...Growth and Development Essay 1 1. Define what is meant by a “demographic transition”, and examine whether such a transition might have benefits for economic growth in developing countries. Demographic transition is the process by which a country’s demographic characteristics are transformed as it develops. This mainly results from the changing patterns of death and birth rates, or the Mortality and Fertility transitions. Whilst the process of demographic transition is mainly complete in many developed countries, it is definitely still under way in most developing countries, where, while they are experiencing falling mortality rates, there are still also high fertility rates. This is the reason for high population growth in developing countries in recent years. In this essay I am going to outline the causes of mortality and fertility transition in order to explain the driving forces behind demographic transition. I will then discuss the effects of this transition on economic growth. The mortality transition has seen a remarkable reduction in mortality rates over recent centuries. Life expectancy has grown enormously, in both developed and developing countries. For example, India’s life expectancy at birth in 1930 was 26.9 years and 55.6 years in 1980. This seems to have been caused by three main factors. Firstly, rising incomes have led to increases in the quality and quantity of food consumed and so populations are better nourished and live longer on average. Secondly, better sanitation...
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...Evaluate the effectiveness of the DTM as a means of predicting future population Demographic transition refers to the transition from high birth rates and death rates to low birth and death rates as a country develops from a pre-industrial to an industrialized economic system. This is typically demonstrated through a demographic transition model. The theory is based on an interpretation of demographic history developed in 1919 by the American demographer Warren Thompson. Thompson observed changes (transitions) in birth and death rates in industrialized societies over the previous 200 years. Most developed countries are in stage 4 of the model; the majority of developing countries have reached stage 3. The major (relative) exceptions are some poor countries, mainly in sub-Saharan Africa and some Middle Eastern countries, which are poor or affected by government policy or civil strife, notably Pakistan, Palestinian Territories, Yemen and Afghanistan. The DTM was first observed in the two centuries preceding 1950 in what are today’s economically developed countries. Prior to this, these developed countries experienced high death rates matched by high birth rates, resulting in a stable population size. But then improving living standards and public health measures, such as the public health acts, caused death rates to drop, followed by a gradual drop in birth rates, which by the 1970s matched the death rates again. Between the decline in the death rates and drop in birth rates...
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...Community Resources and Hospital Avoidance Programs Mrs Field and her transition home must be carefully planned and implemented through a restorative healthcare model to ensure her health and wellbeing, in addition, to prevent hospital re-admission. To ensure Mrs Fields health and wellbeing, different community resources may prove beneficial in her transition, coherently working towards hospital avoidance through health promotion and strategies. Home-Delivered Meals As revealed prior, Mrs Field was presented to hospital malnourished, overall impacting her recovery time, health and discharge planning due to her social isolation and need for a balanced and healthy food intake (College of Nursing & Health Sciences 2015; Siddique et al. 2017,...
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...Stefani Arcadi C. Centorame ENG 2D March 24, 2015 The Catcher in the Rye The transition from childhood to adulthood is a huge journey. In the novel the Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, Holden Caulfield is on his own journey and cannot accept the fact that his childhood is slipping away and that he has to grow up and face reality. Holden is having a difficult time doing so because he is afraid that if he grows up he will become a phony and will not be himself. Holden is poised between two worlds; one he fears to enter and one he cannot return to. Holden's refusal to face the adult world leads him to isolation and the realization that he has to mature. The museum of natural history displays how Holden is stuck between childhood and...
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...Score> <Date Graded> Title Topic Paper Submitted to Northcentral University Graduate Faculty of the School of Business and Technology Management in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN EDUCATION by Christina Thompson Prescott Valley, Arizona January 2013 Table of Contents Proposed Topic 1 Introduction 1 Abridged Literature Review 1 Problem Statement 1 Purpose Statement 1 Research Questions 1 Summary 1 References 2 Postsecondary Transition for Students with Disabilities Accumulative number of students with disabilities is following post-secondary education. The number of students with disabilities attending college or entering the work place has significantly increased in the last three decades. The most recent changes, many of which were implemented in the amendments to the Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA) in 1997, introduced more accountability for transition outcomes and facilitated partnerships, particularly those related to employment. Despite these changes, studies have documented problems overlapping and conflicting regulations and...
