• However, the extant evidence in humans stems from neuroimaging methods that have relied on group analyses without much knowledge about the profile of neurophysiological engagement within localized neuronal populations at the individual brain level. (mit.edu)
  • Hence, it has remained unclear if the overlap of two functions in the PPC is the product of averaging, or they truly stem from a common profile of activity within the same neuronal populations in the human PPC. (mit.edu)
  • in particular he has worked extensively with data-driven models of disease and host-parasite dynamics in both human and animal populations. (strath.ac.uk)
  • Because no definitive studies have determined this, controlled epidemiologic studies with stable human and animal populations are needed to identify the transmission dynamics of AMR. (usda.gov)
  • Wu, G. (2023): Charcoal in Kunlun Mountains loess: Implications for environment change and human activity during the middle Holocene. (uni-goettingen.de)
  • 2023): The Brazilian semiarid region over the past 21,000 years: Vegetation dynamics in small pulses of higher humidity. (uni-goettingen.de)
  • In many areas of the social sciences, distance and connection regularly figure into models of dynamics (E.g. demography and ecology, network analysis). (ucr.edu)
  • This course provides an opportunity to learn key concepts in the areas of cell biology, genetics, ecology, and basic human physiology and to develop student capacity to effectively communicate their understanding. (aps1.net)
  • Under these arrangements, some humans were confined to new political, social, and ecological units-households-the better to engage in care work in capitalism's ecology. (ucpress.edu)
  • The approach integrates modern and fossil occurrence records, ancient DNA, spatiotemporal reconstructions of past climatic change, species-specific population ecology, and the growth and spread of anatomically modern humans. (au.dk)
  • In a recent study published in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, researchers took long-term data from five national parks to figure out how human-caused mortality impacted wolf packs inside them. (wildlife.org)
  • He was the President of Population Association of Iran (PAI) (2018-2021), and is the IUSSP Council member (2022-2025). (iussp.org)
  • and Jones, G. 2018, Population Dynamics and Human Capital in Muslim Countries, Vienna Yearbook of Population Research , Vol. 16, pp. 1-25. (iussp.org)
  • The regional density of doctors, nurses, and midwives in 2018-2019 was 1.55 per 1000 population. (who.int)
  • Epidemiology, literally the "study of what is upon people", is concerned with the dynamics of health and disease in human populations. (plos.org)
  • Research in epidemiology aims to identify the distribution, incidence, and etiology of human diseases [1] to improve the understanding of the causes of diseases and to prevent their spread. (plos.org)
  • Molecular epidemiology is the use of molecular biological techniques to identify exposures, effects, or susceptibility factors in studies of human populations. (cdc.gov)
  • These experts in the fields of environmental health, environmental epidemiology, toxicology, analytical and biomarker research, and risk assessment met to discuss lessons learned from existing research and new and emerging issues for human health in the Great Lakes basin. (cdc.gov)
  • Another potentially important user of this new analysis will be the IPCC, where Working Group 2 on the vulnerability to climate change is looking for quantitative ways of forecasting the resilience of specific populations. (iiasa.ac.at)
  • We recommend several urgent measures to rehabilitate the depleted wildlife populations and habitat richness, restore their ecological resilience to droughts and secure pastoral livelihoods. (cgiar.org)
  • More troubling is the possibility that ignoring or over-simplifying the distances and connections among social actors is rather like attempting to reduce the dynamics of molecular interaction to the attributes of atoms. (ucr.edu)
  • Conversely, the molecular epidemiologic approach may contribute to genomics research by emphasizing the importance of populations and a population perspective. (cdc.gov)
  • This paper studies the different mechanisms and the dynamics through which demography is channelled to the economy. (repec.org)
  • She hopes managers take into account pack effects as well as population-scale impacts of humans. (wildlife.org)
  • The forest and the creatures it shelters exemplify nature, and logging exemplifies the impacts of humans. (rockefeller.edu)
  • The Population and Human Capital project aims to more fully understand the dynamics of an improving educational composition of the population and to demonstrate the long-term implications of near-term investments in education. (iiasa.ac.at)
  • Theoretical scheme that remains a constant of paradigmatic identification associated with the notion that health and disease phenomena are both biological and social phenomena, in addition to the fact that, to understand the health conditions of populations, it is necessary to understand the dynamics and processes that structure human societies. (bvsalud.org)
