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Education stalls and subsequent stalls in African fertility: A descriptive overview
Demographic Research, 2015 Background: Recent stalls in fertility decline have been observed in a few countries in sub-Saharan Africa, and so far no plausible common reason has been identified in the literature.
Anne Goujon, Wolfgang Lutz, Samir KC
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Paradigms and self-reference: what is the point of asserting paradoxical sentences? [PDF]
, 2020 A paradox, according to Wittgenstein, is something surprising that is taken out of its context. Thus, one way of dealing with paradoxical sentences is to imagine the missing context of use.
Mácha, Jakub
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Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science, 2020 The purpose of this article is to fill an interpretive gap in L. Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus in what has been overlooked by most scholars of the Austrian philosopher. It is the consideration of the possible influences that he would have suffered from the time of Mechanical Engineering studies and that reflected directly in his ...
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Cohort fertility decline in low fertility countries: Decomposition using parity progression ratios
Demographic Research, 2018 Background: The long-term decline in cohort fertility in highly developed countries has been widely documented. However, no systematic analysis has investigated which parity contributed most to the fertility decline to low and very low levels ...
Krystof Zeman +3 more
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Wittgenstein and Communication Technology : A conversation between Richard Harper and Constantine Sandis [PDF]
, 2018 Special Issue: PROCEEDINGS OF THE BRITISH WITTGENSTEIN SOCIETY 10TH ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE: WITTGENSTEIN IN THE 21ST CENTURY © 2018 John Wiley & Sons LtdThis paper documents a conversation between a philosopher and a human computer interaction researcher
Harper, Richard, Sandis, Constantine
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Genus, 2019 Significant reductions in mortality are reflected in strong increases in life expectancy particularly in industrialized countries. Previous analyses relate these improvements primarily to medical innovations and advances in health-related behaviors ...
Marc Luy +5 more
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Finnish Yearbook of Population Research, 2022 This study projects different dependency ratios under various scenarios of future fertility and tertiary education in Finland to assess how the economic consequences of population aging depend on these trends.
Guillaume Marois +2 more
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Cultural Relativism in Wittgenstein’s Remarks on Cultural and Religious Rituals [PDF]
پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2022 According to the current interpretation, Wittgenstein in "Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough" takes an expressive approach to religious rituals and cultural practices. Relying on this approach, he criticizes Frazer's view.
Hossein Shaqaqi
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Differences by union status in health and mortality at older ages: Results for 16 European countries
Demographic Research, 2016 Background: Married people live longer than the unmarried; micro-level research indicates that they enjoy better health. Macro-level research does not combine mortality, marital status, and health.
Dimiter Philipov, Sergei Scherbov
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Exploring the fertility trend in Egypt
Demographic Research, 2017 Background: The unusual fertility increase experienced by several Arab countries in the recent years is particularly visible in Egypt, where fertility declined very slowly after 2000 and started to increase again between 2008 and 2014.
Zakarya Al Zalak, Anne Goujon
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