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...ECE Department- Undergraduate Advising Transition Guidelines for New 2011-2012 Degree Plans 1. Beginning with the 2011-2012 Degree Plans, there are these important changes: a. ECE 2331 Numerical Methods has been deleted. b. ECE 2300 Circuit Analysis and lab ECE 2100 have been moved up to the 3rd semester. c. ECE 3337 EE Analysis has been moved up to the 4th semester, and is a prerequisite for Electronics in the 5th semester. d. ECE 3455 Electronics has been changed to separate lecture and laboratory courses, ECE 3355 and ECE 3155. e. ECE 4334 Capstone Design is changing to a 2-semester sequence, ECE 4335 and ECE 4336. f. MATH 3331 will no longer substitute for MATH 3321 Engineering Math. g. There are a number of other prerequisite changes, especially in the 3rd and 4th semesters. Study the new flow charts carefully. 2. Transition Schedule: a. All items above except the Capstone Design changes will take effect immediately in Fall 2011. b. New Capstone Design sequence (ECE 4335-4336): i. Fall 2013:4335 will be offered for the first time. 4334 will be offered for the last time, ii. Spring 2014:4335 and 4336 will be offered each long semester (Fall and Spring) from this semester on. 3. Students who have already taken ECE 2331: a. Through the Fall 2013 semester, ECE 4334 will continue to be taught, so you should follow the 2010-2011 (or previous) Degree Plan. b. If you don't take Sr. Design until Spring 2014 or later, you will still follow the 2010-2011 Degree Plan, and simply petition...
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...Angel Falls Kelsi Cork General Purpose: To Inform Specific Purpose: To inform my listeners about Angel Falls. Central Idea: Angel Falls is the tallest waterfall in the world with an unusual tale of discovery. INTRODUCTION I. Attention Material A. This is Angel Falls. (Power-point slide 2) 1. It is the world’s tallest waterfall. 2. It is located at Canaima National Park the second largest National Park in Venezuela. (Power-point slide 3) B. Angel Falls was discovered by American pilot, Jimmy Angel in 1937. 1. Jimmy Angel mistakenly found the waterfall while searching for gold. II. Orienting Material A. The waterfall tumbles from a cleft near the summit of table Top Mountain Auyan-tepui into what is known as Devil’s Canyon, 3213 feet below. B. Before the mid-1950s, Angel Falls was an unknown wonder because the tribe that occupied the valley beside the mountain-top believed that the location of Angel Falls harbored Malign Spirits. BODY I. The Discovery A. Jimmy Angel, in 1934, was searching for an isolated goldmine when he came upon the Auyan-tepui. Angel being the curious man he was decided to fly around the mountain when he found the falls, but because his fuel level was low he was forced to return to his base. Upon his return Angel told descriptions of the wondrous landscape and the Stone Mountain he saw but his listeners didn’t believe him. B. Angel returned to fly over the mountains again in 1935 and continued to tell...
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...Name Class Date 5.3 Human Population Growth Lesson Objectives Discuss the trend of human population growth. Explain why population growth rates differ in countries throughout the world. Lesson Summary Historical Overview The size of the human population has increased over time. For most of human existence, limiting factors such as the scarcity of food kept death rates high. As civilization advanced, agriculture, industry, improved nutrition, sanitation, and medicine reduced death rates. Birthrates stayed high in most places. This led to exponential growth. Today, the human population continues to grow exponentially, although the doubling time has slowed. Patterns of Human Population Growth Demography is the scientific study of human populations. Demographers try to predict how human populations will change over time. Over the past century, population growth in developed countries slowed. As death rates dropped, birthrates dropped also. Demographers call this shift the demographic transition. Most people live in countries that have not undergone the demographic transition. An age-structure graph shows how many people of each gender are in each age group in a population. Demographers use such graphs to predict how a population will change. More people of reproductive age usually means faster growth. Many factors, including disease, will affect human population growth in the twenty-first century. Current data suggest the human population will grow more...
