A Proposal for Reclassifying Causes of Death in Transylvania (1850–1920): The HCDT System
Przeszłość Demograficzna Polski, 2022 Our research explores issues related to the process of classifying causes of death, using information from parish registers of burials included in the Historical Population Database of Transylvania (HPDT), and covering the period between 1850 and 1920 ...
Elena Crinela Holom, Nicoleta Hegedűs
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Selection and demography drive range-wide patterns of MHC-DRB variation in mule deer
BMC Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Background Standing genetic variation is important especially in immune response-related genes because of threats to wild populations like the emergence of novel pathogens. Genetic variation at the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), which is crucial
Rachel M. Cook +4 more
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“New Historical Demography” in Russia: Evolution or a Leap in Development?
Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки, 2016 The article studies the main factors that determine and characterize the “new historical demography” which formed in Russia in the 1990s. The authors analyse factors and trends in social science and the humanities that have influenced the formation of ...
Vladimir Nikolaevich Vladimirov +2 more
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Social and spatial mobility of Moscow merchants according to the records of the VIIIth (1833-1834) and Xth (1857-1858) poll-tax registers (revisions) [PDF]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия ИИ. История, история Русской Православной Церкви, 2017 historical demography, social mobility, migration, urban and regional history, Russian poll-tax registers (revisions), 19-century Russian history, imperial ...
Irina Troitskaya, Galina Ulyanova
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Historical Life Course Studies, 2022 The Historical Population Database of Transylvania (HPDT) is a research tool for population studies developed since 2014 at the Centre for Population Studies in Cluj-Napoca, financed by an SEE-Norway Grant.
Luminița Dumănescu +7 more
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, 2017 Contains fulltext : 190586.pdf (publisher's version ) (Open Access)20 ...
Devos, Isabelle, Janssens, Angélique
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The futures of rural migration in sub-Saharan Africa: A literature review and exploratory essay [PDF]
, 2019 In a context where 200 million more people are expected to live in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) alone by 2050, the question of the futures of SSA rural migration is of crucial importance in a region which so far as remained essentially rural, in spite of a ...
Bourgeois, Robin
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Longevity defined as top 10% survivors and beyond is transmitted as a quantitative genetic trait
Nature Communications, 2019 While human lifespan is only moderately heritable, “getting old” runs in families. Here, van den Berg et al. study mortality data from three-generation cohorts to define a threshold for longevity and find that individuals have an increasing survival ...
Niels van den Berg +8 more
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“New Historical Demography” in Russia: evolution or a leap?
Przeszłość Demograficzna Polski, 2016 The article examines the main features of the “New Historical Demography” which developed in Russia during the 1990s. The authors analyze factors and trends in social science and the humanities that have influenced the formation of this new ...
Vladimir Vladimirov +2 more
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Genomic variation in a widespread Neotropical bird (Xenops minutus) reveals divergence, population expansion, and gene flow [PDF]
, 2014 Elucidating the demographic and phylogeographic histories of species provides insight into the processes responsible for generating biological diversity, and genomic datasets are now permitting the estimation of histories and demographic parameters with ...
Brumfield, Robb T., Harvey, Michael G.
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