  • The study population consisted of humans (21,000 swine and non-swine workers) and swine (45,000) in a multi-site, vertically integrated swine operation. (usda.gov)
  • They proposed to use the small watershed approach at Hubbard Brook to study linkages between hydrologic and nutrient flux and cycling in response to natural and human disturbances, such as air pollution, forest cutting, land-use changes, increases in insect populations and climatic factors. (czen.org)
  • Processes leading to range contractions and population declines of Arctic megafauna during the late Pleistocene and early Holocene are uncertain, with intense debate on the roles of human hunting, climatic change, and their synergy. (au.dk)
  • Analyses of validated process-explicit projections indicate that climatic change was the primary driver of muskox distribution shifts and demographic changes across its previously extensive (circumpolar) range, with populations responding negatively to rapid warming events. (au.dk)
  • Regional analyses show that the range collapse and extinction of the muskox in Europe (~13,000 years ago) was likely caused by humans operating in synergy with climatic warming. (au.dk)
  • In Canada and Greenland, climatic change and human activities probably combined to drive recent population sizes. (au.dk)
  • The impact of past climatic change on the range and extinction dynamics of muskox during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition signals a vulnerability of this species to future increased warming. (au.dk)
  • Wildlife populations are declining severely in many protected areas and unprotected pastoral areas of Africa. (cgiar.org)
  • Africa has the highest rate of population growth and more than half of the global population growth between now and 2050 is expected to occur in Africa 1 . (nature.com)
  • Wastewater-related impact hotspots are also shifting from Asia to Africa, suggesting a need for interventions in such countries, mostly with growing populations, rising dietary intake, rapid urbanisation, and inadequate sanitation. (nih.gov)
  • Population dynamics : fertility and mortality in Africa , proceedings of the Expert Group Meeting on Fertility and Mortality Levels and Trends in Africa and their Policy Implications, Monrovia, Liberia, 26 November - 1 December 1979. (who.int)
  • Genetic biomarkers reflect population dynamics and represent useful tools in uncovering complicated interrelationships between environment, culture, and genetics in human history. (cdc.gov)
  • The first 1000 days of the human microbiome starting from time of conception until 2 years old is a critical time period for growth and development, including nutrients and microbiota. (wikipedia.org)
  • Goal index threshold of 4.45 doctors, nurses, and midwives per 1000 population. (who.int)
  • We analyze the role of demographic changes in the economic development process by studying the transitional and the long-run impact of both the rate of population growth and the initial population size on the levels of per capita human capital and income. (repec.org)
  • We prove that the level effect of the population rate of growth is non-negative (positive in the empirically most relevant case) for the average level of human capital, but a priori ambiguous for the level of per capita income due to the interaction of three transmission mechanisms of demographic shocks, a standard one (dilution) and two non-standard (altruism and human capital accumulation). (repec.org)
  • Population growth, demographic and epidemiological transitions, and the ageing of the existing health workforce are projected to fuel the creation of more than 45 million employment opportunities in the health workforce by 2030. (who.int)
  • The increasing amount of archaeological data, better documentation and new technologies now provide excellent opportunities for studying relative demographic fluctuations and regional variation even in Stone Age populations. (lu.se)
  • The multi-scalar approach - combined with integration of multiple lines of evidence ranging from of dwellings, lithics and rock art sites and landscapes - will allow us to address a new generation of research questions pertaining to the inter-locking demographic, economic and social-cultural dynamics of prehistoric forager societies from a substantially stronger evidential and methodological platform. (lu.se)
  • This topic clearly requires further research, some of which may well be conducted in the context of population-development-environment case studies . (iiasa.ac.at)
  • Professor Ackert conducts research in the areas of population geography, immigration, health geography, and urban geography using quantitative social science research methods. (ucsb.edu)
  • The Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy Inc. (CDDEP) produces independent, multidisciplinary research to advance the health and wellbeing of human populations around the world. (eurekalert.org)
