Essays about: "historical demography"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 13 essays containing the words historical demography.
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1. Ecological impacts of dam removal in Swedish inland waters : Effects on water chemistry and fish demography
University essay from Karlstads universitet/Fakulteten för hälsa, natur- och teknikvetenskap (from 2013)Abstract : Dams play an important role in our society, but their negative impacts on aquatic ecosystems have led to a need for conservation efforts to mitigate the negative effects. In some instances, dam removal has been suggested to be the most economically and ecologically beneficial restoration method to improve longitudinal connectivity. READ MORE
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2. The efficiency of Hyndman-Ullah methods in case of populations with abnormal short-term increases of mortality rates due to wars and pandemics.
University essay from Mälardalens universitet/Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikationAbstract : This report is written with the goal of analyzing the efficiency of the Hyndman-Ullah (HU) and weighted Hyndman-Ullah (wHU) methods when working with the populations that suffered higher mortalities due to the wars and pandemics. Accordingly, the HU and wHU methods are applied to the training sets containing outlying years. READ MORE
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3. Developing new methods for estimating population divergence times from sequence data
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för medicinsk biokemi och mikrobiologiAbstract : Methods for estimating past demographic events of populations are powerful tools in order to get insights of otherwise hidden pasts. The genetic data of people is a valuable resource for these purposes as patterns of variation can inform of the past evolutionary forces and historical events that generated them. READ MORE
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4. Changing patterns of marriage and work in Ireland, 1926-1951
University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionenAbstract : Marriage is closely tied to economic status, and delayed marriage is often a sign of poor economic conditions for younger people. After a century of decline, marriage rates in Ireland appeared to turn a corner in the 1930s. READ MORE
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5. Germany’s “Open-Door” Policy in Light of the Recent Refugee Crisis : An Interpretive Thematic Content Analysis of Possible Reasons and Underlying Motivations
University essay from Linköpings universitet/StatsvetenskapAbstract : The aim of this thesis is to examine the medially conveyed open-door refugee policy approach of the German government, in light of the recent refugee crisis in Europe. To gain an understanding of the reasons for this policy approach, a thematic content analysis is carried out, identifying and extracting themes, as portrayed in the national, international media, and political debates in the German Bundestag. READ MORE