2nd only to Ireland in total fertility, Sweden has the highest total fertility (TFR) and female labor force participation rates (FLFPR) among European countries in the late 1980s and early 1990s. 1988 TFR and FLFPR were 1.96 and 80.1%, respectively. This paper considers the role of public policy in creating this unique trend, with particular focus on family leave policy. In 1974, Sweden beca...

In the context of high and rising rates of parental employment in Australia, we investigated whether poor quality jobs (without security, control, flexibility or paid family leave) could pose a health risk to employed parents' children. We examined the extent to which both mothers' and fathers' jobs matter, and whether disadvantaged children are more vulnerable than others. Multiple regression ...

In Romania, the sessile oak is widest spread species of all native species, forming a lower story vegetation. The European beech and Norway spruce cover 50% Romanian forest area. purpose this study was to analyze variability leaf nutrients, as well soil for oak, stands situated under different site conditions. studied sites are located in southern part Carpathian Mountains at altitudes varying ...

Although parental leave has long formed part of traditional labor relations, it was not until the nineteen seventies that it began to be regarded in some Scandinavian countries as a way ofi balancing work and family life as well as of enhancing gender equality (Duvander, Lappegard, and Andersson 2010; Escobedo, Flaquer, and Navarro, 2012; Lappegard, 2008), That egalitarian aspiration was consol...

OBJECTIVES Two thirds of Canadian adults participate in the workforce. Their health and that of their families can be markedly affected by the availability of paid sick leave, paid leave to care for family members' health and paid parental leave. METHODS We gathered data from all Canadian provinces and territories on these essential leave policies and compared Canadian policies with data coll...

1 Institute for Functional Imaging of Materials, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831 2 Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831 3 Materials Science & Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831 4 Computer Science and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831 5 Computation...

this study was conducted to determine the effect of oak acorn (quercus castaneifolia) on performance, small intestine morphology, ileal digestibility of nutrient, carcass and some blood parameters in broiler chicks. a total of fifty hundred four one-d old male chickens (ross308 strain) with seven treatments and four replicates in each treatment were used. experimental diets were: control (corn-...

The aim of this study was to determine whether the age of broilers can influence their response to tannin-rich diets. A total of 340 one-day-old mixed sex Ross 308 broiler chicks were distributed among five experimental groups with four replicates and 17 birds each in a completely randomized design. A high-tannin feedstuff, Oak acorn, was included into diets (at a level of 25%) and fed to birds...