  • Here we take advantage of high efficiency reprogramming in microfluidics and temporal multi-omics to identify and resolve distinct sub-populations and their interactions. (tigem.it)
  • The focus is to make AI more understandable and explainable through inferring causality and compositionality, and to look into new approaches in human and AI interactions. (strath.ac.uk)
  • The objective of this study was to generate data on the AMR profiles and potential transmission dynamics of Escherichia coli (EC), Enterococcus faecalis (EF), and E. faecium in a semi-closed population of swine and humans. (usda.gov)
  • Responses of the Human Gut Escherichia coli Population to Pathogen and Antibiotic Disturbances. (cdc.gov)
  • Conflict between conservation objectives and human livelihoods is ubiquitous and can be highly damaging, but the processes generating it are poorly understood. (stir.ac.uk)
  • Here we analyze the population dynamics of 15 wildlife and four livestock species monitored using aerial surveys from 1977 to 2011 within Kajiado County of Kenya, with a rapidly expanding human population, settlements, cultivation and other developments. (cgiar.org)
  • Hunting of wild animals for meat and habitat loss are the main drivers of wildlife population decline around the world, and in tropical regions in particular. (researchgate.net)
  • Ecological elements are central to conservation conflict, and changes in their dynamics - for instance due to anthropogenic environmental change - are likely to influence the emergence of serious human-wildlife impacts and, consequently, social conflict. (stir.ac.uk)
  • The purpose of this meeting was to identify recommendations to respond to the evidence that persistent toxic substances continue to adversely affect the health of humans, wildlife, and the aquatic ecosystem in the Great Lakes basin. (cdc.gov)
  • 2022): Late Holocene Vegetation and Environmental Changes of Coastal Lowlands in Northern Iran: Possible Role of Climate, Human Impact and Caspian Sea Level Fluctuations. (uni-goettingen.de)
  • The second theme deals with the importance of population dynamics, especially fluctuations in fertility, and thus cohort size, on living standards in industrial society. (lu.se)
  • Growth vs. level effect of population change on economic development: An inspection into human-capital-related mechanisms ," LIDAM Discussion Papers IRES 2011039, Université catholique de Louvain, Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES). (repec.org)
  • Growth vs. level effect of population change on economic development: An inspection into human-capital-related mechanisms ," Journal of Mathematical Economics , Elsevier, vol. 49(4), pages 312-334. (repec.org)
  • Growth vs. level effect of population change on economic development: An inspection into human-capital-related mechanisms ," Post-Print hal-01498251, HAL. (repec.org)
  • Biosocial mechanisms of population regulation / edited by Mark N. Cohen, Roy S. Malpass, and Harold G. Klein. (who.int)
  • The diversity and dynamics of the microbial communities during the manufacturing of Ragusano cheese, an artisanal cheese produced in Sicily (Italy), were investigated by a combination of classical and culture-independent approaches. (who.int)
  • This project-based course offers students an opportunity to investigate and explore the fundamental principles of environmental science and the numerous related issues caused by human activity. (aps1.net)
  • Feng works in the area of human centric AI to investigate collaborative decision making between AI and humans. (strath.ac.uk)
  • To investigate dengue dynamics in urban Ho Chi Minh City and neighboring rural provinces in Vietnam, we analyzed a 10-year monthly time series of dengue surveillance data from southern Vietnam. (cdc.gov)
  • Rapid large-scale land use changes, poaching, climate change, rising population pressures, governance, policy, economic and socio-cultural transformations and competition with livestock all contribute to the declines in abundance. (cgiar.org)
  • Behling, H. (2022): Sea level rise and climate change acting as interactive stressors on development and dynamics of tropical peatlands in coastal Sumatra and South Borneo since the Last Glacial Maximum. (uni-goettingen.de)
  • current migration to Europe, population security, natural resources and the impact of climate change. (studiesabroad.com)
  • The age group composition of populations varies substantially across continents and within countries, and is linked to levels of development, health status and poverty. (nature.com)
  • Target 3.c, "to substantially increase health financing and the recruitment, development, training and retention of the health workforce in developing countries, especially in least developed countries and small island developing States" sets the foundation for the vision and objectives of the draft global strategy on human resources for health. (who.int)
