Both the anterior surface of the cornea and the internal optics (the posterior cornea, crystalline lens) contribute to the aberration of a wavefront passing through the eye. Artal, Guirao, Berrio, and Williams (2001) reported that the wavefront aberrations produced by the internal optics offset, or compensate for, the aberrations produced by the cornea to reduce ocular wavefront aberrations. We...

Usual microeconometric studies of the French fertility su¤er from the lack of data on religion. Indeed, the French laws make it very di¢ cult to collect data on the individual’s religious a¢ liation. However, recent studies tend to validate the important role played by culture and especially religion in fertility behaviors. This paper proposes a microeconometric investigation of the French fert...

Religion and Child Health This paper examines the determinants of the health of children ages 6 to 19, as reported in the Child Development Supplements (CDS) to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). The primary focus is on the effect of religion on the reported overall health and psychological health of the child. Three measures of religion/religiosity of the child are employed: whether th...

The doublet–triplet mass splitting problem is one of the most serious problems in supersymmetric grand unified theories (GUTs). A class of models based on a product gauge group, such as the SU(5)GUT×U(3)H or the SU(5)GUT×U(2)H, realize naturally the desired mass splitting that is protected by an unbroken R symmetry. It has been pointed out that various features in the models suggest that these ...

The pheromone biosynthetic pathway for production of the sex pheromone disparlure, 2-methyl-7R,8S-epoxy-octadecane, was determined for the gypsy moth. Each step in the pathway was followed by using deuterium-labeled compounds that could be identified by using GCMS. This approach provides unequivocal determination of specific reactions in the pathway. It was shown that the alkene precursor, 2-me...

This paper explores determinants of church attendance and the formation of ‘religious human capital’ in Germany within a Becker-style allocation-of-time framework. The analysis is based on data derived from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Taking advantage of the longitudinal structure of the data, we are able to control for unobservable heterogeneity by applying a random-effects ordere...

Peaceful Coexistence? The Role of Religious Schools and NGOs in the Growth of Female Secondary Schooling in Bangladesh BRAC, a non-governmental organization (NGO), runs a large number of non-formal primary schools in Bangladesh which target out-of-school children from poor families. These schools are well-known for their effectiveness in closing gender gap in primary school enrolment. On the ot...

There is a neo-Riemannian-type group, the generalized contextual group, that can be constructed for the set of transpositions and inversions of any pitch-class segment, provided the segment contains at least two distinct pitch classes which span an interval other than a tritone. The generalized contextual group is dual to the T/I group for any pitch-class segment satisfying the condition above....

Studies examining in utero health effect of maternal fasting during Ramadan assume that parents do not selectively time birth relative to Ramadan. In Matlab, a region in Bangladesh, family planning program started in 1977 where women in treatment areas received free contraceptives door to door but control areas were not part of the program. Both treatment and control areas were very similar in ...

In this paper, we argue that the fluctuations in the value of mehr and dowry observed since 1960s in Muslim marriages in Bangladesh can be explained by the natural economic and political shocks: the Green Revolution (GR) in the 1960s, the Independence War (IW) in 1971 and the famine in 1974. The positive income effect of the GR increased the values of both dowry and mehr. However, rise in agric...