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birth

(Beginning), noun animation, arrival, creation, debut, embarkation, establishment, genesis, inauguration, inception, incipience, incunabula, infancy, introduction, nascency, onset, origin, origination, ortus, vitalization
Associated concepts: ante natus

birth

(Emergence of young), noun arrival, childbirth, delivery, nativity, parturition, vivification
Associated concepts: birth certificate, birth control, issue, pretermission
Foreign phrases: Non nasci, et natum mori, paria sunt.Not to be born, and to be born dead, are the same.

birth

(Lineage), noun ancestry, bloodline, derivation, descent, extraction, heredity, heritage, inheritance, line, line of descent, parentage, provenance, succession
Associated concepts: birth certificate, legitimacy
Foreign phrases: Qui in utero est pro jam nato habetur, quoties de ejus commodo quaeritur.He who is in the womb is regarded as already born, whenever a question arises for his benefit.

BIRTH. The act of being wholly brought into the world. The whole body must be detached from that of the mother, in order to make the birth complete. 5 C. & P. 329; S. C. 24 E. C. L. R. 344 6 C. & P. 349; S. C. 25 E. C. L. R. 433.
2. But if a child be killed with design and maliciously after it has wholly come forth from the body of the mother, although still connected with her by means of the umbilical cord, it seems that such killing will be murder. 9 C. & P. 25 S . C. 38 E. C. L. R. 21; 7 C. & P. 814. Vide articles Breath; Dead Born; Gestation; Life; and 1 Beck' s Med. Jur. 478, et seq.; 1 Chit. Med. Jur. 438; 7 C. & P. 814; 1 Carr. & Marsh. 650; S. C. 41 E. C. L. R. 352; 9 C. & P. 25.
3. It seems that unless the child be born alive, it is not properly a birth, but a carriage. 1 Chit. Pr. 35, note z. But see Russ. & Ry. C. C. 336.

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Table 10 shows the distribution of levels of response across grades for the birth order problem, QI3.

Development of reasoning about random events

j] are child characteristics such as age, sex, birth order and parental characteristics: [x.

Child health and poverty in Pakistan

My own understanding of sibling dynamics is indebted to Frank Sulloway's monumental work on birth order, Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics and Creative Lives (1996).

Heads and arms and legs enough: Jane Austen and sibling dynamics

The duration of breast-feeding was calculated in weeks and is reported according to birth order in Table 3.

Personal breast-feeding behaviors of female physicians in Mississippi. (Original Article)

If we think about birth order alone as a cultural characteristic, we may not see any significance.

How to bridge the culture gap: if your culture is worlds apart from your client's, you can learn to adapt the way you communicate, interpret behavior, and assess best interests

In the 1990s, birth order emerged in the literature as another factor that has shown a strong enough correlation with homosexual orientation in men to warrant attention (Blanchard, 1997).

Recent research on sexual orientation and fraternal birth order

Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives, Pantheon Books, New York (1996).

Through measurement to knowledge: the inaugural lecture of Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1882)

1990) suggested that specific human individual differences among athletes in individual and team competition be investigated, namely birth order.

Effects of sport context and birth order on state anxiety

Selling and sales management in action: Birth order and the sales profession, Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management, 8, 53-55.

An empirical examination of Machiavellianism on adaptive sales performance

Scores were compared to age, marital status, ethnicity, birth order, academic classification, and prior history of counseling.

Significant Variables Associated with Assertiveness Among Hispanic College Women

Sulloway in his 1997 book Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives, particularly Sulloway's ideas relating birth order to openness to new ideas.

On Science and Pseudoscience

Sticky sitches with a superstar sister could have a lot to do with something you might not even have thought of--your birth order.