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Changes in life expectancy and life span equality during the COVID-19 epidemic in 2020-22 in Japan. [PDF]

PLoS ONE
ObjectivesLife expectancy at birth is a demographic measure derived from age-specific mortality rates, reflecting the population's mortality pattern and its changes over time.
Yuta Okada, Hiroshi Nishiura
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Global sex differences in hygiene norms and their relation to sex equality.

PLOS Global Public Health, 2022
Strict norms about hygiene may sometimes have health benefits but may also be a burden. Based on research in the United States, it has been suggested that women traditionally shoulder responsibility for hygiene standards and therefore tend to have ...
Kimmo Eriksson, Thomas E Dickins, Pontus Strimling   +2 more
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A partnership approach to the design and use of a quantitative measure: Co-producing and piloting the WASH gender equality measure in Cambodia and Nepal

Development Studies Research, 2022
The connections between WASH and gender equality have been extensively explored and documented using qualitative approaches, but not yet through quantitative means in ways that can strengthen WASH programming.
Diana Gonzalez, Rana Abdel Sattar, Ratan Budhathoki, Naomi Carrard, Rachel P. Chase, Joanne Crawford, Gabrielle Halcrow, Tyler Kozole, Jess MacArthur, Christopher Nicoletti, Veasna Toeur, Min Prasad Basnet, Aastha Chhetri, Harishova Gurung, Ambika Yadav, Pa Vourchnea, Juliet Willetts   +16 more
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All Glucose Measurements Are Not Equal [PDF]

Anesthesiology, 2009
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Federico Bilotta, Remo Caramia, Francesca P. Paoloni, Roberto Delfini, ROSA, Giovanni   +4 more
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Disability in the UK: measuring equality [PDF]

Disability & Society, 2007
In this article we identify the key survey data for examining the issue of equality in the lives of disabled people in the UK. Such data is essential for assessing change in quality of life over time and for the evaluation of the impact of policy initiatives. For each data source we consider definitions, data collection, issue coverage, sample size and
Purdam, Kingsley, Afkhami, Reza, Olsen, Wendy; id_orcid 0000-0003-1440-5810, Thornton, Patricia   +3 more
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Work Measurement in OPEN Quantum System

Entropy, 2022
Work is an important quantity in thermodynamics. In a closed quanutm system, the two-point energy measurements can be applied to measure the work but cannot be utilized in an open quantum system.
Youyang Xu
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Space–time prisms in multimodal supernetwork - Part 2: Application for analyses of accessibility and equalitySignificance

Communications in Transportation Research, 2022
Space–time prism (STP) is a fundamental concept in time geography and has been predominately constructed in unimodal transportation networks. Due to the vast trip chaining options by private vehicles and public transportation, it was challenging to ...
Jing Qin, Feixiong Liao
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Measuring Unfair (in) Equality [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008
The standard approach to inequality measurement regards all inequalities as being unfair. However, most people do not share this view, and believe that some inequalities are fair. This paper shows one way of generalizing the standard approach to take account of the distinction between fair and unfair inequalities.
Ingvild Almås, Alexander W. Cappelen, Jo Thori Lind, Erik Sorensen, Bertil Tungodden   +4 more
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Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Capacity Building of Organisations and Individuals

Journal of Learning for Development, 2022
To ensure its partners have the capacity to implement gender responsive projects, COL introduced an online training programme on gender equality and women’s empowerment.
Damodaram Kuppuswami , Frances Ferreira
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Reassessing the U-shaped relationship between gender equality and fertility: A replication and extension of Kolk’s (2019) study using comprehensive gender equality measures [PDF]

Demographic Research
BACKGROUND: While theories predict that fertility initially declines and subsequently rebounds with rising gender equality, previous empirical studies have produced mixed results, partly due to differences in gender equality measurement and ...
Haohao Lei
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