doi:10.1080/14616696.2014.916334Emiko OchiaiGraduate School of LettersEuropean SocietiesOchiai, E. (2014). The meaning of the second demographic transition and the establishment of a mature society. European Societies 16(3): 343-346.
later called “first demographic transition” in this paper, was once the dominant framework to explain the association between socioeconomic transformations and demographic change across different parts of the world. In brief, the (first) demographic transition theory outlines the process...
Thus, the concept of languaging rather than language has been used to refer to a collaborative, dialogic activity or a process of making meaning and building knowledge through language to solve complex problems (Harris, 1981). Indeed, language does not independently function as an organism-centered...
Demographic characteristics of the participants Ultimately, a total of 1023 health care service providers actively participated and completed the survey, 238 of whom were excluded due to inadequate quality. Furthermore, an additional 311 respondents were excluded because they did not meet the criteria ...
Meaning These findings suggest that use of second-generation AAs is associated with a clinically significant increased risk of depression when compared with traditional HT alone or no HT. Abstract Importance Previous studies have shown a consistent association between hormone therapy (HT), such as andr...
“All men are created equal”: we make it true because we create systems of meaning; we have evolved a normative understanding of this (through law, notably) What AI does, even ML models—it reads our past, not our future If we lose the capacity of saying what is good for us, ...
Meaning Clinicians may consider prescribing newer ADM classes more routinely after metformin rather than sulfonylureas or basal insulin. Abstract Importance Understanding cardiovascular outcomes of initiating second-line antidiabetic medications (ADMs) may help inform treatment decisions after metformin alone is...
It is possible to keep registers of the origins of migrants’ children – meaning that an individual, who was born or whose parents were born, for instance, in Switzerland but whose (grand) parents had foreign origins despite living their entire life in Switzerland, can still be recorded as ...
Depending on the focus of the study, it could be worthwhile to more specifically ask about relational and instrumental values attributed to landscape changes to gain an even deeper insight in the meaning of landscape change for the local population (Stenseke 2018; Riechers et al. 2022; van ...
The meaning of life expectancy: What is a clinically significant gain? J Gen Intern Med, 9 (1994), pp. 702-707, 10.1007/BF02599016 View in ScopusGoogle Scholar 107 A. Laupacis, D. Feeny, A.S. Detsky, et al. How attractive does a new technology have to be to warrant adoption and ...