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Cohort fertility decline in low fertility countries: Decomposition using parity progression ratios

open access: yesDemographic 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]

open access: yes, 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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Education stalls and subsequent stalls in African fertility: A descriptive overview

open access: yesDemographic 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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The impact of increasing education levels on rising life expectancy: a decomposition analysis for Italy, Denmark, and the USA

open access: yesGenus, 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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Differences by union status in health and mortality at older ages: Results for 16 European countries

open access: yesDemographic 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
doaj   +1 more source

Exploring the fertility trend in Egypt

open access: yesDemographic 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
doaj   +1 more source

Future population ageing and productivity in Finland under different education and fertility scenarios

open access: yesFinnish 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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Coronary Angiography in Patients With Left Ventricular Hypertrabeculation/Noncompaction [PDF]

open access: yesTexas Heart Institute Journal
Background Left ventricular hypertrabeculation/noncompaction (LVHT) is a cardiac abnormality of unknown pathogenesis, frequently associated with neuromuscular disorders. The relevance of coronary artery disease (CAD) in LVHT is largely unknown.
Nicolas de Cillia, MD   +5 more
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Wittgenstein and the sciences

open access: yesRevista de Filosofia Aurora, 2022
In the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Wittgenstein states that man has the ability to construct languages with which all meanings may be expressed, but that it is humanly impossible to immediately extract its logic from it. Thus, language is a costume that disguises thought while proposition is a figuration of reality.
openaire   +2 more sources

Independent Associations of Maternal Education and Household Wealth with Malaria Risk in Children

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2014
Despite evidence that they play similar but independent roles, maternal education and household wealth are usually conflated in studies of the effects of socioeconomic status (SES) on malaria risk.
José G. Siri
doaj   +1 more source

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