Revolution and Family in Rural China: Influence of Family Background on Current Family Wealth This paper examines the influence of family human capital on offspring’s economic status in post reform rural China by concentrating on the father-son relationship. We focus on two indicators of family background: family class origin (jiating chengfen) and occupational experience. The results of a fami...

This article studies the effect of parental background on the educational attainment of the offspring. In particular, it compares the effects of parental occupation and education and investigates whether the relative importance of these resources have shifted over time. In addition, this article studies, which parent has the strongest effect on the offspring’s education. Using data for the Neth...

Introduction: There are several evidences that show various environmental stresses during pregnancy, affect physiological behavior of the offspring. In this study the effects of REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep deprivation of pregnant rats on spatial learning of adult male offspring by Morris water maze were investigated. Methods: Water tank technique was used for inducing REM sleep deprivatio...

Introduction The estimation of genetic risks to the offspring of consanguineous marriages, especially those of first cousins, has been exhaustively studied in the literature. Even so the subject still remains controversial, as shown by the results of a recent inquiry performed among medical geneticists and genetic counsellors in the United States by Bennett et al. (1999). In fact, analysing the...

For 0 < α ≤ 2 and 0 < β ≤ 1 the (d,α,β)-superprocess is the superprocess with symmetric α-stable spatial movement in Rd and spectrally positive (1+β)-stable branching. It is a measurevalued process arising as the high density limit of empirical measure for the following critical branching symmetric α-stable particle system. Independent of the others, each particle is assigned a mass n−1 and it ...

This study also rejects arguments made by J&P that immigrants are needed to meet labour shortages, that they bring productivity-increasing economies of scale, and that their children will repay the fiscal burden. New evidence does not provide any grounds for optimism that the offspring of recent immigrants are going to be able to earn enough to compensate current and future generations of Canad...

Objective(s): Maternal high-fat diet (HFD) consumption has been linked to metabolic disorders and reproductive dysfunctions in offspring. Troxerutin (TRO) has anti-hyperlipidemic, anti-oxidant, and anti-inflammatory effects. This study examined the effects of TRO on apelin-13, its receptors mRNA and ovarian histological changes in the offspring of HFD fed rats. <...

there has been a dramatic rise in the use of assisted reproductive technologies (art), including in vitro fertilization (ivf) throughout the world over the past three decades. because they represent >1% of the birth cohorts in many developed countries, much attention is being paid to the health and well-being of art children. children born after assisted reproductive techniques (art) have an in...