Africa’s demographic transition : dividend or disaster?
, 2015 The demographic dividend describes the interplay between changes in a population’s age structure due to the demographic transition and rapid economic growth. Except for a few countries in Southern Africa and some island nations, fertility rates and youth
D. Canning, S. Raja, A. Yazbeck
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Health, demographic transition and economic growth [PDF]
This paper develops a link between four central components of the demographic transition: survival rates; fertility decisions; altruistic intergenerational transfers from workers toward their parents; and economic growth. An increase in child survival is
Jorgensen, Ole Hagen
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Acoustic Measures Capture Speech Dysfunction in Spinocerebellar Ataxia
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective Spinocerebellar ataxias (SCA) are hereditary cerebellar degenerative disorders with a common feature of dysarthria, involving impaired phonatory and articulatory control of speech, thereby affecting social communication. In this study, we investigated whether acoustic measures could objectively measure speech dysfunction and identify
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Postponement and recuperation in cohort marriage: The experience of South Korea
Demographic Research, 2016 Background: Despite continuing marriage delay in East Asia, little is known about the shift of marriage towards later ages and the concomitant decline in marriage.
Sam Hyun Yoo
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The Demographic Transition and the Emergence of Sustained Economic Growth [PDF]
The demographic transition that swept the world in the course of the last century has been identified as one of the prime forces in the transition from stagnation to growth.
Oded Galor
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Association of Corticospinal Tract Asymmetry With Ambulatory Ability After Intracerebral Hemorrhage
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Ambulatory ability after intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) is important to patients. We tested whether asymmetry between ipsi‐ and contra‐lesional corticospinal tracts (CSTs) assessed by diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is associated with post‐ICH ambulation.
Yasmin N. Aziz +25 more
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Spatial pattern of structural ageing in eastern Croatia: evolution and explanations
International Journal of Ageing and Later Life, 2015 This article aims to examine the ageing situation and social policy issues in the Osijek-Baranja County of eastern Croatia. Using historical evidence from census data, research suggests that the evolution of the ageing pattern has been mainly determined ...
Marijan Jukic, Hafiz T. A. Khan
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Anders Brändström and Lars-Göran Tedebrand (eds.), Society, health and population during the demographic transition, Stockholm, Almqvist and Wiksell International, 1988, 8vo, pp. 514, SKr 215.00. [PDF]
, 1990 Michael Anderson
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, 2013 The process of desertification is usually modeled as a first order transition, where a change of an external parameter (e.g. precipitation) leads to a catastrophic bifurcation followed by an ecological regime shift.
Shnerb, Nadav M., Weissmann, Haim
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Age‐Related Characteristics of SYT1‐Associated Neurodevelopmental Disorder
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objectives We describe the clinical manifestations and developmental abilities of individuals with SYT1‐associated neurodevelopmental disorder (Baker‐Gordon syndrome) from infancy to adulthood. We further describe the neuroradiological and electrophysiological characteristics of the condition at different ages, and explore the associations ...
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