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This review aims to provide a broad understanding for interdisciplinary researchers in engineering and clinical applications. It addresses the development and control of magnetic actuation systems (MASs) in clinical surgeries and their revolutionary effects in multiple clinical applications.
Yingxin Huo +3 more
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Higher Education, the Bane of Fertility? An investigation with the HILDA Survey [PDF]
This paper uses the first wave of HILDA in an analysis of the determinants of fertility, focusing in particular on the role of education. Estimating lifetime fertility from micro data sets is generally quite difficult since a large proportion of the ...
Peng Yu
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Do fertility control policies affect health in old age? Evidence from China's one-child experiment.
A. Islam, R. Smyth
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Abstract This study examines the impact of soil erosion on agricultural land values in the United States (US) Midwest. Based on a novel county‐level panel data set with information on soil erosion levels and agricultural land values covering five census years (1997, 2002, 2007, 2012, and 2017), we separately investigate the direct effect of two types ...
Le Chen +3 more
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France: High and stable fertility [PDF]
The current total fertility rate in France is around 1.9 children per woman. This is a relatively high level by current European standards and makes France an outlier, despite the fact that its other demographic trends, especially conjugal behaviour, and
Laurent Toulemon +2 more
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Fertility Theories: Are Demographers Neutral?
This article retraces the history of fertility theories as illustrated by 23 founding texts grouped together in a single volume Les théories de la fécondité (2014).
Leridon, Henri, Shuraiki, Mada
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Accounting for animal health in efficiency analysis: An application to Swedish dairy farms
Abstract Poor animal health is a central concern in modern livestock production. Despite the necessity to incorporate animal health in efficiency analysis, the theoretical and empirical developments are limited on this subject. This article appropriately characterizes the axiomatic properties of animal health within a production framework.
Frederic Ang +3 more
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Testicular Photohyperthermia Mediated by Magnetic Nanoparticles: Implications for Male Fertility Control. [PDF]
Lima VN +11 more
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An analysis of fertility behaviour in Mexico [PDF]
In the last few decades female permanent sterilization became the most used contraception method in Mexico. During this time the demand for short-term contraceptives fell consistently.
Mirando Caso Luengo, Alfonso
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Food inflation pass‐through from agricultural imports in a small open economy
Abstract This paper develops a new framework for quantifying cost pass‐through in a small open economy by estimating firm‐level markup responses to agricultural import price shocks. We show theoretically that markup adjustments depend on firms' reliance on imported inputs and demand curvature, generating heterogeneous inflationary effects across firm ...
Minseong Kang, Seungki Lee
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