Marriage dynamics in old Lower California: ecological constraints and reproductive value in an arid peninsular frontier [0.03%]
旧下加利福尼亚的婚姻动态:一个干旱半岛边疆的生态限制与生殖价值
Shane J Macfarlan,Ryan Schacht,Caroline Foley et al.
Shane J Macfarlan et al.
It is commonly expected that natural selection will favor earlier reproduction, yet ecological constraints can force people to delay marriage. Furthermore, humans demonstrate sex-specific preferences in marriage partners - with grooms norma...
Income dividends and subjective survival in a Cherokee Indian cohort: a quasi-experiment [0.03%]
收入、分红与切罗基印第安人群的主观预期寿命:准自然实验研究
Parvati Singh,Ryan Brown,William E Copeland et al.
Parvati Singh et al.
Persons with high temporal discounting tend to value immediate gratification over future gains. Low self-reported lifespan (SRL)-an individual's assessment of a relatively short future lifespan-concentrates in low-income populations and may...
Weight and economic development: current net nutrition in the late 19th- and early 20th-century United States [0.03%]
体重与经济发展:美国晚十九世纪和二十世纪初的净营养状况
Scott Alan Carson
Scott Alan Carson
When traditional measures for material and economic welfare are scarce or unreliable, height and the body mass index (BMI) are now widely accepted measures that represent cumulative and current net nutrition in development studies. However,...
Assessing heterogeneity in menstrual cycles by means of a multilevel latent class approach [0.03%]
采用多层次潜在类别法评估月经周期的异质性
Francesca Bassi,Bruno Scarpa
Francesca Bassi
In this paper, we study the problem of heterogeneity in cervical mucus hydration at different times relative to the mucus peak both between cycles and women, specifying and estimating appropriate multilevel latent class models for longitudi...
Perceived neighborhood social cohesion and cardiometabolic risk: a gene × environment study [0.03%]
感知的邻里社会凝聚力与心血管代谢风险:一项基因与环境相互作用研究
Jennifer W Robinette,Jason D Boardman,Eileen Crimmins
Jennifer W Robinette
People living in socially cohesive neighborhoods generally have better health. We extend this research by evaluating the hypothesis that perceived neighborhood cohesion may influence health by attenuating genetic liability for cardiometabol...
C-reactive protein response to influenza vaccination predicts cardiovascular disease risk in the Philippines [0.03%]
菲律宾流感疫苗接种后的C反应蛋白反应预测心血管疾病风险
Thomas W McDade,Judith B Borja,Nanette Lee et al.
Thomas W McDade et al.
Inflammation is associated with increased risk for chronic degenerative diseases, as well as age-related functional declines across many systems and tissues. Current understandings of inflammation, aging, and human health are based on studi...
The effect of social assistance on kin relationships: evidence from Roma communities [0.03%]
社会援助对亲属关系的影响:罗姆人社区的证据
Jelena Čvorović,Željko Vojinović
Jelena Čvorović
This paper discusses the effects of social assistance on kinship relationships in Roma, a disadvantaged European minority population, and how variation in kin support affects self-reported health and reproductive success. Data were collecte...
Effects of wife's and husband's income on wife's reproduction: an evolutionary perspective on human mating [0.03%]
配偶收入对妻子生育的影响——关于人类择偶的进化观点分析
Martin Fieder,Susanne Huber
Martin Fieder
From an evolutionary perspective, for women mate choice may be of crucial importance particularly concerning resources needed for rearing children. In modern societies, however, resources in terms of income are often provided by both women ...
Biomarkers for demographic research: sperm counts and other male infertility biomarkers [0.03%]
人口科学研究中的生物标志物:精子计数和其他男性不育生物标志物
Ronny Westerman
Ronny Westerman
Some male infertility biomarkers are etiologically linked to idiopathic infertility in men, the direct cause of which often cannot be determined with conventional sperm count parameters. Open questions remain regarding the universal and gen...
Hui Zheng,Siwei Cheng
Hui Zheng
This study uses the micro-simulation method to investigate the role of cohort forces in age-dependent mortality pattern. We test the micro mechanisms for cohort evolution and mortality selection, and how these two biological and demographic...