Even if economics supports specialization, nonfarm livelihood diversification is considered a viable adaptation strategy for smallholder farmers affected by different socioeconomic, institutional and ecological factors. Nonfarm varies across locations households. A cross sectional survey was conducted on 380 randomly selected farm households from the study area. This investigates determinants o...

BACKGROUND The causative role of alcohol consumption in renal disease is controversial, and its effect on renal graft and recipient survival has not been previously studied. METHODS We analysed the association between pre-transplant [at the time of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) onset] alcohol dependency and renal graft and recipient survival. The United States Renal Data System (USRDS) recor...

Corpus-based automatic extraction of collocations is typically carried out employing some statistic indicating concurrency in order to identify words that co-occur more often than expected by chance. In this paper we are concerned with some typical measures such as the t-score, Pearson’s χ-square test, log-likelihood ratio, pointwise mutual information and a novel information theoretic measure,...

Using a dataset that covers 5 decades (1960–2009), we show that the main determinants of China's household savings rate are disposable income (measured by its reciprocal) and the old-age dependency rate. The income growth rate and young age dependency rate have a limited role. Our findings support the Keynesian saving hypothesis instead of Modigliani’s life cycle hypothesis, although precaution...

background: although extensive development of technology provides welfare and accessibility for families but it may be one of the threatening factors for them. the unique characteristics of internet such as availability and facility are useful, but over using for its exciting content cause to internet addiction between family members. the aim of this study was to explain the experiences of the ...