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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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On population growth with catastrophes [PDF]
Stochastic Models, 2022 In this paper we study a particular class of Piecewise deterministic Markov processes (PDMP's) which are semi-stochastic catastrophe versions of deterministic population growth models. In between successive jumps the process follows a flow describing deterministic population growth. Moreover, at random jump times, governed by state-dependent rates, the
Goncalves, Branda +2 more
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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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Epidemiological Transition in Iran: The Rise and Fall of Epidemics in Iran After Islam to Before the Islamic Revolution [PDF]
Epidemiology and Health System Journal, 2023 Background and aims: The lack of reliable data on mortality in Iran until the last few decades has caused the early stages of the epidemiological transition to remain unknown.
Mohammad Sasanipour +1 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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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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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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THE GROWTH OF POPULATIONS OF PROTOCELLS [PDF]
Processes of Emergence of Systems and Systemic Properties, 2008 the growth of protocells is discussed under different hypotheses (one or more replicators, linear and nonlinear kinetics) using a class of abstract models (Surface Reaction Models). A method to analyze the dynamics of successive protocell generations is presented, and it is applied to the problem of determining whether the duplication times of the ...
SERRA, Roberto +3 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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