IS THE GREAT WHITE MIDDLE CLASS endangered in Australia? If it is, does it matter greatly? Michael Pusey answers ‘Yes’ on both counts. He argues that we are seeing a ‘hollowing out of the middle’. If he is right, this hollowing out has significant consequences. Both major political parties have spent decades courting the wannabe middle class — from Robert Menzies’ ‘forgotten people’ to Gough Wh...

MORRIS DICKSTEIN POSES his recent study of post–World War II American fiction Leopards in the Temple (2002) as a corrective to the by now standard tendency to emphasize the cold war in accounts of this period. But while Dickstein takes the critics of cold war culture to task for what he sees as their oversimplification of both art and politics, he concurs with them on at least one major point. ...

deforestation in the past decades has risen. so, the proper development of human activities in forests requires the environmental limitations to be considered during forests management process. one of the appropriate measures is the determination of ecological vulnerability. in the present study, patom district of kheyrud forest was classified based on the ecological sustainability, using objec...

The phenomenological framework outlined in the companion paper [C. A. Shera and G. Zweig, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 92, 1356-1370 (1992)] characterizes both forward and reverse transmission through the middle ear. This paper illustrates its use in the analysis of noninvasive measurements of middle-ear and cochlear mechanics. A cochlear scattering framework is developed for the analysis of combination...

Four studies investigated the proposal that in the context of an elite university, individuals from relatively lower socioeconomic (SES) backgrounds possess a stigmatized identity and, as such, experience (a) concerns regarding their academic fit and (b) self-regulatory depletion as a result of managing these concerns. Study 1, a correlational study, revealed the predicted associations between ...

The consumption of households with liquid financial assets responds much more to transitory income shocks than the permanent-income hypothesis predicts. That is, middle class households with assets act as if they face liquidity constraints. This paper addresses this puzzling observation with a model of impatient households that face a large recurring expenditure. In spite of impatience, they sa...

The consumption of households with liquid financial assets responds much more to transitory income shocks than the permanent-income hypothesis predicts. That is, middle class households with assets act as if they face liquidity constraints. This paper addresses this puzzling observation with a model of impatient households that face a large recurring expenditure. In spite of impatience, they sa...

this article has attempted to present a clear image of science production by the member states of the organization of islamic conference (oic) based on the essential science indicators (esi). esi indexes the most effective science productions of the world. the world bank, on the other hand, has classified the countries of the world according to their economic position. using the information acc...