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to design a curriculum of courses in the departments of civil engineering, industrial engineer-…

Thomas Burch addresses an issue that is key for the vitality of our discipline: our ability to
deal with (complex) dynamic systems. A population is a dynamic system and most will agree …

Current demographic trends raise new questions, challenges and controversies. Comparing
demographic trends in Europe and the NAME-region (North Africa and the Middle East), …

This paper describes design considerations and the general layout of the microsimulation
software of the project ‘MicMac-Bridging the micro-macro gap in population forecasting’, which …

BACKGROUND Calendar time, age and duration are chronological objects. They represent
an instant or a time period. Age and duration are usually expressed in units with varying …

Using a multistate model such as MicMac1 for making scenarios requires that assumptions
need to be specified on the future values of many parameters, viz. transition rates …

Population on the move: new insights on migration and integration policies in Europe — Royal
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Biograph: Explore life histories Biograph is designed to facilitate the descriptive and
statistical analysis of life histories. It follows a multistate perspective on the life course and …

The monitoring of financial flows for population and AIDS activities (the main aim of the
Resource Flows Project) includes the tracking of financial transactions for SRH. Households are …

The HIV/AIDS philanthropic sector, which supports programmes in developing countries, is
diverse. Grant making organizations include foundations, public charities and the corporate …