From death to birth : mortality decline and reproductive change / / Mark R. Montgomery and Barney Cohen, editors ; Committee on Population, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council, contributors

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910455683803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, District of Columbia : , : National Academy Press, , [1998]; ©1998
• ISBN: 0-309-18491-6; 0-585-03757-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 426 p. ) : ill.
• Disciplina: 304.63
• Soggetti: Mortality; Fertility, Human; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "Committee on Population, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Effect of a child's death on birth spacing : a cross-national analysis / Laurence M. Grummer-Strawn, Paul W. Stupp, and Zuguo Mei -- The impact of infant and child mortality risk on fertility / Kenneth I. Wolpin -- Learning and lags in mortality perceptions / Mark R. Montgomery -- The impact of AIDS mortality on individual fertility : evidence from Tanzania / Martha Ainsworth, Deon Filmer, and Innocent Semali -- Infant mortality and fertility transition : macro evidence from Europe and new findings from Prussia / Patrick R. Galloway, Ronald D. Lee, and Eugene A. Hammel --; The relationship between infant and child mortality and fertility : some historical and contemporary evidence for the United States / Michael R. Haines -- Fertility response to infant and child mortality in Africa with special reference to Cameroon / Barthélémy Kuate Defo -- The relationship between infant and child mortality and subsequent fertility in Indonesia : 1971-1991 / Elizabeth Frankenberg -- Micro and macro effects of child mortality on fertility : the case of India / P.N. Mari Bhat -- Child mortality and the fertility transition : aggregated and ; multilevel evidence from Costa Rica / Luis Rosero-Bixby.

Parallel Computing Technologies : 13th International Conference, PaCT 2015, Petrozavodsk, Russia, August 31-September 4, 2015, Proceedings / / edited by Victor Malyshkin

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910483956803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015
• ISBN: 3-319-21909-X
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2015.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XIV, 548 p. 204 illus.)
• Collana: Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues, , 2512-2029 ; ; 9251
• Disciplina: 004.35
• Soggetti: Software engineering; Algorithms; Numerical analysis; Computer simulation; Computers; Computer engineering; Computer networks; Software Engineering; Numerical Analysis; Computer Modelling; Hardware Performance and Reliability; Computer Engineering and Networks
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Parallel models, algorithms and programming methods -- Unconventional computing -- Cellular automata -- Distributed computing -- Special processors programming techniques -- Applications.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Parallel Computing Technologies, PaCT 2015, held in Petrozavodsk, Russia, during August / September 2015. The 37 full ; papers and 14 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 87 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on parallel models, algorithms and programming methods; unconventional computing; cellular automata; distributed computing; special processors programming techniques; applications.