It is widely believed that increasing the equality of material possessions or income in a social group should lead people at the bottom of the distribution to consume less and save more. However, this prediction and its causal mechanism have never been studied experimentally. Five studies show that greater equality increases the satisfaction of those in the lowest tier of the distribution becau...

Abstract In this final chapter, we venture to give some advice on researching religion and migration, first what know then is lacking. If readers heed our call caution, it will be a needed important contribution far-too-neglected areas in migration research. By ‘researchers’ mean students, scholars, journalists others who seriously try produce knowledge about the situation. Please feel included.

I began writing this editorial exactly 1 week before the U.S. 2020 presidential election. Regardless of man we support at top ticket, are all nervous. Will next president be able to assuage our fears, boost spirits, “round corner” with us and represent? Ultimately, will find solace not by looking them but acting ourselves. This year, country faced crisis, rather than much-anticipated optimism t...

Emotion regulation dysfunctions are assumed to contribute to the development of tobacco addiction and relapses among smokers attempting to quit. To further examine this hypothesis, the present study compared heavy smokers with non-smokers (NS) in a reappraisal task. Specifically, we investigated whether non-deprived smokers (NDS) and deprived smokers (DS) differ from non-smokers in cognitive em...

In this paper, a comparison study is presented on artificial intelligence and time series models in 1-hour-ahead wind speed forecasting. Three types of typical neural networks, namely adaptive linear element, multilayer perceptrons, and radial basis function, and ARMA time series model are investigated. The wind speed data used are the hourly mean wind speed data collected at Binalood site in I...

This paper examines factors that predispose pastoralist women to social and environmental vulnerability and how the women cope with their livelihoods when their husbands relocate with cattle during dry season. The paper adopts a case study research design to select Kwara State of Nigeria where focus groups discussions and interviews were held to elicit information. It was found that food insecu...