Genetic structure and demographic analysis of a true single-population species, Camellia azalea by Ruo-Qiu Wang, Ying Xu, Min Zhang, Gang Hao, Qiang-Min Zhao, Xin-Kai Liu, Xiao-Fei Liu, Bo Yu, Wen-Ju Zhang

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Exploring the Relationship Between Residential Perceptions and Satisfaction: A Demographic Analysis in Wuhan, China by Mengyao Hong, Hongrui Li, Wei Wei, Jialing Chao, Junnan Xia

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Disease burden of biliary tract cancer in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2021: A comprehensive demographic analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 by Xuheng Sun, Jiangmei Liu, Wei Zhang, Yijun Wang, Yan Jiang, Lijun Wang, Yixin Zou, Yuxuan Xiao, Yongbing Xiang, Maolan Li, Maigeng Zhou, Yingbin Liu, Sihan Zhou, Xiuyuan Hao

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Thank You, Akira Hayami! The Xavier Database of Historical Japan by Satomi Kurosu, Miyuki Takahashi, Hao Dong

“…We review the extensive efforts of the founder of Japanese historical demography, Akira Hayami, and his group in collecting, transcribing, coding, and finally making local population registers into this database for demographic analysis. We discuss the studies that flourished domestically and internationally using the data in the last two decades, followed by the discussion of current and promising development.…”
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La población por «testigo». Comportamientos demográficos y cambios sociales en España desde mediados de los años 70 by Arón Cohen

“…Over the past four or five decades, Spanish demography has experienced deep and accelerated changes, which cannot leave indifferent those who, from varied academic fields, follow the recent trends of Spanish society, without applying a skilled demographic analysis. Two parallel examples of these manifestations (fertility of unmarried women and immigration) give rise to a reflection on the interaction between demographic behaviors, political-institutional changes and social (socio-economic and socio-cultural) dynamics. …”
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Peut-on élaborer une approche ergonomique du « temps long » ? by Willy Buchmann, Céline Mardon, Serge Volkoff, Corinne Archambault

“…This article looks at the possibility of integrating long-term dimensions into ergonomics, which could be done by combining the ergonomics approach, occupational medicine, and demographic analysis. Work-related musculoskeletal disorders represent the common thread of this article.After presenting the theoretical framework, which focuses on long-term approaches to studying the relation between health and work, we concentrate on the methods used and how they complement each other to achieve better results. …”
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A Critique of the Book an Introduction to Research in Family Sociology in Iran by Mahsa Larijani, Khadijeh Safiri

“…The findings of the present article show that the criticisms of the book are in informal, structural and content areas, the most important of which include the lack of objective examples of claims and theories, lack of up-to-date sources, poor demographic analysis and lack of focus on topics such as the Ethics roots of the family and so on. …”
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Organizational Culture and Innovation: A Conceptual Framework by Mohd Yunus Majid, Kamal Rizwan Mahadzir, Faridah Maarof

“…A number of statistical tests were conducted which are socio-demographic analysis, descriptive analysis, correlation test, and multiple regression analysis to analyze and describe the findings and to examine the research questions and hypothesis. …”
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Relationship between physical activity and college students’ life satisfaction: the chain mediating effect of psychological resilience and negative emotions by Chenxin Huang, Jinfu Wang, Zixuan Chang, Jianjuan Tang

“…For data analysis, demographic analysis of variance, correlation analysis, and chain mediating effect test were conducted sequentially.ResultsThere were significant differences in psychological resilience, negative emotions, and life satisfaction by gender, and psychological resilience by grade level; there were significant correlations between physical activity and psychological resilience, negative emotions, and life satisfaction among college students (r = 0.541, p < 0.001; r = −0.379, p < 0.001; r = 0.435, p < 0.001); and psychological resilience, negative emotions had significant mediating and chain mediating effects between physical activity and life satisfaction, where the mediating effect of psychological resilience was significantly stronger than the mediating effect of negative emotions and the chain mediating effect of both.ConclusionThere was a correlation between physical activity and life satisfaction among college students, and this relationship was partially mediated by psychological resilience and negative emotions.…”
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Prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in children with cerebral palsy and autism spectrum disorder: a comparative pilot study by Ruzha Pancheva, Albena Toneva, Yana Bocheva, Miglena Georgieva, Krassimira Koleva, Ivan Yankov

“…Results: VDD was prevalent in 29.4% of children with CP and 15.8% of those with ASD, with no significant intergroup differences (p=0.492). Demographic analysis revealed significant gender (p<0.001) and ethnic differences (p=0.006). …”
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Tumor necrosis serves as an important pathological characteristic of stage I–II colon cancer by Shuhui Dong, Jin Xu, Mingshan Li, Guangyi Xiong, Ruilin Wang

“…Seventy-eight patients (45.1%) were diagnosed with tumor necrosis by pathological examination. Demographic analysis revealed a significant association of tumor necrosis with larger tumor size and a marginal association with vascular invasion. …”
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Bilateral oophorectomy amplifies depression risk following hysterectomy NHANES 2006–2017 by Chenghui Xu, Guangchun Zhao, Wenlei Yao, Yanhua Zhang