  • As a macro-sociologist, my primary interests are in the dynamics and evolution of moderately large scale systems (communities, organizations, classes, societies). (ucr.edu)
  • Differing epidemiological dynamics of Chikungunya virus in the Americas during the 2014-2015 epidemic. (cdc.gov)
  • Population demographics have been central to the Millennium Development Goals and are key to the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda 2 , and development policies need to account for population dynamics and their relationships with social, economic and environmental factors 3 , 4 . (nature.com)
  • intrinsic factors associated with human host demographics, population immunity, and the virus, drive the multiannual dynamics ( 5 - 7 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Analyses from Southeast Asia have demonstrated multiannual oscillations in dengue incidence ( 8 - 10 ), which have been variably associated with macroclimatic weather cycles (exemplified by the El Niño Southern Oscillation) in different settings and with changes in population demographics in Thailand ( 11 ). (cdc.gov)
  • As education is a prime source of empowerment for both individuals and societies, forecasts of human capital formation may serve this function well. (iiasa.ac.at)
  • Emergence of behavioural patterns in human societies, understood as complex systems. (bsc.es)
  • Design of artificial societies as models to understand human behaviour. (bsc.es)
  • Every rite of passage, every springtime fertility ritual, from maypoles to bloodletting, signals the range of ways that human and extrahuman life form through each other. (ucpress.edu)
  • Individuals in Lower Paleolithic human populations were characterized by short lifespans with diminished late-age survival and fertility, similar to contemporary chimpanzees, and thence were subject to three changes. (frontiersin.org)
  • Levels and trends of fertility in Indonesia based on the 1971 and 1980 population censuses : a study of regional differentials. (who.int)
  • Moreover, given the increasing number of elders dependent on working age individuals, population aging is also an emerging issue in some low and middle income countries 7 , 8 . (nature.com)
  • Our program involves the study of group dynamics and their impact on human populations and individuals. (uab.edu)
  • Impact of change in human groups and population dynamics (both ancient and present). (bsc.es)
  • Despite these differences, Cassidy said, the impact of human-caused mortality ended up looking very similar. (wildlife.org)
  • Each phase of activity from consumption and disposal back to processing and forestry contributes to the human impact on the forest and the general environment. (rockefeller.edu)
  • The dynamics of dengue in disease-endemic areas are characterized by strong seasonality and multiannual epidemic peaks ( 3 ), with substantial interannual and spatial heterogeneity in the magnitude of seasonal epidemics ( 4 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Longitudinal studies in this population will continue until 2007, and AMR will be further characterized by use of PCR and real-time PCR to detect the presence of genetic factors such as integrons, plasmids, and gene cassettes that encode for AMR. (usda.gov)
  • Malnutrition makes the South-East Asian population particularly vulnerable to neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) alongside emerging infectious diseases from arbovirus infections, dengue, chikungunya, Japanese encephalitis, and the continuing concern of a pandemic influenza outbreak. (eurekalert.org)
  • Program which is responsible for characterizing exposure to persistent toxic substances and the potential for short and long-term adverse human health impacts from that exposure in vulnerable populations. (cdc.gov)
  • She took her interest in pack dynamics in a new direction when she worked with Doug Smith, the Yellowstone Wolf Project director, who was focused on wolf biology. (wildlife.org)
  • Population size and dietary protein intake have the most significant effects over all the impacts arising from reduction of wastewater nutrients. (nih.gov)
  • Composite swine fecal samples and human wastewater samples were collected monthly from January to December 2004. (usda.gov)
  • There were 987 human wastewater and 931 swine fecal samples cultured for EC and EF. (usda.gov)
  • During this study, 17 vancomycin-resistant E. faecium (VRE) were isolated from human wastewater from multiple geographic locations. (usda.gov)
  • The subnational variability in the shape of the population pyramid as well as the respective dependency ratio are reflective of the different levels of development of a country and are drivers for a country's economic prospects and health burdens. (nature.com)
  • Digital data sources, when harnessed appropriately, can provide local and timely information about disease and health dynamics in populations around the world. (plos.org)
  • In May 2014, the Sixty-seventh World Health Assembly adopted resolution WHA67.24 on the Follow-up of the Recife Political Declaration on Human Resources for Health: renewed commitments towards universal health coverage. (who.int)
