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RSS populationPopulation Pharmacokinetics Studies With Nonlinear Mixed Effects Modeling
White Paper Population pharmacokinetics is the application of the statistical and programming expertise to convert data into knowledge. Population PK modeling uses population-based approaches to identify and interpret the demographic, genetic, physiologic and... [07 Nov 2007]
How Topology Affects Population Dynamics
White Paper How does an environment's topology affect the population dynamics of its inhabitants? Lack of attention to this simple, fundamental question has seriously hampered our theoretical understanding of population biology and epidemiology. [25 Feb 2004]
Development of Nerve Connections under the Control of Neurotrophic Factors: Parallels with Consumer-Resource Systems in Population Biology
White Paper In population biology, in contrast, the concept of competition is well developed and has been studied by means of many formal models of consumer-resource systems. The development of connections between neurons and their target cells involves... [03 Jul 2008]
Labor Market Effects of Population Aging
White Paper This paper analyzes effects of population aging on the labor market and determines their broad implications for public policy. It takes Germany as an example, but it equally applies to the other large economies in Continental Europe. [03 Jul 2008]
Analyzing an Aging Population - A Dynamic General Equilibrium Approach
White Paper This paper shows the macroeconomic and welfare implications of an aging population in the United States, using an overlapping-generations model with heterogeneous households. The model uses three population projections in Social Security... [29 Jun 2005]
ID database will become national population register
News The government says the ID card database will become a national population register of basic personal information for the public sector to verify identity and has called for the development of a children's register as well. [19 Apr 2006]
An Application of Survival Analysis to Population Dynamics in Human Capital Management
White Paper Using PROC LIFEREG the authors developed best fit survival models for employee lengths of stay and with these best fit model's hazard rates and apply a semi-Markov population dynamic model to forecast the rate of replacement of employees with new... [26 Dec 2006]
Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population
White Paper Moreover, larger population studies rarely have the infrastructure in place to collect health signals from components in operation, which is critical information for detailed failure analysis. It is estimated that over 90% of all new information... [25 Aug 2007]
Using Administrative Earnings Records to Assess Wage Data Quality in the March Current Population Survey and the Survey of Income and Program Participation
White Paper The March Current Population Survey (CPS) and the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) produce different aggregates and distributions of annual wages. An excess of high wages and shortage of low wages occurs in the March CPS. [03 Jul 2008]
A Description of the Immigrant Population
White Paper The number of foreign-born people in the United States now constitutes 12 percent of the population - the highest share since about 1930. This paper focuses on the characteristics of immigrants, including where they come from, where they reside... [24 Jun 2005]
Social Security: The Challenges of an Aging Population
White Paper Addressing the growing cost of Social Security would not by itself relieve the economic and budgetary pressure caused by the aging of the U.S.population. The rapidly escalating costs of the government's health care programs are a major source of... [29 Jun 2005]
Banking the "Demographic Dividend": How Population Dynamics Can Affect Economic Growth
White Paper This paper synthesizes recent research that sheds light on the debate over the impact of population dynamics on economic development in particular, the importance of age structure. The paper also examines the relationship between population change... [01 Mar 2005]
Japan WAM Supports Its Aging Population with Help from IBM
White Paper The population of Japan is aging at a rate unprecedented in other nations. It is expected that by 2010, 25 percent of the Japanese population will be over 65. There has been great concern about how the nation will establish proper medical care for... [03 Jul 2008]
Finland’s Second-Largest City Serves Growing Population by Outsourcing IT
White Paper The City of Espoo relies on HP Services to manage IT operations that serve 9,000 users at 400 sites. In December 2001, the City of Espoo selected HP to provide a dedicated, on-site team to manage the city's IT infrastructure, including its 70... [20 Apr 2004]
Configuration Management Database Population and Dependency Mapping
White Paper The need for and awareness around Configuration Management DataBases (CMDBs) to track infrastructure items and their relationships continues to grow while business demands and mission critical service levels have stretched IT resources. [23 May 2007]
