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Evolution Today and Tomorrow
The study of human evolution should teach us that we are unusual primates, but not exceptional. We are subject to the same natural laws and... -
Income, education, and hospitalization in Canada: results from linked census and administrative data
BackgroundAddressing population health inequities begins with quantifying how social factors affect the health and health care utilization of...
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The Inclusion of “Unequals:” Hotspot Network Strategy for a Metropolitan Agricultural Revolution Eluding Informality
This chapter analyzes the effects of metropolization on territorial divisions, the dynamics of development, the ways of life at the intersection of... -
Data Integration Techniques for the Identification of Poverty Profiles
Economic connotation of poverty concerns mainly the level of household’s spending and income as privileged indicators. Sometimes, data sources have...
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Opportunities, Challenges, and Development of Building Tumor Big Data Platforms in China
Globally, malignant tumor prevention and treatment are major challenges. Utilizing big data to study the pathogenic factors, main causes, and... -
Life Expectancy at Birth and Infant Mortality Rates of Indigenous Populations in Canada from 2004 to 2016
Life expectancy and infant mortality rates are two important indicators of the well-being of a population. However, it is not possible to compute...
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Assessing the Impact of Differential Privacy on Population Uniques in Geographically Aggregated Data: The Case of the 2020 U.S. Census
Geographically aggregated demographic, social, and economic data are valuable for research and practical applications, but their use and sharing...
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Late Pleistocene Homo and the Emergence of Modern Humans
Three species of humans (at least) were present in Africa and Eurasia during the Late Pleistocene. Neanderthals evolved in Europe and expanded well... -
Ideology of Intellectual Work and Völkisch-Conservative Radicalization of German Engineers 1927–1933
As far as the achievement of their professional policy goals was concerned, the VDDI, Vela and Budaci each had a very different record throughout the... -
Late-Life Changes in Ethnoracial Self-identification: Evidence from Social Security Administrative Data
Researchers generally recognize that ethnoracial identification may shift over the life course. However, the prevalence of these shifts across...
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Late Nineteenth-Century Bulk Trade and Barges: An Historical Overview and the Likely Context of Two Deep-Water Shipwrecks in the Gulf of Mexico
The Gulf of Mexico emerged as an American maritime frontier in the nineteenth century. Maritime activities expanded and matured in terms of...
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Ritual Closure: Rites De Passage and Apotropaic Magic in an Animate World
Magic and witchcraft, classic topics in the anthropology of religion, involve everyday things such as ashes, ceramics, minerals, shell, and...
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Theoretical and Methodological Comments on Social Complexity and State Formation in Biblical Archaeology
Archaeology has done nothing if not expose the amazing degree of cultural variation among both ancient and more recent pre-modern societies... -
Beyond Altruism – The Moral Economy of Israelis Who Donated A Kidney to Strangers
Israel leads the worldwide record of living non-directed kidney donations: People who volunteer to donate one of their kidneys to people they do not...
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Surgical patient registries: sco** study of challenges and solutions
Patient surgical registries are essential tools for public health specialists, creating research opportunities through linkage of registry data with...
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Bottom-Up Approaches and Decentralized Extension Structures for Improving Access to and Quality of Extension Services and Technology Adoption: Multi-level Analysis from Malawi
This paper looks at village agriculture committees, model villages, and stakeholder panels at various levels as participatory and decentralized...
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Romania and Post-accession Compliance with EU Environmental Policy
The positive rates of post-accession compliance with EU legislation exhibited by the member states of the 2004 and 2007 accession waves raise the... -
Conclusions and Policy Suggestions
The ownership and production structures in tea plantations have innovated new narratives in recent decades in India. The emergence of Small Tea... -
Patterns in Values and Goal Setting: Finding Commonality in Tourism, Economic Development and Cultural Heritage Management
Increasing worldwide experience with the relationships between tourism, economic development and responsible cultural heritage management, provides...