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The relationship between consumption of single-use plastic bags, environmental awareness, and socio-demographic factors

Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management, 2022
Gulsah Senturk, Devrim Dumludag
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Demographic and social factors

1981
The increase in the proportion of people aged over 65 years in the community is not only a phenomenon of Western society but is to be found in Eastern countries as well. What is, perhaps, more significant from the point of view of health care, is that the number of people of over 75 years is rising even more greatly in proportion to the total ...
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Demographic factors predict magnitude of conditioned fear

International Journal of Psychophysiology, 2015
There is substantial variability across individuals in the magnitudes of their skin conductance (SC) responses during the acquisition and extinction of conditioned fear. To manage this variability, subjects may be matched for demographic variables, such as age, gender and education.
Blake L, Rosenbaum, Eric, Bui, Marie-France, Marin, Daphne J, Holt, Natasha B, Lasko, Roger K, Pitman, Scott P, Orr, Mohammed R, Milad   +7 more
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Occupational noise and demographic factors in hearing

Acta Oto-Laryngologica, 1991
The effects of age, sex, socioeconomic background and noise exposure on hearing were examined in a population sample. Subjects, aged between 17 and 80 years, were selected from the electoral register using a stratified random sampling technique based on age and reported hearing difficulty.
M E, Lutman, H S, Spencer
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Birth intervals — demographic factors

1984
At any time the size and structure of a human population reflects the levels of fertility, mortality and migration which have existed in previous periods of time. Often, the level of migration is negligible, or can be assumed to be so, and the population can be treated as a ‘closed’ system affected only by fertility and mortality.
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Prevalence and demographic factors of stimulant use

Addiction, 1994
AbstractThe use of stimulants for recreation purposes has increased considerably during the 20th century. Cocaine was first considered to be a drug of potential abuse during the First World War but was only perceived as a serious threat when it became widely used in socially and economically deprived urban areas of the USA in the 1980s.
H, Pickering, G V, Stimson
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Factors mediating demographic determinants of injury mortality

Annals of Epidemiology, 2019
Elevated injury mortality rates persist for men and people of color despite attempts to standardize trauma care in the United States. This study investigates the role of injury characteristics and access to trauma care as mediators of the relationships between race, ethnicity, sex, and injury mortality.Data on prehospital and trauma center care were ...
Molly P, Jarman, Keshia, Pollack Porter, Frank C, Curriero, Renan C, Castillo   +3 more
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Demographic factor of social development

Vestnik Rossijskoj akademii nauk
The article analyses the concept of social and demographic development. These concepts are predominantly interpreted as a progressive movement towards a better state, as changes for the better in the quality of life and demographic characteristics of the population. According to the authors, positive demographic dynamics should not be evaluated only as
I. P. Tsapenko, K. A. Subkhangulova
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Demographic Factors of Fertility Change

2019
Demographically, and within the social settings of the three East Asian countries under study where out-of-wedlock childbearing is rare, fertility changes are explained primarily by two demographic factors: changes in the age pattern of marriage among women at reproductive ages and changes in fertility within marriage.
Noriko O. Tsuya, Minja Kim Choe, Feng Wang   +2 more
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Demographic Factors Affecting Faculty Salary

Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1995
This study identifies specific demographic attributes that influence salary at institutions of higher education. Data were obtained for all business faculty at nine public universities. A log-linear model with salary as the regressand serves as the functional form of estimation.
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