“…Subgroup analyses employed stratified regression models to investigate interactions between baseline characteristics and surgical methods. Demographic analysis showed differences in age, marital status, education, income, smoking, BMI, and chronic disease prevalence between the depressive and non-depressive groups. …”
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What’s in it for citizen scientists? An Analysis of Participant Inclusivity in Citizen Science Projects in Advanced Physics Research [version 3; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved... by Claudia Magdalena Fabian, Elisabeth Unterfrauner, Beatriz Garcia, Gary Hemming

“…We used a pre-post design with questionnaires on science attitudes, motivations, skills, self-efficacy, and knowledge to assess what citizen scientists gained from participating in the project. The demographic analysis of the data reveals that participants were quite heterogeneous and that people who feel that they belong to a group that is discriminated against are particularly motivated to participate in citizen science projects. …”
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Chromosome‐Level Genome Assembly and Whole‐Genome Resequencing Revealed Contrasting Population Genetic Differentiation of Black Bream (Megalobrama skolkovii) (Teleostei: Cyprinidae... by Ruijin Ding, Dan Yu, Ke Yang, Xinghua Wu, Huanzhang Liu

“…By resequencing individuals from the northern and Poyang Lake populations, we found that the northern population showed lower genetic diversity, larger genetic differentiation, and two sharp historical declines in population size through demographic analysis, indicating the possible bottlenecks after the allopatric isolation. …”
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Genomic and transcriptomic insights into vitamin A-induced thermogenesis and gene reuse as a cold adaptation strategy in wild boars by Mingpeng Zhang, Aleksei Traspov, Jiawen Yang, Min Zheng, Veronika R. Kharzinova, Huashui Ai, Natalia A. Zinovieva, Lusheng Huang

“…We also gathered 75 high-quality RNA-seq datasets from 10 tissues of 6 wild boars from Russia and 6 from southern China. Demographic analysis revealed the appearance of Russian wild boars in Far East of Asia (RUA) and Europe (RUE) after the last glacial maximum till ~ 10 thousand years ago. …”
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Demographic and motivational factors affecting the whole-body donation programme in Nanjing, China: a cross-sectional survey by Li Yuan, Jiayi Jiang, Mingyi Zhang, Haojie Meng, Xiang Cui, Yuxin Yang, Chuan Su, Jinfan Wang, Luqing Zhang

“…Objectives To investigate the demographics and motivations of whole-body donors in China, and help suggest a solution to the problem of low body donation numbers.Design A cross-sectional study on body donors in China. Demographic analysis of the donating information of deceased donors and in-depth interviews of potential body donors.Setting Eleven districts in Nanjing, China.Participants Deceased whole-body donors who had donated their bodies to the body donation receiving station of Nanjing Medical University between 1 July 2009 and 30 June 2019 (n=835), and living registered whole-body donors (n=68).Results Among the whole-body donor population, the numbers of males, people older than 65 years and those working as teachers, government officials, medical staff and farmers were significantly higher than those of the general Nanjing population. …”
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Revenue Management Practices and Service Delivery in Local Government: A Case Study of Rubanda District Local Government Uganda. by Buregyeya, Steven

“…A total of 153 respondents were targeted, where local government staff were selected using purposive sampling and community members were selected by simple random sampling with a high response rate of 96.1%, resulting in 147 completed questionnaires. The demographic analysis revealed a balanced gender distribution and a well-educated participant pool, providing a solid foundation for the study's findings. …”
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Assessment of genetic conservation units of an endangered glacial relict insular species, Amentotaxus formosana, based on fine-scale genetic structures of multiple fragmented mount... by Ya-Zhu Ko, Huie-Chuan Shih, Chin-Shang Ho, Chaur-Tzuhn Chen, Tsai-Wen Hsu, Meng-Shin Shiao, Yu-Chung Chiang, Yu-Chung Chiang

“…Additionally, demographic analysis suggested a substantial downfall in effective population sizes and limited gene flow within and between populations. …”
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Genome assembly of an endemic butterfly (Minois aurata) shed light on the genetic mechanisms underlying ecological adaptation to arid valley habitat by Wenqian Hu, Yi Wang, Xiaoxiao Chen, Jialong Huang, Jingge Kuang, Lei Wang, Kangshan Mao, Liang Dou

“…We also identified 234 positive selected genes in M. aurata, some of which are related to compound eye photoreceptor development, osmotic stress, and light stimulus response. Demographic analysis indicated that the effective population size of M. aurata decreased around 0.4 and 0.04 million years ago, respectively, coinciding with the localized sub-glaciation. …”
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Prevalence of peptic ulcer disease and its associated factors in Jeddah Saudi Arabia by Muazzam Sheriff Maqbul, Reem Saleh Alzaki, Reema Sami Meeralam, Norah Abdulmajeed Alqutami, Bayan Mohammed Alturki, Lina Sultan Alhazmi, Reem Mamdouh Alaseeri, Lama Saad Alghamdi, Reem Khalid bin Brik, Shaima Tariq Mansoor Beig, Muath Saeed Alamri, Wjood Abdullah A. Alshehri, Turki Ayed Almutairi, Maha Abdullah Alqurashi, Ahmed Jamal Nasef

“…Result: The survey in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, examined peptic ulcer disease (PUD) prevalence and associated factors. Demographic analysis showed 561 participants, almost evenly split by gender (269 males, 292 females), with varying ages and educational backgrounds. …”
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