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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Human Migration"”.
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Probabilistic Models for Human Migration Forecasting and Residency Imputation
… to enhance the estimation and forecasting of human migration flows and residency. Using a Bayesian hierarchical approach, I first propose a model for forecasting global bilateral migration flows among the 200 most populous countries, producing well-calibrated projections that reduce error …
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Video Games for Empathy and Understanding Towards Human Migration
… to increase familiarity and understanding of a humanitarian issue, but also empathy towards the data and the presented human experiences. This paper lastly contributes a discussion of the specific features of this game that allows empathy generation to occur, which may help motivate future work …
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Real Earnings and the Present Value of Future Earnings in a Theory of Human Migration
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Effect of Earthquake and Human Migration on Land Cover and Mass Wasting from The 2010 Haiti Earthquake
… landslide events and how they were affected by human migration in Haiti. The result shows that the mass wasting events increased yearly. In conclusion, there was no obvious change in forested land after the earthquake while agriculture, and grass land showed an increase in the number of …
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The Home I Carry With Me: Utilising Drawing Practice to Map the Changing Spatial Concepts of Home in the Context of Unprecedented Human Migration
… of feminist discourse. In the 21st Century human migration and globalisation added a new dimension to the debate. As perceptions of home continue to shift, the two levels of debate are yet to be fully integrated. My research seeks to contribute towards bringing these two debates closer …
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Population dynamics in first millennium BCE Italy: mobility and ancestry at Fermo, Marche
<p class="MsoNormal">Human migration is a crucial component in the formation of a community and a fundamental aspect of the socio-politic dynamic of a group. Exploring human migration in prehistoric contexts implies many challenges due to the absence of written documents or information other than …
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Hybrids, mimics, colonies and collections : a cross-disciplinary art practice research process
… research and diverse media/practices exploring human/animal metaphors of historic colonialism, including mimicry and hybridity. Cuculus Prospectus, together with related art works/interventions and projects, constitutes a distinctive and novel contribution to knowledge in practice-based fine art …
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Nexus of indeterminacy
Every year, China experiences the largest human migration in history during the 40 days of Chinese New Year (Chun Yun). It is a period when migrant workers travel from coastal industrial cities to inland rural areas for family gatherings. Just in 2012, over 235 million people migrated across the …
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Mitochondrial DNA Control Region Sequence Polymorphisms from a South Indian Population Sample: A Forensic and Phylogenetic View
<p>India is characterized by a human migration history spanning more than 60,000 years. Contemporary populations evolved from early migrations shortly following the African exodus but also recent movements possibly related to the spread of agriculture or t?e Indo-Aryan invasion. India has been …
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The slow zone : designing alternative paths for the future of North Bali
… However, flows of commodity and patterns of human migration reveal that these dichotomies are irrelevant, as all coexist in different intensities to balance its two main economies: agriculture and tourism. The inability to recognize this interdependence has resulted in development projects …
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Batwara : partition and the city of Amritsar
… on August 15th 1947 left In its wake the largest human migration of the twentieth century with the transfer of twelve million people across two newly formed borders. The boundary line, demarcating Indian and Pakistani territory, was created 17 miles to the west of Amritsar awarding the city to …
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Paleoparazitologija Vilniaus archeologiniuose objektuose /
… fossils can provide information on human migration. Based on modern molecular research, scientists are proving the phylogeny of parasites. The aim of this final work is to evaluate the archaeological samples of 7 different objects in Vilnius Old Town from the paleoparasitological …
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Essays on historical development in Africa
… important historical events in Africa, such as human migration, civil conflict and the slave trade. Specifically, I try to answer the following three questions by taking a historical perspective at the ethnicity level in Africa: (1) the impact of genetic diversity on interpersonal trust, (2) the …
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The ecology of change in outdoor therapy (ECO-Therapy) model: A preliminary theoretical framework for nature-based pediatric occupational therapy practice
… parenting, and urbanization have caused a mass human migration to indoor lifestyles characterized by a lack of connection to the outdoors. This disconnection from nature has profound implications for children because contact with nature has myriad benefits for children’s physical health and …
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Assessing The Biophysical Naturalness Of Grassland In Eastern North Dakota With Hyperspectral Imagery
… communities have quickly developed due to human migration and commerce. Invasive species like Smooth Brome grass (Bromus inermis) and Kentucky Blue Grass (Poa pratensis), seriously threaten conservation of native grasslands. This study aims to discriminate between native grasslands and …
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The human molecular clock and mutation process : a characterization using microsatellite DNA
In the past decade, thousands of human genomes have been catalogued, either by whole-genome sequencing or by targeted genotyping. The variability between human genomes encodes invaluable information about human traits and genetic diseases, as well as human migration patterns and population …
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A demographic and dietary history of ancient dogs in the Americas using ancient DNA
… since then they have become an integral part of human lives. They have served as hunters, guards, and pets, and have migrated with humans to multiple continents, including the Americas and Australia. The close relationship between humans and dogs makes dogs a valuable proxy when studying human …
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Livelihoods, capabilities and insurgent citizenship in and around a rainforest metropolis : from violent urbanism to a new rurality?
… are able to do and to be within society. Migration has been seen as one of the responses to unfair socio-economic conditions and distribution of rights. Because of its importance in shaping biodiversity, human migration in the Amazon is a well-studied subject. The majority of migration …
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Duration, cultural programming and sensemaking
… of common concern relating to memory, place and human migration and their impact upon identity, community, language, territory and terrain.<br/><br/>-examines the case study as a method of a cultural programme in relation to interpretations of duration and sensemaking. These are illustrated as a …
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The genetic heritage of China: A genomic study of PR China based on nine representative ethnic populations
… evidence in efforts to reconstruct human history. As technology has developed, studies have utilised genomic techniques in tracing the origins and migratory patterns of modem humans. East Asia is a particular hotspot of human migration, _especially Mainland China where a large number …
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