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Xiaoxue Liu, Chuanhua Yu, Yongbo Wang, Yongyi Bi, Yu Liu and Zhi-Jiang Zhang
Background: The prevalence of diabetes mellitus is rapidly increasing in China, but the secular trends in incidence and mortality remain unknown. This study aims to examine time trends from 1990 to 2017 and the net age, period, and cohort effects on diab...
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Dong-Hyuk Choi, Byoung-Il Youn, Kyeong-Ho Han, Dae-Hyeon Kwon and Soo-Jeong Lee
To investigate the age and growth characteristics of shotted halibut, Eopsetta grigorjewi, in the West Sea of Korea, the samples were collected using gill nets throughout 2019. A total of 861 specimens (693 females and 168 males) were analyzed. The BW-TL...
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Khaled ELKarazle, Valliappan Raman and Patrick Then
Automatic age estimation from facial images is an exciting machine learning topic that has attracted researchers? attention over the past several years. Numerous human?computer interaction applications, such as targeted marketing, content access control,...
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Scott Alan CARSON
Pág. 276 - 280
JEL. A13, C70, D11.
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Jinn-Shing Weng, Li-Chi Cheng, Yun-Sin Lo, Jen-Chieh Shiao, Jia-Sin He, Ming-An Lee and Kwang-Ming Liu
The narrow-barred Spanish mackerel Scomberomorus commerson is an economically essential species; however, few studies have investigated its demographic structure in the northwestern Pacific, which includes Taiwan?s waters. This study examined the growth ...
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Glenn Lyons
2014 marks the 25th birthday of the World Wide Web. We have seen some remarkable developments as part of the digital age revolution in the last quarter of a century. These have taken place concurrently with a motor age that is possibly past its prime. A ...
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Mehmet Baran Ulak, Eren Erman Ozguven, Lisa Spainhour
Pág. 551 - 560
Traffic crashes imperil roadway users and impose a considerable economic burden on society. Previous studies have investigated several aspects of traffic crashes such as severity, frequency, and influential factors, yet the causal and spatial differences...
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Jan-Erik Johanson, Åge Johnsen, Elias Pekkola and Stephen Affleck Reid
The purpose of this article is to analyse the design and implementation of strategic planning and performance management in governmental agencies in two Nordic countries, Finland and Norway. Nordic countries are an interesting study from a comparative pe...
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Yiyi Huang, Tao Lin, Guoqin Zhang, Wei Zhu, Nicholas A. S. Hamm, Yuqin Liu, Junmao Zhang and Xia Yao
Population spatialization data is crucial to conducting scientific studies of coupled human?environment systems. Although significant progress has been made in population spatialization, the spatialization of different age populations is still weak. POI ...
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Vincenzo Alagna, Simone Di Prima, Jesús Rodrigo-Comino, Massimo Iovino, Mario Pirastru, Saskia D. Keesstra, Agata Novara and Artemio Cerdà
Soil infiltration processes manage runoff generation, which in turn affects soil erosion. There is limited information on infiltration rates. In this study, the impact of vine age on soil bulk density (BD) and hydraulic conductivity (Ks) was assessed on ...
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Kevin Dowd and David Blake
We introduce a simple extension to the CBDX model to project cohort mortality rates to extreme old age. The proposed approach fits a polynomial to a sample of age effects, uses the fitted polynomial to project the age effects to ages beyond the sample ag...
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C. T. Wolmarans, K. N. de Kock
Pág. 130 - 144
Urinary schistosomiasis is a disease caused by the worm parasite Schistosoma haematobium. Approximately 3 million people of whom the majority are children, staying in the sub-tropical areas of the Limpopo, Mpumalanga and Kwa-Zulu-Natal provinces, ...
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C. T. Wolmarans, K. N. de Kock
Pág. 130 - 144
Urinary schistosomiasis is a disease caused by the worm parasite Schistosoma haematobium. Approximately 3 million people of whom the majority are children, staying in the sub-tropical areas of the Limpopo, Mpumalanga and Kwa-Zulu-Natal provinces, ...
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Fred Hebein
The complex rules and inter-related choices regarding spousal and survivor benefits imbedded in the social security system make the optimization of lifetime benefits for married couples a complex decision which can reduce or increase lifetime benefits si...
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Kenichi Shimamoto
Pág. 7 - 12
Tourism has a large effect on lifestyle, society and the economy. With policy goals aiming to develop Japan into a tourism nation, it has become important for Japan to understand tourism trends and satisfaction. This paper focuses on tourists? satisfacti...
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Faisal Khan,Saif Ur Rehman Khan,Hashim Khan
Pág. 551 - 561
While investigating the role of age effect in detecting the risks-return tradeoff, various volatility dynamics and macroeconomic exposure of firm returns, this research study employs monthly data from Pakistani stock market for the period from 1998 to 20...
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Francisco Herve,C. Mark Fanning
Pág. 91 - 104
Sensitive High Resolution Ion MicroProbe (SHRIMP) U-Pb age determinations of detrital zircons from metasandstones of the Chonos Metamorphic Complex reveal a significant population of Late Triassic ages. One of the samples is immediately underlying the co...
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Shun Zou, Chumin Huang, Yang Chen, Xiaolong Bai, Wangjun Li and Bin He
Nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) play crucial roles in tea planting, but information on how the long-term excessive application of chemical N fertilizer affected N and P in subtropical tea plantations remains limited. In this study, soil and leaf samples ...
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Molusiwa Ramabodu and Tholang David Nena
Despite South Africa?s unique demographics, shaped by a history of apartheid and ongoing inequality, its built environment has so far been unable to extricate itself from its inglorious past. This portends that the quality and impact of infrastructure de...
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Huimin Li and Yijun He
Spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) has been widely acknowledged for its advantages in collecting ocean surface measurements under all weather conditions during day and night. Despite the strongly nonlinear imaging process, SAR measurements of ocea...
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