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The typology of first marriage patterns in Europe

open access: yesJournal of Geography, Politics and Society, 2022
This paper aims to present an overview of the main demographic characteristics of Europe’s inhabitants entering into first marriages in the 21st c.
Anna Majdzińska
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A reversal of the socioeconomic gradient of nuptiality during the Swedish mid-20th-century baby boom

open access: yesDemographic Research, 2017
Background: Research into the causes of the mid-20th-century baby boom has concluded that the main proximate cause of the fertility increase during the 1940s was earlier and more universal marriage in the cohorts born after 1910, and that this ...
Glenn Sandström
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Marriage and divorce of immigrants and descendants of immigrants in Sweden

open access: yesDemographic Research, 2015
Background: Immigrants and their second-generation descendants make up more than a quarter of the current Swedish population. Their nuptiality patterns can be viewed as crucial indicators of their integration into Swedish society.
Gunnar Andersson   +2 more
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Dynamic Microsimulation Model of Impoverishment Among Elderly Women in Japan

open access: yesFrontiers in Physics, 2018
The increasing poverty rate for elderly women is a growing concern in Japan and is generally due to their lifestyle changes and the public pension system based on the pre-1980s (old) lifestyle.
Seiichi Inagaki
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Family traditionalism and age-specific nuptiality patterns: what does the example of Karachay-Cherkessia point to?

open access: yesДемографическое обозрение, 2020
The paper deals with the relation between traditional family norms and women’s age at first marriage. The study is based on data from Karachay-Cherkessia, a republic of the North Caucasus (Russia), and uses results of a survey among women of ...
Konstantin Kazenin
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Historical reproductive patterns in developed countries: Aggregate-level perspective

open access: yesDemographic Research, 2018
Background: One of the fundamental arguments sustaining the classical demographic transition theory was that couples wanted to have a given number of surviving children, not a specific number of births. However, this cornerstone of transition theory came
Jesús Sánchez-Barricarte
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The Marriage Behavior of the Greek Population from 1991 to 2021: A Study Through Gross Nuptiality Tables

open access: yesGenealogy
One of the most refined tools that have been devised for the analysis of marriage behavior of a population is the nuptiality tables. There are two main categories of such tables: gross and net.
Vasilis S. Gavalas
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The European honey buzzard (Pernis apivorus) as an ally for the control of the invasive yellow‐legged hornet (Vespa velutina nigrithorax)

open access: yesPest Management Science, Volume 81, Issue 4, Page 2237-2247, April 2025.
The predatory effect of the honey‐buzzard affects the reproductive performance of Asian‐hornet colonies, decreasing the density of workers over distance and time. The foraging distances of the honey‐buzzard concentrates within the first 2000 m from nest, which supports the results observed.
Jorge Ángel Martín‐Ávila   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Populační vývoj Česka v roce 2023

open access: yesDemografie
The article describes demographic development in Czechia during 2023 and sets it in the context of the previous five years. It focuses on both population stock and the main demographic processes, namely fertility, mortality, nuptiality, the divorce rate,
Jana Koukalová
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Unravelling Evolutionary Dynamics of Female Sexual Cannibalism and Male Reproductive Strategies in Spiders

open access: yesIntegrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Sexual cannibalism (SC), where one mating partner consumes the other in the context of mating, is especially prevalent among spiders. However, the evolution of SC in spiders is still not fully understood. We review key hypotheses for SC and explore how female‐initiated SC has driven the evolution of various male counter‐adaptations to mitigate its ...
Simona Kralj‐Fišer   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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