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Health and historical demography [PDF]
, 2016 This chapter explores the relevance of work in anthropometric history and the history of sickness to the study of historical demography. The book in which it appears has been commissioned by the Europeam Society for Historical Demography in advance of its second conference.
Harris, Bernard
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, 2022 This chapter of Beginning Population Studies (3rd edition) gives an overview of the subject of historical demography.
Day, Cathy
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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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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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The Demography of Disasters [PDF]
, 2021 This open access book provides worldwide examples demonstrating the importance of the interplay between demography and disasters in regions and spatially.
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Sources for an Australian Interdisciplinary Historical Demography
, 2019 This chapter begins with quantitative sources: population censuses, vital registration, administrative statistics (including convict records), and sample surveys. This is followed by a short section on the many qualitative sources and a discussion of the
Kippen, Rebecca, Lucas, David
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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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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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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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