Focused on a group of low-income youth in Belém, Pará State, Brazil, this study discusses the issue of adolescent pregnancy and motherhood from a socio-anthropological perspective. Aimed at an understanding of the cultural meanings of this event in this context, the study suggests that for adolescent girls, it does not mean a break with life projects. On the contrary, pregnancy and motherhood a...

Rapid mobile networking growth and network applications diversity led to the need for future generation wireless networks to support a wide range of Quality-ofService (QoS). Next generation networks of 4G and beyond aim to ensure that seamless mobility across heterogeneous networks and support to real-time multimedia services. This needs intra and inter-domain handovers/service reconfiguration ...

Previous research suggests that reputational concerns can incentivize cooperation and deter socially deviant behavior. The current research showed that social monitoring of information that has the potential to damage one's reputation has differential effects on deviant behavior in social-ecological environments that vary in level of mobility. Study 1 showed that residentially stable cities tha...

This paper presents a survey of mobility management protocols for Wireless Asynchronous Transfer Mode (WATM) networks. Basic architectural assumptions for WATM networks are presented, followed by an overview of location registration, call delivery, and terminal paging techniques. Next, a collection of protocols for handoo connection rerouting is examined. The paper concludes with a discussion o...

Multilayered approach is a significant trend in the field of mobility management. At the same time, home networking receives a growing interest in both research and industrial circles. This papers investigates the possible roles and advantages of applying the proposals of multilayered mobility management to home networking environments.

Intelligent agents may contribute to higher technological growth, if assigned appropriate positions in the economy. These positive e ects on growth are unlikely to be internalized on a competitive labor market. The allocation of talent depends on the relative award the market assigns to intelligence versus other individual merits, which will also in uence intergenerational social mobility. To i...

We investigate the relationship between intergenerational socio-economic mobility and subjective wellbeing (SWB) using data from the General Social Survey (GSS). We look at three different measures of intergenerational mobility—social, educational, and income mobility. We find that downward mobility with respect to all three measures has a negative effect on the self-reported level of happiness...

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Income Inequality, Equality of Opportunity, and Intergenerational Mobility Families, labor markets, and public policies all structure a child’s opportunities and determine the extent to which adult earnings are related to family background. Cross-country comparisons and the underlying trends suggest that these drivers will most likely lower the degree of intergenerational earnings mobility for ...

This paper examines the sources of differences in social mobility between the U.S. and Denmark. Measured by income mobility, Denmark is a more mobile society, but not when measured by educational mobility. There are pronounced nonlinearities in income and educational mobility in both countries. Greater Danish income mobility is largely a consequence of redistributional tax, transfer, and wage c...