The Roots of the Obesity Boom. The Relationship Between Overweight and Educational Level Among Dutch Men, 1950–1979 by Björn Quanjer, Kristina Thompson

“…While in modern, high-income populations, obesity is associated with being from a low socio-economic background, this may not have always been the case. …”
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Origines et domestication du palmier dattier (Phoenix dactylifera L.) by Muriel Gros-Balthazard, Claire Newton, Sarah Ivorra, MargaretaTengberg, Jean-Christophe Pintaud, Jean-Frédéric Terral

“…The cultivated date palm probably derived from wild populations of the same species but none has been clearly identified to date. …”
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Du caboclo à l’indigène : réflexions sur l’ethnogenèse au Brésil by Florent Kohler

“…Practices and representations of caboclo populations from North and Northeast Brazil display significant homogeneity. …”
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Un site interactif au service d’une meilleure connaissance des urgences en France : Le numérique en santé au service des territoires vécus by Katerina Kononovich, Jean-Marc Macé

“…E-health contributes to the democratisation of knowledge regarding the access to healthcare among populations. In this sense, a free interactive website 2 enables each user to question various medical demography indicators of his own "lived territory". …”
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Development Education in European Rural Areas: The Work Done by NGODs by Martínez-Scott, S., Monjas-Aguado, R., Torrego-Egido, L.

“…The project consisted in the analysis of fields of action, target populations, types of funding, action planning, and evaluation. …”
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Confining the margins, marginalizing the confined: The Distress of Neglected Lockdown Victims in Indian Cities by Rémi de Bercegol, Anthony Goreau-Ponceaud, Shankare Gowda, Antony Raj

“…In India, on March 24, 2020 at 8:00 pm, the sudden announcement by the Prime Minister of the implementation of containment 4 hours later caused a strong panic among the underprivileged populations. Dramatic images of migrant workers desperately fleeing the big cities to return home have circulated around the world. …”
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Mexican Bromeliad Weevil (no official common name), Metamasius callizona (Chevrolat) (Insecta: Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Dryophthorinae) by Barbra Larson, J. Howard Frank

“…Unlike M. callizona, its presence does not threaten populations of native bromeliads in Florida's natural areas. …”
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De la mobilité à l’accessibilité : l’évolution des transports comme ressources dans la ville sud-africaine by Solène Baffi

“…Les transports en commun ont constitué un des rouages des processus d’exclusion socio-spatiale des populations ségrégées pendant l’apartheid, en conditionnant notamment les mobilités vers les ressources urbaines. …”
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Tax Audit in Turkiye: Simulation and Estimations Based on Kernel and Weight Functions by Mehmet Niyazi Çankaya, Murat Aydın

“…This research examines the use of kernel estimation and $FindDistribution$ methods in $Mathematica$ software to analyze the ratio of taxpayer audits to total taxpayers, focusing on two large populations: one with approximately 80,000 audits per 100,000 taxpayers and the other with 4.5 million audits per 6 million taxpayers. …”
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The Evolving Epidemiology of Helicobacter pylori Infection and Gastric Cancer by Jia-Qing Huang, Richard H Hunt

“…Therefore, searching for cagA-positive strains of H pylori may help identify populations at a greater risk for developing gastric cancer.…”
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Confiner les marges, marginaliser les confins : la souffrance des oubliés du lockdown dans les villes indiennes by Rémi de Bercegol, Anthony Goreau-Ponceaud, Shankare Gowda, Antony Raj

“…In India, on March 24, 2020 at 8:00 pm, the sudden announcement by the Prime Minister of the implementation of containment 4 hours later caused a strong panic among the underprivileged populations. Dramatic images of migrant workers desperately fleeing the big cities to return home have circulated around the world. …”
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Outcomes of Peginterferon Alpha-2a and Ribavirin Hepatitis C therapy in Aboriginal Canadians by Curtis L Cooper, Robert J Bailey, Vince G Bain, Frank Anderson, Eric M Yoshida, Mel Krajden, Paul Marotta, for the Canadian Pegasys Study Group

