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The role of smoking in the explanation of the Israeli Jewish sex differentials in mortality
No full textSex differentials in mortality among Israeli Jews in international perspective
No full textSince the establishment of Israel sex differentials in the life expectancy at birth exhibited by Israeli Jews have been very low in comparison to other countries. This paper investigates the age and sex structure of sex differentials in mortality among Israeli Jews comparing them to the populations of Western and Eastern European countries. It also explores the similarities and differences between Israeli Jews and other Jewish populations in relation to sex differentials in mortality, relying on the published sources. This investigation reveals that small sex differentials in mortality of Israeli Jews, measured as a difference between female and male life expectancy at birth, are due to a stable pattern of low male and somewhat elevated female mortality at old ages, mainly 60/65 years and over. The differences between mortality schedules of younger males and females (25-64 years) are also relatively small. Selected features of Israeli Jewish sex differentials in mortality (but not all features) resemble those found in Jewish Diaspora communities.Detailed examination of levels and trends in age-specific male and female mortality in different subgroups of Israeli and Diaspora Jews provides the basis for two hypotheses regarding the origins of small sex differentials among Israeli Jews. The first hypothesis links low male mortality to health protective behaviour of Israeli Jewish males, the second hypothesis places the source of elevated mortality of Israeli Jewish females in the migrant origin of this population
Jewish mortality reconsidered
No full textIt is known that mortality of Jews is different from the mortality of the populations that surround them. However, the existence of commonalities in mortality of different Jewish communities across the world has not received scholarly attention. This paper aims to identify common features of the evolution of Jewish mortality among Jews living in Israel and the Diaspora. In the paper the mortality of Jews in Israel is systematically compared with the mortality of the populations of developed countries, and the findings from the earlier studies of mortality of Jews in selected Diaspora communities are re-examined. The outcome is a re-formulation and extension of the notion of the ‘Jewish pattern of mortality’. The account of this pattern is based on the consistently low level of behaviourally induced mortality, the migration history of Jewish populations and the enduring influence of early-life conditions on mortality at older ages
An exploration of the role of interviewers on survey nonresponse using a multilevel modelling approach
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The effects of interviewer characteristics and attitudes on refusal in face-to-face surveys
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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