In this paper we present an agent-based model of the dynamics of mortality, fertility, and partnership formation in a closed population. One of our goals is to bridge the methodological and conceptual gaps that remain between demography and agent-based social simulation approaches. Model construction incorporates elements of both perspectives, with demography contributing empirical data on popu...

1 Department of Sociology and Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington 2 Department of Sociology, University of Washington 3 Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology, University of Washington 4 School of Public Health, Harvard University 5 Department of Statistics, Department of Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems, Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences,...

Dr. Zitha Mokomane is a Senior Research Specialist in the Population Health, Health Systems and Innovation research programme at the Human Sciences Research Council in South Africa. She holds a MA and a PhD (Family Demography), both from the Australian National University. Before joining the Human Science Research Council, Dr Mokomane was a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Population Studie...

background: stress and anxiety are consideredto be one of the the most common and effective disorders in patients with breast cancer. there was aparadoxical relationship between stress and anxiety, with spiritual wellbeing in cancer patients, such as breast cancer, in the findings of studies from other countries. moreover, there was a lack of similar studies in iran.therefore, this led research...

The village of Sunderkhal on the Eastern boundary Corbett Tiger Reserve Ramnagar Forest Division-Uttarakhand. These villages have stunning natural beauty. This study is to find working and living condition people. objectives this know all aspects socio-economic condition. work mainly based primary data resources which are collected with help questionnaire, interview personal observation methods...

People-Nearby Applications (PNAs) are becoming popular day by day. People try to find new ways for increasing their social circle according to their interests. PNAs provide people with a best way to find new people within one’s physical vicinity by applying activities and interests filters. A large number of people using PNAs complain about privacy issues and fake users. Another big concern of ...

In this issue Health by Numbers explores asthma hospitalizations and emergency department (ED) visit rates in relation to Healthy People 2010 (HP2010) goals. Two HP2010 objectives for asthma are specific to hospitalizations and ED visits. Objective 24-2 sets the following targets for asthma hospitalizations by age group: (1) an age-specific rate of 25 per 10,000 children under age 5 years, (2) ...

AI systems are now or will soon be sophisticated enough to make consequential decisions. Although this technology has flourished, we also need public appraisals of AI systems playing these more important roles. This article reports surveys of preferences for and against AI systems making decisions in various domains as well as experiments that intervene on these preferences. We find that these ...

This chapter introduces a novel framework for modeling interacting humans in a multi-stage game. This “iterated semi network-form game” framework has the following desirable characteristics: (1) Bounded rational players, (2) strategic players (i.e., players account for one another’s reward functions when predicting one another’s behavior), and (3) computational tractability even on real-world s...