Télécharger le livre :  Exceptional Lifespans
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How long can humans live? This open access book documents, verifies and brings to life the advance of the frontier of human survival. It carefully validates data on supercentenarians, aged 110+, and semi-supercentenarians, aged 105-109, stored in the International...

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Parution : 2020-12-09
Collection : Demographic Research Monographs
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Télécharger le livre :  Sensitivity Analysis: Matrix Methods in Demography and Ecology
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This open access book shows how to use sensitivity analysis in demography. It presents new methods for individuals, cohorts, and populations, with applications to humans, other animals, and plants. The analyses are based on matrix formulations of age-classified,...

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Parution : 2019-04-02
Collection : Demographic Research Monographs
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Télécharger le livre :  Old and New Perspectives on Mortality Forecasting
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This open access book describes methods of mortality forecasting and discusses possible improvements.  It contains a selection of previously unpublished and published papers, which together provide a state-of-the-art overview of statistical approaches as well as...

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Parution : 2019-03-28
Collection : Demographic Research Monographs
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Télécharger le livre :  Model-Based Demography
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Late in a career of more than sixty years, Thomas Burch, an internationally known social demographer, undertook a wide-ranging methodological critique of demography. This open access volume contains a selection of resulting papers, some previously unpublished, some...

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Parution : 2017-10-14
Collection : Demographic Research Monographs
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Télécharger le livre :  Childlessness in Europe: Contexts, Causes, and Consequences
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This book is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This open access book provides an overview of childlessness throughout Europe. It offers a collection of papers written by leading demographers and sociologists that examine contexts, causes, and consequences...

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Parution : 2017-01-11
Collection : Demographic Research Monographs
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Télécharger le livre :  Germany's New Security Demographics
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Military recruitment will become more difficult in times of demographic aging. The question arises whether demographic change will constrain the capacity of aging states like Germany to conduct foreign policy and pursue their national security interests. Since...

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Parution : 2013-12-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Regional Mortality Differences in Germany
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Regional mortality differences are one dimension of health inequalities, but its trends and determinants in Germany are widely unknown. This book examines and illustrates patterns of regional mortality in Germany—with focus on small-area differentials—and their changes...

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Parution : 2012-10-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Mortality and Causes of Death in 20th-Century Ukraine
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The Ukraine faced two very different kinds of health crises during the twentieth century. First, in the 1930s and 1940s, famine, war and political upheaval caused massive population losses. Previous evaluations of overall losses have given an idea of the scale of these...

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Parution : 2012-01-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Population Ageing - A Threat to the Welfare State?
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Tommy Bengtsson Population ageing, the shift in age distribution towards older ages, is of immense global concern. It is taking place to a varying degree all over the world, more in Europe and some Asian countries, less on the African continent. The worldwide share of...

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Parution : 2010-08-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Fertility of Immigrants
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This volume, “Fertility of Immigrants: A Two-Generational Approach in Germany” by Dr. Nadja Milewski, is the sixth book of a series of Demographic Research Monographs published by Springer Verlag. Dr. Milewski is now working for the University of Rostock, but at the...

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Parution : 2009-11-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Seasonality in Human Mortality
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Seasonal fluctuations in mortality are a persistent phenomenon across populations. In Western countries of the Northern hemisphere, mortality is typically larger in winter than in summer which is attributed to the detrimental effects of cold to health. This does,...

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Parution : 2006-11-24
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