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... P.M.B 0182, GOMBE FACULTY OF HUMANITIES, MANAGEMENT AND SOCIAL SCIENCE COURSE CODE; 4303 COURSE TITLE; DEMOGRAPHY ASSIGNMENT QUESTION; Brief Explanation of Demographic Transition Theory GROUP (5) MEMBERS FUK/HMSS/12B/SOC/1042 FUK/HMSS/12B/SOC/1043 FUK/HMSS/12B/SOC/1044 Course lecturer; PROF. UMAR BAPPAH TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. Demographic transitional theory 3. Stages of demographic transitional theory 4. Criticisms of demographic transitional theory 5. Summary of demographic transitional theory 6. References INTRODUCTION Demographic transition (DT) refers to the transition from high birth and death rate to low birth and death rates as a country develops from a pre-industrial to an industrialized economic system. This is typically demonstrated through a demographic transition theory. The theory is based on an interpretation of demography history developed in 1929 by the American demographer Warren Thompson (1887–1973) Thompson observed changes, or transitions, in birth and death rates in industrialized societies over the previous 200 years. Most developed countries are in stage 3 or 4 of the model; the majority of developing countries have reached stage 2 or stage 3. The major (relative) exceptions are...
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...have credited our founding fathers for the constitution and its ability to structure our society. There are many democracies all over the world, many whom have recently recently experienced a democratic transition. Many political scientists have been studying this trend and have been trying to determine what makes countries choose to become democracies and what factors allow them to thrive as democracies. In order to answer this question it is important to first define the term democracy. The most common definition of democracy today is a system of government that is ruled by the people. In order for...
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...September 2015 Fall, A.K.A, the Best Season Imagine waking up and walking outside and hearing the crunch of leaves beneath your feet and smelling the crisp fresh and cool air. Fall makes me so happy and I am anxious for it to come every single year. Everything during fall is absolutely wonderful, I love it! Some of the best times that I have had in my life, oddly occurred during the fall season; and I sometimes wonder if that may be part of the reason(s) that I cherish it so much. Fall is such a beautiful and blissful season; it is the best season of the year. Fall is so wonderful mainly because of the beautiful scenery it displays. Here in Arizona, the summers are very hot and dry, and it almost feels dreadful at times; but the fall here is absolutely beautiful. You can start to notice the transition into fall around mid- September because the mornings are sort of wet from the precipitation and you can feel the cool air gently fan across your whole entire body. Not only that, but later in September, the leaves start to turn into the beautiful array of sunburst orange, medallion yellow and cherry red, and when the leaves start to fall onto the cold hard ground, you can feel and hear the crunch of the leaves beneath your feet. The cool air is so crisp and refreshing; you can feel the slight wind of the cool air tingle your cheeks lightly. The weather is not to cold and not too warm, it is just the perfect measure of both. It is lovely. Not only is the sight of fall beautiful, the...
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...Icarus Literary Essay The modern world has certainly evolved from the time of ancient Greece. In the poem Icarus, by Edward Field, a Greek mythological character is placed in the bustling, ironic reality of the modern world. The once fearless and ambitious Icarus, takes his risk taking too far and finds himself miserable and trapped. His only failure turns out to be his worst failure of all and Icarus cannot get up after this final fall. Field uses euphemism, imagery, dictation, and irony to tell the story of a young adventeurer who is unable to overcome his tragic defeat. Icarus provides a strong message to readers about reaching for the stars, but being able to pick yourself up after you fall. Field uses euphemism to describe Icarsus’ “hero[ic] fall” (l.20), not to his tragic death, but rather “to the middling stature of the merely talented” (l.21). Icarus is portrayed as a hero in Greek mythology, so when he is transformed into the vastly different, mediocre world, it is his ultimate fall. His life changes from “compel[ing] the sun” (l.14), to “rid[ing] commuter trains” (l.29). The transition to mediocrity is worse than death to Icarus, and Edward Field emphasises this through the use of euphemism. Icarus’ fall to mediocrity is also emphasised through Field’s strong use of imagery. The reader is able to easily understand and visualize the transition from the first stanza, which describes Icarus’ tragic death and implies the differences between his traditional home and...
