This paper studies intergenerational mobility in Latin America and shows that, in addition to the well-documented fact that the Latin American income distribution is highly unequal, profound differences in opportunities persist from one generation to the next.
He was an ironic, humorous, profound, highly natural person who had the most impeccable manners," says the Oscar-winning British producer Jeremy Thomas, who worked with Curtis on one of the actor's best late films, Nic Roeg's Insignificance (1985).
He warned that the current political impasse over Parliament could have long-term consequences for Afghanistan's future as a democracy and conveyed his sense that with the exception of the Afghan Army, which many Afghans already regard highly, there were profound questions about whether Afghan institutions would survive.
Besides the presence of oxidized phospholipids in oligodendrocytes and myelin, we also found a highly selective and profound expression of these neo-epitopes within degenerating axons and neurons.
Combining a psychometric index of risky decision-making with transient electrical modulation of the nucleus accumbens, here we reveal profound, highly dynamic alteration of the relation between probability of reward and choice during therapeutic deep brain stimulation in four patients with treatment-resistant psychiatric disease.
Achieved in a highly competitive context, this profound theoretical advance still had to be established as a reality of biology.
It does not matter where you go, Mr. Osborne argues in "The Naked Tourist," a biting, highly amusing and occasionally profound inquiry into travel and its discontents.
As in many societies around the world, lack of pregnancy and the resulting childlessness are often highly stigmatized, leading to profound social suffering for infertile couples in Turkey.
But now that I have seen them prize so highly, and with such profound effects, what we throw away without a thought, the trail of Susie Bayer's T-shirt only seems to tell one story, a very old one, about the unfairness of the world as it is.
Our updated bottom-up results through the end of 2011 are startling and highly indicative of the profound deterioration of all European nations in just one year, with Italy and France "leading the way" down.
