Fertility in Real Generations of Russian Women: Trends and Regional Differences

on translation of politeness strategies in dialogues involving female characters in translations and retranslations of novels translated before and after the islamic revolution of iran and their effects on the image of women: a polysystem theory approach

abstract reception environment has considerable effects on accepting a translation. as the expectations of a target culture and its values and needs change throughout history, its criteria for accepting a translation or rejecting it will change accordingly (gentzler, 2001). the expectations of iran, as the reception environment in the present study, have changed after the islamic revolution. i...

Childbearing differences among three generations of U.S. women.

Each year a generation of women is born who will share similar sociohistorical experiences before and throughout their reproductive lives. These unique experiences can produce similar childbearing patterns in terms of the average number of children ever born--whether mothers are younger or older when their first birth occurs and the proportion of women who do not have children--that can differ ...

Regional Economic Differences in Iran Theory and Evidence

Increasing concern over the regional dimensions of national economic planning since 1970s, has constituted appropriate baselines for scientific analysis of regional differences The Iranian planning views in the pre and post revolution era have been examined in this article, based on both theoretical and applied study of regional differences. Then the types and degrees of convergency and/or dive...

Regional Differences and Temporal Trends in Semen Quality

Correlations in fertility across generations: can low fertility persist?

Correlations in family size across generations could have a major influence on human population size in the future. Empirical studies have shown that the associations between the fertility of parents and the fertility of children are substantial and growing over time. Despite their potential long-term consequences, intergenerational fertility correlations have largely been ignored by researcher...