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Gender and the Politics of Death: Female Representation, Political and Developmental Context, and Population Health in a Cross-National Panel

There is considerable speculation that female political empowerment could improve population health. Yet, evidence to date is limited, and explanations for why political empowerment would matter and

Social, technical-economic, environmental and political assessment for the evaluation of transport modes for petroleum products

, environmental, social and political factors being equally important, following the concepts of sustainable development. In general, only aspects related to investment, construction, equipment acquisition and ... of knowledge expressed by environmental, political, social and technical-economic dimensions and uses technical analysis and mathematical tools that configure its systemic character (Rigolin, 2013

Social, technical-economic, environmental and political assessment for the evaluation of transport modes for petroleum products

petroleum derived products, in a Case Study. The method deals with technical, economic, environmental, social and political factors being equally important, following the concepts of sustainable development ... of knowledge expressed by environmental, political, social and technical-economic dimensions and uses technical analysis and mathematical tools that configure its systemic character (Rigolin, 2013

Increasing Information Content and Diagnosability in Family-Level Classifications

: Roret . Google Scholar Google Preview OpenURL Placeholder Text WorldCat COPAC   Swartz N. 2022 . Foreknowledge and free will. The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy . Available

Towards an Inclusive Philosophy for Phylogenetic Inference

is decoupled from the popular falsi cationist interpretation of Popperian philosophy. Any phylogenetic inference method can provide Popperian “evidence” or “test statements” based on the method's ... served by the rejection of cladistic philosophy.[Corroboration; likelihood; parsimony; philosophy of science; Popper; PTP; severe test.] . . . compatibility alone must not make us attribute to the theory a

Identifying Climatic Drivers of Hybridization with a New Ancestral Niche Reconstruction Method

sequence alignments and reasonable, particularly in the motivating case of complex niche distributions. An ancestral reconstruction philosophy that more directly represents the shape and breadth of extant

Species Delimitation, Phylogenomics, and Biogeography of Sulawesi Flying Lizards: A Diversification History Complicated by Ancient Hybridization, Cryptic Species, and Arrested Speciation

The biota of Sulawesi is noted for its high degree of endemism and for its substantial levels of in situ biological diversification. While the island’s long period of isolation and dynamic tectonic history have been implicated as drivers of the regional diversification, this has rarely been tested in the context of an explicit geological framework. Here, we provide a tectonically...

Philosophy and Phylogenetic Inference: A Comparison of Likelihood and Parsimony Methods in the Context of Karl Popper's Writings on Corroboration

Advocates of cladistic parsimony methods have invoked the philosophy of Karl Popper in an attempt to argue for the superiority of those methods over phylogenetic methods based on Ronald Fisher's ... , and its applicatio n to problems of phylogenetic inference in particular, are highly compatible with Popper's philosophy. Examination of Popper's writings reveals that his concept of corroboration is

The Growth Acceleration Program (PAC)'s investments in transportation and the Brazilian multiplication effect since Lula da Silva's government

great public investments execution in the country and also allowed correlate the political speech to action. It is the transportation system inside the geographic knowledge, recognizing as one of the

The Growth Acceleration Program (PAC)'s investments in transportation and the Brazilian multiplication effect since Lula da Silva's government

great public investments execution in the country and also allowed correlate the political speech to action. It is the transportation system inside the geographic knowledge, recognizing as one of the

The Growth Acceleration Program (PAC)'s investments in transportation and the Brazilian multiplication effect since Lula da Silva's government

great public investments execution in the country and also allowed correlate the political speech to action. It is the transportation system inside the geographic knowledge, recognizing as one of the

Self-selection of Asylum Seekers: Evidence From Germany

the selection of political refugees fleeing Argentina and Chile during the military regimes there (1976–1983 and 1973– 1985, respectively) to the United States, Sweden, and Israel. They documented that ... “nationally representative and cover the whole of Syria” (UNICEF 2006) . 2016. The SAP is a public opinion survey that explores social, economic, and political issues in Afghanistan. The study has gathered

New Partner, New Order? Multipartnered Fertility and Birth Order Effects on Educational Achievement

Norway and several other countries, and 50/ 50 shared residence has become a more important normative and political goal (HarrisShort 2010; Lyngstad et al. 2014; Singer 2008). This increase was ... -run outcomes of children . Journal of Political Economy , 123 , 365 - 412 . Conley , D. ( 2004 ). The pecking order: Which siblings succeed and why . New York, NY: Pantheon Books. De Haan , M. ( 2010

CONCEPTUAL EVOLUTION OF ARCHITECTURAL PROGRAM THROUGH THE SECOND HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY

rather disengaged group of Anglo-American academics who have strong ties with the philosophy of science as well as modern art and architectural history and theory. In the spring of 1963, Royston Landau ... ); mathematic, logic and computation (Jack Cowan); history, philosopy and epistemology of science (William Bartley); history, philosophy and epistemology of architecture (Stanford Anderson, and Royston Landau

Understanding The Historic City

, as well as the economic, political and social spheres, following the Enlightenment period. City space as the platform of man?s socio-economic, social and cultural activities has reflected these changes ... be viewed as the materialized expression of social, economic, political and cultural structures of a society, it is possible to suggest that the new thinking established a new system "...of dealing

Co-Editors’ Note

a heated reaction from several scholars both in e-mails to the co-editors and in discussions in other forums online and in print. Early in this conversation, and consistent with our philosophy, we

Taming the BEAST—A Community Teaching Material Resource for BEAST 2

analysis is set up using input XML files. For most standard analyses, these files can be easily created using a graphical user interface (BEAUti 2). The key difference in design philosophy between BEAST 1 ... design philosophy, we designed the website to have a modular, extensible architecture. Each tutorial is stored in its own GitHub (http://www.github.com) repository, where it is bundled with all of the

The Emergence of Educational Hypogamy in India

growth . Journal of Political Economy , 107 , 682 - 714 . Bhattacharya , P. ( 2006 ). Economic development, gender inequality, and demographic outcomes: Evidence from India . Population and Development ... : University of Michigan, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. England , P. , & Li , S. ( 2006 ). Desegregation stalled: The changing gender composition of college majors, 1971 - 2002

Just Another Level? Comparing Quantitative Patterns of Global Expansion of School and Higher Education Attainment

research literature and policy. We then analyze two broad theoretical perspectives to generate expectations for long-term trends in higher education enrollment. The first—political economy approaches ... for long-term expansion open. Political Economy Early work on human capital theory (Becker 1964; Mincer 1958; Schultz 1981) established economic returns to education, providing a rationale for both