Expected Family Life Stages in Chaina Today

The Family of Today

son, a husband to his wife, a child to his parents, and a brother to a brother or sister. Small wonder that he sometimes gets his roles confused! He also has wider ties of kinship; and family and social networks become intertwined. We must be prepared, therefore, to find and to reconcile conflicts and inconsistencies. The professional worker who studies family interaction needs a scientific fra...

Parasitic infection in various stages life of cultured Acipenser persicus

The present study was conducted to evaluate the status of the parasite fauna in Acipenser persicus at different development stages, in order to find prevention protocols for parasitic diseases in this valuable species. For this purpose, sampling from each sex breeder, 10 egg samples, 5-day-old larvae (n = 20), 20-day-old larvae (n = 80) and fingerling of A. persicus (n = 60) r...

Is Life Extension Today a Faustian Bargain?

securitization of mortality risks in life annuities

insurers have in the past few decades faced longevity risks - the risk that annuitants survive more than expected - and therefore need a new approach to manage this new risk. in this dissertation we survey methods that hedge longevity risks. these methods use securitization to manage risk, so using modern financial and insurance pricing models, especially wang transform and actuarial concepts, ...

The experience of work-life balance across family-life stages in Switzerland: a cross-sectional questionnaire-based study

BACKGROUND The division of paid and unpaid labor in families continues to be highly gendered with men doing more paid work and women doing more unpaid care work. This is especially true for life stages with young children. Our study investigates the subjective experience of demands in the work and the private domain and the experience of work-life balance across family-life stages as a conseque...