Mutual Attraction: Demography and Life-Course Analysis

Center for Demography and Ecology University of Wisconsin-Madison Event History Models for Life Course Analysis

RNAi and gene therapy: a mutual attraction.

The phylogenetically conserved cellular phenomenon of RNA interference (RNAi)-the sequence-specific post-transcriptional silencing of gene expression mediated by small double-stranded RNAs-holds substantial promise for basic research and for drug development. Particularly attractive from a medical standpoint is the juxtaposition of new RNAi methodology with established gene transfer strategies,...

Life Course Data in Demography and Social Sciences: Statistical and Data Mining Approaches

This paper has essentially a methodological purpose. In a first section, we shortly explain why demographers have been relatively reluctant to implement the life course paradigm and methods, while the quantitative focus and the concepts of demographic analysis a priori favored such implementation. A real intellectual crisis has been needed before demographers integrated the necessity to face up...

Dealing with Life Course Data in Demography: Statistical and Data Mining Approaches

This paper has essentially a methodological purpose. In a first section, we shortly present demography and historical demography, the intimacy between those two disciplines and their common intellectual history, the crisis they experimented in the 1980s, and how the life course paradigm and methods have been implemented to face up the challenge of shifting “from structure to process, from macro...

Attraction and social coordination: mutual entrainment of vocal activity rhythms.

To investigate factors that affect the mutual entrainment of vocal activity rhythms, female general psychology students paired according to attitude similarity questionnaires engaged in 40-minute introductory conversations. Fourier analyses performed on speakers' on-off vocal activity demonstrated periodic oscillations in talkativeness. Although some dyads coordinated their vocal activity rhyth...