Fertility change in five Latin American countries: A covariance analysis of birth intervals

Birth intervals and fertility decline in Africa “Birth intervals and fertility in Africa”

Instability of the Determinants of Birth Intervals in Ahvaz-Iran: A Structural Change Modelling Approach

Birth interval is one of the major determinants of the fertility rate. In this paper structural change approach is used to study the instabilities in the effects of different socio-economic factors on birth intervals of children with respect to couple's years of marriage factor in Ahvaz-Iran. A class of M-fluctuation tests for parameter instability is used and based on these tests different evi...

Deforestation and credit instability in Latin American countries Deforestation and credit instability in Latin American countries

This paper highlights the link between deforestation and credit instability in Latin American countries which exhibit strong deforestation rates as well as macroeconomic instability that is often rooted in the alternating episodes of credit booms and crunches. Pieces of explanation establishing a causal link between credit instability and deforestation driven by agricultural expansion are put f...

Validation of a Foot-and-mouth Disease Antibody Elisa in Five Latin American Countries M.s.sondahl, M.da

VALIDATION OF A FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE ANTIBODY ELISA IN FIVE LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES. The work plan consisted of using a liquid phase blocking ELISA test for the detection of antibodies to foot-andmouth disease virus (FMDV) using the following categories of sera: (A) Spot test 120 non-infected/non-vaccinated bovine sera diluted 1:32; (B) Titration test: 120 bovine sera from animals vaccinated...

a swot analysis of the english program of a bilingual school in iran

با توجه به جایگاه زبان انگلیسی به عنوان زبانی بین المللی و با در نظر گرفتن این واقعیت که دولت ها و مسئولان آموزش و پرورش در سراسر جهان در حال حاضر احساس نیاز به ایجاد موقعیتی برای کودکان جهت یاد گیری زبان انگلیسی درسنین پایین در مدارس دو زبانه می کنند، تحقیق حاضر با استفاده از مدل swot (قوت ها، ضعف ها، فرصتها و تهدیدها) سعی در ارزیابی مدرسه ای دو زبانه در ایران را دارد. جهت انجام این تحقیق در م...