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Epidemiologic aspects of neural tube defects in South East Iran [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Objectives: To investigate the rate of neural tube defects (NTDs) and their relation to gender, maternal age, consanguineous marriage, season, and drug consumption in Birjand, Iran.
Afshar, M., Farhud, D., Golalipour, M.J.
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A Phenomenological Study of Lived Experiences of International Counseling Students in Multicultural Counseling Courses

open access: yesCounselor Education and Supervision, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This transcendental phenomenological study aimed to explore international counseling students’ (ICSs’) lived experiences in multicultural counseling classes. Semi‐structured individual interviews were conducted with 17 ICSs, six of whom also completed focus group interviews.
Anqi Yu, Susannah M. Wood
wiley   +1 more source

Sex ratios and racial differences in marriage rates in South Africa [PDF]

open access: yes
In South Africa, marriage rates among white women aged 20 to 34 are at least twice as high as marriage rates among African women in the same age cohort.
Daniela Casale, Dorrit Posel
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Preparation of Medicare‐Enrolled Mental Health Counselors: Descriptions of Training Experiences and Predictors of Attitudes and Competencies

open access: yesCounselor Education and Supervision, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Counselors are newly eligible to enroll as providers in the Medicare program as of January 1, 2024, yet little is known about their preparedness to work with Medicare beneficiaries and related training experiences. This gap in the literature inhibits our understanding of historical and current counselor education practice, thereby preventing ...
Jordan B. Westcott   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Asymptotic properties of cross‐classified sampling designs

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Statistics, EarlyView.
Abstract We investigate the family of cross‐classified sampling designs across an arbitrary number of dimensions. We introduce a variance decomposition that enables the derivation of general asymptotic properties for these designs and the development of straightforward and asymptotically unbiased variance estimators.
Jean Rubin, Guillaume Chauvet
wiley   +1 more source

Population Genetics and Economic Growth [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper builds an age-structural model of human population genetics in which agents are endowed with a high-dimensional genome that determines their cognitive and physical characteristics. Young adults optimally search for a marriage partner, work for
Kwang Woo Park, Paul J. Zak
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Sudan at War With Itself: Civilian Devastation in the Civil War

open access: yesConflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A civil war is raging in Sudan between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) along with militia groups. Beginning on April 15, 2023, and continuing at least to this writing (October 15, 2025), civilian noncombatants have been subjected to bombings, beatings, torture, shootings, rape, and murder on a large scale. Since
Daniel Rothbart   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Age at marriage and the risk of divorce in England and Wales

open access: yesDemographic Research, 2013
BACKGROUND A well-documented association exists between age at marriage and the risk of divorce. However, substantial gaps in our knowledge and understanding of ist origins, nature, and implications still exist.
Richard Lampard
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Overview Chapter 4: Changing family and partnership behaviour [PDF]

open access: yes
Following the era of the ‘golden age of marriage’ and the baby boom in the 1950s and 1960s, marriage has declined in importance, and its role as the main institution on which family relations are built has been eroded across Europe.
Laurent Toulemon, Tomas Sobotka
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