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The dark side of hygge: acculturation of foreign workers in Denmark Open

J. Jones · 2025

Although Denmark is a prosperous and globally oriented welfare state, foreigners who come to Denmark for work struggle to settle in. To investigate the reasons for this, I first define the term ‘foreign worker’ and present relevant statist…

The past, present and future of health geography: An exchange with three long standing participants in the Geographies of Health and Wellbeing Research Group Open

Chloe Asker, Richard Gorman, Thomas A. Lowe, Sarah Curtis, Graham Moon , et al. · 2024

This article traces the past, present and future of health geography through the career journeys of three notable academics, Sarah Curtis (SC), Julia Jones (JJ) and Graham Moon (GM). All three of these scholars have had entanglements with …

Demographic determinants of the phenotypic mother–offspring correlation Open

Floriane Plard, J. Jones, Jean‐Michel Gaillard, Tim Coulson, Shripad Tuljapurkar · 2021

Phenotypic traits partly determine expected survival and reproduction, and so have been used as the basis for demographic models of population dynamics. Within a population, the distribution of phenotypic traits depends upon their transmis…

The AgeGuess database, an open online resource on chronological and perceived ages of people aged 5–100 Open

J. Jones, Ulrik William Nash, Julien VIEILLEFONT, Kaare Christensen, Dusan Misevic , et al. · 2019

In many developed countries, human life expectancy has doubled over the last 180 years. Underlying this higher life expectancy is a change in how we age. Biomarkers of ageing are used to quantify changes in the aging process and to determi…

Demographic determinants of biometric heritability Open

J. Jones, Floriane Plard, Jean‐Michel Gaillard, Tim Coulson, Shripad Tuljapurkar · 2018

The response of quantitative characters to selection depends on their transmission from parents to offspring. A common estimate of this transmission is the biometric heritability defined as the slope of the regression of offspring phenotyp…

Complexity of the relationship between life expectancy and overlap of lifespans Open

J. Jones, Ádám Lénárt, Annette Baudisch · 2018

Longevity has long been recognised as a key facilitator of reciprocal altruism because repeated cooperation of partners hinges on mutual survival. Although demographic tools can be used to quantify mutual survival and expected overlapping …

Women live longer than men even during severe famines and epidemics Open

Virginia Zarulli, J. Jones, Anna Oksuzyan, Rune Lindahl‐Jacobsen, Kaare Christensen , et al. · 2018

Significance Women live longer than men in nearly all populations today. Some research focuses on the biological origins of the female advantage; other research stresses the significance of social factors. We studied male–female survival d…

Complexity of the Relationship between Life Expectancy and Overlap of Lifespans Open

J. Jones, Ádám Lénárt, Annette Baudisch · 2017

Longevity has long been recognised as a key facilitator of reciprocal altruism because repeated cooperation of partners hinges on mutual survival. Although demographic tools can be used to quantify mutual survival and expected overlapping …

Modeling Adaptive and Nonadaptive Responses of Populations to Environmental Change Open

Tim Coulson, Bruce E. Kendall, J. Jones, Floriane Plard, Susanne Schindler , et al. · 2017

Understanding how the natural world will be impacted by environmental change over the coming decades is one of the most pressing challenges facing humanity. Addressing this challenge is difficult because environmental change can generate b…

Women survive severe famines and epidemics better than men Open

Virginia Zarulli, J. Jones, Anna Oksuzyan, Rune Lindahl‐Jacobsen, Kaare Christensen , et al. · 2016

Women live longer than men almost everywhere. Research provides evidence for both biological and behavioral factors modulating this gender gap, leaving open the question of what are its fundamental determinants. An unexplored source of inf…

The emergence of longevous populations Open

Fernando Colchero, Roland Rau, Owen R. Jones, J. Jones, Dalia A. Conde , et al. · 2016

Significance Public interest in social and economic equality is burgeoning. We examine a related phenomenon, lifespan equality, using data from charismatic primate populations and diverse human populations. Our study reveals three key find…

Dead or gone? Bayesian inference on mortality for the dispersing sex Open

J. Jones, Craig Packer, Andrew J. Loveridge, David W. Macdonald, Fernando Colchero · 2016

Estimates of age‐specific mortality are regularly used in ecology, evolution, and conservation research. However, estimating mortality of the dispersing sex, in species where one sex undergoes natal dispersal, is difficult. This is because…

Bayesian estimates of male and female African lion mortality for future use in population management Open

J. Jones, Andrew J. Loveridge, David W. Macdonald, Craig Packer, Fernando Colchero · 2016

Summary The global population size of African lions is plummeting, and many small fragmented populations face local extinction. Extinction risks are amplified through the common practice of trophy hunting for males, which makes setting sus…

Whipple's ejection model and the Geminid stream Open

J. Jones, L. M. G. Poole, A. R. Webster · 2015

Many attempts to model the Geminid meteor stream have been based on Whipple's model for the ejection of meteoroids from comets. Using the most accurate data available from the IAU photographic meteor data base and by considering the scatte…

Dead or gone? Bayesian inference on mortality for the dispersing sex Open

J. Jones, Craig Packer, Andrew J. Loveridge, David W. Macdonald, Fernando Colchero · 2015

1. Estimates of age-specific mortality are regularly used in ecology, evolution, and conservation research. However, existing methods to estimate mortality from re-sighting records of marked individuals fail at estimating mortality of male…

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