The Fall of the East German Birth Rate After Unification: Crisis or Means of Adaptation? CES Germany & Europe Working Papers, No. 05.6, 26 June 1995

Since the fall of the Wall, Eastern Germans have drastically changed their demographic behavior. Marriages and births have dropped to an unprecedented low level. Our paper tracks birth rates of the East German population, past, present, and future. We propose a simulation model of future cohort fertility. The hypotheses we develop build on the historical record of reproductive behavior in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) since 1960 and on an analysis of the pattern of change between 1990 and 1994. The particular emphasis lies in the assumption that East German couples will rapidly westernize their family size by trying to reach completed fertility levels of the corresponding West German cohort. This implies that the resulting adaptation process includes the postunification crisis as a logical first step.

Lung structure at preterm and term birth

When lung development is not interrupted by premature birth and unaffected by genetic or environmental disturbances, all components develop with complex control to form a functional organ with a predictable timeline during fetal development. In this chapter we describe the relationship between morphological development and function in both physiological and pathological conditions in human lung development. Tree-like growth of the lung begins during the first few weeks postconception, with the embryonic stage characterized by branching morphogenesis in both the airways and blood vessels, separately in the left and right lung buds, which appear near day 26 postcoitus (p.c.). Branching continues through the embryonic stage, with proliferation of mesenchymal and epithelial cells and apoptosis near branch points and in the areas of new formation. The pseudoglandular stage (weeks 5–17 p.c.) is characterized by accelerated cellular proliferation and airway and vascular branching, with epithelial differentiation in proximal and distal airways. Further epithelial differentiation, angiogenesis of the parenchymal capillary network, and the first formation of the air–blood barrier characterize the canalicular stage (16–26 weeks p.c.), just before the completion of branching morphogenesis (saccular stage, weeks 24–38 p.c.) and the start of alveolarization (week 36 through adolescence).

Birth and mortality statistics of the Virgin Islands of the United States. 1901-1919.

On t.-p., seal of Department of the navy, Bureau of medicine & surgery.

Fertility tables for birth cohorts by color : United States, 1917-73 /

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A topographical and historical description of the country of Southampton : containing an account of its towns, seats, antiquities, churches, public edifices, scenery, and residences of the nobility, gentry, &c. : accompanied with biographical notices of eminent and learned men to whom this county has given birth /

Includes bibliographical references.

Augustan art; an exhibition commemorating the bimillennium of the birth of Augustus, New York, January 4, 1939, through February 19.

"This handbook of the exhibition has been written by Gisela M.A. Richter ... except the chapter on Minor arts and painting, of which Christine Alexander ... is the writer."--Pref.

A visit to my birth-place /

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The elementary and complete examiner; or, Candidate's assistant: prepared to aid teachers in securing certificates from boards of examiners, and pupils in preparing themselves for promotion, teachers in selecting review questions in normal schools, institutes, and in all drill and class exercises.

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Scientific manpower from abroad; United States scientists and engineers of foreign birth and training

Includes bibliography.

The birth of the Bill of rights, 1776-1791.

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Virgin birth, a natural law /

Includes bibliographical references.

First regular employment certificates issued to working children in 1930.

Table I is missing.