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Demography (2015) 52 (5): 1651–1670.
Published: 29 August 2015
.... , & Visscher , P. M. ( 2011 ). GCTA: A tool for Genome-wide Complex Trait Analysis . American Journal of Human Genetics , 88 , 76 – 82 . 10.1016/j.ajhg.2010.11.011 . Zafon , C. ( 2007 ). Oscillations in total body fat content through life: An evolutionary perspective . Obesity Reviews...
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Demography (1972) 9 (3): 515.
Published: 01 August 1972
...Samarendranath Mitra © Population Association of America 1972 1972 Exponential Function General Formula Life Table Step Function Main Issue 30 12 2010 DEMOGRAPHY Volume 9, Number 3 August 1972 COMMENT ON N. FERGANY'S "ON THE HUMAN SURVIVORSHIP FUNCTION AND LIFE TABLE...
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Demography (1971) 8 (3): 331–334.
Published: 01 August 1971
... numerical results that are close to those obtained by other methods. DEMOGRAPHY Volume 8, Number 3 August 1971 ON THE HUMAN SURVIVORSHIP FUNCTION AND LIFE TABLE CONSTRUCTION Nader Fergany Department of Statistics, Cairo University, Gieza, U.A.R., and Department of Bio- statistics, University of North...
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Demography (2004) 41 (3): 417–441.
Published: 01 August 2004
... of Longevity: Health and Health Care in Late Life (pp. 55 – 75 ). Newbury Park, CA : Sage . Waidmann T. , & Liu K. ( 2000 ). Disability Trends Among the Elderly and Implications for the Future . Journals of Gerontology , 55B , S298 – 307 . Wiener J.M. , Hanley R.J...
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Demography (2016) 53 (6): 2105–2119.
Published: 11 November 2016
...David J. Sharrow; James J. Anderson Abstract The rise in human life expectancy has involved declines in intrinsic and extrinsic mortality processes associated, respectively, with senescence and environmental challenges. To better understand the factors driving this rise, we apply a two-process...
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Demography (2018) 55 (1): 341–359.
Published: 22 January 2018
... and women as well as between countries. Interestingly, these differences follow a particular regularity (akin to the compensation effect of mortality) and suggest an age at which average health deficits converge for men and women and across countries. This age, which may be associated with human life span...
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Demography (2002) 39 (1): 43–63.
Published: 01 February 2002
... survival, but there was little difference in the mortality rates of children who were born to monogamous or polygynous fathers. The implications of these results for understanding the evolution of human life-history are discussed. 12 1 2011 © Population Association of America 2002 2002...
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Demography (1990) 27 (1): 121–129.
Published: 01 February 1990
... stationary within a time period not greater than the human life span. Thereafter, the number dying equals the number entering over any given time interval. The stationarity of the native population, among which deaths exceed births, is maintained by the compensating number of births to the immigrant...
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in Estimating the Effect of Smoking on Slowdowns in Mortality Declines in Developed Countries
> Demography
Published: 26 April 2011
Fig. 1 Life expectancy at age 65 for females in selected countries. Data are from the Human Mortality Database ( 2009 )
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in Losses of Expected Lifetime in the United States and Other Developed Countries: Methods and Empirical Analyses
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Published: 26 February 2011
Fig. 6 Age-specific components of differences between England and Wales and the United States in life expectancy and in life expectancy losses in 2002. Data are from the authors’ calculations on data from the Human Mortality Database ( 2007 )
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Demography (1967) 4 (1): 90–97.
Published: 01 March 1967
..., madethestudy of individual decisions with demographic consequences important, and ledto joint efforts by demographers and social psychologists. INTRODUCTION The study of human life in its totality forms the background of the effort of a whole set of social sciences. However, * Duke University. Revision...
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Demography (1997) 34 (1): 17–30.
Published: 01 February 1997
...James R. Carey Abstract Historically demographers have viewed the results of actuarial studies of nonhuman species, particularly those on invertebrates such as fruit flies, as largely irrelevant to investigations on human populations. In this paper I present life table data from large scale studies...
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in Losses of Expected Lifetime in the United States and Other Developed Countries: Methods and Empirical Analyses
> Demography
Published: 26 February 2011
Fig. 4 Age-specific components of increases in life expectancy and decreases in life expectancy losses between 1980 and 2002 in the United States (US) and England and Wales (E&W) Data are from authors’ calculations on data from the Human Mortality Database ( 2007 )
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Demography (2014) 51 (4): 1295–1317.
Published: 03 June 2014
... In the past two centuries, life expectancy has more than doubled from 30–40 years to approximately 80 or more years in many developed countries (Oeppen and Vaupel 2002 ). The epidemiologic transition (Olshansky and Ault 1986 ; Omran 1971 ) is thought to be the key mechanism behind the increase in human...
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Demography (2005) 42 (2): 243–258.
Published: 01 May 2005
... of horizontalization increased relatively less than the degree of verticalization in Hong Kong from 1976 to 2001. After age normalization, the highest normal life durations moved closer to M, implying that the increase in human longevity is meeting some resistance. 15 2 2011 © Population Association...
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in Technological Progress and Health Convergence: The Case of Penicillin in Postwar Italy
> Demography
Published: 01 August 2021
Fig. 3 Period life table distributions of age at death in Italy for selected years between 1924 and 1955. The unit is the logarithm of the probability density of deaths. Source : Human Mortality Database (HMD).
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Published: 17 September 2013
Fig. 4 The indices of lifespan variability for Russian males, measured relative to their values in 1959. All indices were calculated from period life table data, 1959–2008, from the Human Mortality Database
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in Lifespan Dispersion in Times of Life Expectancy Fluctuation: The Case of Central and Eastern Europe
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Published: 12 November 2018
Fig. 2 Trends in male life expectancy ( e 0 ) and lifespan disparity ( e † ) for 12 Eastern European countries, 1960–2014. Source: Own calculations based on Human Mortality Database ( 2016 ) data
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in Estimating Mortality Differences in Developed Countries From Survey Information on Maternal and Paternal Orphanhood
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Published: 17 March 2012
Fig. 2 Linearly smoothed trends of estimates for male and female life expectancy at age 35 with the modified orphanhood method (MOM): Italian multipurpose surveys, 1998 and 2003 combined. HMD = life expectancy at age 35 derived from age-specific death rates for the total Italian population from
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Demography (2017) 54 (3): 1097–1118.
Published: 10 April 2017
... the significance of the Q-phase as a foundation for subsequent life course events, a characterization of its span and features will both enhance our understanding of the human mortality trajectory and provide potential insight into the interacting biological and social factors that shape patterns of population...
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