A New Look at the Asian Fertility Transition (Distinguishedl Lecture)

1996 ◽  
Vol 35 (4I) ◽  
pp. 385-398 ◽  
Author(s):  
John C. Caldwell
Keyword(s):  
Total Fertility Rate ◽  
Birth Rate ◽  
Fertility Transition ◽  
Fertility Rate ◽  
Asian Women ◽  
Population Replacement ◽  
Planning Meeting ◽  
Annual Birth Rate

The significance of the Asian fertility transition can hardly be overestimated. The relatively sanguine view of population growth expressed at the 1994 International Conference for Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo was possible only because of the demographic events in Asia over the last 30 years. In 1965 Asian women were still bearing about six children. Even at current rates, today’s young women will give birth to half as many. This measure, namely the average number of live births over a reproductive lifetime, is called the total fertility rate. It has to be above 2— considerably above if mortality is still high—to achieve long-term population replacement. By 1995 East Asia, taken as a whole, exhibited a total fertility rate of 1.9. Elsewhere, Singapore was below long-term replacement, Thailand had just achieved it, and Sri Lanka was only a little above. The role of Asia in the global fertility transition is shown by estimates I made a few years ago for a World Bank Planning Meeting covering the first quarter of a century of the Asian transition [Caldwell (1993), p. 300]. Between 1965 and 1988 the world’s annual birth rate fell by 22 percent. In 1988 there would have been 40 million more births if there had been no decline from 1965 fertility levels. Of that total decline in the world’s births, almost 80 percent had been contributed by Asia, compared with only 10 percent by Latin America, nothing by Africa, and, unexpectedly, 10 percent by the high-income countries of the West. Indeed, 60 percent of the decline was produced by two countries, China and India, even though they constitute only 38 percent of the world’s population. They accounted, between them, for over threequarters of Asia’s fall in births.

Moving forward with actionable therapeutic targets and opportunities in endometrial cancer: A NCI clinical trials planning meeting report

2018 ◽  
Vol 149 (3) ◽  
pp. 442-446 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Lheureux ◽  
Carolyn McCourt ◽  
B.J. Rimel ◽  
Linda Duska ◽  
Gini Fleming ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Trials ◽  
Endometrial Cancer ◽  
Therapeutic Targets ◽  
Meeting Report ◽  
Planning Meeting

Teaching Students with Combined Behavioral Disorders and Mental Retardation to Lead Their Own IEP Meetings

2002 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 340-357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward P. Snyder
Keyword(s):  
Mental Retardation ◽  
Behavioral Disorders ◽  
Individualized Education Program ◽  
Self Advocacy ◽  
Adolescent Students ◽  
Choice Making ◽  
Cognitive Limitations ◽  
Planning Meeting ◽  
Critical Skills ◽  
Iep Meetings

For students with combined cognitive limitations and behavioral disorders (BD), postschool outcomes are poor; their lives are marked by a lack of independence and empowerment. A major goal of special education is to develop successful models to promote individual independence and empowerment for students. The individualized education program (IEP) planning meeting provides opportunities for students to develop critical skills for self-management, self-advocacy, goal setting, and choice making. This research extended the work of Snyder and Shapiro (1997) and examined the effectiveness of teaching adolescent students with mental retardation and BD to lead their own IEP meetings. Five students learned to (a) introduce others at their IEP meetings, (b) review their past IEP goals, (c) discuss their future IEP goals, and (d) close their meetings. The students rated the instruction as acceptable. Implications and limitations of the investigation are discussed.

Gynecologic Cancer InterGroup (GCIG) Endometrial Cancer Clinical Trials Planning Meeting

2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (8) ◽  
pp. 1528-1534 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carien L. Creutzberg ◽  
Henry C. Kitchener ◽  
Michael J. Birrer ◽  
Fabio Landoni ◽  
Karen H. Lu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Trials ◽  
Endometrial Cancer ◽  
Gynecologic Cancer ◽  
Cancer Clinical Trials ◽  
Planning Meeting

Primate Biology: Planning Meeting

Science ◽  
1964 ◽  
Vol 146 (3647) ◽  
pp. 1078-1080
Author(s):  
L. Carmichael ◽  
A. J. Riopelle
Keyword(s):  
Planning Meeting

“Informational Goulash”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matt Eisenbrandt
Keyword(s):  
Significant Information ◽  
Death Squad ◽  
San Luis ◽  
Planning Meeting ◽  
The U.S

Over three decades, there have been several investigations of Romero’s murder that have uncovered significant information but never led to a trial. In 1980, Judge Atilio Ramirez Amaya attended the autopsy and started gathering evidence but the police who normally assisted were entirely absent, and three days later an assassination attempt caused Ramirez Amaya to flee. Later that year, authorities raided an estate called Finca San Luis, arrested several extremists, including Roberto D’Aubuisson, and seized documents showing death squad operations, including a datebook called the Saravia Diary that contained a page titled Operation Piña that is thought to describe Romero’s murder. In the next few years, the U.S. embassy developed an insider military source who claimed to have attended a planning meeting for Romero’s assassination. In 1987, the getaway driver for the operation, Amado Garay, testified before Salvadoran judge and implicated Roberto D’Aubuisson and Alvaro Saravia in the plot.

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