Improving the living standards of populations is a widespread societal objective. A cornerstone of living standards is the ability of individuals to earn wages and profits in order to purchase goods and services for consumption. In turn, wages and profits reflect the value of the goods and services produced in an economy and the productivity of the factor inputs used to produce them. Though liv...

It is an ecological truism that population persistence depends on a population's growth rate when rare. To understand the interplay between temporal correlations, spatial heterogeneity and dispersal on persistence, an analytic approximation for this growth rate is derived for partially mixing populations. Partial mixing has two effects on population growth. In the absence of temporal correlatio...

background: predicting life expectancy is an important component of public health, in that, it may affect policy making in fields such as social security and medical care., to estimate the life expectancy and the average years of life lost (ayll) of the human immunodeficiency virus (hiv)/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (aids)-infected population, compared with that of the general population,...

two different growth media, namely complex and defined media, were used to examine establishment of steady-state conditions in phosphate-limited culture system of saccharomyces cerevisiae cen.pk113-5d strain. using the defined growth medium, it was possible to obtain steady state condition in the continuous culture. the effect of phosphate concentration on the growth of s. cerevisiae in phospha...

Background By eliminating economic hurdles, the Women's Health and Cancer Rights Act of 1998 represented a paradigm shift in the availability of breast reconstruction. Yet, studies report disparities among Medicare-insured women. These studies do not account for the inherent differences in age and comorbidities between a younger privately insured and an older Medicare population. We examined im...

The population reached nearly 19 million in 2000, with growth at around 1.5% per year. Migration has been a key factor in population growth and the population is culturally diverse with almost 40% either born overseas or with a parent born overseas: 91% of the population is of European descent, 7% Asian and 2% Aboriginal or other. 64% of the population live in cities and towns. Future trends po...