Kinetic modeling is an important issue, whose objective is the accurate determination of the rates of various reactions taking place in a reacting system. This issue is a pivotal element in the process design and development particularly for novel processes which are based on reactions taking place between various types of species. The Fischer Tropsch (FT) reactions have been used as the ki...

Over the past quarter-century, many covariates of divorce have been identified. However, the extent to which the effects of these covariates remain constant across time is not known. In this article, I examine the stability of the effects of a wide range of divorce covariates using a pooled sample of data taken from five rounds of the National Survey of Family Growth. This sample includes consi...

In the West, marriage is conceptualized as a union between two individuals based on mutual sense of love, affection, commitment, and attraction that driven by finding “right” person, usually involves period courtship before settling down, with or without explicit consent members other than parties involved. On hand, institution arranged marriages—wherein family community elders select prospecti...

Consanguineous marriages have a high prevalence among Muslim-majority countries, and the ratio is increasing in Saudi population [1]. Nowadays, more than half of all the marriages in Saudi Arabia are marriages between cousins [2]. Different types of consanguineous marriages exist, such as marriage between first cousins, which is the most common one, marriage between second cousins, and marriage...

Data shown here are provisional and include only events occurring within the United States (50 states and the District of Columbia). Provisional birth, death, and infant death data in this report are based on a combination of counts of events provided by each reporting area and registered vital events processed into National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) data files. Some of these may not ...