early effects address four causes of mortality and nine categories of morbidity. The models for early effects are based upon … analysis of both morbidity and mortality. The new models for genetic effects allow prediction of genetic risks in each of the …

Material resources affect the levels of mortality. In cross-sectional relationships income has been found to be … arrived at the same conclusion. Within countries, just as at the cross-national level, child mortality has been found to be … the minority are studies of socioeconomic determinants of child mortality which have examined the association between …

censuses and demographic surveys particularly the World Fertility Survey to ascertain trends in fertility and mortality. The ….e. breastfeeding and post-partum abstinence; and a reduction in the level of sterility. As far as trends in mortality are concerned …, the estimates posit a decline in both infant and child mortality in Kenya, Benin and Ivory Coast; infant mortality in …

The objective of this study was to examine if intra-racial income inequality contributes to higher infant mortality …

two operations but strong evidence of delayed mortality from turbine passage. After tagging with a passive integrated … operations. Based on these differences, we estimated that delayed mortality comprised from 46% to 70% of total estimated … mortality. We reviewed the literature and concluded that delayed mortality was caused by sublethal impacts to fish sensory …

We developed a method to estimate mortality rates of adult fish caused by entrainment through the propellers of … statistical properties of the entrainment mortality rate estimators using Monte Carlo simulation, which demonstrated that a design … estimated the entrainment mortality rates of adult fishes in Pool 26 of the Mississippi River and the Alton Pool of the Illinois …

A 3-year study was conducted to determine mortality rates for downstream migrant salmonids passing through spillways or … chinook were also tested in 1957. In all experiments the turbine was the major source of mortality. For each exit, no … significant difference was found between mortalities at McNary Dam and Big Cliff Dam on fingerling chinook or between mortality …

explanatory power in predicting future mortality and is therefore a useful measure of morbidity. Finally, we suggest that the …

kernel that depends on returns, as in the CAPM or the APT, can accurately price assets. In this sense, theory based on …

returns. The finance literature has uncovered several potential failings of the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM). I … investigate the ability of additional risk factors, which are not considered by the CAPM, to explain these problems. In particular … to refine and reassess the cross-sectional evidence against the CAPM.In the first chapter, I test the cross …