VetCompass Study Unveils Health Demography and Lifespan of UK Shih Tzus
A nationwide primary veterinary care study reveals key health disorders, sex disparities, and a median lifespan of 12.7 years in ...
Tag: Demography
New R package turns Spain’s public statistics API into provincial life tables
A new R package automates the retrieval of Spanish provincial demographic data from INE's public API and computes life tables ...
Exercise Linked to Higher Fertility Intentions in Chinese Women, Survey Analysis Finds
An analysis of 1,230 Chinese women aged 20 to 50 found that more frequent physical exercise was significantly associated with ...
Hong Kong’s record longevity hides a birthplace gap in later-life survival
A new decomposition study shows Hong Kong-born residents have held a consistent adult life expectancy advantage over Mainland China/Macao/Taiwan-born residents, ...
Malawi’s Lost Children Still Shape Mothers’ Births Decades On
A 32-year survey analysis links under-five death in Malawi with substantially higher subsequent parity, showing that improved child survival has ...
New Open-Access Journal Aims to Redefine Aging Science Across the Entire Lifespan
The new open-access journal PLOS Aging and Health launches with an editorial arguing that aging must be studied as a ...
Sardinian Village Bolotana Emerges as a New Longevity Hotspot for Women
University of Illinois Chicago researchers report that women in the Sardinian village of Bolotana are nearly three times as likely ...
New Algorithm Simulates Gene Frequency Histories Exactly, Even as Populations Change Size
Researchers have unveiled EWF 2.0, an exact simulation algorithm that generates statistically perfect allele frequency trajectories under the Wright–Fisher diffusion ...
Tracking COVID-19 across Europe
Credit: A. Naqvi (2021) According to the World Health Organization, a third wave of COVID infections is now all but ...
Study highlights need to replace ‘ancestry’ in forensics with something more accurate
Credit: Marc Hall, NC State University A new study finds forensics researchers use terms related to ancestry and race in ...
US-wide, non-white neighborhoods are hotter than white ones
Wealthier, whiter urban and small-town residents benefit more from cooling infrastructure and treesCredit: Suzanne Benz WASHINGTON--In cities and towns across ...
Sea-level rise may worsen existing Bay Area inequities
Credit: Wikimedia Commons Rather than waiting for certainty in sea-level rise projections, policymakers can plan now for future coastal flooding ...
Fear of rejection vs. joy of inclusion: Faith communities from LGBTQ+ perspectives
"I was interested in conducting peer-reviewed research that illuminated the gap of the healing stories about how LGBTQ+ people engaged ...
More than half of university students surveyed have tried a meat alternative
Top reasons for trying meat alternatives were liking to try new foods, hearing a lot about alternatives, and being curious, ...
New warning on teen sleep
Sleep deprivation leads to mood, mental health fallsCredit: Flinders University Sleep deprivation - from lifestyle choices, pandemic stress, or late-night ...
NSF-funded study will examine college tenure and promotion process, challenge assumptions
Lehigh University researchers are part of a study that seeks to shed new light on the role of research productivity ...
Evidence-based patient-psychotherapist matching improves mental health care
UMass Amherst researcher: 'Who the therapist is matters' In first-of-its kind research led by a University of Massachusetts Amherst psychotherapy ...
Coronavirus crisis and social citizenship in India
German Research Foundation funds new project at the University of Göttingen The initial spread of the coronavirus in India led ...
Updated analysis of US COVID-19 deaths shows drops, disparities in average lifespans
In the US, COVID-19 reduced overall life expectancy by over 1.3 years, with the effects on Black and Latino populations ...
With age, insufficient tryptophan alters gut microbiota, increases inflammation
With age, a diet lacking in the essential amino acid tryptophan -- which has a key role in our mood, ...
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