Cohort Reproductive Patterns in the Nordic Countries

Total fertility rates were declining from peaks experienced by early 1930s cohorts for 20 successive cohorts. The decline ceased among the 1950s and 1960s cohorts, because fertility deficits of young women were compensated with increased fertility when women reached their late twenties and thirties. The relative stability of completed fertility of these cohorts is attributed to Nordic social policies. Fertility deficits of young women in 1970s cohorts are comparatively large. For their completed fertility to be similar to that of earlier ones, there is considerably more catching up to do. What remains an open issue is whether social policies will be sufficiently effective for couples born in the late 1960s and the 1970s to have births not born earlier in their lives.age patterns of fertility, cohort, cohort fertility, low fertility of 1970s cohorts, Nordic countries, prospects for below-replacement fertility, Scandinavia

State Highlights 5/5/1943

This is the student newspaper from Western State High School, the high school that was on the campus of Western Michigan University, then called State Highlights, in 1943

Experimental study of coated carbide tools behaviour: application for Ti-5-5-5-3 turning

The goal of this paper is to study the relation between the input data (conditions and geometry of cut) and answers (wear of tool, forces and cutting temperatures) when machining the Ti-5-5-5-3 alloy treated. This study has shown that the cutting process is different and that the slip forces are preponderates. Compared with other materials, the specific cutting pressure is higher and does not vary according to the cutting speed but depend on feed rate. Moreover, both edge preparation and feed rate have an influence on cutting force direction. Besides, cutting temperatures are high and almost similar to those provided by high speed machining with low cutting speed. Finally, we have shown that failure modes are different from those obtained when machining other titanium alloys. Built-up edge is the most deteriorating phenomenon and no flank wear was met in our study context

NH: Economic Optimism 5/5/16

New Hampshire residents remain optimistic about business conditions in the state and are somewhat optimistic about the national economy. The majority of Granite Staters don’t expect their household financial condition to change over the next year and few expect things will get worse

SISTEM INFORMASI PENDAFTARAN SISWA BARU DI SMA PIRI 1 YOGYAKARTA BERBASIS WEB

Perkembangan ilmu pengetahuan dan teknologi yang sangat cepat memberi dampak yang baik serta manfaat yang besar bagi manusia dalam berbagai bidang kehidupan terutama di bidang pendidikan. Dengan itu maka di bangunlah aplikasi Sistem Informasi Penerimaan siswa baru di SMA PIRI 1 Yogyakarta. Sistem ini dibuat dengan menggunakan PHP dan appserv untuk mysql. sistem ini di jalankan pada sistem di web. Sistem ini diawasi oleh petugas web sebagai admin yang bisa melakukan kegiatan yaitu penginputan data guru, data ekstrakulikuler, data fasilitas, data agenda, melihat data buku tamu, penginputan data pendaftar atau calon siswa, data tahun akademik, dan registrasi. Proses pendaftaran siswa dan hasilnya yang terjadi di SMA PIRI 1 Yogyakarta ialah siswa mendaftar bisa on-line melalui internet dan bisa juga langsung datang kesekolah yang bersangkutan. Pendaftaran yang melalui on-line tidak dikenakan biaya pendaftaran namun yang manual yaitu datang langsung kesekolah akan dikenakan biaya sebagai pengganti kertas dan print bukti pendaftaran. Sehingga dengan adanya aplikasi ini memudahkan untuk calon siswa untuk mendaftar dan memperoleh informasi. Selain itu dari pihak sekolah bisa memperoleh data-data yang dibutuhkan dengan mudah dan cepat. Kata Kunci : php, mysql, PSB, Sistem Informasi, we

Bush Approval Ratings Stuck at 50 5/5/2005

Faced with continuing trouble in Iraq, high oil prices at home, and political fights over Social Security, energy policy, and court and ambassadorial appointments, President Bush’s job approval ratings in New Hampshire are stuck at 50 percent

Clinton Continues to Lead, But Support Softens 5/5/15

Hillary Clinton remains the frontrunner in the 2016 New Hampshire Primary although support for her has dipped somewhat in recent months. Her favorability ratings among Democratic primary voters have dropped significantly since February. Election: NH Primary 201

"Aye, but It Were Wasted on Thee": Cricket, British Asians, Ethnic Identities, and the 'Magical Recovery of Community'

People in sport tend to possess rather jaded perceptions of its colour-blindness and thus, they are reluctant to confront the fact that, quite often racism is endemic. Yorkshire cricket in particular, has faced frequent accusations from minority ethnic communities of inveterate and institutionalised racism and territorial defensiveness. Drawing upon semi-structured interviews conducted with amateur white and British Asian cricketers, this paper examines the construction of regional identities in Yorkshire at a time when traditional myths and invented traditions of Yorkshire and 'Yorkshireness' are being deconstructed. This is conceptualised through a reading of John Clarke's 'magical recovery of community'. Although cricket has been multiracial for decades, I argue that some people's position as insiders is more straightforward than others. I present evidence to suggest that, regardless of being committed to Yorkshire and their 'Yorkshireness', white Yorkshire people may never fully accept British Asians as 'one of us'. Ideologically and practically, white Yorkshire people are engaged in constructing British Asians as anathema to Yorkshire culture. The paper concludes by advocating that, for sports cultures to be truly egalitarian, the ideology of sport itself has to change. True equality will only ever be achieved within a de-racialised discourse that not only accepts difference, but embraces it.British Asians; Community; Cricket; Identity; Racism; Symbolic Boundaries

Alternative Approaches to the Empirical Validation of Agent-Based Models

This paper draws on the metaphor of a spectrum of models ranging from the most theory-driven to the most evidence-driven. The issue of concern is the practice and criteria that will be appro- priate to validation of different models. In order to address this concern, two modelling approaches are investigated in some detailed – one from each end of our metaphorical spectrum. Windrum et al. (2007) (http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/10/2/8.html) claimed strong similarities between agent based social simulation and conventional social science – specifically econometric – approaches to empirical modelling and on that basis considered how econometric validation techniques might be used in empirical social simulations more broadly. An alternative is the approach of the French school of \'companion modelling\' associated with Bousquet, Barreteau, Le Page and others which engages stakeholders in the modelling and validation process. The conventional approach is con- strained by prior theory and the French school approach by evidence. In this sense they are at opposite ends of the theory-evidence spectrum. The problems for validation identified by Windrum et al. are shown to be irrelevant to companion modelling which readily incorporate complexity due to realistically descriptive specifications of individual behaviour and social interaction. The result combines the precision of formal approaches with the richness of narrative scenarios. Companion modelling is therefore found to be practicable and to achieve what is claimed for it and this alone is a key difference from conventional social science including agent based computational economics.Social Simulation, Validation, Companion Modelling, Data Generating Mechanisms, Complexity