M Alexander
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 9967 |
|---|---|
| NOME | M Alexander |
| PRENOMES | M |
| SOBRENOME | Alexander |
| ASSINATURA | ALEXANDER M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8135-3435 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 114 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1973 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Bayesian Indirect Estimation of Historical Fertility in Europe and US Using Online Genealogical Data
A growing number of social scientists use online genealogical data as an alternative digital census of historical populations to study past demographic dynamics. However, the non-representativeness of this data source requires the development of bias-adjusting methods to obtain accurate demographic estimates. We address this challenge by proposing an indirect estimation framework to investigate fertility trends in seven European countries and the…
The Limits of Predicting Individual-Level Longevity
Individual-level mortality prediction is a fundamental challenge with implications for life planning, health care, social policies, and public spending. Drawing from the growing body of research on the predictability of life course events, we model and predict individual-level lifespan using 12 statistical and machine learning models and more than 150 predictors derived from the U.S. Health and Retirement Study longitudinal data. Statistical and …
Jointly estimating subnational mortality for multiple populations
BACKGROUND: Understanding patterns in mortality across subpopulations is essential for local health policy decision making. One of the key challenges of subnational mortality rate estimation is the presence of small populations and zero or near zero death counts. When studying differences between subpopulations, this challenge is compounded as the small populations are further divided along socioeconomic or demographic lines. OBJECTIVE: We aim to…
Developing and implementing the UN's probabilistic population projections as a milestone for Bayesian demography
BACKGROUND: Population projections for all countries are published by the United Nations Population Division (UNPD) every two years as part of the World Population Prospects (WPP). Since 2015, probabilistic population projections have been published as part of WPP, produced using Bayesian statistical models. Central to this methodological change was a team of statisticians at the University of Washington, led by Professor Adrian Raftery. OBJECTIV…
Measuring short-term mobility patterns in North America using Facebook advertising data, with an application to adjusting Covid-19 mortality rates
BACKGROUND: Patterns in short-term population mobility are important to understand, but the data required to measure such movements are often not available from traditional sources. OBJECTIVE: To investigate patterns in short-term population mobility in all states and provinces in the United States and Canada using data collected from Facebook’s advertising platform. METHODS: We collected daily traveler data from Facebook’s advertising platform, …
Faith-based Community Engagement in HIV-Testing and Awareness of HIV Status in Southern, Rural, African American Communities
The Deep South is the epicenter of the HIV-epidemic in the United States, with rural AAs bearing the greatest burden. Traditional efforts to improve testing efforts have been largely unsuccessful due to their failure to recognize and leverage the sociopolitical and cultural factors that affect the uptake of HIV-screening interventions at the community level. The purpose of this study was to gain a deeper understanding of the socio-cultural contex…
Bayesian implementation of Rogers-Castro model migration schedules
BACKGROUND: The Rogers–Castro model migration schedule is a key model for migration trends over the life course. It is applied in a wide variety of settings by demographers to examine the relationship between age and migration intensity. This model is nonlinear and can have up to 13 parameters, which can make estimation difficult. Existing techniques for parameter estimation can lead to issues such as nonconvergence, sensitivity to initial values…
Las políticas deportivas en la provincia de Barcelona. La visión de los gestores deportivos municipales (Sport policies in the province of Barcelona. The vision of municipal sports managers)
Las actividades fsicas y deportivas han sido identificadas por los gobiernos como una prioridad social. Asimismo, las diferentes organizaciones y territorios han sido objeto de estudio para lograr una mayor comprensin de sus procedimientos de actuacin. Esta investigacin tiene como objetivo analizar la opinin de los gestores deportivos sobre la gestin que se realiza en la provincia de Barcelona, as como identificar posibles vas de progreso. El tra…
Combining Social Media and Survey Data to Nowcast Migrant Stocks in the United States
