A strong association between incomes across generations—with children from poor families likely to be poor as adults—is frequently considered an indicator of insufficient equality of opportunity. Studies of such “intergenerational persistence,” or lack of intergenerational mobility,...

Estimates of adult mortality in countries with limited vital registration (e.g., sub-Saharan Africa) are often derived from information about the survival of a respondent’s siblings. We evaluated the completeness and accuracy of such data through a record linkage study conducted in Bandafassi,...

The year 2010 through 2011 witnessed a number of disasters such as floods in Pakistan and Eastern Europe and earthquakes in Chile, China and Haiti. In response, earth observation (EO) data, geographic information science (GIS) technologies and services were used to provide information before,...

Avalanche observations are an important factor foroperational avalanche warningand the main parameter to carry out an objectiveverification of the avalanche bulletinin retrospect. For the first time, a 50-year longseries of avalanche activity data of 84Swiss avalanche observation stations is...

Immediate disclosure regulations information was delivered in 1380 by the Council of the Stock Exchange and the Securities Market Law was passed in 1384. The main objective of this study was to investigate the effects on the quality of information disclosure regulations adopted by the Company...