Background: Infertility as a life crisis is accompanied by a wide range of social, psychological, physical and financial problems. These problems are varied- both in nature and extent- in different locations according to specific cultural- social contexts. Infertility is a source of social suffering for infertile people, especially women. As infertility prevent individuals from achieving the sp...

Title of Dissertation: STATE INSTABILITY AND TERRORISM Susan Fahey, Doctor of Philosophy, 2010 Dissertation directed by: Professor Gary LaFree Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice I explore the relationship between political instability and terrorism in this dissertation, using the Global Terrorism Database (GTD), which contains both domestic and transnational terrorism. I use the Pol...

Introduction: Several reports show a relationship between health equity, and health status and longevity of individuals. In this study, effects of food deprivation, inequality and social instability were investigated on the formation of lipofuscin pigment in Balb/C mice by histopathological and biochemical methods. Methods: Thirty-six male mice were divided into 6 groups, then different kind...

introduction: assessing quality of life for patients with shoulder instability may be essential because of the negative impacts of the disease on patient’s life. the aim of the present study, therefore,  was  to  assess  the  internal  validity  and  consistency,  test-retest  reliability,  and convergent validity of the persian version of the oxford shoulder instability score (osis). material ...

A number of social-ecological systems exhibit complex behaviour associated with nonlinearities, bifurcations, and interaction with stochastic drivers. These systems are often prone to abrupt and unexpected instabilities and state shifts that emerge as a discontinuous response to gradual changes in environmental drivers. Predicting such behaviours is crucial to the prevention of or preparation f...

17 A number of social-ecological systems exhibit complex behaviour associated with nonlinearities, 18 bifurcations, and interaction with stochastic drivers. These systems are often prone to abrupt 19 and unexpected instabilities and state shifts that emerge as a discontinuous response to gradual 20 changes in environmental drivers. Predicting such behaviours is crucial to the prevention of or 2...

The paper elaborates on changing economic paradigms in India over the past six decades that finally led to structural adjustment in 1991. The paper investigates how economic reforms failed to resolve social challenges in India. From the mid-1960s, when Congress dominance in independent India was challenged for the first time economic crisis and political instability have been closely related, a...

Reducing the prevalence of household food insecurity has been a long-standing objective of the federal government. Previous research has found many negative consequences of food insecurity for families and households but has not examined its relationship with housing instability. Using longitudinal data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, difference-in-difference models show th...