Since 2000, Kenya has experienced an increase in the frequency of droughts, significantly affecting agriculture and driving labor force migration. This paper investigates strategic migration patterns among farmers and pastoralists in response to repetitive droughts. I use fine-grained data that enables the capture of shortdistance migration and het...
Едно от основните демографски явления на XXI век е остаряването на населе-нието, което е безпрецедентно за целия свят, както и за Франция. Неговото измерваневключва разглеждане на две различни концепции: стареене stricto sensu1 и геронто-растеж.Анализът на данните очертава четири различни типа териториално развитие, което сле-дователно, изисква при...
SUMMARY: Deep mutational scanning (DMS) experiments provide a powerful method to measure the functional effects of genetic mutations at massive scales. However, the data generated from these experiments can be difficult to analyze, with significant variation between experimental replicates. To overcome this challenge, we developed popDMS, a computa...
In the Utilitarian tradition of Henry Sidgwick, population ethics is to be considered through the expectation of the sum of utilities of all who are ever born. However, this is unsuited for application to the real world because it takes as its subject the choice to be made by an idealized “objective social planner” and because it takes as its objec...
Disertační práce se zaměřuje na problematiku narušení dodávek elektrické energie velkého rozsahu ve vazbě na možnosti a schopnosti územního celku odolávat jejím nežádoucím dopadům a následkům. Hlavním cílem této práce je návrh modelu hodnocení připravenosti území před rozsáhlým výpadkem této komodity. Celý model je koncipován do dvou částí. První č...
peer reviewed / Vitamin D is important for musculoskeletal health. Concentrations of 25-hydroxyvitamin D, the most commonly measured metabolite, vary markedly around the world and are influenced by many factors including sun exposure, skin pigmentation, covering, season and supplement use. Whilst overt vitamin D deficiency with biochemical conseque...
Cowpea is a highly drought-adapted leguminous crop with great promise for improving agricultural sustainability and food security. Here, we report analyses derived from array-based genotyping of 2,021 accessions constituting a core subset of the worlds largest cowpea collection, held at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in ...
La prestigieuse revue The Lancet, annonçant une convergence à la baisse de la fécondité dans le monde, a reçu un écho médiatique considérable. Cela se justifiait-il ?
BACKGROUND: In light of high burden of heart failure (HF) in China, studies of prognostic implication of HF stages are important. We aimed to evaluate the relationship between HF stages and mortality risk in Chinese community populations. METHODS: Nationwide representative populations aged ≥35 years (n = 23,284, mean age 56.9 years, women 53.2%) we...
Published in BMC psychology
Anxiety disorders are among the main mental health problems worldwide and are considered one of the most disabling conditions. Therefore, it is essential to have measurement tools that can be used to screen for anxiety symptoms in the general population and thus identify potential cases of people with anxiety symptoms and provide them with timely c...