  • In paragraph 4(2) of that resolution, Member States requested the WHO Director-General to develop and submit a new global strategy for human resources for health for consideration by the Sixty-ninth World Health Assembly. (who.int)
  • The World health report 2006: working together for health focused global attention on human resources for health, particularly in relation to the critical shortages of skilled health professionals (midwives, nurses and physicians) in 57 countries and the centrality of health workers for accelerating progress towards the health-related Millennium Development Goals. (who.int)
  • The global shortage of health professionals was termed a "crisis", and a decade of action on human resources for health was proposed to overcome the challenges. (who.int)
  • Since then, emphasis has continued to be placed on human resources for health - in the past five years the World Health Assembly has adopted five resolutions on human resources for health - and there are signs of progress. (who.int)
  • economic demand and the population need for health workers will be equally challenged by the 7 existing constraints on the technical and financial resources available to educational institutions to produce the future health workforce of the necessary quantity, quality and relevance. (who.int)
  • The development of human resources for health investment plans and/or strategic plans is on track toward achieving the target of 50% of Member States that have such plans. (who.int)
  • Member States4 have developed a human resources for health strategic plan. (who.int)
  • As of December 2021, nine (19%) Member States7 had established a national health workforce observatory and 33 (70%) Member States8 had a functional human resources for health information system/registry that is used for human resources for health management and planning. (who.int)
  • The Division of Toxicology and Environmental Medicine at the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (DTEM/ATSDR) is charged with preventing exposure, adverse human health effects, and diminished quality of life associated with exposure to hazardous substances from waste sites, unplanned releases, and other sources of pollution present in the environment. (cdc.gov)
  • In 1997, ATSDR held a workshop on policy implications of evidence regarding persistent toxic substances and human health (referred to as Wingspread '97). (cdc.gov)
  • We talked with Juanita Chinn, Ph.D., program director in the Population Dynamics Branch at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). (medlineplus.gov)
  • Health disparities are health differences that are closely linked with a social, economic, or environmental disadvantage, according to the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (medlineplus.gov)
  • The health status of Pakistan's population and one third of early childhood deaths are illustrates that the existence of many health diarrhoea-related [ 5 ]. (who.int)
  • delivery infrastructures in the world have however the denominator for this is only the been unable to contribute significantly to 25% of the population that accesses govern- improving health outcomes [ 1 ]. (who.int)
  • The study results show the responsibility humans have to understand how we're impacting other species, Cassidy said. (wildlife.org)
  • The This study into the problems of the ISPN is region has a multinational population with determined firstly by the special role of these representatives of more than 140 nationalities living ethnicities in the social and cultural heritage of there, including 26 indigenous peoples of the north. (bvsalud.org)
  • They found that packs that experienced at least one human-caused mortality were less likely to persist and reproduce the following year. (wildlife.org)
  • Cassidy and her team focused on how much human-caused mortality influenced pack persistence-whether or not the pack stayed around year after year. (wildlife.org)
  • Recently developed methods for projections of the population by level of education, originally a by-product of other IIASA work in population projections, have enabled the POP Program to establish a significant niche in the international community. (iiasa.ac.at)
  • There will be significant synergies with the projections carried out within the Dynamics of Global Aging project, but the education projections will be deterministic (using alternative education scenarios, compared with the stochastic population forecasts). (iiasa.ac.at)
  • Projections of the effect of humans harvesting timber on forests in the future must reflect changes in the components that connect consumers, millers, and foresters to nature. (rockefeller.edu)
  • Our findings point to recurrent droughts, intensifying human population pressures, land use changes and other anthropogenic impacts, decades of ineffective or failed government policies, legislations, law enforcement, management institutions and strategies as the salient causes of the declines and range compressions. (cgiar.org)
