The Making of a Catholic Parish in Eighteenth-Century Hungary : Competing Interests, Integration, and Interference

Marriage and Fertility in a Catholic Society: Eighteenth-Century Quebec

There are similarities and differences in marriage and fertility behavior between early North American societies and their modern counterparts. This paper investigates the quantitative importance of differential fecundity, assortative matching, and marriage market search frictions in affecting marriage and fertility behavior in a Catholic society, 18 century Quebec. The model may provide an exp...

Making Sense of Non-Financial Competing Interests

Imagine you’re a peer reviewer who’s received a request to referee a paper. The paper reports the results of a study using cell lines derived from an aborted fetus as a diagnostic tool in identifying certain viral infections. You are also a member of a religious organization morally opposed to fetal cell research. In your review, you raise questions about the study’s validity and methodology th...

investigating the integration of translation technologies into translation programs in iranian universities: basis for a syllabus design in translation technology

today, information technology and computers are indispensable tools of any profession and translation technologies have become an indispensable part of translator’s workstation. with the increasing demands for high productivity and speed as well as consistency and with the rise of new demands for translation and localization, it is necessary for translators to be familiar with market demands an...

The metastatic theory of pathogenesis and the professional interests of the eighteenth-century physician.

In two papers published during the mid-1970s, N. D. Jewson proposed a sociological explanation for the character of eighteenth-century medical knowledge.' He argued that medical knowledge was then produced by a particular form of social interaction between patients and their physicians, who competed for customers in an open and pluralistic market-place. This competition was not controlled by ri...

Making Love: Sentiment and Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century British Literature