The role of diffusion in reproductive change has received great attention in the literature. Underlying the various studies is the assumption that the information or behaviour of one person can have spillover effects on the motivations of another (Montgomery and Casterline, 1998). Two fundamental components of diffusion are identified: social learning and social influence. Social learning refer...

This report describes work in VLSI partitioning done under the Computing Research Association's Computing Research Experience for Women program. Three undergraduate women participated throughout the 1998-1999 academic year. In the process, the team wrote software to implement two existing "classic" methods for VLSI partitioning, and studied modern algorithms by reading recent journal and confer...

Objectives: This study investigates the longitudinal association between 5-year weight change and quality of life (QoL) in Dutch men and women. Subjects: 2,414 men and women from the Maastricht region of the Netherlands. Measurements: QoL outcomes were measured by the RAND-36 (eight subscales and two overall 5 composite scores, physical and mental health (PCS and MCS)). Weight was measured on a...

To determine whether current environmental lead (Pb) levels are causing any progressive changes in urinary Pb levels, 24-h urine samples were collected from 277 subjects (159 men and 118 women) in 1985, 312 subjects (155 men and 157 women) in 1993, and 311 subjects (156 men and 155 women) in 1998. All of the subjects worked in the same factory. The urinary Pb concentration was analyzed by flame...

Previous research has indicated that a light tactile contact is associated with a positive response towards the person who is touching. The effect of touch on courtship was investigated in this experiment, which was conducted in a field setting. A female confederate either slightly touched or did not touch a man in a bar when asking him for some help. It was found that men who were touched show...

This study examined Taiwanese female and male police officers’ perceptions of handling domestic violence. Specifically, it assessed officers’ attitudes toward whether female officers, male officers, or a combination of female and male officers are more suited for handling cases of battered women, offenders, and domestic violence overall. Survey data were collected from 96 female and 156 male of...

55 Retirement typically has been studied as an individual, principally male status passage, although its effects ripple across family relationships (Szinovacz 1989; Szinovacz and Ekerdt 1995).Today, however, almost half the contemporary workforce is female and the majority of workers are now married to other workers. These trends are strongly affecting both scholarly and cultural conceptualizat...

Till the turn of the century, man has enjoyed a dominant position. But change in position technological innovation and modern way of thinking can reduce the disparity between man and women, and bring about equality and equity between them, the need of the hour in women empowerment both through provision of employment and enterprise creation. Typologically, the former leader to endogenous empowe...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this work was to determine whether minority women are more likely to die of cervical cancer. A population-based cohort study was performed using Texas Cancer Registry (TCR) data from 1998 to 2002. METHODS A total of 5,166 women with cervical cancer were identified during 1998-2002 through the TCR. Measures of socioeconomic status (SES) and urbanization were created using ...