Understanding the evolution of sexual reproduction has long been at the center of evolutionary biology. Theories suggest that asexual reproduction is beneficial for the short term but costly for the long term, mainly due to accumulations of deleterious mutations and low effective population size1,2,3...
Only in a handful of exceptional cases, where some parts of cities are not located in Germany anymore (example, the cities of Forst (Lausitz), Görlitz and Frankfurt (Oder) were split among Germany and Poland after World War Two), I estimate population on German territory today based on ...
Alfalfa mosaic virus (AMV) is an important virus affecting many vegetable crops in Egypt. In this study, virus isolates were collected from naturally infected potato, tomato, alfalfa and clover plants that showed suspected symptoms of AMV in different locations of Beheira and Alexandria governorates ...
Finally, to check how the selectivity of the sample of highly educated students affects results, I use NEPS data of a sample of grade 9 school students (NEPS-SC4). NEPS Starting Cohort 4 is a sample of a nationally representative cohort of students in compulsory schooling. I estimate regressi...
被引量: 0发表: 2023年 A national survey of Iranian general population to estimate a value set for the EQ-5D-5L ObjectivesThe main aim of this study is to estimate a national value set of the EQ-5D-5L questionnaire for Iran.MethodsThe composite time trade-off (cTTO) ... SS Afshari,...
We used 17 microsatellite and a mitochondrial markers to evaluate genetic structure, estimate effective population size and genetic diversity, and infer gene flow between the identified subpopulations. To understand the larger picture, we also compared the observed genetic diversity of each subpopulation ...
The objective of this study was to estimate the annual population-level impact of PCV13 NIPs on vaccine-type and non-vaccine type (NVT) IPD incidence among children and adults using national surveillance data of countries that switched from PCV7 to PCV13 in their NIP. A 20-valent vaccine (...
We estimate that about a quarter of all Aboriginal women who gave birth in SA during the study period participated in the study. Table 1 reports participant characteristics. Just over half of all participants received antenatal care via an Aboriginal Family Birthing Program service (n=176, 51%...
influenced by social desirability or subjective over- and underestimation of certain behaviors such as sedentary times, physical activity, or food and drink consumption [66] Especially when specifying the amount of nutrition, it might be difficult to remember exactly or to estimate the servings ...
000 millionaires will have left India with their investible monies. Those monies are at least US$ 14 billion, which is about 1,100 billion Indian rupees (INR, or 110,000 crore rupees).At a very rough estimate, India’s HNWIs have sent some US$ 50 billion out of the country over 10...