Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Sanzida Akhter Author-Name-First: Sanzida Author-Name-Last: Akhter Author-Email: sanzida209@yahoo.com Author-Workplace-Name: University of Dhaka Title: Mothers? socio-economic status and health care for maternal morbidity: a study in urban Dhaka Abstract: This paper aims at understanding how mothers? socio-economic conditions perpetuated their maternal illness conditions and low health care status. Using in-depth interview as a methodological tool the study was conducted among the mothers, who had given birth to at least one child or became pregnant at least once in the last five years preceeding the survey, in two slums and two health care facilities in Dhaka. The major findings suggests that in the urban context, where health care facilities are mostly in close proximity of the mothers, the reason for their inadequate health care for childbirth and post-partum care may lie in the socio-cultural atmosphere of the urban slum the mothers live in e.g., social network, availability of information, support network from family and neighborhood etc. as well as the ?personal characteristics? of mothers like education, age and self-esteem. Together, the social arrangements and personal characteristics may hinder mothers from being ?capable? enough to achieve the optimum ?functioning? by using their limited resources and money. And this leads to morbidity conditions during and after delivery. Classification-JEL: Keywords: Maternal morbidity, socio-economic condition, maternal health care, urban Dhaka, poverty Journal: International Journal of Social Sciences Pages: 1-26 Volume: 5 Issue: 1 Year: 2016 Month: February File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-social-sciences/publication-detail-448 File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-social-sciences/publication-detail-448?download=1 Handle: RePEc:sek:jijoss:v:5:y:2016:i:1:p:1-26 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Parisa Amirmostofian Author-Name-First: Parisa Author-Name-Last: Amirmostofian Author-Email: parisa@parisaarttherapy.com Author-Workplace-Name: NONE Author-Name: Simin Mozayeni Author-Name-First: Simin Author-Name-Last: Mozayeni Author-Email: mozayens@newpaltz.edu Author-Workplace-Name: SUNY New Paltz Title: Art for A New Consciousness, Art for A New Humanity: An Empirical Investigation of Aesthetic Effect of Kamran Khavarani?s Paintings Abstract: Our hypothesis is that Khavarani?s painting style, Abstract Romanticism, combines artistic elements that impart positive effect on viewers? psyche. Our data encompass survey of 318 viewers? responses, recorded in six Likert scales. We used Random Group Design to administer and organize the data. Our estimation results, using the Friedman, Mann-Whitney and Kruskal-Wallis tests, produced ?2 values, which confirm our hypothesis with 95-100% confidence. We conclude that Khavarani?s paintings impart positive effect on viewers? psyche. In a future study, we?ll report that such effect is independent of viewer?s age, gender, and their base mood. We invoke Vartanian and Skov (2014): When our subjects viewed Khavarani?s paintings, they ?maximized the utility of the moment? and ?disengaged? from their external world. We recognize that as experiencing meditative joy. Classification-JEL: C35, C90, Z11 Keywords: Khavarani, Abstract Romanticism, Meditative Effect of Painting, Behavioral Economic Journal: International Journal of Social Sciences Pages: 27-46 Volume: 5 Issue: 1 Year: 2016 Month: February File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-social-sciences/publication-detail-443 File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-social-sciences/publication-detail-443?download=2 Handle: RePEc:sek:jijoss:v:5:y:2016:i:1:p:27-46 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Constantine Bourlakis Author-Name-First: Constantine Author-Name-Last: Bourlakis Author-Email: cbourl@aueb.gr Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Business Administration, School of Business, Athens University of Economics and Business Title: The Emperor?s New Mind: On Constantine?s I Decision to Legalize Christianity Abstract: Emperor Constantine?s I Edict of Toleration in 313 CE ended the age of Christian persecution in the Roman Empire, and heralded the era where Christian monotheism started displacing the dominant Greco - Roman paganism. Secular power and religious authority aligned together to govern the empire, so monotheism in the form of Christianity and Greco - Roman polytheism became strategic complements, as the Emperor lowered the existing ?higher price? for Christian monotheism. Was Constantine?s I decision right? By moving the capital from Rome to Constantinople, Emperor Constantine I had to solve a coordination problem among rational players throughout the empire. Adoption of rituals within a society results in the