Association of Divorce with Socio-Demographic Covariates in China, 1955-1985
Demographic Research, 2002 Based on a unique data set on the event history of marriage and divorce collected in the In-Depth Fertility Surveys conducted in Shanghai, Shaanxi, and Hebei in 1985 and a multivariate hazards model, this paper investigates the association between ...
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Metabolic scaling, life history, and the equal fitness paradigm [PDF]
arXivNatural selection has produced an extraordinary diversity of life histories spanning many orders of magnitude in body size, vital rates, and biological times. In general, big and cold organisms grow and reproduce slowly and live long lives; small and warm organisms grow and reproduce quickly and live short lives.
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Temporally variable dispersal and demography can accelerate the spread of invading species [PDF]
arXiv, 2011 We analyze how temporal variability in local demography and dispersal combine to affect the rate of spread of an invading species. Our model combines state-structured local demography (specified by an integral or matrix projection model) with general dispersal distributions that may depend on the state of the individual or its parent, and it allows ...
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Population decline and infrastructure: The case of the German water supply system [PDF]
Vienna Yearbook of Population Research, 2007 The dynamic interaction between population and water is usually discussed in the context of development issues in Third World countries, but rarely analysed for northern, industrialised countries.
Alexandra Lux, Diana Hummel
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A Framework For Gait-Based User Demography Estimation Using Inertial Sensors [PDF]
arXivHuman gait has been shown to provide crucial motion cues for various applications. Recognizing patterns in human gait has been widely adopted in various application areas such as security, virtual reality gaming, medical rehabilitation, and ailment identification.
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The High Fertility of College Educated Women in Norway
Demographic Research, 2001 College education has a positive impact on birth rates, net of age and duration since previous birth, according to models estimated separately for second and third births.
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Self-expression and family values: how are they related to marriage, divorce, and remarriage?
Revista Brasileira de Estudos de População, 2011 Maria Carolina Tomás
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The relative tail of longevity and the mean remaining lifetime
Demographic Research, 2006 Vaupel (1998) posed the provocative question, "When it comes to death, how do people and flies differ from Toyotas?" He suggested that as the force of natural selection diminishes with age, structural reliability concepts can be profitably used in ...
James W. Vaupel, Maxim Finkelstein
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Learning from Two Decades of Blood Pressure Data: Demography-Specific Patterns Across 75 Million Patient Encounters [PDF]
arXivHypertension is a global health concern with an increasing prevalence, underscoring the need for effective monitoring and analysis of blood pressure (BP) dynamics. We analyzed a substantial BP dataset comprising 75,636,128 records from 2,054,462 unique patients collected between 2000 and 2022 at Emory Healthcare in Georgia, USA, representing a ...
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