would also like to thank Fiona Yull and Ana Grau for their collaboration and confidence in this project. I am indebted to my parents, Penny and Chuck, for all their encouragement and support throughout my graduate education, to Nancy and Norman for their optimism and kindness, to Cynthia for her guidance and wisdom, to Michele for her mentorship, and to Kari, TC, Rachel, Ashley, and Laura for t...

We study household decision making in a high-stakes experiment with a random sample of households in rural China. Spouses have to choose between risky lotteries, first separately and then jointly. We find that spouses’ individual risk preferences are more similar the richer the household and the higher the wife’s relative income contribution. A couple’s joint decision is typically determined by...

We conducted a cross-sectional study among 300 women with a child aged 6 to 18 months, to determine the prevalence and determinants of domestic abuse against women in Jahrom; before, during and after pregnancy. The prevalence of abuse during pregnancy (42%) was lower than during the 1 year before pregnancy (51.7%) and after delivery (53.5%). The overall prevalence of emotional abuse, sexual abu...

Why Is It Important to Examine the Transition from Middle School to High School? The transition from middle school to high school is accompanied by both anticipation and anxiety (Mizelle & Irvin, 2000; Morgan & Hertzog, 2001; Zeedyk, Gallacher, Henderson, Hope, Husband, & Lindsay, 2003). Transition is receiving increased attention due to the fact that ninth grade course failures and high school...

background & aim: one of the most important events in human life is marriage. sexual satisfaction is one of the effective factors in a successful marriage. accordingly, sexual health education is necessary. sex education should be in line with the cultural, religious, and social infrastructures of the society. the aim of this study was to compare the effect of sex education with and without rel...

BACKGROUND The rapid aging of the European population and the subsequent increase in the oral care needs in older adults necessitates adequate training of dental professionals in Gerodontology (Geriatric Dentistry). This study was designed to investigate the current status of Gerodontology teaching amongst European dental schools at the undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing education level...

The increasing number of HIV/AIDS infected women is one of the main characteristics of the AIDS epidemic, besides the wide expansion of the disease among the poor. This study focused on a group of 82 women with AIDS from Salvador-Bahia. The mean age was 32 +/- 7.2 years, 75% had children, 82.5% were jobless, and 77.8% were illiterate or only had basic education. The number of sexual partners wa...