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Living Arrangements Of Older Adults In The Developing World: An Analysis Of Dhs Household Surveys, John Bongaarts, Zachary Zimmer

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

Using data from Demographic and Health Surveys, this study examines living arrangements of older adults in 43 developing countries and compares patterns by gender, world regions, and macro-level measures of socioeconomic development. Indicators include household size, headship, relationship to head, and coresidence with spouse, children, and others. Unweighted regional averages and OLS regressions determine whether variations exist. Average household sizes are large, but a substantially higher proportion of elderly adults live alone than do individuals in other age groups. Females are more likely than males to live alone and are less likely to live with a spouse or to head …

The Reporting Of Sensitive Behavior Among Adolescents: A Methodological Experiment In Kenya, Barbara Mensch, Paul C. Hewett, Annabel Erulkar

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

This paper assesses whether audio computer-assisted self-interviewing (audio-CASI), a technique designed in the United States to collect data on sensitive behaviors, is a feasible method of survey data collection in a developing-country setting and whether it produces more valid reporting of sexual activity and related behaviors than traditional survey methods. The analysis is based on interviews with nearly 4,400 unmarried adolescents aged 15-21 in Nyeri, a rural district of Kenya that was selected because previous research had indicated a wide discrepancy in the reporting of premarital sexual behavior between boys and girls. The study was based on a quasi-experimental design …

The End Of The Fertility Transition In The Developed World, John Bongaarts

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

By the late 1990s fertility in the developed world had declined to 1.6 births per woman, a level substantially lower than projected in the 1980s. This study examines recent trends and patterns in fertility in the developed world with particular emphasis on the effects and implications of changes in the timing of childbearing. The main objective is to demonstrate that while fertility in these countries is indeed low, women’s childbearing levels are not as low as period measures such as the total fertility rate suggest. To obtain a full understanding of the various dimensions of fertility change, several indicators are …

Social Networks And Contraceptive Dynamics In Southern Ghana, Mark R. Montgomery, Gebre-Egziabher Kiros, Dominic K. Agyeman, John B. Casterline, Peter Aglobitse, Paul C. Hewett

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

There is accumulating evidence that social diffusion processes affect the pace of the adoption of modern contraception in societies undergoing fertility transition. In settings where mortality has declined and many other social and economic changes are underway, decisions about contraception are fraught with uncertainty and risk. In such circumstances, couples may rely on other persons for information and guidance. In this paper, we examine the influence of informal social networks on the contraceptive behavior of reproductive-age women, using longitudinal data collected in six communities in southern Ghana. Our results confirm the hypothesis that adoption of modern contraception is strongly affected …

Poverty And Public Services In Developing-Country Cities, Paul C. Hewett, Mark R. Montgomery

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

This paper examines the availability of basic public services such as water supply and sanitation in the cities and towns of developing countries, using data drawn from the Demographic and Health Surveys. Inadequate provision of public services can compromise health, hinder economic growth, and stymie efforts to reduce poverty. We find that wide rural-urban gaps remain in service delivery, and that smaller cities-where about half of urban residents live-are notably under-served by comparison with larger cities.

Sola No Eres Nada, Juntas Flotamos: El Movimiento Manuela Ramos, Judith Bruce, Debbie Rogow

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

This edition of Quality/Calidad/Qualité discusses the Manuela Ramos Movement and its efforts to improve women’s health and well-being through a range of empowerment strategies in rural Peru. A joint project with USAID, named Reprosalud, demonstrates how combining the resources of an international donor with local women’s organizations allows a more organic and multifaceted family planning program to develop. Such programs can produce impressive improvements on a number of indicators, including contraceptive use.

American "Road Rage": A Scary And Tangled Cultural-Legal Pastiche, Robert F. Blomquist

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction

II. Popular Media Accounts ... A. Early Stories: 1988–1995 … B. Later Stories: 1996–2000 ... 1. 1996 … 2. 1997 … 3. 1998 … 4. 1999 … 5. 2000

III. Legal Media Accounts

IV. Lawyerly Deployment

A. Law Reviews ... 1. 1998 … 2. 1999 … 3. 2000 … B. Legislative Materials ... 1. Congressional Road Rage Hearings: Opening Statements by Committee Members ... 2. Congressional Road Rage Hearings: Key Witness Testimony ... C. Judicial Opinions ... 1. 1997 … 2. 1998 … 3. 1999 … 4. 2000

V. Conclusion

American Indian Sovereignty And Naturalization: It's A Race Thing, John Rockwell Snowden, Wayne Tyndall, David Smith

Nebraska Law Review

I. A Sketch of Naturalization in the United States ... A. The Historical Background of Naturalization in the United States ... 1. English Roots: The Theory of Natural Allegiance ... 2. The Colonial Experience: The Theory of Volitional Allegiance Emerges ... 3. Defining the Qualifications for Naturalization after Independence ... B. Current Naturalization Criteria ... C. Values and Justifications of the Naturalization Process ... 1. The Concepts of Ascription and Consent ... 2. Normative Justifications of the Naturalization Process

II. Indigenous Naturalization ... A. Tribal Sovereignty and "Membership Selection": Blood Quantum as Fiction Among the Sovereign Umoⁿho^{n …}

My Will Be Done: Accommodating The Erring And The Atypical Testator, Pamela R. Champine

