male labor-force participation rate after age 20 reflects in part the progressive increase up to about age 35 in the proportion of married women in the female population. The rate for single women remains relatively high at all ages. The extent to which women stay in the labor market is affected also by home responsibilities. In April 1948, married women with no children under age 18 were almos...

This chapter considers some of the basic ideas about language and linguistic analysis that define the family of feature-based grammars. Underlying the complex constraint languages and representations that give this family its characteristic ‘look and feel’ are a number of relatively straightforward claims and hypotheses. Foremost among these is the idea that many of the distinctive properties w...

Investor behavior and investment activities are strongly influenced by the risk tolerance level of individual investors. International evidence suggests that lower risk tolerant investors are generally risk averse. However, their demographic characteristics and socioeconomic factors drive their risk attitudes. This study aims at investigating the critical role that age, gender, marital/social s...

This study focusses on the development of a comprehensive multi-dimensional scale for assessing motivation for change in the alcohol dependent population. After establishing face validity, the items evolved were administered to a normal sample of 600 male subjects in whom psychiatric illness was ruled out. The data thus obtained was subjected to factor analysis. Six factors were obtained which ...

OBJECTIVE Two polymorphisms in the promoter region of the gene encoding cytosolic aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH1A1), ALDH1A1*2 and ALDH1A1*3, have recently been identified. The present study sought to determine whether an association exists between ALDH1A1 genotypes, alcohol dependence, drinking history, and liver function tests in the two major ethnic groups of Trinidad and Tobago (TT). METHO...