Recently, mothers who are health care professionals have been asking employers for more flexibility in their full-time posi­ tions. These women want part-time jobs and jobs with flexible hours, and they want their employers to under­ stand that they must take time off when their children are sick or when emergencies arise. But these women should heed what has happened to their counterparts in a...

"Although the determinants of teenager participation in the labour market have been studied previously (both in the United States and the United Kingdom), there remain a number of neglected questions. We address some of these in this paper, basing our analysis on data taken from the UK National Child Development Study. We first examine how teenagers divide their time between working and studyin...

RESUMEN Este artículo busca conceptuar la partera pos-moderna, definiéndola como aquella que tiene una postura en relación a la biomedicina y a otros sistemas de conocimiento, moviéndose fluidificado entre ellos para ayudar a las mujeres que asiste. Es consciente, culturalmente competente y políticamente enganchada. Trabaja con recursos de su conocimiento específico, aliados a los intereses de ...

We present a new and simple randomized algorithm for constructing the Delaunay triangulation using nearest neighbor graphs for point location. It runs in linear expected time for points in the plane with polynomially bounded spread, i.e., if the ratio between the largest and smallest pointwise distance is polynomially bounded. This also holds for point sets with bounded spread in higher dimensi...