Measuring and forecasting migration patterns has important implications for understanding broader population trends, for designing policy effectively and for allocating resources. However, data on migration and mobility are often lacking, and those that do exist are not available in a timely manner. Social media data offer new opportunities to provide more up-to-date demographic estimates and to complement more traditional data sources. Facebook’…
Methods for Small Area Population Forecasts
Competing Effects on the Average Age of Infant Death
In recent decades, the relationship between the average length of life for those who die in the first year of life—the life table quantity a10—and the level of infant mortality, on which its calculation is often based, has broken down. The very low levels of infant mortality in the developed world correspond to a range of a10 quantities. We illustrate the competing effect of falling mortality and reduction in preterm births on a10 through two pop…
A Bayesian Cohort Component Projection Model to Estimate Women of Reproductive Age at the Subnational Level in Data-Sparse Settings
Accurate estimates of subnational populations are important for policy formulation and monitoring population health indicators. For example, estimates of the number of women of reproductive age are important to understand the population at risk of maternal mortality and unmet need for contraception. However, in many low-income countries, data on population counts and components of population change are limited, and so subnational levels and trend…
Projecting ocean acidification impacts for the Gulf of Maine to 2050
Ocean acidification (OA) is increasing predictably in the global ocean as rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide lead to higher oceanic concentrations of inorganic carbon. The Gulf of Maine (GOM) is a seasonally varying region of confluence for many processes that further affect the carbonate system including freshwater influences and high productivity, particularly near the coast where local processes impart a strong influence. Two main reg…
Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Opioid-Related Mortality in the USA, 1999–2019
National, regional, and global levels and trends in neonatal mortality between 1990 and 2017, with scenario-based projections to 2030
BACKGROUND: Reducing neonatal mortality is an essential part of the third Sustainable Development Goal (SDG), to end preventable child deaths. To achieve this aim will require an understanding of the levels of and trends in neonatal mortality. We therefore aimed to estimate the levels of and trends in neonatal mortality by use of a statistical model that can be used to assess progress in the SDG era. With these estimates of neonatal mortality bet…
The Impact of Hurricane Maria on Out-migration from Puerto Rico
Please note: The publisher is not responsible for the content or functionality of any supporting information supplied by the authors. Any queries (other than missing content) should be directed to the corresponding author for the article
Global estimation of neonatal mortality using a Bayesian hierarchical splines regression model
In recent years, much of the focus in monitoring child mortality has been on assessing changes in the under-5 mortality rate (U5MR). However, as the U5MR decreases, the share of neonatal deaths (within the ï¬ rst month) tends to increase, warranting increase
A Flexible Bayesian Model for Estimating Subnational Mortality
Reliable subnational mortality estimates are essential in the study of health inequalities within a country. One of the difficulties in producing such estimates is the presence of small populations among which the stochastic variation in death counts is relatively high, and thus the underlying mortality levels are unclear. We present a Bayesian hierarchical model to estimate mortality at the subnational level. The model builds on characteristic a…
Impact of tobacco outlet density and proximity on smoking cessation
A previous study conducted in the USA reported an association between residential proximity to a tobacco outlet and reduced likelihood of a quit attempt enduring beyond six months. We replicated this study in an English urban setting using data on 611 smokers motivated to quit, of whom 66 were biochemically validated as being quit at six months. Sustained quitting at six months was unrelated to residential proximity of a tobacco outlet. Future st…
Writing Space
But thought in reality spaces itself out into the world. Edouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation (1997: 1) A migrant life lived through continents, across waterways and islands, creates the space where I write – a space that infolds memory, marking whorl upon whorl of time, mutating palimpsest I have learnt to reckon with. I write in solitude, using the materials of a shared life: pathways of sky and soil and water. I write on paper pages, or in fi…
