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Biosocial Surveys
Av Committee on Advances in Collecting and Utilizing Biological Indicators and Genetic Information in Social Science Surveys, Committee on Population m. fl.
E-bok, 2007
667 kr
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Biosocial Surveys analyzes the latest research on the increasing number of multipurpose household surveys that collect biological data along with the more familiar interviewer–respondent information. This book serves as a follow-up to the 2003 volume, Cells and Surveys: Should Biological Measures …
Biosocial Surveys
Av Committee on Advances in Collecting and Utilizing Biological Indicators and Genetic Information in Social Science Surveys, Committee on Population m. fl.
E-bok, 2007
953 kr
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Biosocial Surveys analyzes the latest research on the increasing number of multipurpose household surveys that collect biological data along with the more familiar interviewer–respondent information. This book serves as a follow-up to the 2003 volume, Cells and Surveys: Should Biological Measures …
Cells and Surveys
Should Biological Measures Be Included in Social Science Research?
Av Committee on Population, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education m. fl.
E-bok, 2001
953 kr
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What can social science, and demography in particular, reasonably expect to learn from biological information? There is increasing pressure for multipurpose household surveys to collect biological data along with the more familiar interviewer-respondent information. Given that recent technical …
Cells and Surveys
Should Biological Measures Be Included in Social Science Research?
Av Committee on Population, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education m. fl.
E-bok, 2001
650 kr
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What can social science, and demography in particular, reasonably expect to learn from biological information? There is increasing pressure for multipurpose household surveys to collect biological data along with the more familiar interviewer-respondent information. Given that recent technical …
Paleodemography
Age Distributions from Skeletal Samples
Av Robert D. Hoppa, James W. Vaupel
Häftad, 2008
911 kr
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Paleodemography is the field of enquiry that attempts to identify demographic parameters from past populations (usually skeletal samples) derived from archaeological contexts, and then to make interpretations regarding the health and well-being of those populations. However, paleodemographic theory …
Visualizing Mortality Dynamics in the Lexis Diagram
Av Kenneth Land, James W Vaupel m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
584 kr
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Visualizing Mortality Dynamics in the Lexis Diagram
Av Kenneth Land, James W Vaupel m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
656 kr
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Exceptional Lifespans
Av Heiner Maier, Bernard Jeune m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
568 kr
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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 Database on Longevity (IDL). The …
Visualizing Mortality Dynamics in the Lexis Diagram
Av Roland Rau, Christina Bohk-Ewald m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
568 kr
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This book visualizes mortality dynamics in the Lexis diagram. While the standard approach of plotting death rates is also covered, the focus in this book is on the depiction of rates of mortality improvement over age and time. This rather novel approach offers a more intuitive understanding of the …
Visualizing Mortality Dynamics in the Lexis Diagram
Av Roland Rau, Christina Bohk-Ewald m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
568 kr
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This book visualizes mortality dynamics in the Lexis diagram. While the standard approach of plotting death rates is also covered, the focus in this book is on the depiction of rates of mortality improvement over age and time. This rather novel approach offers a more intuitive understanding of the …
How Long Do We Live?
Demographic Models and Reflections on Tempo Effects
Av Elisabetta Barbi, John Bongaarts m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
1095 kr
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How should life expectancy be calculated? More generally, how should life - bles be estimated? Since John Graunt's pioneering contribution, read before theRoyalSocietyofLondonat6p. m. onthe27thofFebruary1661,demog- phers have developed better and better methods. Some concerns were raised, including …
How Long Do We Live?
Demographic Models and Reflections on Tempo Effects
Av James W. Vaupel, John Bongaarts m. fl.
E-bok, 2008
1459 kr
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How Long Do We Live?
Demographic Models and Reflections on Tempo Effects
Av Elisabetta Barbi, John Bongaarts m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
1095 kr
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How should life expectancy be calculated? More generally, how should life - bles be estimated? Since John Graunt's pioneering contribution, read before theRoyalSocietyofLondonat6p. m. onthe27thofFebruary1661,demog- phers have developed better and better methods. Some concerns were raised, including …
Supercentenarians
Av Heiner Maier, Jutta Gampe m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
1095 kr
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Does human mortality after age 110 continue to rise, level off, or start to decline? This book describes a concerted, international research effort undertaken with the goal of establishing a database that allows the best possible description of the mortality trajectory beyond the age of 110. The …
Supercentenarians
Av Jean-Marie Robine, James W. Vaupel m. fl.
E-bok, 2010
1427 kr
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Does human mortality after age 110 continue to rise, level off, or start to decline? This book describes a concerted, international research effort undertaken with the goal of establishing a database that allows the best possible description of the mortality trajectory beyond the age of 110. The …
Supercentenarians
Av Heiner Maier, Jutta Gampe m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
1095 kr
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Does human mortality after age 110 continue to rise, level off, or start to decline? This book describes a concerted, international research effort undertaken with the goal of establishing a database that allows the best possible description of the mortality trajectory beyond the age of 110. The …
Longevity: To the Limits and Beyond
Av Michel Allard, Bernard Jeune m. fl.
E-bok, 2012
1502 kr
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Why longevity? For a number of years, the Fondation IPSEN has been devoting considerable effort to the various aspects of ageing, not only to age-related diseases such as Alzheimer''s, but also to the Centenarians, the paragon of positive ageing. The logical continuation of this approach is to …
Longevity: To the Limits and Beyond
Av Jean-Marie Robine, James W. Vaupel m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
1128 kr
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Why longevity? For a number of years, the Fondation IPSEN has been devoting considerable effort to the various aspects of ageing, not only to age-related diseases such as Alzheimer's, but also to the Centenarians, the paragon of positive ageing. The logical continuation of this approach is to …
Exceptional Longevity
From Prehistory to the Present
Av Bernard Juene, James W Vaupel
Inbunden, 1995
255 kr
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The storied realms of exceptional longevity are scrutinised in this volume. The vast majority of reputed centenarians in the past, and most countries even today, lived less than 100 years. On the other hand, the number of genuine long-livers is exploding and a substantial proportion of current …
Population Data at a Glance
Shaded Contour Maps of Demographic Surfaces Over Age & Time
Av James W Vaupel, Wang Zhenglian m. fl.
Inbunden, 1998
378 kr
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Book & Disk. This volume is an array of demographic data which can often be pictured in an intelligible and graphically striking way by a shaded contour map. The data might pertain to population levels or to rates of fertility, marriage, divorce, migration, morbidity, or mortality. Most often the …
Validation of Exceptional Longevity
Av Bernard Jeune, James W Vaupel
Inbunden, 1999
255 kr
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The history of longevity is a history of myths. This volume shows that most reported instances of exceptional longevity are incorrect. This was the rule everywhere until the end of the 19th century and is still the case in the vast majority of countries. It is only when reliable birth registrations …
Cells and Surveys
Should Biological Measures Be Included in Social Science Research?
Av National Research Council, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
887 kr
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What can social science, and demography in particular, reasonably expect to learn from biological information? There is increasing pressure for multipurpose household surveys to collect biological data along with the more familiar interviewer-respondent information. Given that recent technical …
Biosocial Surveys
Av National Research Council, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
838 kr
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Biosocial Surveys analyzes the latest research on the increasing number of multipurpose household surveys that collect biological data along with the more familiar interviewera "respondent information. This book serves as a follow-up to the 2003 volume, Cells and Surveys: Should Biological Measures …
