2011Uprising and Tunisian Women’s Socio-political Status

Nutritional status of Tunisian adolescents: associated gender, environmental and socio-economic factors.

OBJECTIVE To assess the nutritional status of Tunisian adolescents and associated factors. DESIGN A cross-sectional study based on a national stratified random cluster sample. SUBJECTS AND METHODS In all, 1,295 boys and 1,577 girls aged 15-19 years, of whom 28.4 % had already left school. Socio-economic characteristics of the parents, anthropometric measurements, food behaviours and physica...

Womens Working Status and Physical Spousal Violence in India

The purpose of this study is to identify the causal relationship between women’s working status and the risk of spousal violence against them. In India, working women tend to be more subject to physical spousal violence than non-working women. Given that there is virtually no option outside marriage for women in India, more spousal violence against working women can be understood as a result of...

Socio-Economic Status of Older Black Americans: Education, Income, Poverty, Political Participation, and Religious Involvement

Our ability to understand the status and position of current cohorts of older Black Americans must begin with an appreciation of the multiple effects of disadvantaged socioeconomic status they have endured over the course of their lives. This unique disadvantage is the result of membership in two devalued status groups, that of old age and of being Black (i.e., double jeopardy). However, in ord...

Socio-economic, socio-political and socio-emotional variables explaining school bullying: a country-wide multilevel analysis.

Why do some countries, regions and schools have more bullying than others? What socio-economic, socio-political and other larger contextual factors predict school bullying? These open questions inspired this study with 53.316 5th- and 9th-grade students (5% of the national student population in these grades), from 1,000 schools in Colombia. Students completed a national test of citizenship comp...

Russian-Tatar Socio-Political Thesaurus: Methodology, Challenges, the Status of the Project

At the present time, terminology resources for various domains and languages are being actively developed. For low-resource languages like Tatar, terminology compilation may be a challenge in many respects: because of the insufficient degree of terminology development that leads to absent relevant designations for special concepts in a language; because of lacking special sources for assembling...

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