The birth rate collapsed in the former East Germany in those early, uncertain years so completely that the drop is comparable only to times of war, according to Reiner Klingholz, director of the Berlin Institute for Population and Development.
While Liu was away, the cave home he'd lived in since birth had collapsed.
It is also a drop-off point for letters Kailey exchanges with her 11-year-old son, Gulley (Jaymie Dornan), whom she gave up at birth after the collapse of a disastrous early marriage.
However, there is a considerable fall in the cumulative hazard for the 1995 1999 and 2000 marriage cohorts, indicating the increasing delay of first birth following the collapse of Socialism, but overall Moldovan women have a consistently high probability of becoming mothers.
The importance of correct LOX expression and the resulting collagen cross-linking is exemplified by the fact that LOX-knockout mice die at birth due to collapse of their lethally fragile diaphragm and cardiovascular system (Maki et al., 2002; Hornstra et al., 2003).
Real wages have fallen and birth rates have collapsed across eastern Europe.
A collapsing birth rate, people living longer and the attractiveness of the road south are all contributing to the looming demographic crisis in Scotland, where by 2020 there won't be enough people working to support those who are not.
Participants reported sex, age, race/ethnicity, education, whether English was their primary language, and place of birth, which was collapsed to three categories (US, Puerto Rico, Other).
Because of the small case numbers for the month of birth analysis, we collapsed months into two monthly periods (fig 1).
Presidential candidacies can be stillborn, or collapse shortly after birth.
