Prevalence of Anti-JC Virus (JCV) Antibodies in the Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Population in Cyprus: A Retrospective Study by Sakis Lambrianides, Christiana A. Demetriou, Andis Tillyris, Elena Kkolou, Eftychia Gaglia, Eleni Agkastinioti, Eleni Leonidou, Yiolanda-Panayiota Christou, Savvas S. Papacostas, Kleopas A. Kleopa, Theodoros Kyriakides, Marios Pantzaris

“…Logistic regression analysis was used to examine the effect of demographic variables on seropositivity, and bivariate tests were used to assess the association between demographic characteristics and JCV AI index. …”
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Knowledge, perceptions and practices associated with timing for breast cancer screening among female students at the University of Zimbabwe: A cross-sectional study by Peter Chikuvadze, Grace Nkhoma, Maxwell Mhlanga, Augustine Ndaimani

“…A structured questionnaire with three sections, consisting of closed-ended questions, was used to assess demographic characteristics, as well as knowledge, perceptions, and practices related to breast cancer screening. …”
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Parametric modeling of under-5 children survival among 30 African countries: Lognormal accelerated failure time gamma shared frailty model. by Bikis Liyew, Kemal Tesfa, Kassaye Demeke Altaye, Abeje Diress Gelaw, Alemu Teshale Bicha, Ayanaw Guade Mamo, Kassaw Chekole Adane

“…This study investigates the probability of under-five survival and its predictors of mortality in the African continent using a recent demographic health survey from 2014-2022.<h4>Methods</h4>This study utilized recent Demographic and Health Survey data from 30 African countries, encompassing 226,862 live births. …”
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Excess mortality and associated community risk factors related to hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico by Kristen N Cowan, Diego E Zavala, Erick Suarez, José A Lopez-Rodriguez, Omar Alvarez

“…Methods: Death records were obtained from Puerto Rico’s Department of Health Demographic Registry. Mortality risks per 100 000 were calculated for chronic disease categories and all-cause mortality for the 6 months following Maria and the same months in the year before. …”
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From Midwifery to Birth Assistance: Midwives’ Practice in the First Half of the 20th Century in the Czech Lands by Hana Stoklasová

“…That makes it possible for us to compare the circumstances under which the midwives worked as well as their performance in different geographical, demographic, and social conditions, both in industrial and agrarian areas. …”
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Re-introducing the Cambridge Group Family Reconstitutions by George Alter, Gill Newton, Jim Oeppen

“…The volume was based on data from family reconstitutions of 26 parishes carefully selected to represent 250 years of English demographic history. These data remain relevant for new research questions, such as studying the intergenerational inheritance of fertility and mortality. …”
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Volunteer activities as a basis for the formation of youth activity in Russia by E. V. Domashova, E. V. Blagovskaya, T. А. Gonohova

“…Presently, much attention is paid to youth, especially to the problems of young people, due to the fact that youth is the most active age group that can realize itself in all spheres of society: social, political, cultural, etc. This socio-demographic group, more than others, is aimed at raising its social status and assimilating new social roles. …”
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Using RFM approach with PBL to course design by Hui-Hsin Huang

“…In PBL process, the students themselves should use RFM method to make segment from the customer database of service industries and find out the characteristics of target segment based on the demographic variables and according to these traits to form their advertising scripts. …”
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Mapping Your World with Community Analyst: An Easy to Use Tool to Map the Characteristics of U.S. Communities by Robert Swett, Lisa Krimsky

“…This article presents Community Analyst, a web application that provides access to thousands of business, demographic, economic, education, and health data variables for the United States. …”
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Schreibende Professionals – Typologie einer Zielgruppe für Weiterbildungen im beruflichen Schreiben by Stefanie Marek

“…This article presents qualitative and quantitative characteristics of this population group based on an analysis of linguistic literature and demographic statistics, to identify gaps in the existing research. …”
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Análise Longitudinal dos Fatores Associados a Epidemia/Endemia de Homicídios nas Capitais Brasileiras by Silas Nogueira de Melo, Janderson Rocha, Yata Anderson Gonzaga Masullo

“…Thus, it became possible to analyze social, demographic and economic factors that influence the epidemic / endemic homicide rates in the main Brazilian cities in the period between 2012 to 2016. …”
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Chronic Lack of Investment — a German Disease by Felix Rösel, Julia Wolffson

“…This German investment gap of more than one percentage point persists when controlling for various economic, fiscal, demographic and institutional factors in regression analyses. …”
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Âge au premier mariage, contraception et mortalité infantile : influence sur l'évolution de la fécondité d'une population berbère du Haut Atlas marocain (vallée d'Anougal) by Mohamed Cherkaoui, Abdellatif Baali, Mohamed Kamal Hilali, André Sevin, Georges Larrouy, Émile Crognier, Gilles Boëtsch

“…Results showed that a demographic transition has started within the population. …”
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L’influence des présuppositions sur les témoignages sollicités par questions by Elizabeth Allyn Smith, Myriam Raymond-Tremblay

“…A week later, all participants received a second questionnaire where the critical information was questioned, followed by a working memory task and a demographic survey. Our analysis (by binomial logistic regression) tests the proportion of false responses to the second survey by condition. …”
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Ageing and Health in Sub-Sahara Africa by Tobias Vogt, Tobias Vogt, Elke Loichinger, Alyson van Raalte, Alyson van Raalte, Alyson van Raalte, Stephen Ojiambo Wandera

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Représentations socio-professionnelles et choix de la spécialisation : le cas de la filière vétérinaire rurale by Sylvain Dernat, Arnaud Siméone

“…This article shows how a specific social representation, in particular a socio-professional representation, helps explain the choice of specialization of students in higher education, beyond social and demographic criteria. To illustrate this, we investigated the issue of selecting food animal practice in French veterinary education, which has been facing a strong disaffection over the past years. …”
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Prospects of GCC energy policy by P. S. Prokopiev

“…Among them, financial and economic dependence on oil and gas revenues towards country budgets and the peculiarity of the demographic factor in the energy policy of GCC countries are noted. …”
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Examining healthy lifestyle behaviours of academic personnel working at a university (sample of Gaziantep University) by Kadir Tıryakı, Ugur Abakay

“…The aim of this study was to examine healthy lifestyle behaviours of academic personnel working in a university in Turkey and determine the relationships between healthy lifestyle behaviours and demographic characteristics. For that purpose, the 376 participants participated voluntarily to the study. …”
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Descendance différentielles, reproduction générationnelle et enfants-utiles dans une population de type « isolée » de la montagne alpine (XVIe-XIXe siècles) by Gilles Boëtsch, Michel Prost

“…Thus, well that in isolated situation, where practically every demographic events take place in the same place, we can try to understand the influence of a lot of parameters as the residence, the matrimonial structures or social classes that we can meet in the mountain area.…”
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Apport de l’écologie du paysage dans un espace insulaire fortement anthropisé : exemple de la Martinique by Peguy Major

“…The results show that the landscape of Martinique underwent an important processing connected mainly to the disturbances of anthropological order and to the demographic pressure through the ages of precolonial period in today.…”
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