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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"demographic determinants"”.
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Religious and Socio-Demographic Determinants of Marital Satisfaction
… thesis examines the relationship between socio-demographic characteristics, levels of personal religiosity, and reported marital satisfaction. Current research suggests links among these dimensions of interpersonal life, and building upon existing literature, I examine the effects of one's …
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Branching out: A comparative analysis of demographic determinants of mammalian speciation
… which is determined by the interaction between demographic and genetic processes. These demographic processes include the formation of population isolates and the persistence of these isolates. The role and regulators of the demographic determinants of speciation have received some empirical …
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Socio-Demographic Determinants of Suicide and Homicide-- a Multivariate Cross-Cultural Investigation
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Demographic determinants of chemical safety information recall in workers and consumers in South Africa
… using two modules (module 2 which relates to the demographics, and module 3 which relates to the recall of the participants) from the Hazard Communication Comprehensibility Testing (CT) Tool developed by the Centre for Environmental and Occupational Health at the University of Cape Town. …
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Maternal alcohol consumption and socio-demographic determinants of neurocognitive function of school children in the rural Western Cape
… and present maternal drinking) and related socio-demographic factors on developmentally sensitive areas of child neurocognitive functioning, such as executive functioning (EF). Methods. This study was cross-sectional in design, utilising a gender balanced sample of N=464 children between the ages …
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Analysing the socio-demographic determinants of comprehensive HIV/AIDS knowledge among school-going children in Botwana: a multi-level analysis
… school-age children in Botswana as well as the determinants of this cohort's comprehensive knowledge of HIV/AIDS. Methods Setting The data used in this analysis is from a survey that was conducted in 135 private and public schools in Botswana in the ten districts overseen by the Ministry of …
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Exploring the drivers and consequences of emerging infectious disease of wildlife
… (Myotis sodalis), as well as environmental and demographic determinants of its declines over epidemic time. In Chapter 4, I explore the role of individual variation in roosting microclimate selection of little brown bats in driving their infection severity, yielding important insights into the …
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Inequality within and between New Zealand urban areas
… been on the role of economic factors, socio-demographic factors play an important role as well. This thesis examines the socio-demographic determinants of changes in the distribution of income in New Zealand urban areas from 1986 to 2013, using data from the Censuses of Population and …
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Trends and derteminants of adelescent fertility in Zimbabwe
This study examines the trends and socio-demographic determinants of adolescent fertility in Zimbabwe. The study uses all six ZDHS surveys that have been conducted for Zimbabwe between 1988 and 2015. Adolescent fertility trends were examined using age-period and cohort-period fertility estimates. …
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Three Essays on Globalization, Structural Change, and Political Economy
… survey data, I and my coauthors investigate the determinants of attitudes towards globalization barriers (trade and immigration) and how important these attitudes are in how people vote. In line with the existing results in the literature, we find that more educated and richer voters support …
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Sexual behaviour among Ugandan university students: A gender perspective
… between non-use of contraception and socio-demographic factors, relationship status, and alcohol consumption. The socio-demographic determinants that affected this association were different for males and females. Early sexual debut was found to modify the effect of this association. Study …
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Burnout In Radiation Therapy: Examining The Six Leading Influences
… seem to be most influential in causing burnout. Demographic information was also gathered with the MBI survey. Qualitative data was also collected though structured interviews with the radiation oncology leadership, by examining the group results of the surveys and offering suggestions on …
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The relationship between household wealth and HIV prevalence in Ethiopia
… Health and ORC-MACRO collected a broad range of demographic, socioeconomic and health data on a representative sample of the population of Ethiopia. This included information on HIV status, demographic and socioeconomic variables (age, gender, religion, marital status, place of residence, …
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Global Citizenship as a Function of Higher Education: The Demographic and Institutional Determinants in a Graduate Student Population
… variation in global citizenship scores into both demographic and institutional components. The results of the study suggest that significant variation exists regarding the level of global citizenship among the participants, with scores ranging from 32 to 59 on the (60 point) global citizenship …
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Lower extremity amputation in people with diabetes: Trends and determinants
… (RoI) in recent years and then, to explore the determinants of LEA in people with diabetes. While clinical and socio-demographic determinants have been well-established, the role of service-related factors has been less well-explored. Methods: Using hospital discharge data, trends in LEA rates …
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A record linkage to examine the influence of poor mental health on breast screening uptake
… of this thesis was to identify the socio-demographic determinants of breast screening uptake in the three years following the 2011 Census, and to compare this with previously published results from the 2001 Census. Population attributable fractions were then calculated for each of the …