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Exploring the fertility trend in Egypt
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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Coronary Angiography in Patients With Left Ventricular Hypertrabeculation/Noncompaction [PDF]
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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Survival and Years of Good Life in Finland in the very long run
In this paper we apply the recently developed wellbeing indicator ‘Years of Good Life’ (YoGL) to Finland, which has the world’s longest annual demographic time series starting in 1722. We combine this with scenarios up to 2100 as developed under the SSP (
Claudia Reiter, Wolfgang Lutz
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Why Later Wittgenstein was not a therapist
Wittgenstein famously regarded philosophy as an activity and not as a body of doctrine. And yet within the secondary literature there is little agreement as to what Wittgenstein took the purpose of that activity to be.
Victor Loughlin
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Independent Associations of Maternal Education and Household Wealth with Malaria Risk in Children
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
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How much time is left? International trends in parenthood expectancy
Background: Many industrialized societies have experienced increases in life expectancy and in the mean age at first birth (MAFB). This has likely impacted the lifetime that parents share with their children; i.e., parenthood expectancy (PEX ...
Erich Striessnig, Alessandra Trimarchi
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The Composition of Wittgenstein's "Tractatus": An Interpretative Study [PDF]
When Wittgenstein started writing the Tractatus in June 1915, he was convinced that he was producing a theory. Accordingly, he chose a theoretical style of expressing his thought.
Milkov, Nikolay
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Objective Muscle strength is a powerful predictor of mortality that can quickly and inexpensively be assessed by measuring handgrip strength (HGS). What is missing for clinical practice, however, are empirically meaningful cut-off points that apply to ...
Sergei Scherbov +2 more
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A survey of Parikh’s philosophical appropriations of Wittgensteinian themes, placed into historical context against the backdrop of Turing’s famous paper, “On computable numbers, with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem” (Turing in Proc Lond Math ...
Floyd, Juliet
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The collection of articles in this Special Feature is part of a larger project on "Forecasting Societies' Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change" (an Advanced Grant of the European Research Council to Wolfgang Lutz).
Raya Muttarak, Wolfgang Lutz
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