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Showing 1 to 20 of 55 for “"Birth Rate"”.
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Engaging Church Leaders in the Reduction of Teen Birth Rate in High Risk Areas
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Covert Abortion Networks: How Civil Society Subverts the State and Provides Abortion, No Matter What
… the erosion of the access environment. CANs operate across a variety of legal and practical contexts to help people access abortions, no matter what. A common refrain in the pro-choice community is that abortion restrictions do not work; this project investigates why they do not work. I argue …
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An evidence-based policy for the provision of subsidised fertility treatment in California: Integration of array comparative genomic hybridisation with IVF and mandatory single embryo transfer to lower multiple gestation and preterm birth rates
… strongly skews the multiple gestation/preterm birth rate upward to approximately 50% of all deliveries, while unassisted conceptions yield this outcome in only 3% of births. Preterm/multiple gestation babies from IVF are “super-utilisers” and consume a disproportionate share of healthcare …
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A decomposition analysis of fertility rate in South Africa by population - groups and provinces
… of the study was to decompose fertility rate of South Africa by population groups and provinces. The study used data from the 1996, 2001 and 2011 population censuses conducted by Statistics South Africa and the Das Gupta decomposition method to establish the contribution of age-sex …
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An Application of Proactive Organizational Communication in Support of an Institutional Objective Regarding Student Retention At Southwest Missouri State University
… soon changed. By the mid 1970's, the nation's birth rate dropped a little more than three million from the early sixties. The declining birth rate signaled danger (a shrinking recruitment pool of 18- year-olds) to colleges and universities in the early 1970's through the 1980's. In view of the …
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A mathematical analysis of evolutionary rescue and niche construction
… of rescue is highest under low-to-moderate rates of construction: some construction is needed to ensure that mutants proliferate quickly enough to avoid stochastic extinction; but because construction is costly, requiring time and energy to perform and develop, too much of it can lead …
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SDTDMn0 : a multidimensional distributed data mining framework supporting time series data analysis for critical care research
Premature birth is one of the major perinatal health issues across the world. In 2007, the estimated Canadian preterm birth rate was 8.1 % (CIHI, 2009). Recent research has shown that conditions, such as nosocomial infections or apnoeas, exhibit certain variations in the baby's physiological …
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Spatial Analysis of Teen Births in North Central Texas
The United States has the highest teen birth rate among western industrialized countries and the highest levels of pregnancy among adolescents (Alan Guttmacher Institute, 1994). While the rate of teen births is high throughout the country, considerable variations exist between and within regions. …
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Matriz de Leslie e aplicações.
… by age group in a given time, where the process Birth and death between two successive observation times can be described by demographic parameters, where these parameters are given by the birth rate and survival rate. We study the age distribution at a given moment represented by a vector, which …
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The economic future of the social security system
… These events include marriage, divorce, death, birth of a child, retirement and disability onset and recovery. Each month, it is seen which events occur and the resulting benefits paid by the system is calculated. The difference between the intakes and outlays of the system are calculated and …
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Implementation of a mHealth Program Within a Homeless Population of Young Mothers
… estimated 28,000 infants die before their first birthday annually (<a href="http://www.marchofdimes.com/peristats">www.marchofdimes.com/peristats</a>). New Jersey’s infant mortality rate appears exemplary when compared to the United States overall infant mortality rate. Yet, New Jersey’s infant …
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Space for one
… populated cities like Tokyo. The declining birth rate and marriage rate ignite the "low desire society" that Japan has entered into. When the economy is in stagnation, young people are submissive to what they have and decide to "live in the moment", instead of pursuing a brighter future …
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Post occupancy evaluation of five story walk up dwellings : the case of four mass housing estates in Algiers.
… of housing in Algeria, resulting from a high birth rate and the migration of the rural population to the cities, large mass housing programmes have been launched since the late 1970s, providing the urban population with dwellings and housing facilities just outside the existing urban …
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Measuring and Modeling The Response Characteristics Of The Environmental Phosphate Transducer In Escherichia Coli
… of minimal models, simple extensions of the birth-death process, that have response characteristics in common with the measured transducer response. We find that using the Hill equation as the functional form of the birth rate in an autoregulating birth-death process gives a bistable system …
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Infertility and recurrent miscarriage: an examination of pregnancy outcomes, services and patient experience
… is unclear. RM and infertility are separately receiving greater attention from policy makers, nationally and internationally, therefore greater evidence is needed to inform policy and practice. Thus, the overall objective of this thesis is to examine the dual experience of RM and …
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The Vernal And Summer Zooplankton In Surface Waters From A Small Cove In Stockton Reservoir
… and Daphnia parvula were temporally separated and the largest individuals of these species were collected after dark, indicating either heavy predation in the daytime or vertical migration of the larger animals. The average sizes of zooplankton were not significantly correlated with the …
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Inequality of suicide in South Korea: Unequal distribution of completed suicide and suicidal ideation
… (1) major influential factors of suicide rates in South Korea counties from 2005–2013, (2) gender, age group-specific influential factors of suicide rate of South Korea in 2005 and 2010, and (3) individual level inequality of suicidal ideation in South Korea from 2007–2017 controlling …
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Determinants of Teenage Childbearing in the United States
… North Carolina administrative dataset that links birth certificate data to school administrative records. I show that being born after the school entry cutoff date affects educational success in offsetting ways, with a negative impact on years of education but positive impact on test scores. Using …
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Developing and implementing global branding strategies for Kirin Group
… alcoholic beverage market in Japan: declining birth rate and population, a totally saturated beer market, and diversification in younger consumers' preferences for alcoholic beverages. Faced with this situation, it is clear that my employer, Kirin needs to expand its focus from the beer …
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