reinforcement or the inculcation of shared beliefs and values. Following Schelling (1960), when persons are confronted with coordination problems often seem to do surprisingly well when focal points provide to them a point of convergence for individual expectations. I argue in the present paper that Constantine?s I decision to legalize Christianity was followed by a set of carefully chosen strategic decisions essential to promote social coordination, and with the aim to convert the city of Constantinople into a strong focal point of religious rituals. The building of the Church of St Eirene (?The Church of Hagia Eirene?) and other Christian churches, alongside the exploitation of the administrative organizational structure of the Christian church that existed within the empire, were all part of expansion - deterrence strategies against the old pagan world, and also the need to create a strong focal point of religious rituals away from the Holy Land. Classification-JEL: B11, D70, Z13 Keywords: Economics of Religion; Christianity; Church; Focal Points; Rituals; Economic History; Journal: International Journal of Social Sciences Pages: 47-59 Volume: 5 Issue: 1 Year: 2016 Month: February File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-social-sciences/publication-detail-302 File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-social-sciences/publication-detail-302?download=3 Handle: RePEc:sek:jijoss:v:5:y:2016:i:1:p:47-59 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Alicja Grzeskowiak Author-Name-First: Alicja Author-Name-Last: Grzeskowiak Author-Email: alicja.grzeskowiak@ue.wroc.pl Author-Workplace-Name: Wroc?aw University of Economics Title: Satisfaction with chosen aspects of life in Poland - evaluation by canonical correlation methods Abstract: This paper is focused on the analysis of relations between variables representing the satisfaction with various aspects of life and other socio-economic indicators. The main objective of the study is to identify associations between multivariate datasets. The research is based on the datasets containing both metric and non-metric data, which determines the use of adequate analytical techniques. Hence, canonical correlation analysis and nonlinear canonical correlation analysis are applied, respectively. Special attention is paid to the visual presentation of the outcomes of the analyses. The approach used in this paper allows for the detection of interesting relations and patterns between datasets under consideration. Classification-JEL: I31, I39 Keywords: satisfaction with life, canonical correlation analysis, nonlinear canonical correlation analysis Journal: International Journal of Social Sciences Pages: 60-71 Volume: 5 Issue: 1 Year: 2016 Month: February File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-social-sciences/publication-detail-451 File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-social-sciences/publication-detail-451?download=4 Handle: RePEc:sek:jijoss:v:5:y:2016:i:1:p:60-71 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Simin Mozayeni Author-Name-First: Simin Author-Name-Last: Mozayeni Author-Email: mozayens@newpaltz.edu Author-Workplace-Name: State University of New York at New Paltz Author-Name: Parisa Amirmostofian Author-Name-First: Parisa Author-Name-Last: Amirmostofian Author-Email: parisa@parisaarttherapy.com Author-Workplace-Name: None Title: Comparison of Parametric and Nonparametric Modeling: Aesthetic Effect of Kamran Khavarani?s Paintings Abstract: This research is an extension of Amirmostofian, Mozayeni (2016). Our hypothesis is that Khavarani?s painting style, Abstract Romanticism, combines artistic elements that impart positive effect on viewers? psyche. Our data encompass 320 surveys. Previously, we reported three nonparametric tests results, and concluded that Khavarani?s paintings have positive effects on viewers? psyche. In this research we examine new results for six Multivariate General Linear Model (MGLM) estimations for six Khavarani?s groups. With their R2, 0.04-021, and negligible and insignificant coefficients for variables Age, Gender, and the base mood, we propose that Khavarani?s paintings influence the subjects? Mood After, the dependent variable in our model. We invoke Vartanian and Skov (2014), and recognize that subjects in the six groups experienced a meditative joy. Classification-JEL: C10, C52, Z11 Keywords: Models Evaluation, Validation and Selection, Khavarani, Abstract Romanticism, Meditative Effect of Painting, Behavioral Economics Journal: International Journal of Social Sciences Pages: 72-92 Volume: 5 Issue: 1 Year: 2016 Month: February File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-social-sciences/publication-detail-453 File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-social-sciences/publication-detail-453?download=5 Handle: RePEc:sek:jijoss:v:5:y:2016:i:1:p:72-92