Nobles' first book — "Shades of Citizenship: Race and the Census in Modern Politics" (Stanford University Press, 2000) — was a comparative study of census politics and racial categorization in the U.S. and Brazil from the 18th century through the end of the 20th century.
Whereas the structure of malarial ribosomal RNAs has attracted considerable attention and has been analysed in many comparative studies, no census of ribosomal proteins was undertaken in the first large scale expert annotation of P. falciparum [ 4, 31] and annotations have not been seriously revised since.
A second book How Societies and States Count: A Comparative Genealogy of Censuses (with Rebecca Jean Emigh and Patricia Ahmed in preparation for Palgrave), argues, against state centered accounts of official information that censuses work best where there is intense interaction between state and society.
The collaborative and comparative nature of the census ensured that seemingly similar Arctic and Antarctic species were genetically analyzed and distinguished.
More recent research has focused on where people live and, according to the report, mortality in Scotland "remains consistently higher than elsewhere in the UK". The study, Patterns of mortality by occupation in the UK, 1991-2011: a comparative analysis of linked census-mortality records over time and place, is published in The Lancet Public Health.
What was less clear was the Dominicans' comparative ascendancy, a shift documented in census data by the CUNY study and attributed to steady immigration and the growth in children born to Dominicans here.
These varying figures betray the unreliability of these censuses; nevertheless, they offer a comparative glimpse, even if largely imagined, on the historical trajectory of Soqotra's pastoral herd.
METAGENassist, a web server for comparative metagenomics, can be used for comprehensive multivariate statistical analyses on the bacterial census data from different environment sites or different biological hosts selected by the users [100]; CoMet, another web-based comparative metagenomics platform is used for the analysis of metagenomic short read data resulting from WGS-based studies.
OECD census data from 2000 is also incomplete and does not provide a good comparative reference point due to the difference in timing, that spans the critical event of Poland's accession to the EU in 2004 (Dumont, 2008).
