Population: Will world population double?

Population Projections and World Population Trends

Will Precision Medicine Improve Population Health?

Announcementof theprecisionmedicine initiativehas led to a variety of responses, ranging from enthusiastic expectations1 to explicit skepticism,2 about potential health benefits, limitations, and return on investment. ThisViewpointdiscusseswhetherprecisionmedicine is unlikely or likely to improve population health, aiming to forge a consensus that bridges disparate perspectives on the issue. Th...

Atlas of world population history

in England, and his book will become a classic of its kind. Moreover, he indicates that material for similar studies is available, and it is to be hoped that others will continue this area of research. Meantime, both general and medical historians, as well as social and economic historians, and historical demographers, will wish to examine Dr. Gottfried's work closely. [no price stated]. Plague...

2013 World Population Data Sheet

Population synchrony in small-world networks.

Network topography ranges from regular graphs (linkage between nearest neighbours only) via small-world graphs (some random connections between nodes) to completely random graphs. Small-world linkage is seen as a revolutionary architecture for a wide range of social, physical and biological networks, and has been shown to increase synchrony between oscillating subunits. We study small-world top...