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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"demographic impact"”.
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Population ageing, longevity and migration: an overlapping generations approach
The silent demographic revolution characterizing the main industrialized countries is an unavoidable factor which has major economic, social, cultural and psychological implications. This thesis studies the main consequences of population ageing and the connections with the phenomenon of migration, …
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Rail Rebound: The Impact of Freight Rails on Regional Development in the United States, 1970-2010
… and development, and they exert a tremendous impact on the distribution and redistribution of the population. However, the impacts of railroads, especially freight rails, on population change and socioeconomic development are not well understood. This study fills the gap in the literature by …
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The role of organization communication in the implementation of a business unit strategy
… of such communication with various media and the impact of such communication on knowledge of the strategy was examined in a field study. Questionnaires were administered to 1220 employees in fourteen plants of a major garment manufacturer. The survey questions addressed knowledge of strategy, …
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Effects of seed dispersal by gibbons, sambar, and muntjac on Choerospondias axillaris demography, and the disruption of this mutualism by wildlife poaching
… game species. For example many tree species are demographically reliant on seed dispersal by vertebrates that are threatened by hunting; the anthropogenic disruption of this animal-plant mutualism can severely alter the composition of tropical forests. Here I show that illegal poaching has …
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Resource selection, predation risk, and population dynamics of woodland caribou
… these patterns alone do not necessarily imply a demographic impact. Spatial analysis of factors influencing adult female survival indicated that caribou resource selection was broadly correlated with survival, but also that wolf predation risk was an additional mortality risk beyond that …
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Effects of seed dispersal by gibbons, sambar, and muntjac on Choerospondias axillaris demography, and the disruption of this mutualism by wildlife poaching
… game species. For example many tree species are demographically reliant on seed dispersal by vertebrates that are threatened by hunting; the anthropogenic disruption of this animal-plant mutualism can severely alter the composition of tropical forests. Here I show that illegal poaching has …
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Resource selection, predation risk, and population dynamics of woodland caribou
… these patterns alone do not necessarily imply a demographic impact. Spatial analysis of factors influencing adult female survival indicated that caribou resource selection was broadly correlated with survival, but also that wolf predation risk was an additional mortality risk beyond that …
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Black October : the impact of the Spanish influenza epidemic of 1918 on South Africa
… disaster in South African' history and of the impact of this disaster on the country and its people. utilising both published and unpublished official and unofficial sources, newspapers, periodicals and the recollections of over 200 'flu survivors, it traces the course of the epidemic in five …