Title of Thesis: COMPARISON OF STRUCTURAL INTERACTION PATTERNS IN AFRICAN AMERICAN AND CAUCASIAN CLINICAL COUPLES: THE MODERATING EFFECT OF FINANCIAL RESOURCES John Rennie Hart, M.S., 2012 Thesis Directed By: Professor Norman B. Epstein, Department of Family Science This study focused on degrees to which African American and Caucasian couples who have sought couple therapy at a community clinic...

The central thesis of this article is the treatment of the marital relationship within the context of social exchange theory. This article opens with a discussion of marital solidarity and marital power from a social exchange perspective. Next, the article addresses the differences between social exchange and economic exchange in order to provide insight in delineating marital relationships in ...

We consider a piecewise linear two-dimensional dynamical system that couples a linear equation with the so-called stop operator. Global dynamics and bifurcations of this system are studied depending on two parameters. More complicated systems involving stop operators may have potential applications in the economic modeling of agents that display frictions and memory-dependence.

this study took an epidemiological approach toward the problem of drug addiction in tehran. the subjects were 300 addicts chosen on the basis of stratified random selection out of the population of 3627 prisoners who were all proven addicts and sentenced to imprisonment by the court in the year 1370. a descriptive survey showed that drug addiction generally, and heroin addiction specifically, i...

Abstract The Pearson product-moment correlation commonly used as statistical dependence measure was developed assuming normal marginal and addresses only linear dependence. In most applications, the distribution is assumed to be a multivariate normal or lognormal for tractable calculus even if the assumption may not be appropriate. A copula based approach couples marginal distributions to form ...

Introduction: To examine the effects of opium dependence and cigarette smoking on semen quality and sperm parameters, the semen quality of men who abuse opiates and/or smoke cigarettes was investigated in a retrospective study. Methods: Male partners of 1325 infertile couples attending the infertility clinic for intrauterine insemination (IUI) procedure were divided into non-smoking non-op...

Abstract Over the next few decades, most important demographic trend for Asia Pacific region will be population aging. The increasing aging in India and fact that economic dependence of older adults is high cost education child care on rise pose serious challenges to generations individuals couples who are expected take both their children parents. This study's primary objective comprehensively...

This paper focuses on anger experienced by prospective adoptive parents as they go through infertility and the formal adoption process. Qualitative interviews were done with seventy-four infertile couples who were at various stages in their consideration of adoption. Using a sociology of emotions perspective, I examine the source of their anger by focusing on the structural power imbalance betw...

We report transport measurements on a quantum dot in a partly suspended carbon nanotube. Electrostatic tuning allows us to modify and even switch "on" and "off" the coupling to the quantized stretching vibration across several charge states. The magnetic-field dependence indicates that only the two-electron spin-triplet excited state couples to the mechanical motion, indicating mechanical coupl...

Copulas are full measures of dependence among components of random vectors. Unlike the marginal and the joint distributions, which are directly observable, a copula is a hidden dependence structure that couples a joint distribution with its marginals. This makes the task of proposing a parametric copula model non-trivial and is where a nonparametric estimator can play a significant role. In thi...