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... Quality of child health care and under-five mortality in Zambia: A case study of two districts in Luapula Province.. Augustus Kasumpa Kapungwe 1.[r] ... See full document

... This study analyzed how shocks in cohort-level early life conditions, as represented by deviations from trend in mortality at age 0 (infant mortality) and at ages 1-5 (early childhood [r] ... See full document

... Figure 12, that the thirty-six month difference is indeed the convolution of waiting times in the additional transitions in the bottom panel, which requires estimates of all these transition rates and is thereby ... See full document

... The pyramid depicting Gambian nationals (some of whom might be born in Spain, mostly children) and Gambian-born individuals shows several notable patterns. One is typical for Africans [r] ... See full document

... Black et alii (2002) propose the procedure described below to estimate the likely miscoding rate on sex. In the Census 2000 Supplementary Survey, the fraction of same- sex couples[r] ... See full document

... Studies that are large enough to examine whether there are race differences in the association between family background characteristics and early fertility note that b[r] ... See full document

... We apply APC models to data on human cancer incidence rates in different countries and time periods. The data are provided by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in seven volumes (IARC 1965 - 1997). ... See full document

... Building on three distinct temporal primitives - tick, granule and instant - we suggest a unified timestamp with explicit precision and unambiguous textual representation emphasizing h[r] ... See full document

... As compared to second-generation women, third-generation women in the earlier period had a higher risk of a recent birth and higher cumulative fertility as compared to non-Hispanic whi[r] ... See full document

... This result can be obtained by a decline (over age) in the related parameter of the logarithmic rate of aging (parameter B in Model 2) or by an age-related decline in intensity of exte[r] ... See full document

... I thus feel that Chandra Sekar’s ‘exclusive effect’ given by equation (1.7) can be considered a viable alternative to the present United Nation’s (1985) formula for the following reasons[r] ... See full document

... Women who in 1957 planned to work indefinitely or in a career were not significantly more likely than other women to choose part-time employment over being out of the labor force in 19[r] ... See full document

... Applying this model on China can only lead to overestimation in the projection period, whatever the historical trend of this country, simply because its urban definition makes the estima[r] ... See full document

... Encyclopedia, 2004; Lee and Moss, 1995; Haynes, 1991). Bulls (males) are sexually mature at about 11 to 12 years of age, but they typically are not allowed to mate until around age 30 years. Elephant cows ... See full document

... Figure 21, plots second and third birth risks standardised to the 1989 level and shows a shift in the expected direction. The overall intensity of childbearing increased during the early 1990s; this increase was more ... See full document

... On the other hand, immigrants coming from developed countries are quite different, with high levels of education, significant proportions of people who have come to Spain to retire, an[r] ... See full document

... We identify distinct scales of global aggregation, and in particular, we show that for the values of disparate neighbor comfort threshold used by Schelling, the striking global aggrega- [r] ... See full document

... Czech society of 2010 is typified by high proportions of never-married young adults, high proportions of divorced adults, and lower shares of widowed people (Table 2).. Two [r] ... See full document

... Using the women’s 2013 Demographic Health Survey dataset, we applied a nonlinear decomposition technique to determine the contribution of sociodemographic and socioeconomic characteristi[r] ... See full document

... Birth registration is a fundamental right that affords children the opportunity to be documented and establish their nationality. Unfortunately, this right is denied to many children, especially in less developed ... See full document