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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 38
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California Life Expectancy, Abridged Life Tables for California and Los Angeles County
Author: California Life Expectancy, Abridged Life Tables by Race/ethnicity for California
Author: Abridged Life Tables for California ...
Author: Vital Statistics of the United States
Author: California State Publications
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Category : State government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 70
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The Burden of Support
Author: Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804766290
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Vital Statistics of the United States
Author: Human Body Size and the Laws of Scaling
Author: Thomas T. SamarasPublisher: Nova Publishers
ISBN: 9781600214080
Category : Biometry
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Several books have been published on scaling in biology and its ramifications in the animal kingdom. However, none has specifically examined the multifaceted effects of how changes in human height create disproportionately larger changes in weight, surface area, strength and other physiological parameters. Yet, the impact of these non-linear effects on individual humans as well as our world's environment is enormous. Since increasing human body size has widespread ramifications, this book presents findings on the human species and its ecological niche. its community and how the species interacts with its environment. Thus, a few chapters provide an ecological overview of how increasing human body size relates to human evolution, fitness, health, survival and the environment. This book provides a unique purview of the laws of scaling on human performance, health, longevity and the environment. Numerous examples from various research disciplines are used to illustrate the impact of increasing body size on many aspects of human enterprises, including work output, athletics and intellectual performance.
Futurevision
Author: Howard F. Didsbury, Jr.Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 9780930242534
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Futurevision represents a new stage in the evolution of near term research and speculation into the world of tomorrow. This volume, which brings together twenty-five leading experts in a variety of social and scientific areas, attempts to foresee likely harmful or undesirable results of advances hi scientific and technological ingenuity. In developing an early-warning system designed to elicit prudent reflection and timely action, futurism has now entered the mainstream of social thought. The volume is divided into eight categories: the future of work, education, management, sustainability, projections about the future, decline or revitalization, medical ethics, and the global scene as such. Among the major issues taken up are the threat of persistent technological unemployment in high-tech societies, approaches to teaching about the future, new forms of specialization and speculation, virtual learning in simulated contexts, planning models in business and industry that permit rapid shifts, changes in the economy that result from a move from a product to a service-based economy, patterns of innovation in agriculture using less space to feed more people, and the general analysis of forecasting and predicting future events with present methodologies. Futurevision aims to recast the basic fault lines of current social, scientific, and technological analysis. The volume emphasizes long-term perspectives, future relevant research and thinking, weapons analysis and warfare, population and planetary exploration--examining what constitutes significant knowledge in this new environment--and the broad area of learning and caring hi meaningful contexts. There is a new seriousness in future research that will be appealing to students and teachers and researchers of sociology, psychology, and economics, especially those working with current data and qualitative research techniques.
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