… However, this view has recently been challenged as a) higher plasticity does not necessarily
result in higher fitness [83], and b) invasive species seem to track rather than to expand …

This study examines whether federal sentencing decisions are influenced by the racial/ethnic
composition of federal court districts. Multilevel models of individual cases within federal …

Global climate change (GCC) increasingly threatens biodiversity through the loss of species,
and the transformation of entire ecosystems. Many species are challenged by the pace of …

… yearly mean (T M ) and the annual variation (σ B ) in temperature as well as the within-year …
distribution with mean T M and standard deviation σ B . T Y is further used to calculate female-…

Variation in gene expression leads to phenotypic diversity and plays a central role in caste
differentiation of eusocial insect species. In social Hymenoptera, females with the same …

… These summed effects indicate that immigration indirectly increases Latino homicide (B =
0.044), robbery (B = 0.070), and Violent Index rates (B = 0.052) through the combined set of …

In the 50 years since its inception, racial threat theory has gained substantial traction across
the social sciences and been widely embraced by scholars studying race, power structures, …

… The power of GEA increases with (a) the completeness of genotypic information, and (b)
the number of populations that cover and possibly replicate the environmental gradient on a …

… In the BLAST comparison against a database consisting of a single closely related species,
B. glabrata, the NGEN assembly resulted in the highest number of UniGens, and VELVET …

Objectives: The racial threat perspective argues that racial minorities are subjected to greater
punishment in places with large or growing minority populations. However, prior research …