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Embryo Adoption: Implications of Personhood, Marriage, and Parenthood
McMillen, Brooke - 2008
One’s personal claims regarding personhood will influence his moral belief regarding embryo adoption. In Chapter One, I consider the personhood of the human embryo. If the human embryo is a person, we are morally obligated to permit the practice of embryo adoption as an ethical means to save...
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Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health in Burkina Faso
Cortez, Rafael; Bowser, Diana; Quinlan-Davisonson, Meaghen - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2015
risk of maternal mortality, and a high unmet need for contraception, among others. Adding to this issue is a lack of access …
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From Infant to Mother : Early Disease Environment and Future Maternal Health
Almond, Douglas - 2011
This paper examines the links between the disease environment around the time of a woman's birth, and her health at the time she delivers her own infant. Our results suggest that exposure to disease in early childhood significantly increases the incidence of diabetes in the population of future...
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From Infant to Mother : Early Disease Environment and Future Maternal Health
Almond, Douglas - 2011
This paper examines the links between the disease environment around the time of a woman's birth, and her health at the time she delivers her own infant. Our results suggest that exposure to disease in early childhood significantly increases the incidence of diabetes in the population of future...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460981
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Introduction to Sex and Consequences: Abortion, Public Policy, and the Economics of Fertility
Levine, Phillip B. - Princeton University Press
contends, abortion provides protection from downside risk. A pregnant woman who would otherwise give birth to an unwanted child … has the option to abort. On the other hand, the availability of this option may increase the likelihood of a pregnancy in …
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Excess of maternal mortality in foreign nationalities in Spain, 1999-2006
Luque Fernandez, M. A.; Bueno Cavanillas, A.; de Mateo, S. - Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard …
, standardised mortality ratios were calculated using an indirect standardisation. The risk of maternal death by autonomous region … highest maternal mortality rates. Adjusted by age and autonomous region, foreign nationalities had 67% higher risk of maternal …
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LE RÉGIME JURIDIQUE DE L’IDENTITÉ GÉNÉTIQUE DE LA PERSONNE EN DROIT EUROPÉEN
CHILEA, Dragoş - In: Curentul Juridic, The Juridical Current, Le Courant … 43 (2010) December, pp. 53-68
this knowledge to manage society. Surrogacy is an arrangement where a woman agrees to become pregnant and deliver a child … for a contracted party. She may be the child’s genetic mother (the more traditional form of surrogacy), or she may, as a … ‘carrier’, carry the pregnancy to delivery after having been implanted with an embryo, the latter being an illegal medical …
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Selected effects of financing agriculture from a regional perspective
Kołoszko-Chomentowska, Zofia; Wojsznis, Barbara - In: e-Finanse: Financial Internet Quarterly 12 (2016) 4, pp. 105-110
This paper contains an assessment of changes in the financial and property situation of agricultural holdings in different regions of Poland. In the years 2006-2013, growth of the level of income from a family-owned farm was registered in all regions, but capabilities of reproducing fixed assets...
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Takeaways from the special issue on the practice of replication
Reed, W. Robert - 2019
In July 2017, issued a call for papers for a special issue on "The Practice of Replication." In that call, the journal explained that there was no generally accepted procedure for how to do a replication. Likewise, there was no generally accepted standard for determining whether a replication...
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Takeaways from the special issue on The Practice of Replication
Reed, W. Robert - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 13 (2019) 2019-13, pp. 1-11
In July 2017, Economics: The Open Access, Open Assessment E-Journal issued a call for papers for a special issue on 'The Practice of Replication.' In that call, the journal explained that there was no generally accepted procedure for how to do a replication. Likewise, there was no generally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011965932