In 1985, EngenderHealth (then the Association for Voluntary Sterilization) commissioned a review and critical analysis of existing literature on voluntary sterilization, to be included in its international fact book on sterilization (Ross, Hong, & Huber, 1985). The summary and findings of that review (Philliber & Philliber, 1985) have for many years provided the most comprehensive overview of s...

As a discipline matures, prediction becomes one of its standard and routine prac­ tices. The field of international relations is no exception. The growing attention to forecasting within academic research accompanies increasing expectations by the policy community that international relations research should be able to provide early warning of conflict and other human disasters and should there...

The British utilitarian philosopher and social engineer, Jeremy Bentham in 1780 coined the modern usage of the term ‘international’ with reference to International Law (Bentham 1996). In the nineteenth century the main usage of the adjective ‘international’ was with respect to international exchange and the relations between principalities, nations and empires. Nevertheless, the theory and prac...

This article analyses the themes and conceptual-theoretical approaches of the social support in the literature from important international journals about social sciences and medicine, and in from 1983 to 2005 are analyzed. 259 international and 57 national abstracts was reading for the identification and computing the relations of the social support with health/disease/care. A deeper conceptua...

there is little consensus on the corporate diversification-efficiency relationship in the diversification literature. the study aims to contribute to the literature by looking jointly at two dimensions of corporate diversification as product diversification and international diversification and the relationship between them. the results show negative relationship between product diversification...

Women now receive political science degrees in record numbers, but female representation among political science faculty still lags behind that of many other disciplines. Only 26% of the 13,000 political science professors in the United States today are women (Sedowski and Brintall 2007). According to our recent survey of international relations faculty in the United States — the 2006 Teaching,...