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Building an Archival Database for Visualizing Historical Networks. A Case for Pre-Modern Korea
Historical Life Course Studies, 2022 In this paper, we share the experience of collecting and organizing pre-modern Korean historical materials into a searchable digital archive. The Ajou Interdisciplinary Research Group (AIRG) has continuously collected historical data of pre-modern Korea
Seungmin Paek +2 more
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Contested minorities – the case of Upper Silesia
Environmental & Socio-economic Studies, 2015 Upper Silesia in terms of ethnicity is a typical example of a historical region in Europe, but in fact, one of the few exceptions in contemporary Poland, where its mixed ethnic and religious structures have at least partly survived until today.
Gierczak Dariusz
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Historical Demography in Ukraine: From “Political Arithmetic” to Non-Political History
Przeszłość Demograficzna Polski, 2019 The article is an introduction to the state of development of historical demographic studies in Ukrainian historiography. The authors try to explain why, at a time when historical demography was the mainstream in world historiography, it made ...
Igor Serdiuk, Yuriy Voloshyn
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Sociologie Românească, 2019 This presentation refers to the conference Population Studies. Challenges and Prospects, organized at the Babeș-Bolyai University, Centre for Population Studies, on June 1st-2nd 2019. The conference aimed to provide a retrospective overview on population
Mihaela Hărăguș, Luminița Dumănescu
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Historical Life Course Studies, 2023 Over the last 60 years several major historical databases with reconstructed life courses of large populations spanning decades have been launched. The development of these databases is indicative of considerable investments that have greatly expanded ...
Sören Edvinsson +2 more
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A synthetic measure of mortality using skeletal data from ancient cemeteries: the d index [PDF]
, 2018 Background: Due to the scarcity of written sources in ancient historical periods, and thanks to the development of increasingly sophisticated methods of excavation, recognition, publication, and interpretation, archaeology has played an important role in
Barbiera, Irene +2 more
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Laboratory colonisation and genetic bottlenecks in the tsetse fly Glossina pallidipes [PDF]
, 2014 Background The IAEA colony is the only one available for mass rearing of Glossina pallidipes, a vector of human and animal African trypanosomiasis in eastern Africa. This colony is the source for Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) programs in East Africa.
Ciosi, Marc +2 more
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Wine – The Favourite Beverage of Serbian Medieval Rulers and Nobility
Etnoantropološki ProblemiWine, as the most noble and beloved drink of the Middle Ages, was primarily consumed in the courts of Serbian medieval rulers and nobility. During the early decades of the 14th century, Serbian rulers and nobles imported wine from the coastal cities of
Marina Štetić
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A Top-down Approach to the Historical Demography of 18th-Century Pomerania
Przeszłość Demograficzna Polski, 2022 Taking advantage of relatively well-preserved Prussian statistics, the author examines the dynamics of the Pomeranian population in the 18th century to suggest priorities for further studies at both the individual and local community level.
Rolf Gehrmann
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Demography and the age of rare variants
, 2014 Large whole-genome sequencing projects have provided access to much of the rare variation in human populations, which is highly informative about population structure and recent demography. Here, we show how the age of rare variants can be estimated from
Mathieson, Iain, McVean, Gil
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