This research identifies the origins of the early demographic transition in eighteenth-century France. A turning point in history and an essential condition for development, the demographic transition first took hold in France more than a hundred years before any other ...

Abstract Nui Chua National Park, Ninh Thuan province, is a semi-arid climate while locating right next to a tropical forest climate, therefore, it has a rich biodiversity ecosystem, where the coastal dry forest ecosystem is rarely seen in Vietnam. This area contains man...

In this study we discuss the diagenetic processes that have contributed to the preservation of anomalously high secondary porosity (20–30%) and associated high permeability in relative deeply buried (2–3 km) Tithonian-aged stacked incised valley reservoir sandstone inte...

This essay discusses Francis Galton’s method of inductive inference where the data are photographs of human faces. His aim of induction was to determine the typical characteristics of the natural class to which the individuals belong by composing the relevant photograph...

International audience; This article describes a comprehensive geographic information system of Third-Republic France: the TRF-GIS. It provides annual nomenclatures and shapefiles of administrative constituencies of metropolitan France from 1870 to 1940, encompassing ge...

International audience; Pottery production has been recognized as one of the ancient Tiv practices that have survived to this day. Therefore, whenever remains of pottery objects are identified at an archaeological site within the Tivland, they usually contain tangible i...

Abstract In the winter 2011/12, a wave of internal capital flight prompted the ECB to abandon its exit strategy and announce an unprecedented monetary expansion. We analyze this episode in several dimensions: (i) we provide an event-study analysis, covering key variable...

The bigger picture As world and regional powers get more embroiled in the Syrian war, serious questions arise surrounding the credibility of news documenting the facts of war in the decade-long conflict. The spread of fake news around documentation of the war, going bey...

Cognitive decline amongst older people is associated with poor health and lower quality of life. Previous studies demonstrate that retirement is a particularly critical period for cognitive decline and highlight the importance of post-retirement behaviors. Using longitu...

SUMMARY To fill the prevailing gap in methodology for whole spinal cord (SC) analysis, we have (1) designed scaffolds (SpineRacks) that facilitate efficient and ordered cryo-sectioning of the entire SC in a single block, (2) constructed a 3D reference atlas of adult mou...