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1805-1898 Census Records of Lausanne : a Long Digital Dataset for Demographic History
Isabella Di Lenardo, Lucas Arnaud André Rappo, Rémi Guillaume Petitpierre, Marion Kramer
This historical dataset stems from the project of automatic extraction of 72 census records of Lausanne, Switzerland. The complete dataset covers a century of historical demography in Lausanne (1805-1898), which corresponds to 18,831 pages, and nearly 6 mi ...
Zenodo2023Academic boredom(s): a person-centered investigation
Should we refer to boredom or boredoms? Research on the emotion of boredom sets itself apart from studies on other emotions by posing the question: is boredom a singular concept or does it have multiple facets? In this manuscript presenting empirical resea ...
2023An end-to-end pipeline for historical censuses processing
Lucas Arnaud André Rappo, Rémi Guillaume Petitpierre, Marion Kramer
Censuses are structured documents of great value for social and demographic history, which became widespread from the nineteenth century on. However, the plurality of formats and the natural variability of historical data make their extraction arduous and ...
2023Lausanne Historical Censuses Dataset HTR 35k
Lucas Arnaud André Rappo, Rémi Guillaume Petitpierre, Marion Kramer
This training dataset includes a total of 34,913 manually transcribed text segments. It is dedicated to the handwritten text recognition (HTR) of historical sources, typically tabular records, such as censuses. This dataset is based on a sample of 83 pages ...
Zenodo2023Geographic clusters of objectively measured physical activity and the characteristics of their built environment in a Swiss urban area
Stéphane Joost, Idris Guessous, Marco André Vieira Ruas, Cédric Gubelmann
Introduction Evidence suggests that the built environment can influence the intensity of physical activity. However, despite the importance of the geographic context, most of the studies do not consider the spatial framework of this association. We aimed t ...
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE2022Stabilization of cultural innovations depends on population density: Testing an epidemiological model of cultural evolution against a global dataset of rock art sites and climate-based estimates of ancient population densities
John Richard Walker, Taylor Howard Newton, Francesco Casalegno
Demographic models of human cultural evolution have high explanatory potential but weak empirical support. Here we use a global dataset of rock art sites and climate and genetics-based estimates of ancient population densities to test a new model based on ...
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE2021International Migration And The Growth Of Zurich, 1836-1949
The role played by international migration and its interactions with other demographic components in the process of city growth remains underappreciated. We analyze trends in natural increase and in net internal and international migration in Zurich during ...
INST NATL D ETUDES DEMOGRAPHIQUES2021The population genetics of crypsis in vertebrates: recent insights from mice, hares, and lizards
Jeffrey David Jensen, Susanne Petra Pfeifer, Stefan Jean Laurent
By combining well-established population genetic theory with high-throughput sequencing data from natural populations, major strides have recently been made in understanding how, why, and when vertebrate populations evolve crypsis. Here, we focus on backgr ...
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2020International Migration and City Growth in the Global South: An Analysis of IPUMS Data for Seven Countries, 1992–2013
Evidence on the demographic components of city growth in the global South is scarce, and the role played by international migration is neglected. We analyze the importance of recent international migration in cities, compare it with that of internal moveme ...
2020Mapping informal settlements: an experience in São Paulo (Brazil)
Informal settlements pose great challenges to urban planners, as very often the data available on those locations is insufficient to inform planning decisions. For instance, demographic estimates are often approximate at best, what makes it difficult to di ...
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