Background: The emotional bond between humans and animals has strong historical roots and is of growing interest. According to the common notion of the "pet effect," many pet owners believe that living with a pet may improve their health and well-being. However, there are contra…
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Fertility rates showed a marked decline in Western Europe from the mid-nineteenth century until the beginning of the twentieth century. The causes of this decline have been studied extensively, but no complete explanation to the observed patterns during this 'First Demographie T…
The Komadugu-Yobe River located in northeastern Nigeria is an important tributary of Lake Chad. Since the 1970s, the Komadugu-Yobe basin has experienced significant changes in population density and land use/land cover. The present study consists of the application of geostatist…
Sequences from the 5′ end of the control region of 190 chaffinches in 19 population samples from north Africa and Europe have a coalescence time of 670,000 ybp which is also the age of the oldest population in the Tunisian locality of Nefza. About 360,000 ybp an expansion of the…
This study is an econometric analysis of causal relations between economic growth on the one hand and government expenditure, exports, investment and population on the other hand. It also investigates the trends in international inequality during 1960-92. In the case of GDP and …
Predation of wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) nests (eggs), poults, and hens is a significant mortality factor in the lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley. Therefore, raccoon and opossum visitation rates were obtained on a 2,025 ha study area on both Delta Wildlife and Forestry (D…
The purpose of this study was to investigate the determinants of fertility in Kuwait. Two facets of fertility were considered: the determinants of the quantity of children, measured by the total number of children ever born to a couple, and the determinants of the quality of chi…
With an increasing use of health services in England there is a political desire to alter demand patterns and re-design services to reduce spend. With a yearly 4% increase in ambulance service use a variety of generic health education initiatives have been tried to reduce demand…
There is an urgent need for innovative methods to generate information to evaluate post-conflict reconstruction, especially in the health sector. In order to translate the immediate response into a systematic medium and long term health strategy, baseline estimates of health ser…
To what extent does the regime type of a country impact its ability to win an international war? To answer this question one must first understand how nations wage wars. I conceptualize state leaders as asset managers who gather, leverage, and deploy a state's main asset–its pop…
With the increase in population and food demand, and, the limit of water and land available, novel methods are needed to produce food. Over the last decades, there has been a growth in controlled environments, especially greenhouses, and the use of hydroponic systems to produce …
Bu tez çalışmasında, büyük bir Türk bankası için üstlenilen gerçek yaşam projesinden ilham almıştır. Banka ATM'lerinin ne zaman ziyaret edileceğini ve ne kadar para yükleneceğini etkin bir şekilde belirlemek, gerçek hayatta tüm bankalar için sorun haline gelmiştir. Bu nedenle, s…
Ortadoğu coğrafyası, Dünya’da etnik ve dini farklılıklara dayalı şiddet olaylarının en fazla yaşandığı bölgelerin başında gelmektedir. Özellikle 2011 sonrası Arap Coğrafyasında yaşanan siyasi gelişmeler, Suriye ve Yemen’de iç savaş boyutunda etkili olmaktadır. İç dinamiklerin ya…
What causes reproductive practices to become politicized at a particular time in history? In India's northwestern border region of Ladakh, family planning and intermarriage—both of which were unproblematic just over a decade ago—are becoming politicized and increasingly linked t…
Mangrove forests are national treasures of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and other arid countries with limited forested areas. Mangroves form a crucial part of the coastal ecosystem and provide numerous benefits to society, economy, and especially the environment. Mangrove tree…
This dissertation explores the genetic histories of several populations living in the Altai Republic of Russia. It employs an approach combining methods from population genetics and phylogeography to characterize genetic diversity in these populations, and places the results in …
This dissertation contains four essays in housing and immigration economics. The first two chapters are essays on homelessness and homeless housing, and the last two chapters are essays on immigration policy and its impact on the receiving country. In the first chapter I estimat…
To tackle global climate change, the United States must lower its large carbon footprint. An extensive data exploration was undertaken to understand the United States’ energy past and future under carbon constraint using a blended mix of historical and simulation data. Historica…