Functions of Concordance and Dependence with Related Measures

Some functions that serve as building blocks for construction of a wider range of modes of concordance and dependence are pointed. We probe into interplays of such modes. From the standpoint of their conformity to stochastic dominance ordering of distributions within a Fréchet class, all such derived modes display some parallelism under certain conditions. We finally suggest a novel numeric measure of dependence that covers similar existing measures in literature.     

Fertility and economic and social development in Turkey: a cross-sectional and time series study

Abstract The paper explores the impact of modernization on the fertility levels in Turkey, which started deliberate efforts at economic, social, and political transformation in the early 1920s. It is a disaggregative study using 'province' as the unit of observation. A relatively consistent series of data on population and various economic and social variables was available with quinquennial censuses starting with the 1940 Census. The technique of reverse projection is used to estimate provincial crude birth rates. Since 1955 there has been a consistent decline in the fertility level. A chain-relationship model is estimated using both cross-sectional and panel data. A major finding of the study is that in Turkey, continuing modernization and the concomitant spread of female education will result in a continuing decline in the fertility rate. This negative influence, stable and substantial over time, is largely due to factors other than the usual association between education and opportunity cost of female employment, such as changing attitudes and tastes. Also with the spread of economic and social development influencing the society's norm for average age at marriage and the proportion of women married, the marital rate, though not so significant as education, imparts a direct depressing effect on the aggregate period fertility rate at any given time.     

Equivalence of parametric identifiability and estimability

Given that estimators are monotone functions of observations, parametric identiflability is shown to be both necessary and sufficient for estimability.     

Open door environments as interactional resources to initiate unscheduled encounters in office organizations

ABSTRACT

In this article, we show how a common type of material environment in office organizations, namely offices with doors left open, enables and sustains the initiation of unscheduled, informal encounters. Using video recordings of naturally occurring interactions, we identify and describe a recurrent practice whereby visitors, mainly through their embodied conduct as they approach the doorway, are recognized by their recipients as initiating an encounter. We unpack the systematic practices and resources involved and analyze a series of variations through which co-workers deal with three interactional problems: obtaining the office occupant’s attention, negotiating availability, and negotiating entitlement. The article (1) demarcates a set of practices typical of unscheduled encounters in office organizations; (2) sheds new lights on how shared and fractured visual spaces can be used as resources to produce complex organizational meanings; and (3) proposes an approach of organizational activity and knowledge as inherently interactional, embodied and material.     

Convex Ordering for Bivariate Distributions

An attempt is made to extend well-known univariate notion of convex ordering to bivariate case. A convex ordered family for bivariate distributions is then introduced and its properties are examined.     

La règle et la pratique. La cas du conflit israélo-palestinien dans le dernière décennie (2004–2014)

Cette contribution analyse le gouvernement par les normes dans le conflit israélo palestinien depuis une décennie. L’hypothèse est que le droit et l’ensemble des dispositifs sécuritaires et juridiques, s’ils sont intimement liés à l’ordre du contrôle et d’une certaine domination, donnent lieu à différentes représentations cognitives. L’enjeu est pour certains agents de se saisir des règles à l’?uvre dans les dispositifs de contrôle et d’en faire un usage pratique, voire stratégique. L’étude questionne ainsi la porosité morale des dispositifs de gestion de ce conflit et la diversité des conduites morales. Différents cas de figures (la mobilité économique et résidentielle, la lutte contre les expropriations ou la conquête des droits au travail) permettent de poser un regard contrasté sur la qualification de cette réalité sécuritaire par les citoyens Palestiniens de Cisjordanie ou de Jérusalem. L’étude s’appuie sur un ensemble de matériaux d’enquête, qui renvoient à des évènements différents propres à fonder des configurations socio spatiales, permettent d’analyser certaines justifications ou les motifs d’action de citoyens, pris dans les dispositifs juridico-normatifs.