scholarly journals New Estimates of Aboriginal Fertility, 1966-1971 to 1996-2001

2004 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bali Ram
Keyword(s):  
American Indians ◽  
Total Fertility Rate ◽  
Census Data ◽  
Major Focus ◽  
Aboriginal Population ◽  
North American Indians ◽  
The Past ◽  
Aboriginal Fertility ◽  
Age Patterns ◽  
Number Of Births

Using census data on children in families, this paper estimates various fertility measures for the total aboriginal population and four specific groups, North American Indians, Registered Indians, Metis, and Inuit. The “own-children” procedure is used for deriving the number of births by the age of the mother during specific years preceding the census. The major focus of the paper is on the trends of total fertility rate and the convergence of age patterns between various subgroups over the past 30 years. Strengths and limitations of the method are also discussed.

scholarly journals An Evaluation of the Pearsonian Type I Curve of Fertility for Aboriginal Populations in Canada, 1996 to 2001

2008 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 357
Author(s):  
Ravi B. P. Verma ◽  
Shirley Loh
Keyword(s):  
American Indians ◽  
Goodness Of Fit ◽  
Low Fertility ◽  
Type I ◽  
Fertility Rates ◽  
North American Indians ◽  
Aboriginal Populations ◽  
Statistics Canada ◽  
Pearsonian Type ◽  
Number Of Births

In 2005, Statistics Canada published new projections of the Aboriginal populations (North American Indians, Métis, and Inuit) in Canada, the provinces and territories from 2001 to 2017. To derive the number of births in these projections, the age-specific fertility rates were simulated by fitting the Pearsonian Type I curve using the projected fertility parameters: total fertility rates, mean ages of fertility, and modal ages of fertility. For the base period 1996 to 2001, the parameters were estimated from the age-specific fertility rates derived from the 2001 Census, using the “own-children method.” This paper evaluates the goodness of fit between the age-specific fertility rates developed by the Type I curve and the estimated age-specific fertility rates for Aboriginal identity groups for the period 1996 to 2001 for Canada and for high and low fertility regions. Tests of validity of the Type I curve indicate that this method is appropriate for estimating/projecting the number of births for the Aboriginal populations.

scholarly journals Evaluation of projections of populations for the aboriginal identity groups in Canada, 1996-2001

2005 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 229
Author(s):  
Ravi B. P. Verma
Keyword(s):  
American Indians ◽  
North American ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Population Projections ◽  
Aboriginal Population ◽  
North American Indians ◽  
Aboriginal Identity ◽  
Population Counts ◽  
Age And Sex ◽  
Identity Groups

The population projections for the Aboriginal identity groups (North American Indians, Métis and Inuit) by age and sex from 1996 to 2001 were developed at the Canada level, using the cohort-component method. The purpose of this paper is to compare and analyze the error of closure between the projected 2001 and adjusted 2001 population counts due to net census undercounts. It is observed that the error of closure for the 2001 projected Aboriginal population based on the 1996 adjusted census population seems to be lower by 7% over the 2001 Census adjusted Aboriginal population. In contrast, the projected populations for North American Indians and Inuit are lower by -0.20% and -2.73%. However, for the Métis the error of closure is extremely high, at -24.84%. Reasons for the higher error of closure for the Métis such as the effects of intra-generational ethnic mobility will be discussed in the paper.

scholarly journals Intergenerational Ethnic Mobility among Canadian Aboriginal Populations in 2001

2010 ◽  
Vol 37 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norbert Robitaille ◽  
Éric Guimond ◽  
Alexandre Boucher
Keyword(s):  
American Indians ◽  
North American ◽  
Aboriginal Population ◽  
North American Indians ◽  
The North ◽  
Ethnic Affiliation ◽  
Aboriginal Populations ◽  
Aboriginal Identity ◽  
Aboriginal Groups ◽  
Aboriginal Person

This article deals with the contribution of intergenerational ethnic mobility to the demographic reproduction of the Aboriginal groups in Canada: the North American Indians, the Métis and the Inuit. To this effect, it attempts to see if children in husband/wife census families keep the identity of their parents. As expected, children from endogamous couples generally keep their parents’ identity. However, for most children from exogamous couples formed by an Aboriginal person and a non-Aboriginal person, the Aboriginal identity prevails over the non-Aboriginal identity. If Aboriginal identities were “not attractive” identities when declaring the ethnic affiliation of children in situations of exogamous unions, then the size of the Aboriginal population in Canada would be significantly smaller.

