesbitt-Larking

No abstract provided.

Garbage, Recycling, And Illicit Burning Or Dumping, Thomas C. Kinnaman

Thomas C. Kinnaman

No abstract provided.

Market Regulation And Multimarket Rivalry, Owen R. Phillips, Charles F. Mason

Owen R Phillips

Multimarket contact between duopolists in an X and a Y market is modelled with a trigger strategy. We show that mildly restrictive price-cap regulation in the X market decreases Y market quantities; but restrictive caps in the X market have a positive impact on Y market outputs. Behavior in laboratory markets confirms these propositions. Regulation that lowers X market prices by a small amount results in a statistically significant reduction in Y outputs. When the regulated X market price is reduced to the Cournot/Nash level, Y market outputs rise to a point statistically indistinguishable from the unregulated quantities.

The Midwife Vrs The Vroedvrouw-The Troubled History Of Midwifery In The United States As Compared To The Stability Of Midwifery In The Netherlands., Kathleen A. Strub-Richards

Kathleen A Strub-Richards

The struggle for midwifery has been a long and arduous journey in the United States. Even today it is only legally recognized in sixteen states. This is a major contrast between the midwives in the Netherlands who have had complete autonomy over normal births since early in the 19th century. I am very interested in the history of midwifery in these two separate countries since I gave birth to a baby in Amsterdam and am about to give birth to one here in the United States. I plan to trace the history of midwifery in both the USA and Holland …