Evolutionary genetics studies the patterns and mechanisms of genetic changes underlying evolutionary change. Because biological diversity at all levels (including population, species, and ecosystem diversity) has a genetic basis and is a result of evolution, evolutionary genetics provides insight into the ultimate mechanisms creating biodiversity. Evolutionary genetics utilizes empirical tools ...

UNLABELLED Dampness and visible mold in homes are associated with asthma development, but causal mechanisms remain unclear. The goal of this research was to explore associations among measured dampness, fungal exposure, and childhood asthma development without the bias of culture-based microbial analysis. In the low-income, Latino CHAMACOS birth cohort, house dust was collected at age 12 months...

Land resources are important for millions of rural households in China. With the land tenure system reform and trend nonfarm employment, transfer affects household income consumption diversity significantly. Utilizing data from China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) 2018, this study investigated effects on Chinese households’ diversity, measured by Simpson index. In order to mitigate endogeneity pro...

This paper, which considers the income maintenance experiments from a welfare administrator’s point of view, explores two major questions. The first is one of process: What is the relationship between the way in which the experiments were conducted and their reception by welfare officials? The second question concerns substance: What lessons for administering today’s welfare system are suggeste...

International trade of cultural goods has gained considerable importance over the last decade and has been dominated by rich countries. Meanwhile, trade in cultural goods is considered as a potential threat to cultural diversity, and development process is interpreted as a westernization process. One question arises: how does economic development impact on the cultural diversity of developing c...

In its darker past, urban planning was sometimes used as a tool to rigidly segregate different groups into distinct neighborhoods. During the last half-century, however, the tenets of urban planning have clearly evolved toward the goal of communities providing for a diversity of income (and, often, ethnic) groups in residence (Atkinson & Kintrea, 2000; Cole & Goodchild, 2001; Sarkissian, 1976)....

Given the scarcity of empirical research on the impact of diversity on organizational performance, we used longitudinal data for 100 firms to test hypotheses related to the effects of diversity reputation and leader racial diversity on firm financial outcomes. The results showed a positive relationship between diversity reputation and book-to-market equity, and a curvilinear U-shaped relationsh...