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Birth Order and Education: Evidence from a Korean Cohort [PDF]
This paper estimates the effects of birth order on education. This paper is the first to control for the mother’s age at first birth. While previous studies find that earlier-born children are better off, this paper finds no effects.Birth order ...
Cho, Hyunkuk
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Fractional pure birth processes
, 2009 We consider a fractional version of the classical nonlinear birth process of which the Yule--Furry model is a particular case. Fractionality is obtained by replacing the first order time derivative in the difference-differential equations which govern ...
Orsingher, Enzo, Polito, Federico
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Freedom Giving Birth to Order: Philosophical Reflections on Peirce's Evolutionary Cosmology and its Contemporary Resurrections [PDF]
, 2020 This paper seeks to show that Charles Sanders Peirce's interest in an evolutionary account of the laws of nature is motivated both by his desire to extend the scope of the application of the Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR) and by his attempt to ...
Nabolsy, Zeyad El
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Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.Objective This study aimed to characterize the pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, safety, and exploratory efficacy of subcutaneous belimumab in pediatric patients with active systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) receiving standard therapy. Methods This single‐arm, multicenter, open‐label trial (GSK study 200908; ClinicalTrials.gov identifier ...
Hermine I. Brunner +14 more
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Health Science ReportsBackground and Aims Acute respiratory infection (ARI), diarrhea, and fever are major causes of childhood morbidity in low‐ and middle‐income countries.
Mohamed Said Hassan +2 more
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The lexicographic preference for a son: evidence from household data in Vietnam [PDF]
This paper examines son preferences by specifying sex composition by birth order of existing children as key independent variables. The results indicate a lexicographic preference for a son by mothers aged 50 years and older.
Tien Manh Vu
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A computational approach for a fluid queue driven by a truncated birth-death process [PDF]
, 1999 In this paper, we consider a fluid queue driven by a truncated birth-death process with general birth and death rates. We find the equilibrium distribution of the content of the fluid buffer by computing the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of an associated
Lenin, R.B., Parthasarathy, P.R.
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Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.Objective Several case reports have proposed a potential association between COVID‐19 vaccination and the subsequent development of idiopathic inflammatory myositis (IIM). This study examined prior COVID‐19 vaccination in US veterans who developed new‐onset IIM compared to those without new‐onset IIM.
Caleb Hernández +10 more
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The More the Merrier? The Effect of Family Size and Birth Order on Childrens Education [PDF]
There is an extensive theoretical literature that postulates a trade off between child quantity and quality within a family. However, there is little causal evidence that speaks to this theory. Using a rich dataset on the entire population of Norway over
Kjell Salvanes, Paul Devereux, S Black
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Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.Objective We examined whether 18 months of strength training in individuals with knee varus alignment and medial tibiofemoral osteoarthritis (OA) reduced knee joint loads during walking compared to an attention control group. Methods This study was a secondary analysis of a randomized clinical trial that compared the effects of strength training to a ...
Stephen P. Messier +12 more
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