Issues related to the use and management of wetlands have received considerable attention in recent years in the wake of fast disappearance of this natural resource. Inadequate institutional arrangements or property rights have been cited as an important causal factor for this d…
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the possible existence of earning differentials between male and female teachers in Turkey. The main question is whether or not there is a wage gap between male and female teachers when human capital variables are held constant. In the…
The main focus of this study was to explore the relationship between acculturation and somatization as they relate to gender and age among Iranians. Acculturation was measured by the Cultural Life Style Inventory (CLSI) (Mendoza, 1989) and somatization was measured by the Brief …
The gender gap in involvement in crime has been at the core of the criminological research for the last four decades. The purpose of this exploratory study is to examine what is commonly referred to as the gender gap in criminology in the country of Turkey. The major source of l…
One of the more recent groups immigrating to the United States has been the Iranian population. It is estimated that a third of this group live in Southern California, and most seem to settle in the Los Angeles area. Little research has been done on levels of acculturation and c…
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the economic returns to investment in education by applying human capital theory to Turkey. Turkey, one of the least studied of the OECD countries, is an important case considering both its strenuous attempts to modernize and its ne…
This dissertation aims to describe the linguistic behavior of men and women in Cairo. To this end, two sociolinguistic variables are studied: the use of the voiceless uvular stop /q/; and apical palatalization. For each variable, a detailed linguistic analysis is provided; as we…