increased unemployment and rising incidence of divorce are instances of a risky society that can affect women and men’s decisions about family formation. the present study aims to investigate the relationship between the indicators of risky society and the mean age at first marriage among women and men in iran. the paper uses the district-level data from the 2011 iranian census. the results sho...

Let each point of a homogeneous Poisson process on R independently be equipped with a random number of stubs (half-edges) according to a given probability distribution μ on the positive integers. We consider two natural schemes for perfectly matching the stubs to obtain a simple graph with degree distribution μ, both derived from Gale-Shapley stable marriage. We prove results on the existence o...

where λ1 ≥ · · · ≥ λn > 0 are the eigenvalues of A. It is a very useful tool to study the inefficiency of the ordinary least-squares estimate with one regressor in the linear model. Watson 1 introduced the ratio of the variance of the best linear unbiased estimator to the variance of the ordinary least-squares estimator. Such a lower bound of this ratio was provided by Kantorovich inequality 1....

this article studied cultural factors influencing the choice of spouse in a samlpe of 300 students of iran university of medical sciences, 59.1% being medical students and the rest nonmedical. the average age of the sample was 21.6. results showed that there was a significant difference between the two sesex regarding the age of marriage, and all of them agreed that engagement s essential. temp...

background: marriage causes family and from a point of view it is a social symbol   which is reflection of whole society. one of the forms of marriage is family marriage. these kind of marriage are important in human heredity (heritage), according to social, cultural and economic conditions, this pattern of marriage is different between the countries and even inside a specific country. as famil...

marriage among siblings has remained a controversial subject in the study of ancient iranian customs and rites, especially in regard to zoroastrianism. there have been endless debates on the existence of such a custom in ancient iran. what have largely remained unnoticed in such a study are the religious beliefs of the ancient iranians in the primitive forms of totemism. totemism is an ancient ...

Although disadvantaged women are the targets of marriage programs, little attention has been paid to women's marriage constraints and their views of marriage. Drawing on an exchange framework and using qualitative data collected from single women participating in a marriage initiative, we introduce the concept of marriageable women-the notion that certain limitations may make women poor marriag...

In this paper we present Very Large Array (VLA) 1.4 GHz (21 cm) observations of the region between the centres of A3558 and A3562, in the major cluster merger complex of the Shapley Concentration. Our final catalogue includes a total of 174 radio sources above the flux density limit of 0.25 mJy b −1. By cross-correlation with optical and spectroscopic catalogues we found 33 optical counterparts...