Mortality is a 2012, posthumously published book by Anglo-American writer Christopher Hitchens. It comprises seven essays which first appeared in Vanity...
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Fish mortality, a parameter used in fisheries population dynamics to account for the loss of fish in a fish stock through death Mortality (book), a 2012...
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Perinatal mortality (PNM) is the death of a fetus or neonate and is the basis to calculate the perinatal mortality rate. Perinatal means "relating to the...
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The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care is a 2019 memoir by the American author,...
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Made Upon the Bills of Mortality, led Graunt to the Royal Society. On 5 February 1661, Graunt presented fifty copies of his book to the Royal Society of...
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Ltd Corazza, Ornella. Mortality. Book review: The handbook of near-death experiences: thirty years of investigation. Mortality, May 2010, Vol. 15 Issue...
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Discworld II: Missing Presumed...!? (redirect from Discworld 2: Mortality Bytes!)
Discworld II: Missing Presumed...!? (released as Discworld II: Mortality Bytes! in North America) is a 1996 point-and-click adventure game based on Terry...
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in the Battle of Stalingrad. The book is introduced by the character/narrator Death, which underlines that mortality is very present in the lives of each...
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Black Death (redirect from Great Mortality)
figure of mortality from plague in the Book of Revelation, a favorite medieval source of information." Ole J. Benedictow proposes 60% mortality rate for...
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changes as well as several significant diseases that have affected the mortality rates. Data collection during this time was not consistent or broadly...
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Spanish flu (section Mortality)
this pandemic had unusually high mortality for young adults. Scientists offer several explanations for the high mortality, including a six-year climate anomaly...
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Old Mortality is one of the Waverley novels by Walter Scott. Set in south west Scotland, it forms, along with The Black Dwarf, the 1st series of his Tales...
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three times the mortality of midwives' wards. The maternal mortality rate dropped from 18% to less than 2%, and he published a book of his findings,...
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Terror management theory (section Mortality salience)
created "symbols" aids in relieving stresses associated with the reality of mortality. On an individual level, self-esteem provides a buffer against death-related...
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largely by a decline of mortality particularly of childhood mortality followed by infant mortality, The decline of mortality could largely be attributed...
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ponder on mortality and the vanity of life, based on the teaching of Muhammad to visit graves. Al-Ghazali devotes to this topic the last book of his "The...
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pre-industrial population, with high birth and mortality rates and slow population growth, through a stage of falling mortality and faster rates of population growth...
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Extrinsic mortality is the sum of the effects of external factors, such as predation, starvation and other environmental factors not under control of...
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ikigai as a positive psychological factor with all-cause mortality and cause-specific mortality among middle-aged and elderly Japanese people: findings...
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region of the Soviet Union. According to Soviet archives, the heaviest mortality rate was documented in people from the Northern Caucasus (the Chechens...
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Human population projections (section Mortality)
technological forces to understand how they will affect fertility and mortality, and thus population growth. The 2022 projections from the United Nations...
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the proportion of people diagnosed with a disease who die from it (cf. mortality rate). It should not be confused with the infection fatality rate (IFR)...
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The China Study (redirect from The China Study (Book))
and bowel cancer. The book is "loosely based" on the China–Cornell–Oxford Project, a 20-year study that looked at mortality rates from cancer and other...
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soul and mortality are prominent, realised in the Maya-themed cover artwork, created by Mark Wilkinson. A critical and commercial success, The Book of Souls...
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twitches (i.e. t90) in skeletal muscle preparations can be determined.". Mortality (often determined by measured toxicity on mice) is a commonly used indicator...
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How to Stop Time (redirect from How to Stop Time (book))
tick and tock of time and mortality." The Guardian reviewer said, "The energy and zip of this book are hard to resist." The book received mixed or poor reviews...
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Decree 770 (section Circumvention and mortality)
own death. The mortality among pregnant women became the highest in Europe during the reign of Ceaușescu. While the childbed mortality rate kept declining...
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The Eye of Minds (redirect from The mortality doctrine)
written by American author James Dashner, and the first book in The Mortality Doctrine series. The book was first published on October 8, 2013 by Delacorte...
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Demography of the Roman Empire (section Mortality)
documented pre-modern societies, the Roman Empire experienced high infant mortality, a low marriage age, and high fertility within marriage. Perhaps half...
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reported that "light" and "moderate" jogging were associated with reduced mortality compared to both non-jogging and "strenuous" jogging. The optimal amount...
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