The Algerian War and the French Army, 1954-62
The Algerian War 1954-62 was one of the most prolonged and violent examples of decolonization. At times horribly savage, it was an undeclared war in the sense that no formal declaration of hostilities was ever made. Bringing to an end one hundred and thirty two years of French rule, the Algerian struggle caused the fall of six French prime ministers, the collapse of the Fourth Republic and expulsion of one million French settlers. This volume, br…
Refugee status determination conducted by UNHCR
This article examines the practice of refugee status determination as conducted by UNHCR, looking particularly at UNHCR's practice in a number of Asian countries. Although the practice differs from one office to another, the practice is found to be generally deficient when assessed in the light of international human rights law, and by comparison with the practices of many governments. In some respects, the standards which UNHCR lays down for gov…
Emotional trade-offs of becoming a parent
Why do some people suffer from becoming a parent, whereas others do not? New parents' actual selves were related to their own hopes for themselves (ideal self) and to their spouse's sense of their responsibilities (ought self). Prebirth actual-ideal discrepancies predicted increased sadness or dejection after birth (especially for couples in longer marriages), whereas prebirth actual-ought discrepancies predicted decreased nervousness or agitatio…
Get Ready
Objects of Desire, Design and Society 1750 1980
Objects of Desire, Design and Society 1750–1980 Adrian Forty , Thames and Hudson , London , 1986 . 272 black and white illustrations, 256 pp. ISBN 0-500-27412-6 . £7.95. MARY ALEXANDER MARY ALEXANDER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Oxford Art Journal, Volume 10, Issue 2, 1987, Pages 114–115, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxartj/10.2.114 Published: 01 December 1987
The Impact of Hurricane Maria on Out-migration from Puerto Rico
Please note: The publisher is not responsible for the content or functionality of any supporting information supplied by the authors. Any queries (other than missing content) should be directed to the corresponding author for the article
A Flexible Bayesian Model for Estimating Subnational Mortality
Reliable subnational mortality estimates are essential in the study of health inequalities within a country. One of the difficulties in producing such estimates is the presence of small populations among which the stochastic variation in death counts is relatively high, and thus the underlying mortality levels are unclear. We present a Bayesian hierarchical model to estimate mortality at the subnational level. The model builds on characteristic a…
Combining Social Media and Survey Data to Nowcast Migrant Stocks in the United States
Measuring and forecasting migration patterns has important implications for understanding broader population trends, for designing policy effectively and for allocating resources. However, data on migration and mobility are often lacking, and those that do exist are not available in a timely manner. Social media data offer new opportunities to provide more up-to-date demographic estimates and to complement more traditional data sources. Facebook’…
Refugee status determination conducted by UNHCR
This article examines the practice of refugee status determination as conducted by UNHCR, looking particularly at UNHCR's practice in a number of Asian countries. Although the practice differs from one office to another, the practice is found to be generally deficient when assessed in the light of international human rights law, and by comparison with the practices of many governments. In some respects, the standards which UNHCR lays down for gov…
Methods for Small Area Population Forecasts
Emotional trade-offs of becoming a parent
Why do some people suffer from becoming a parent, whereas others do not? New parents' actual selves were related to their own hopes for themselves (ideal self) and to their spouse's sense of their responsibilities (ought self). Prebirth actual-ideal discrepancies predicted increased sadness or dejection after birth (especially for couples in longer marriages), whereas prebirth actual-ought discrepancies predicted decreased nervousness or agitatio…
Get Ready
Global estimation of neonatal mortality using a Bayesian hierarchical splines regression model
In recent years, much of the focus in monitoring child mortality has been on assessing changes in the under-5 mortality rate (U5MR). However, as the U5MR decreases, the share of neonatal deaths (within the ï¬ rst month) tends to increase, warranting increase
Impact of tobacco outlet density and proximity on smoking cessation