  • Non STEM students (e.g. those located in the Arts and Humanities or Social Sciences) should take this module to expose themselves to the possibilities afforded by describing and analysing real-world phenomena (e.g. food security, population growth, conflict) in a technical computing language. (warwick.ac.uk)
  • Asia is projected to be the second largest contributor to future global population growth, adding 0.9 billion people between 2015 and 2050 1 . (nature.com)
  • Overall, the sign of the level effects of population growth depend on preference and technology parameters, but numerically we show that the joint negative effect of dilution and altruism is always stronger than the finduced positive human capital effect. (repec.org)
  • The growth effect of population growth depends basically on the attitude to intergenerational altruism and intertemporal substitution. (repec.org)
  • Moreover, we also prove that the long-run level effects of population size on per capita human capital and income may be negative, nil, or positive, depending on the relationship between preferences and technology, while its growth effect is zero. (repec.org)
  • In particular, it entails a negative effect of population growth on per capita income, which dominates in the initial periods, and a positive effect which restores a positive correlation between population growth and economic performance in the long term. (repec.org)
  • Goose population growth was strongly linked to the increasing area of improved grassland, which provided geese with more high quality forage. (stir.ac.uk)
  • They indicate that the dynamics reflect transformations of past sensory events -- what we have just seen -- into future memory guided behaviors -- what we might do with the memory. (sciencedaily.com)
  • However, as was described in the Background section, neither experts in education statistics nor education economists have been able to produce appropriate methods for showing how the educational composition of the adult population changes as a consequence of specific school enrollment rates. (iiasa.ac.at)
  • America's expansion to one of the richest nations in the world was partly due to a steady increase in labor productivity, which in turn depended on the invention and deployment of new technologies and on investments in both human and physical capital. (nber.org)
  • That is, many systems models are not first-order, and can (and do) display complex dynamics. (ucr.edu)
  • systems models tend to give us better leverage over understanding the range-of-motion and historical dynamics types of problems. (ucr.edu)
  • In the models that are developed in this text, we begin to bring together the two traditions together, as they apply to macro-sociological dynamics. (ucr.edu)
  • These theories are expressed as non-linear differential equation models describing the internal dynamics of an agent. (ucr.edu)
  • Models of social dynamics, however, require flexible and multiple conceptions of 'space. (ucr.edu)
  • We used mixed-effects models to examine the drivers of historic spatio-temporal dynamics in numbers of Greenland barnacle geese (Branta leucopsis) on the Scottish island of Islay to identify the ecological processes that have shaped the environment in which conflict between goose conservation and agriculture has been triggered. (stir.ac.uk)
  • We perform secretome analysis and single-cell transcriptomics to show functional extrinsic pathways of protein communication between reprogramming sub-populations and the re-shaping of a permissive extracellular environment. (tigem.it)
  • A declining share of children and/or elders and an increase in the working-age adult population lowers the dependency ratio and can lead to opportunities for development 11 , 12 . (nature.com)
  • Human Capital in History brings together contributions from leading researchers in economic history, labor economics, the economics of education, and related fields. (nber.org)
  • Spatiotemporal influences of climate and humans on muskox. (au.dk)
  • Cesare is best known for Marchetti's Constant that posits that the human time budget for travel is a little above one hour per day, since ever and everywhere, because anthropologically rooted in the dangers homo sapiens faces when outside a protected environment. (rockefeller.edu)
  • Pp. 110-134 in Technological Trajectories and the Human Environment , J.H. Ausubel and H.D. Langford, (eds. (rockefeller.edu)
  • These are believed to be the first non-clinical isolations of VRE in the U.S. Our preliminary results suggest that swine EC and EF have increased AMR compared to human isolates, that there was no apparent AMR transfer from swine to humans or vice versa, and that VRE may be more common in the environment than previously perceived. (usda.gov)
  • I explore how agricultural, trade, and conservation policy affects human and environmental outcomes. (ucsb.edu)
  • A complete and compelling evolutionary explanation for the origin of human menopause is wanting. (frontiersin.org)