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What can the life course approach contribute to an understanding of longevity risk?
2016
Longitudinal and life course studies
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Acknowledgements We owe a debt of gratitude to Madhavi Bajekal, Rosalind Raine and the members of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, particularly Joseph Lu, Brian Ridsdale and Richard Willetts, for ...
-a demographer's comment The paper by Blane et al. makes a strong case for more attention to the life--course perspective in order to better understand seminal trends in mortality and longevity. ...
doi:10.14301/llcs.v7i2.343
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Page 122 of The Canadian Review of Sociology Vol. 44, Issue 1
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2007
The Canadian Review of Sociology
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“The future of human longevity: A demographer’s perspective.” Science, No. 280, pp. 395-97
Wister, A.V. 2005. Baby Boomer Health Dynamics: How Are We Aging? ...
“Is the second demographic transition a useful research concept: Questions and answers.” Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2004. Vienna Institute of Demography. ...
FRONTIER RESEARCH IN ASTROPHYSICS IN THE GRAVITATIONAL WAVE ERA - II(EXOPLANETS AND EMERGENCE OF LIFE)
2021
Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica Serie de Conferencias
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In this paper we will discuss exoplanets in the habitable zone of the Milky Way, the origin of terrestrial life, and what 'intelligent' humanity is doing, in order to complete the excursion on <i>The Bridge ...
between the Big Bang and Biology</i>, started with the paper I (Giovannelli & Sabau-Graziati, 2020). ...
Acknowledgments: This research has made use of "The NASA's Astrophysics Data System". ...
doi:10.22201/ia.14052059p.2021.53.43
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A General Framework for Modelling Mortality to Better Estimate Its Relationship with Interest Rate Risks
2016
Social Science Research Network
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We calibrate two different specifications of the Feller process (a two-parameters Feller process and a three-parameters one) to the survival probabilities of the generation of males born in 1940 in ten ...
The calibration provides in most of the cases a very good fit to the data extrapolated from the mortality tables. ...
A Demographer's Reflexions on Longevity SCOR Paper n o 39 -Dynamics of Interest Rates and Mortality Indices Fair Valuation of risks Under Solvency II, the Market Value Margin (MVM)
Figure 1 : 1 Survival ...
doi:10.2139/ssrn.2888794
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Let's put demography back into economics: Population pyramids in Excel
2017
Journal of Economic Education
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Hypothetical data are used to explain the pyramid and teach its dynamic properties, then real-world data are used to provide historical context, current demographic snapshots, and a glimpse of the future ...
After witnessing a population explosion in the last half of the 20 th century, fertility rates are crashing throughout the world. ...
It is also unrealistic in the sense that fertility rates will not remain constant. They adapt to economic and social conditions and predicting future values is a demographer's biggest challenge. ...
doi:10.1080/00220485.2017.1397577
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Population ageing and the state of the elderly, with emphasis on aged Jamaicans
2018
MOJ Gerontology & Geriatrics
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Conflict of interest Author states that there was no conflict of interest. ...
This approach emphasizes the longevity of the cells, in relation to the number of years the organism can live. ...
, 49, 50 which means they are living longer but suffer more -the cost of longevity. ...
doi:10.15406/mojgg.2018.03.00093
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Population Ageing and the State of the Elderly, with Emphasis on Aged Jamaicans
2018
Gerontology & Geriatrics Studies
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Such a situation will be problematic in the future, as this is associated with increased pension payouts, higher health-care expenditure, along with the accompanying demand changes that are inevitable ...
Result:The ageing of Jamaica's population is as a result of the its decline in fertility which began in the 1960s coupled with the reduced mortality that owes itself to improvements sanitation, public ...
This approach emphasizes the longevity of the cells, in relation to the number of years the organism can live. ...
doi:10.31031/ggs.2018.03.000570
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Demographic Modeling of the Geography of Migration and Population: A Multiregional Perspective
2008
Geographical Analysis
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projection models) and then continues on to tell the story of multiregional demography, its evolution and emergence as a fully developed paradigm for studying the spatial dynamics of migration and population ...