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...fictionalizes the bittersweet transition to post-Socialism through the eyes of an elderly couple. She details the fall of Socialism, and with it the collapse of socially constructed caste systems, more specifically, the fall of the Communist party. Upon the expansion of westernization and the collapse of Socialism, Ghodsee states, “How much of their savings had they lost when the banks collapsed and were unable to pay our deposits? They were lucky at first because she had always kept some money in cash between the mattresses” (2011, p. 147). In other words, Ghodsee allows her readers a view of the desperation that transitioning post-Socialist citizens experienced. Furthermore, Ghodsee notes the lack of assistance from the government to provide for their citizens, as they once did under Socialism. However, to note that not all was bad within the transition and that it was bittersweet, Ghodsse states, “No, the Changes had not been easy on them; they barely survived on their little pensions. But after fifty-two years they were still together. Surely there was something worthy in that. Not everything had been a failure,” (2011, P. 148). Ghodsee details that struggles within the transition that individuals face, but also notes a factor within the transition that made it bearable: family. Strong familial ties are depicted within Good Bye, Lenin! The depiction of family within the film supports Ghodsee’s interpretation of familial bonds being needed to make the transition to a post-Socialist society...
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...56:171 Operations Research mmmmmmm 56:171mmmmmmm Operations Research -- Sample Homework Assignments Fall 1997 Dennis Bricker Dept. of Industrial Engineering University of Iowa mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmmm Homework #1 mmmmmmmmm Linear Programming Model Formulation: Formulate a Linear Programming model for each problem below, and solve it using LINDO (available on the HP-UX workstations, or you may use the software packaged with the textbook.) Be sure to state precisely the definitions of your decision variables, and explain in a few words the purpose of each type of constraint. Write a few words to state what the optimal solution is (i.e., without making use of variable names). (For instructions on LINDO, see §4.7 and the appendix of chapter 4 of the text.) mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm 1. Exercise #4, page 113 (Walnut Orchard Farms) "Walnut Orchard has two farms that grow wheat and corn. Because of differing soil conditions, there are differences in the yields and costs of growing crops on the two farms. The yields and costs are Farm 1 Farm 2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Corn yield/acre Cost/acre of corn Wheat yield/acre Cost/acre of wheat 500 bushels $100 400 bushels $90 650 bushels $120 350 bushels $80 Each farm has 100 acres available for cultivation; 11,000 bushels of wheat and 7000 bushels of corn must be grown. Determine a planting plan that will minimize the cost of meeting these demands. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ...
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...I. Introduction A. Attention-getter: Have you ever wonder you made the fist chocolate drink or who came out with the color red or who use for the first time the tomatoes the Aztec where the first ones B. Thesis: Today you will know some Aztec history and achievement and the fall of their empire and about their decent C. Preview: Today I will explain some aspect of the Aztec civilization and not only the old Aztec civilization but also the new generation D. Credibility: I have study the Aztec history for one year and half E. Relation: Many of you are not from Aztec decent but never less in some point of your live you want to know little about you background [Transition: Let’s begin with Aztec history.] II. Body A. According to Rand Genera an Instructor of Reedley College the Aztec homeland was Aztlan and then migrated to Mexico. Aztlan was at Utah, Colorado, Nevada 1) During the migration the Aztec where lead by ten leaders one was Tenoch (cactus on a stone) later became the first Aztec emperor 2) They where looking for a symbol, that symbol was an eagle in a cactus eating a snake and where they found that symbol that’s where their new home was going to be 3) Eventually they found the symbol, they called their new home Tenochtitlan [Transition: Now that you know little bit of the Aztec background now let’s talk about two of the great Aztecs emperors Montezuma and Cuathemoc B. Montezuma and...
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