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction

II. Discerning Testamentary Intent ... A. Alternative Approaches to Reformation ... 1. Historic Approach ... 2. Fellows Approach ... 3. Third Restatement Approach ... B. Seven Classic Mistake Cases ... 1. Case 1: The Crossed Will Execution—An Unequivocal Error ... 2. Case 2: The Bequest Void at Execution—Another Unequivocal Error ... 3. Case 3: Tax Mistakes—Red Apples, Green Apples, and Oranges ... 4. Case 4: The Scrivener's Error—Over-Reliance on Drafters' Testimony ... 5. Case 5: Uniquely Compelling Circumstantial Evidence-The Impotence of a Broad Standard to Assure Relief ... 6. Case 6: Undisposed of Property—The Power of the Family …

The Dynamics Of Daubert: Methodology, Conclusions, And Fit In Statistical And Econometric Studies, David H. Kaye

Faculty Scholarship

This paper reviews the development of the law governing the admissibility of statistical studies. It analyzes the leading cases on scientific evidence and suggests that both the "reliability" and the "general acceptance" standards raise two major difficulties - the "boundary problem" of identifying the type of evidence that warrants careful screening and the "usurpation problem" of keeping the trial judge from closing the gate on evidence that should be left for the jury to assess.

The paper proposes partial solutions to these problems, and it applies them to statistical and econometric proof, particularly in the context of a recent antitrust …

E-Commerce And The Airline Passenger, Ruwantissa Abeyratne

Journal of Air Law and Commerce

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Recent Developments In Aviation Liability Law, Blanca I. Rodriguez

Journal of Air Law and Commerce

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The Low Above-Zero Temperature Effect In The Zone Of Roots On Nitrate Reductase Activity In Pea Organs In The Process Of Vegetating, G. G. Vasilieva, N. V. Mironova, A. K. Glyanko

Turkish Journal of Botany

Experiments with pea (Pisum sativum L.) cv. Marat) in a phytotron chamber showed that the process of nitrate assimilation in pea organs depends on temperature in the zone of the roots and on the phase of development of the plants. The potential of tissues of different organs for nitrate reduction was compared to the amount of nitrates which they accumalated. A decrease in nitrate reductase activity during certain phases of development is assumed to be related to the process of formation and functioning of nodules.

Repetitive Subtidal-To-Coastal Sabkha Cycles From A Lower-Middle Miocene Marine Sequence, Eastern Sivas Basin, Faruk Ocakoğlu

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

In the study area, southeast of Zara in the Sivas Basin, the Lower-Middle Miocene marine Karacaören Formation consists of a succession of marine sedimentary rocks deposited within two trangressive-regressive cycles. The present study focuses on the facies characteristics, cyclic nature, and significance of the basin-wide distribution of a 100-m-thick gypsiferous sedimentary package overlying an otherwise transgressive segment of the lower sequence, within a marine setting. The typical lithologic expression of the studied sedimentary interval comprises generally fossiliferous mudstones, rare algal limestones and nodular gypsum. Detailed sedimentological observations, combined with palaeontological evidence, indicate that the mudstone intervals were deposited in a …

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Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

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Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

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Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

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Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

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Turkish Journal of Veterinary & Animal Sciences

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Haunting The Corpus Delicti: Rafael Campo’S What The Body Told And Wallace Stevens’ (Modernist) Body, LáZaro Lima

Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications

What the Body Told You, a volume of poems by the Cuban-American poet Rafael Campo (b. 1964), addresses how formal poetry may give form to loss and memory in the age of AIDS by structuring an exchange between the literary institutions that privilege poetry as a representational medium and the inability of language adequately to account for and remember loss. Campo’s What the Body Told haunts modernism’s legacy by construing it as the corpus delicti, literally the body of the crime, where “crime” is conceived as the insufficiency of modernist aesthetic agencies to give evidence of the “truth” …

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Turkish Journal of Zoology

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Turkish Journal of Zoology

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2001-2002 Prentice Hall Accounting Faculty Directory, James R. Hasselback

Individual and Corporate Publications

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Turkish Journal of Mathematics

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Formula For The Highly Regularized Trace Of The Sturm-Liouville Operator With Unbounded Operator Coefficients Having Singularity, İnci̇ Albayrak, Oya Baykal, Erdal Gül

Turkish Journal of Mathematics

In this work, a formula for the n^{th} regularized trace of the Sturm-Liouville operator with unbounded operator coefficients having singularity is obtained

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Turkish Journal of Mathematics

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Turkish Journal of Mathematics

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Absolutely Representing Systems Of Exponentials In The Spaces Of Infinitely-Differentiable Functions And Extendability In The Sense Of Whitney, Yu. F. Korobeinik

Turkish Journal of Mathematics

Let Q be a compactum in~\mathbb{R}^p, p\geqslant1, such that int Q\neq\varnothing and Q=\overline{ int Q}. Denote by C^{\infty}[Q] the space of functions from C^{\infty}( int Q) uniformly continuous in int Q together with all their partial derivatives. The conditions of the existence of absolutely representing systems of exponentials with purely imaginary exponents in the space C^{\infty}[Q] and some of its subspaces of Denjoy--Carleman type are investigated. It is also proved under rather general assumptions that there is no such absolutely representing systems in the space E(G)=\operatornamewithlimits{proj}\limits_ {\overleftarrow {Q\in \mathcal{F}_G}}E[Q] where G is an arbitrary open set in~\mathbb{R}^p, E[Q] is C^{\infty}[Q] …

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Turkish Journal of Mathematics

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White Paper: Independence Rules Modernization Project, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Professional Ethics Executive Committee

AICPA Committees

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