The Saskatchewan death rate, long in the 7.5â8.5/1,000 range, increased to 9.2 in 2001, perhaps to some extent due to the âbaby boomâ generation of the 1950s now reaching retirement age, but mostly due to a significant expansion of older-aged population.
Differentiation is an operation that allows us to find a function that outputs the rate of change of one variable with respect to another variable. Informally, we may suppose that we're tracking the position of a car on a two-lane road with no passing lanes.
Differentiation as a concept should be distinguished from the concept of diversity. Diversity is a term indicating the variety of entities within a system. While differentiation denotes a dynamic process, diversity refers to a static situation. Differentiation is the process in which new entities in a system emerge; diversity refers to the variety of the entities at a specific point in time (Huisman, 1995, p. 51). The framework to be presented will be directed to differentiation and diversity of