Jack B. Martin & Margaret McKane Mauldin, A dictionary of Creek/Muskogee, with notes on the Florida and Oklahoma Seminole dialects of Creek (Studies in the anthropology of North American Indians.) Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, in cooperation with the American Indian Studies Research Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington. Pp. xxxviii, 357. Hb $60.00.

2001 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 662-664
Author(s):  
William Bright
Keyword(s):  
American Indians ◽  
Language Family ◽  
University Of Kansas ◽  
Indiana University ◽  
American Indian Studies ◽  
North American Indians ◽  
The Past ◽  
Southeastern Us ◽  
The University ◽  
Lincoln University

From the 1930s through the 1970s, the Muskogean languages of the southeastern US were virtually the scholarly preserve of the late Mary R. Haas, and no modern grammars or dictionaries were available for them. In more recent years, it has been a pleasure to witness increasing work in this language family by Pamela Munro at UCLA – and her students, and her students' students – and by Karen Booker and her associates at the University of Kansas. The present volume is the third major Muskogean dictionary to appear in the past few years.

Fluorescent potentiometric dyes for membrane-potential imaging

1994 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 166-167
Author(s):  
Leslie M. Loew
Keyword(s):  
Membrane Potential ◽  
Single Cells ◽  
Quantitative Imaging ◽  
Optical Recording ◽  
Biological Processes ◽  
Major Focus ◽  
The Past ◽  
Excitable Systems ◽  
Major Application ◽  
The Impact

A major application of potentiometric dyes has been the multisite optical recording of electrical activity in excitable systems. After being championed by L.B. Cohen and his colleagues for the past 20 years, the impact of this technology is rapidly being felt and is spreading to an increasing number of neuroscience laboratories. A second class of experiments involves using dyes to image membrane potential distributions in single cells by digital imaging microscopy - a major focus of this lab. These studies usually do not require the temporal resolution of multisite optical recording, being primarily focussed on slow cell biological processes, and therefore can achieve much higher spatial resolution. We have developed 2 methods for quantitative imaging of membrane potential. One method uses dual wavelength imaging of membrane-staining dyes and the other uses quantitative 3D imaging of a fluorescent lipophilic cation; the dyes used in each case were synthesized for this purpose in this laboratory.

Methods in Year 50: Preserving the Past and Preparing for the Future

2011 ◽  
Vol 50 (01) ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Aronsky ◽  
T. Y. Leong ◽  
A. T. McCray ◽  
R. Haux
Keyword(s):  
Medical Informatics ◽  
Strategic Decisions ◽  
Major Focus ◽  
Editorial Policies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Processing Data ◽  
Online Access ◽  
Aims And Scope ◽  
Online Methods ◽  
Sixth Decade

Summary Background: Founded in 1962 and, therefore, the oldest international journal in medical informatics, Methods of Information in Medicine will publish its 50th volume in 2011. At the start of the journal’s sixth decade, a discussion on the journal’s profile seems appropriate. Objectives: To report on the new opportunities for online access to Methods publications as well as on the recent strategic decisions regarding the journal‘s aims and editorial policies. Methods: Describing and analyzing the journal’s aims and scope. Reflecting on recent publications and on the journal’s development during the last decade. Results: From 2011 forward all articles of Methods from 1962 until the present can be accessed online. Methods of Information in Medicine stresses the basic methodology and scientific fundamentals of processing data, information and knowledge in medicine and health care. Although the journal‘s major focus is on publications in medical informatics, it has never been restricted to publications only in this discipline. For example, articles in medical biometry, in or close to biomedical engineering, and, later, articles in bioinformatics continue to be a part of this journal. Conclusions: There is a continuous and, as it seems, ever growing overlap in the research methodology and application areas of the mentioned disciplines. As there is a continuing and even growing need for such a publication forum, Methods of Information in Medicine will keep its broad scope. As an organizational consequence, the journal’s number of associate editors has increased accordingly.

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