This paper focuses on the development and evolution of migration and population redistribution modeling within the spatial context of multiregional demography. ...
Active Life Expectancies: A Multistate Perspective A number of studies of longevity and health among the elderly published in the 1980s compared changes in total life expectancy with corresponding changes ...
doi:10.1111/j.1538-4632.2008.00726.x
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Plant individuality: a solution to the demographer's dilemma
2012
Biology & Philosophy
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This paper presents a philosophical treatment of the nature of biological individuals, as assessed from the perspective of plants. ...
I argue that plants violate the formal criteria given by the most popular ways of defining individuals, leaving us with the uncomfortable prospect of omitting this kingdom altogether from the domain of ...
and Humanities Research Council and the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research. ...
doi:10.1007/s10539-012-9309-3
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From Divergence to Convergence: The Sex Differential in Life Expectancy in Canada, 1971-2000*
2008
Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie
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“The future of human longevity: A demographer’s perspective.” Science, No. 280, pp. 395-97
Wister, A.V. 2005. Baby Boomer Health Dynamics: How Are We Aging? ...
in the size of the sex gap in longevity in Canada. ...
doi:10.1111/j.1755-618x.2007.tb01149.x
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Perspectives on Aging and the Elderly in the Hebrew Bible
2014
Interpretation (Richmond)
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The prophet continues with a description of this future as a time when people will live in comfort and free of conflict.
20 Jacob Klein, “The ‘Bane’ of Humanity: A Lifespan of One Hundred Twenty Years, ...
The biblical text does not explicitly draw a causal relationship, but it is implied: as evil and wrong-doing increase, human longevity gradually decreases, until by the end of the book of Genesis the world ...
doi:10.1177/0020964313518179
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Alexander Kulischer on the demographic future of Russia
2017
Демографическое обозрение
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They were the first where the general scheme of demographic changes – now known as the concept of a "demographic transition" or "demographic revolution" – was used in predicting the demographic future ...
The preface explains Kulischer's articles in the context of the development of demography of that period and his interest in the demographic future of Russia. ...
is so crucial for the prospects of human longevity; this must always be emphasized" [Kahn 1930: 208] . ...
doi:10.17323/demreview.v4i5.8572
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Towards a reconceptualising of population ageing in emerging markets
2017
Vienna Yearbook of Population Research
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Drawing on the literature on 'prospective ageing' (pioneered by Sanderson and Scherbov), we present an alternative set of ageing measurements based on a boundary for 'dependency' drawn from remaining life ...
Using these measurements, population ageing -at least as defined here -can be seen as a much more manageable prospect for many EMs. ...
Acknowledgments The authors are grateful to Becky Staddon and Stefanie Andruchowitz for their assistance in preparing this paper and the EMS executive committee and administrators for their support. ...
doi:10.1553/populationyearbook2016s041
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Medics, Monarchs and Mortality, 1600-1800: Origins of the Knowledge-Driven Health Transition in Europe
2010
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rise in longevity were the rich and well fed, rather than the poor and chronically malnourished. ...
Along with the poor, they therefore were left at a grave health disadvantage vis-à-vis adult members of the wealthy urban families to whose conditions the doctors were attending. ...
Acknowledgements This research is part of a larger project begun in 1992 at Oxford University's Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, under the sponsorship of Richard Smith, and was continued with ...
doi:10.2139/ssrn.1661453
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From Gini's Approach to Present-day Demography: "Tempo Effects" on Demographic Insights (?)
2016
Journal of Statistical Science and Application
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The last part will deal with a conclusion to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of Gini's death. ...
qualitative aspects of demographic development, has sought a synthesis in this mutual tie. ...
Acknowledgments I wish to thank Richard Bates for translating this essay, and Antonio Golini, Viviana Egidi, Giuseppe Gesano, and Filomena Racioppi for their careful reading of it and for the valuable ...
doi:10.17265/2328-224x/2016.0102.001
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