Estimates of the growth (K), natural mortality (M), consumption/biomass (Q/B) rate and trophic level (TL) for 35 …

Demographers often use Brass-style indirect methods to obtain childhood mortality estimates for regions within … developing countries. Regional populations are not closed to migration, however, and mortality reports of women resident in a … migrated. Including this “imported”; mortality information may cause significant bias in regional estimates. In this paper the …

mortality rates. This is true compared to the distance to universities that offer only business or medical education (or neither …

This study examines changes in levels and patterns of maternal mortality in Pernambuco, Brazil, in 1994 and 2003. The … research was carried out in five sub-regions of Pernambuco using the Reproductive Age Mortality Survey (RAMOS) method and based … on death certificates of women of reproductive age registered in the local System of Information on Mortality. In …

for the period between March 13 and April 25, 2020 to estimate elasticities that relates these variables in Brazil. The … results indicate that there was an adjustment period for social isolation to affect the number of cases and deaths in Brazil …