Changes in Global Blocking Character in Recent Decades

Recent Global Changes in Geomatics Education

Geomatics, composed of the disciplines of geopositioning, mapping and the management of spatially oriented data by means of computers, has recently evolved as a new discipline from the integration of surveys and mapping (geodetic engineering) curricula, merged with the subjects of remote sensing and geographic information systems. Geomatics has become open to value added applications in many ot...

A Sociological Study of Iranian Women’s Role in Fictional Literature in the Recent Two Decades

Fictional literature has experiencedan increasing and stunning growthof women writers in the past two decades. In terms of quality and quantity, theincrease was to the extent that nowadays women’s names are mentioned sometimeseven more than men’s amongthe distinguished writers ofcontemporary Iranianliterature. On the other hand, these authors have often chosen the novel astheir main literary fo...

Investigating the Medical Training Staff Status of Iran in the Recent Two Decades

Marriage Changes in Iran in the Last Three Decades (1986-2016)

Abstract. Marriage, along with the mechanisms of realization and the order and arrangements related to it, is one of the most important social, cultural and biological phenomena that is both affected by the changes in society and influential on it. In recent decades, despite the relative continuity in some aspects, attitudes and behaviors related to marriage in Iran, the timing of marriage has ...

The First Global Recession in Decades

I use monthly data on industrial production to estimate the distribution of international business cycle correlations since the 1980’s, with focus on the current turmoil. The degree of international correlation in national business cycles since the end of 2008 is unprecedented in three decades. From 2008M12, an upward shift in the cross-sectional distribution of cycles synchronization is sizeab...