Commentary: Preston and mortality trends since the mid-1970s

Child Mortality Estimation: Estimating Sex Differences in Childhood Mortality since the 1970s

INTRODUCTION Producing estimates of infant (under age 1 y), child (age 1-4 y), and under-five (under age 5 y) mortality rates disaggregated by sex is complicated by problems with data quality and availability. Interpretation of sex differences requires nuanced analysis: girls have a biological advantage against many causes of death that may be eroded if they are disadvantaged in access to resou...

Change in European Societies since the 1970s

Cohabitation and marriage in Britain since the 1970s.

The article presents an overview of trends in cohabitation and marriage in Britain over several decades, using a consistent set of retrospective histories from the General Household Survey 1979-2007. Time-trends are presented, for men and women, of: the experience of different types of partnership by specified ages, the frequency of premarital cohabitation, the average time spent in different t...

Strengthening of Tropical Indian Ocean Teleconnection to the Northwest Pacific since the Mid-1970s: An Atmospheric GCM Study*

The correlation of northwest (NW) Pacific climate anomalies during summer with El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) in the preceding winter strengthens in the mid-1970s and remains high. This study investigates the hypothesis that the tropical Indian Ocean (TIO) response to ENSO is key to this interdecadal change, using a 21-member ensemble simulation with the Community Atmosphere Model, version...

Hojjat-al-Tafasir and Abdol Hojjat Balaghi’s commentary trends

‘Hojjat-al-Tafasir’ commentary is a ten volume commentary among Shiite contemporary commentaries. It has been written by an Iranian Persian scientist, Sayyed Abdol Hojjat Balaghi. Seven volumes assigns to commentary and the first two volumes is about general setting of descent of the Quran and its elements and tenth volume also belongs to complementary explanations. Sayyed Abdol Hoj...