A previous study conducted in the USA reported an association between residential proximity to a tobacco outlet and reduced likelihood of a quit attempt enduring beyond six months. We replicated this study in an English urban setting using data on 611 smokers motivated to quit, of whom 66 were biochemically validated as being quit at six months. Sustained quitting at six months was unrelated to residential proximity of a tobacco outlet. Future st…
Competing Effects on the Average Age of Infant Death
In recent decades, the relationship between the average length of life for those who die in the first year of life—the life table quantity a10—and the level of infant mortality, on which its calculation is often based, has broken down. The very low levels of infant mortality in the developed world correspond to a range of a10 quantities. We illustrate the competing effect of falling mortality and reduction in preterm births on a10 through two pop…
Hormonal and social factors affecting evoked sexual behavior in rhesus monkeys
Male rhesus monkey sexual behavior occurring spontaneously or evoked by remotely‐controlled hypothalamic stimulation was studied in dominant and subdominant males with both dominant and subdominant, estrogen‐treated or untreated, ovariectomized females. The behavior was quantified in terms of number and duration of ejaculatory sequences, number of thrusts, and number of mounts per sequence. Little or no spontaneous sexual behavior was observed wi…
Developing and implementing the UN's probabilistic population projections as a milestone for Bayesian demography
BACKGROUND: Population projections for all countries are published by the United Nations Population Division (UNPD) every two years as part of the World Population Prospects (WPP). Since 2015, probabilistic population projections have been published as part of WPP, produced using Bayesian statistical models. Central to this methodological change was a team of statisticians at the University of Washington, led by Professor Adrian Raftery. OBJECTIV…
Measuring short-term mobility patterns in North America using Facebook advertising data, with an application to adjusting Covid-19 mortality rates
BACKGROUND: Patterns in short-term population mobility are important to understand, but the data required to measure such movements are often not available from traditional sources. OBJECTIVE: To investigate patterns in short-term population mobility in all states and provinces in the United States and Canada using data collected from Facebook’s advertising platform. METHODS: We collected daily traveler data from Facebook’s advertising platform, …
Bayesian implementation of Rogers-Castro model migration schedules
BACKGROUND: The Rogers–Castro model migration schedule is a key model for migration trends over the life course. It is applied in a wide variety of settings by demographers to examine the relationship between age and migration intensity. This model is nonlinear and can have up to 13 parameters, which can make estimation difficult. Existing techniques for parameter estimation can lead to issues such as nonconvergence, sensitivity to initial values…
A Bayesian Cohort Component Projection Model to Estimate Women of Reproductive Age at the Subnational Level in Data-Sparse Settings
Accurate estimates of subnational populations are important for policy formulation and monitoring population health indicators. For example, estimates of the number of women of reproductive age are important to understand the population at risk of maternal mortality and unmet need for contraception. However, in many low-income countries, data on population counts and components of population change are limited, and so subnational levels and trend…
Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Opioid-Related Mortality in the USA, 1999–2019
The influence of target sex and dominance on evoked attack in rhesus monkeys
Attack behaviors were elicited by the electrical stimulation of the hypothalamus of freely moving male rhesus monkeys. The influence of the sex and dominance status of target animals on the evoked response was measured. Animals offered as targets were dominant males and females and subordinate males and and females. Males were attacked more often than females and subordinate targets of either sex were attacked more often than dominant targets. A …
Hormonal and social factors affecting evoked sexual behavior in rhesus monkeys
Male rhesus monkey sexual behavior occurring spontaneously or evoked by remotely‐controlled hypothalamic stimulation was studied in dominant and subdominant males with both dominant and subdominant, estrogen‐treated or untreated, ovariectomized females. The behavior was quantified in terms of number and duration of ejaculatory sequences, number of thrusts, and number of mounts per sequence. Little or no spontaneous sexual behavior was observed wi…
The First Civilization
Objects of Desire, Design and Society 1750 1980
