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  2. Transgender - Wikipedia

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    Michael A. Gilbert, professor at the Department of Philosophy, York University, Toronto, offers this definition: "[A cross-dresser] is a person who has an apparent gender identification with one sex, and who has and certainly has been birth-designated as belonging to [that] sex, but who wears the clothing of the opposite sex because it is that ...

  3. Population pyramid - Wikipedia

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    The population is said to be fast-growing, and the size of each birth cohort increases each year. [8] "Constrictive" pyramid or Declining population A population pyramid that is narrowed at the bottom. The population is generally older on average, as the country has long life expectancy, a low death rate, but also a low birth rate. [6]

  4. Childbirth - Wikipedia

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    In the US, the definition of active labour was changed from 3 to 4 cm, to 5 cm of cervical dilation for multiparous women, mothers who had given birth previously, and at 6 cm for nulliparous women, those who had not given birth before. [45] This was done in an effort to increase the rates of vaginal delivery. [46]

  5. Life table - Wikipedia

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    The Pattern Method: Let the pattern of mortality continue until the rate approaches or hits 1.000 and set that as the ultimate age. The Less-Than-One Method: This is a variation on the Forced Method. The ultimate mortality rate is set equal to the expected mortality at a selected ultimate age, rather 1.000 as in the Forced Method.

  6. List of countries by total fertility rate - Wikipedia

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    Replacement fertility is the total fertility rate at which women give birth to enough babies to sustain population levels, assuming that mortality rates remain constant and net migration is zero. [10] If replacement level fertility is sustained over a sufficiently long period, each generation will exactly replace itself. [10]

  7. Fertility - Wikipedia

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    Crude birth rate (CBR) ... In medicine, the definition of fertility is "the capacity to establish a clinical pregnancy." [23]

  8. Birth process - Wikipedia

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    A simple birth process, where birth rates are equal to the size of the current population. A simple birth process is a birth process with rates =. [10] It models a population in which each individual gives birth repeatedly and independently at rate .

  9. Birthright citizenship in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Citizenship in the United States is a matter of federal law, governed by the United States Constitution.. Since the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution on July 9, 1868, the citizenship of persons born in the United States has been controlled by its Citizenship Clause, which states: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the ...