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... The topic of this article is the exceptional longevity in Okinawa. This phenomenon should be thoroughly validated at both the individual and population levels. This contribution analyzes the demographic data ... See full document

... when an unusually large number of couples married. Some examples are July 7, 2007 and December 12, 2012, which could be written 070707 and 121212 respectively, and other dates of that kind (Statistics Sweden ... See full document

... We extracted a set of messages (referred to in linguistics as a ‘corpus’ 6 ) from Twitter for the domain of interest. We used the Twita-2014 7 dataset, consisting of 259,893,081 Italian-language tweets (of which ... See full document

... Examined possible mechanisms for the procyclicality of overall mortality in the United States have mostly been personal income (Ruhm 2000), health behaviours (Ruhm 2003, 2007, 2015), and individual labour market status ... See full document

... In Section 4 we describe the time use of the elderly first by reporting the average total time that the elderly spend on each of the eight activity types in the day, and how this varies between elderly women and men. We ... See full document

... varied. 7 Filipino, Mexican, and Korean pioneers settled non-metropolitan places with the smallest populations (47,000 – 51,000) and Salvadoran and Dominican pioneers settled places with larger populations ... See full document

... On the other side of the spectrum we find women with primary education, who seem to be a specific sub-group. These women strikingly differ in their reproductive behavior from all other groups. They form large families – ... See full document

... children would move closer to 1 when controlling for measures of access to and use of care. They do not. The odds of asthma for first-generation white, Hispanic, black, and Asian children barely change from Model 1 to ... See full document

... Given the persistent finding that the timing of early births and total parity are predictive of breast cancer incidence and mortality, it is reasonable to hypothesize that those factors shape U.S. breast cancer mortality ... See full document

... According to the Canada Labour Code, 8 hours in a day and 40 hours in a week are considered the standard hours of work, with a maximum of 48 hours that employees may work in a week, and the typical regular schedule is ... See full document

... In this study we used data from the third wave of the European Social Survey (ESS), a repeated cross-sectional survey designed to measure social attitudes and values using face-to-face interviews. The ESS aimed to be ... See full document

... would expect under the linear shift assumption. Nonetheless the additional mortality existing under this scenario is small enough that Equations (6) and (7) can be approximated using r= ρ/β. (See Goldstein and ... See full document

... based on all-story data look extremely similar; available upon request). Years before 1990 have been omitted due to large numbers of empty cells in the People data. An interesting pattern can be observed. For white women ... See full document

... Findings that in the absence of better data mainly would have formed the basis for speculation and formulation of hypotheses now can stand as they are: The first-birth fert[r] ... See full document

... Continuous change of causes through time is more problematic. In the removal model, the quotients of the longitudinal « frozen » table are immediately reached, owing to instantaneous adjustment. But with a change in ... See full document

... A variety of parametric models pre- senting the fertility rates as a function of age have been proposed in order to describe the age-specific fertility pattern.. Some of them provide nic[r] ... See full document

... In this study we build upon this research and the literature on autonomy and child health outcomes to examine the association between women’s decision-making autonomy and children’s e[r] ... See full document

... The second observation is that the introduction of sex-selective abortion as an option in family planning makes it possible for a stopping rule (or combination of rules) to affect the [r] ... See full document

... Studies of teenage childbearing and its socioeconomic consequences have been concerned about possible omitted variables and selection biases that are critical to estimate the “true” ef[r] ... See full document

... In the stable population, constant vital rates yield (linear) exponential growth in the number of births, while in the metastable model net maternity that increases exponentially over ag[r] ... See full document