research about persian painting (generally, all objects of art), has its own difficulties. one of these difficulties, of course, is that, how was its creation. the creation of any object of art, is a twisted problem, deals with several factors, some apparent some stealth, but never a fixed number of them existed that could act like variables. in this paper, we tried, with help of some obvious c...

Goldin argues that the most significant change in labor markets over the past century was the increased participation of women in the labor market. Figure 1 summarizes historical trends in mens' and womens' labor force participation.

In this paper, we present a method which gives oil painting effect for color images. In general, oil painting method is a process of painting with pigments that are bound with drying oil. The oil painting is widely adopted for artist who utilizes different oils. The proposed method uses digital painting approach and makes an original image painted with oil. The main purpose of oil painting is t...

BACKGROUND Racial disparities in birth outcomes persist in North Carolina and the United States. We examined patterns of birth outcomes and womens health measures in North Carolina by race and age to portray the largest disparities. We wanted to see if our data were consistent with the "weathering hypothesis," which holds that the health of African American women may begin to deteriorate in ear...

First, the methodological difficulties of these studies, especially due to confusing factors, not always easy to control adequately, such as the heterogeneity of women’s groups evaluated in regards to age, race, social status and religious beliefs; the presence of psychological changes or lack thereof, prior to the abortion of; the desire or lack thereof for the pregnancy; whether a woman can r...

Contrary to Wuebbles’ thesis (2002), most of the media did not misunderstand the thrust of our recent paper (Hansen et al., 2000). We do indeed assert that a scenario is feasible in which the rate of global warming declines. We also posit that, with an understanding of the significant climate forcings, it is possible to achieve such a climatically brighter path with actions that are not ‘econom...