Across immigrant-receiving democracies, “multiculturalism” has come under assault by political decision-makers and commentators. The academic debate, while less fiery, is also heated. We start by outlining the multiple meanings of “multiculturalism”: a term for demographic diversity; a political philosophy of equality or justice; a set of policies to recognize and accommodate ethno-racial and r...

The old adage, ?you are what you eat? couldn?t be more true when it comes to carrots. To answer your question: yes, you can take on an orange-ish hue if you eat too many carrots. This phenomenon ? known in medical circles as ?carotenemia?? fortunately has no known risks to a person?s health. Carrots have this colorful effect because they are chock-full of betacarotene, which is a pigment found ...

This article describes and analyses a database on the dynamics of sociopolitical instability in the United States between 1780 and 2010. The database was constructed by digitizing data collected by previous researchers, supplemented by systematic searches of electronic media archives. It includes 1,590 political violence events such as riots, lynchings, and terrorism. Incidence of political vio...

We investigate the idea that firms’ choices of M&A evaluation methods are influenced by two socio-political factors that arise in the behavioral theory of the firm—uncertainty and controversy. In doing so, we investigate boundary conditions between arguments that expect firms to use financial analysis such as net present value as the primary tool and arguments that emphasize different forms of ...

Located in the Gauteng Province of South Africa (SA), Soweto is home to at least 1.1 million blacks and represents the largest black community in this sub-Saharan nation. Historically, its townships, spread over 40 sq miles of territory located to the southwest of Johannesburg, were created as a result of the residential segregation of blacks relocated to the area to work as cheap labor in the ...

The ‘‘tragedy of the commons’’ is a concept familiar to students of resource management, and many academic disciplines have devoted considerable attention to its understanding and solution. Despite a long tradition of concern with issues directly related to the problem, the field of geography has been relatively silent in the commons literature, especially on the theoretic front. The present ar...

PURPOSE Socioeconomic status (SES) may influence cancer characteristics and behavior in several aspects. We analyzed PCa characteristics and behavior among low income uninsured men, and compare them to high income patients with health insurance in a developing country. MATERIALS AND METHODS A retrospective case-control study was performed on 934 patients with clinically localized PCa who unde...