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Major Trends in Population Growth Around the World
China CDC Weekly, 2021 The world’s population continues to grow, albeit at a slower pace. The decelerating growth is mainly attributable to fertility declines in a growing number of countries. However, there are substantial variations in the future trends of populations across
Dana Gu, K. Andreev, Matthew E. Dupre
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Negative population growth and population ageing in China
China Population and Development Studies, 2023 The first characteristic of “Chinese Path to Modernization” is “the modernization of a huge population”, which refers to that China’s modernization is historically making 1.4 billion people live a prosperous and dignified life. Meanwhile, the demographic
D. Peng
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Pubertal growth in height, sitting height and leg length in achondroplasia
Annals of Human Biology, 2021 Background: Children with achondroplasia (ACH) appear to lack a pubertal growth spurt in height. Aim To explore the growth spurt in height and its segments sitting height and leg length, in a large sample of ACH cases using growth curve modelling ...
T. J. Cole +3 more
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Past insecticide exposure reduces bee reproduction and population growth rate
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021 Significance Global insect declines are profoundly concerning, especially for groups like bees that provide important services to humanity. However, we do not know the extent to which recognized drivers of decline, like pesticides, may produce carryover ...
C. Stuligross, N. Williams
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Scientific Reports, 2021 In India, districts serve as central policy unit for program development, administration and implementation. The one-size-fits-all approach based on average prevalence estimates at the district level fails to capture the substantial small area variation.
Sunil Rajpal +4 more
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International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 2021 Background Few studies have evaluated teacher- and school-level characteristics associated with implementation of recommended physical activity (PA) promoting practices.
Ann Pulling Kuhn +7 more
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The inception of demographic theory in Serbia [PDF]
Stanovništvo, 2023 This text contains an account of the first work on theoretical demography in Serbia, which was written in 1862 by Kosta Cukić, a doctor of philosophy from Heidelberg and the first widely recognised Serbian economist.
Mijatović Boško
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Improving nutrition budgeting in health sector plans: Evidence from India's anaemia control strategy
Maternal and Child Nutrition, 2022 In India, 15 nutrition interventions are delivered and financed through the National Health Mission (NHM). Programmatic know‐how, however, on tracking nutrition budgets in health sector plans is limited.
Avi Saini +3 more
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Laws of population growth [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2008 An important issue in the study of cities is defining a metropolitan area, because different definitions affect conclusions regarding the statistical distribution of urban activity. A commonly employed method of defining a metropolitan area is the Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs), based on rules attempting to capture the notion of city as a ...
Rozenfeld, Hernan D. +5 more
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Malthusianism of the 21st century
Environmental and Sustainability Indicators, 2020 This paper has arisen from a reflection of the current reality in terms of the postulations about what is known as the Malthusian economy. Since the Industrial Revolution to the present day, despite there having been a high increase in world population ...
Borja Montano, Marcos García-López
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