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Fitting Markovian binary trees using global and individual demographic data

Sophie Myriam Hautphenne, Katharine Felicity Turner

We consider a class of continuous-time branching processes called Markovian binary trees (MBTs), in which the individuals lifetime and reproduction epochs are modelled using a transient Markovian arrival process (TMAP). We develop methods for estimating th ...

ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE2019

Sustainable Development, Planning and Poverty Alleviation

Jean-Claude Bolay, Eléonore Labattut

In 2018, the world population is around 7.6 billion, 4.2 billion in urban settlements and 3.4 billion in rural areas. Of this total, according to UN-Habitat, 3.2 billion of urban inhabitants live in southern countries. Of them, one billion, or nearly a thi ...

2019

Virtual X-ray Reading (VXR) of Ancient Administrative Handwritten Documents

Giorgio Margaritondo, Frédéric Kaplan, Fauzia Albertin, Marco Stampanoni

The study of ancient documents is too often confined to specimens of high artistic value or to official writings. Yet, a wealth of information is often stored in administrative records such as ship records, notary papers, work contract, tax declaration, co ...

2014

X-ray Spectrometry and imaging for ancient handwritten document

Giorgio Margaritondo, Frédéric Kaplan, Fauzia Albertin, Marco Stampanoni

We detected handwritten characters in ancient documents from several centuries with different synchrotron x-ray imaging techniques. The results were correlated to those of x-ray fluorescence analysis. In most cases, heavy elements produced high image quali ...

2014

From the Cover: Water-controlled wealth of nations

Andrea Rinaldo, Samir Suweis, Paolo d'Odorico, Amos Maritan

Population growth is in general constrained by food production, which in turn depends on the access to water resources. At a country level, some populations use more water than they control because of their ability to import food and the virtual water requ ...

National Academy of Sciences2013

2048: An architectural fiction

Dieter Dietz, Caroline Dionne, Shin Alexandre Koseki, Thomas Charles Marie Pierre Favre-Bulle

ALICE studio conducted in parallel with the LABA master studio in the context of the CH2048 research project envisioning a Switzerland with 16 million inhabitants by 2048 – a population only slightly larger than the one resulting from extrapolation of the ...

2012

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Demographic economics

Fitting Markovian binary trees using global and individual demographic data

Sustainable Development, Planning and Poverty Alleviation

Dense or sprawling cities: what future for the peripheries of the Cities of the Global South?

Virtual X-ray Reading (VXR) of Ancient Administrative Handwritten Documents

X-ray Spectrometry and imaging for ancient handwritten document

From the Cover: Water-controlled wealth of nations

2048: An architectural fiction

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Sustainable Development, Planning and Poverty Alleviation

From the Cover: Water-controlled wealth of nations

Virtual X-ray Reading (VXR) of Ancient Administrative Handwritten Documents

Dense or sprawling cities: what future for the peripheries of the Cities of the Global South?

Fitting Markovian binary trees using global and individual demographic data

X-ray Spectrometry and imaging for ancient handwritten document

2048: An architectural fiction