Ideally, life expectancy should be a decreasing function of age. When this fact is not observed, situation known as the table paradox. This paper investigated timing (and health metrics at time) in which Brazil and its Federation Units (FU) overcame (or are expected to overcome) The data were gathered from Brazilian Institute Geography Statistics contained 3,416 sex-specific abridged tables, 20...

Life expectancies at birth are routinely computed from period life tables. Such period life expectancies may be distorted by selection when comparing countries where the living conditions improved earlier (like Norway and Sweden) with countries where they improved later (like Italy and Japan). One way to get a fair comparison between the countries, is to use cohort data and consider the expecte...

Hurdle technology is a method of ensuring that food products will be safe for consumption and extending their shelf life. It also ensures that pathogens in food products will be eliminated. Hurdle technology is used in food industry for the gentle but effective preservation of foods. The shelf life, sensory and nutritional quality of foods are based on applications of combined preservative fact...

the host plant quality not only influences on herbivorous insects but also indirectly could impact on their natural enemies’ performance. the current study was conducted to determine the effect of different nitrogen fertilization levels of canola (brassica napus l.) on life table parameters of the predatory gall midge, aphidoletes aphidimyza rondani; diptera: cecidomyiidae, in feeding of mustar...

an investigation was carried out to study the developmental time, reproduction and life table of three populations of the onion thrips, thrips tabaci lindeman, on onion (khorasan and golestan populations) and also on tobacco (mazandaran population) in the laboratory at 25â°c, 50% rh and 16: 8 h l: d. the total life cycle from egg to adult of khorasan, golestan and mazandaran populations were ga...

the purpose of the present study is to examine relationship between cultural globalization and men's attitude toward the role of women. the method of this study was survey and its tool was questionnaire. the sampling method used in this survey was multi-stage share random sampling. sample size that was estimated according to lean table with 95 percent significance level was 383. after revi...