“…It is unclear what proportion of HCV-infected Aboriginal people receive therapy relative to other populations.…”
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Asian Perspective on Hepatitis B Virus and Hepatitis C Virus Elimination by Apichat Kaewdech, Phunchai Charatcharoenwitthaya, Teerha Piratvisuth

“…The persistent burden of chronic HBV, particularly in older populations, and the evolving HCV genotype landscape highlight the need for targeted, region-specific strategies. …”
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An Investigation on the Effect of Aloe Vera (Brevicoryne Brassicae) Extract on Cabbage Aphids. by Ssembwere, Sailam

“…Overusing synthetic insecticides has led to environmental concerns and the development of insecticide-resistant aphid populations. This study investigated the efficacy of aloe vera extract as a natural insecticide against cabbage aphids. …”
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Landscape connectivity alters the evolution of density-dependent dispersal during pushed range expansions by Dahirel, Maxime, Bertin, Aline, Calcagno, Vincent, Duraj, Camille, Fellous, Simon, Groussier, Géraldine, Lombaert, Eric, Mailleret, Ludovic, Marchand, Anaël, Vercken, Elodie

“…Range expansions can be ranked on a continuum going from pulled dynamics, in which low-density edge populations provide the “fuel” for the advance, to pushed dynamics in which high-density rear populations “push” the expansion forward. …”
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Overweight and Obesity Based on Four Reference Systems in 18,382 Paediatric Patients with Type 1 Diabetes from Germany and Austria by M. Flechtner-Mors, K. O. Schwab, E. E. Fröhlich-Reiterer, T. M. Kapellen, T. Meissner, J. Rosenbauer, R. Stachow, R. W. Holl

“…To evaluate the prevalence of overweight and obesity in paediatric type 1 diabetes (T1D) subjects, based on four commonly used reference populations. Methods. Using WHO, IOTF, AGA (German pediatric obesity), and KiGGS (German Health Interview and Examination Survey for Children and Adolescents) reference populations, prevalence of overweight (≥90th percentile) and obesity (≥97th percentile) and time trend between 2000 (n = 9,461) and 2013 (n = 18,382) were determined in 2–18-year-old T1D patients documented in the German/Austrian DPV database. …”
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Estimating the impact of the Mongol expansion upon the gene pool of Tuvans by L. D. Damba, Е. V. Balanovskaya, M. K. Zhabagin, Y. М. Yusupov, Y. V. Bogunov, Z. M. Sabitov, A. T. Agdzhoyan, N. A. Korotkova, M. B. Lavryashina, B. B. Mongush, U. N. Kavai-ool, O. P. Balanovsky

“…All the results derived – “genetic portraits”, the matrix of genetic distances, the dendrogram and the multidimensional scaling plot, which mirror the genetic connections between Tuvinian clans and populations of South Siberia and East Asia, demonstrated the prominent similarity of the Tuvinian gene pools with populations from and Khakassia and Altai. …”
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Flexible reproductive seasonality in Africa-dwelling papionins is associated with low environmental productivity and high climatic unpredictability by Dezeure, Jules, Dagorrette, Julie, Burtschell, Lugdiwine, Chowdhury, Shahrina, Lukas, Dieter, Swedell, Larissa, Huchard, Elise

“…Here, we gather birth and climatic seasonality data from 21 populations of 11 Africa-dwelling primate species from the papionin tribe, occupying a wide range of environments, including equatorial, tropical, temperate and arid climates. …”
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Diet-microbiome covariation across three giraffe species in a close-contact zone by Elin Videvall, Brian A. Gill, Michael B. Brown, Hannah K. Hoff, Bethan L. Littleford-Colquhoun, Peter Lokeny, Paul M. Musili, Tyler R. Kartzinel

“…We found large differences in both the composition and diversity of diets and microbiomes within and among populations. However, contrary to expectations, we found very little evidence for links between the composition of individual diets and their corresponding microbiomes. …”
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Sleep Laboratory Test Referrals in Canada: Sleep Apnea Rapid Response Survey by Jessica Evans, Robert Skomro, Helen Driver, Brian Graham, Irvin Mayers, Louise McRae, Joseph Reisman, Corneliu Rusu, Teresa To, John Fleetham

“…There are no recent Canadian data regarding access to and predictors of referral for diagnostic testing in these populations.…”
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