When a sensitive quantitative variable is under study and the Randomized Response Theory is adopted, a great deal of literature has been devoted to the estimation of the population mean (or total) or – at most – simple functions of population totals.
It is in the aggregate of the city that these stochastic micro-processes add up to population size dependent stable averages, expressing the general effects of urbanization in terms of non-trivial scaling laws as functions of population size [15].
Rate of change before and after the change point was modelled as functions of population mean parameters, baseline physical and cognitive impairment, age at death, gender and education.
This study highlights the importance of complementation and spillover processes in the functioning of populations living in agricultural shifting mosaics.
Simple models of terrestrial ecosystems with a limited number of components are an efficient tool to study the main laws of functioning of populations, including microbial ones, and their communities, as components of natural ecosystems, under variable environmental conditions.
Our demographic approach aims at disentangling the interplay of variation in environmental conditions, demographic patterns and genetic composition of Arabidopsis thaliana populations to provide insights into the differential functioning of populations across the species' native environmental range.
From the local to the global scale, human actions have influenced – and in many cases, disrupted – the structure and functioning of populations, communities, and ecosystems.
The WHO family of international classifications provides a valuable tool to describe and compare the health and functioning of populations, internationally as well as nationally, permitting comparisons of data within and between populations.
That is a simple function of population growth among younger communities, of whatever ethnic origin.
But sceptics point out that these claims, though true, are entirely a function of population growth.