Objects of Desire, Design and Society 1750–1980 Adrian Forty , Thames and Hudson , London , 1986 . 272 black and white illustrations, 256 pp. ISBN 0-500-27412-6 . £7.95. MARY ALEXANDER MARY ALEXANDER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Oxford Art Journal, Volume 10, Issue 2, 1987, Pages 114–115, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxartj/10.2.114 Published: 01 December 1987
Get Ready
Emotional trade-offs of becoming a parent
Why do some people suffer from becoming a parent, whereas others do not? New parents' actual selves were related to their own hopes for themselves (ideal self) and to their spouse's sense of their responsibilities (ought self). Prebirth actual-ideal discrepancies predicted increased sadness or dejection after birth (especially for couples in longer marriages), whereas prebirth actual-ought discrepancies predicted decreased nervousness or agitatio…
Refugee status determination conducted by UNHCR
This article examines the practice of refugee status determination as conducted by UNHCR, looking particularly at UNHCR's practice in a number of Asian countries. Although the practice differs from one office to another, the practice is found to be generally deficient when assessed in the light of international human rights law, and by comparison with the practices of many governments. In some respects, the standards which UNHCR lays down for gov…
The Algerian War and the French Army, 1954-62
The Algerian War 1954-62 was one of the most prolonged and violent examples of decolonization. At times horribly savage, it was an undeclared war in the sense that no formal declaration of hostilities was ever made. Bringing to an end one hundred and thirty two years of French rule, the Algerian struggle caused the fall of six French prime ministers, the collapse of the Fourth Republic and expulsion of one million French settlers. This volume, br…
Writing Space
But thought in reality spaces itself out into the world. Edouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation (1997: 1) A migrant life lived through continents, across waterways and islands, creates the space where I write – a space that infolds memory, marking whorl upon whorl of time, mutating palimpsest I have learnt to reckon with. I write in solitude, using the materials of a shared life: pathways of sky and soil and water. I write on paper pages, or in fi…
Impact of tobacco outlet density and proximity on smoking cessation
A previous study conducted in the USA reported an association between residential proximity to a tobacco outlet and reduced likelihood of a quit attempt enduring beyond six months. We replicated this study in an English urban setting using data on 611 smokers motivated to quit, of whom 66 were biochemically validated as being quit at six months. Sustained quitting at six months was unrelated to residential proximity of a tobacco outlet. Future st…
A Flexible Bayesian Model for Estimating Subnational Mortality
Reliable subnational mortality estimates are essential in the study of health inequalities within a country. One of the difficulties in producing such estimates is the presence of small populations among which the stochastic variation in death counts is relatively high, and thus the underlying mortality levels are unclear. We present a Bayesian hierarchical model to estimate mortality at the subnational level. The model builds on characteristic a…
Global estimation of neonatal mortality using a Bayesian hierarchical splines regression model
In recent years, much of the focus in monitoring child mortality has been on assessing changes in the under-5 mortality rate (U5MR). However, as the U5MR decreases, the share of neonatal deaths (within the ï¬ rst month) tends to increase, warranting increase
National, regional, and global levels and trends in neonatal mortality between 1990 and 2017, with scenario-based projections to 2030
BACKGROUND: Reducing neonatal mortality is an essential part of the third Sustainable Development Goal (SDG), to end preventable child deaths. To achieve this aim will require an understanding of the levels of and trends in neonatal mortality. We therefore aimed to estimate the levels of and trends in neonatal mortality by use of a statistical model that can be used to assess progress in the SDG era. With these estimates of neonatal mortality bet…
The Impact of Hurricane Maria on Out-migration from Puerto Rico
Please note: The publisher is not responsible for the content or functionality of any supporting information supplied by the authors. Any queries (other than missing content) should be directed to the corresponding author for the article
Projecting ocean acidification impacts for the Gulf of Maine to 2050
Ocean acidification (OA) is increasing predictably in the global ocean as rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide lead to higher oceanic concentrations of inorganic carbon. The Gulf of Maine (GOM) is a seasonally varying region of confluence for many processes that further affect the carbonate system including freshwater influences and high productivity, particularly near the coast where local processes impart a strong influence. Two main reg…
Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Opioid-Related Mortality in the USA, 1999–2019
Las políticas deportivas en la provincia de Barcelona. La visión de los gestores deportivos municipales (Sport policies in the province of Barcelona. The vision of municipal sports managers)
Las actividades fsicas y deportivas han sido identificadas por los gobiernos como una prioridad social. Asimismo, las diferentes organizaciones y territorios han sido objeto de estudio para lograr una mayor comprensin de sus procedimientos de actuacin. Esta investigacin tiene como objetivo analizar la opinin de los gestores deportivos sobre la gestin que se realiza en la provincia de Barcelona, as como identificar posibles vas de progreso. El tra…
Combining Social Media and Survey Data to Nowcast Migrant Stocks in the United States
Measuring and forecasting migration patterns has important implications for understanding broader population trends, for designing policy effectively and for allocating resources. However, data on migration and mobility are often lacking, and those that do exist are not available in a timely manner. Social media data offer new opportunities to provide more up-to-date demographic estimates and to complement more traditional data sources. Facebook’…
Methods for Small Area Population Forecasts
Competing Effects on the Average Age of Infant Death
In recent decades, the relationship between the average length of life for those who die in the first year of life—the life table quantity a10—and the level of infant mortality, on which its calculation is often based, has broken down. The very low levels of infant mortality in the developed world correspond to a range of a10 quantities. We illustrate the competing effect of falling mortality and reduction in preterm births on a10 through two pop…
A Bayesian Cohort Component Projection Model to Estimate Women of Reproductive Age at the Subnational Level in Data-Sparse Settings
Accurate estimates of subnational populations are important for policy formulation and monitoring population health indicators. For example, estimates of the number of women of reproductive age are important to understand the population at risk of maternal mortality and unmet need for contraception. However, in many low-income countries, data on population counts and components of population change are limited, and so subnational levels and trend…
Bayesian implementation of Rogers-Castro model migration schedules
BACKGROUND: The Rogers–Castro model migration schedule is a key model for migration trends over the life course. It is applied in a wide variety of settings by demographers to examine the relationship between age and migration intensity. This model is nonlinear and can have up to 13 parameters, which can make estimation difficult. Existing techniques for parameter estimation can lead to issues such as nonconvergence, sensitivity to initial values…
Developing and implementing the UN's probabilistic population projections as a milestone for Bayesian demography
BACKGROUND: Population projections for all countries are published by the United Nations Population Division (UNPD) every two years as part of the World Population Prospects (WPP). Since 2015, probabilistic population projections have been published as part of WPP, produced using Bayesian statistical models. Central to this methodological change was a team of statisticians at the University of Washington, led by Professor Adrian Raftery. OBJECTIV…
Measuring short-term mobility patterns in North America using Facebook advertising data, with an application to adjusting Covid-19 mortality rates
BACKGROUND: Patterns in short-term population mobility are important to understand, but the data required to measure such movements are often not available from traditional sources. OBJECTIVE: To investigate patterns in short-term population mobility in all states and provinces in the United States and Canada using data collected from Facebook’s advertising platform. METHODS: We collected daily traveler data from Facebook’s advertising platform, …
Faith-based Community Engagement in HIV-Testing and Awareness of HIV Status in Southern, Rural, African American Communities
The Deep South is the epicenter of the HIV-epidemic in the United States, with rural AAs bearing the greatest burden. Traditional efforts to improve testing efforts have been largely unsuccessful due to their failure to recognize and leverage the sociopolitical and cultural factors that affect the uptake of HIV-screening interventions at the community level. The purpose of this study was to gain a deeper understanding of the socio-cultural contex…
Sociology (12 obras) · Demography (11 obras) · Geography (10 obras) · Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management (8 obras) · Economics (7 obras) · Estimation (7 obras) · Medicine (7 obras) · Population (7 obras) · Econometrics (6 obras) · Mathematics (6 obras)