Truth and reconciliation commissions (TRC’s) are increasingly being used as a form of restorative justice at the national level. Arising out of post-conflict societies, TRCs saw a particularly significant increase from ...
Market based mechanisms are proliferating around the globe as a means to offer direct economic incentives for protecting and conserving ecosystem services. Among the ecosystem services being marketed, payments for watershed ...
Policy Question
Did the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) successfully signal to states that the driving factor for model selection for the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program ...
Leptosporangiate ferns, with more than 9000 extant species, are truly exceptional among the non-flowering lineages of vascular plants. However, this rather remarkable diversity was not simply a consequence of being able ...
<p>One of the major goals of evolutionary biology is understanding the process of species formation. There is particular interest in how selection can favor species formation through the process of reinforcement. When ...
We examine a host-pathogen model in which three types of species exist: empty sites, healthy hosts, and infected hosts. In this model six different transitions can occur: empty sites can be colonized by healthy hosts, ...
<p>Hydrogen peroxide is used by animals and plants to deter the growth of microbial invaders by inflicting DNA lesions, protein oxidation and lipid membrane modifications. Pathogens protect themselves with enzymes and ...
<p>The pace of life history is highly variable across mammals, and several evolutionary biologists have theorized that the tempo of a species' life history is set by external factors. These factors, such as food availability ...
<p>EVOLUTIONARY SKETCHES is a three-movement sextet composition for flute, clarinet in Bb, percussion, piano, viola, and cello. The idea of the piece is based on the study of applying scientific evolutionary theories to ...
<p>In this dissertation, I challenge the unitary-actor assumption of contemporary theoretical models of American politics and re-conceptualize party competition as an evolutionary process. I begin by discussing the ...
All life is organized hierarchically. Lower levels, such as cells and zooids, are
nested within higher levels, such as multicellular organisms and colonial animals. The
process by which a higher-level unit forms from the ...
<p>Edaphic factors--those pertaining to the substrate or soil--are thought to play an important role in the diversification of flowering plants. Although edaphic factors are widely interpreted as causal agents in plant ...
Over time, the U.S. economy has continued to reduce its energy and materials intensities while at the
same time increasing its total energy throughput. Taking the perspective of the economy as a system of
evolving ...
<p>Evolution can be studied at many levels, from phenotypic to molecular, and from a variety of disciplines. An integrative approach can help provide a more complete understanding of the complexities of evolutionary change. ...
<p>Narrative symphonic music dominated much of Mahler's compositional output during his early career. His early symphonic cantata,<italic>Das klagende Lied</italic> (1880-1901), and the <italic>Wunderhorn</italic> Symphonies ...
<p>Bryophytes, by their haploid dominant life cycle, possess several unique qualities ideal for study of mating patterns. In particular, the possibility of intragametophytic selfing in some species, and the vegetative ...
<p>In response to the alarming rate of serious mental illness among incarcerated individuals, local communities have operationalized the principles of therapeutic jurisprudence and forged collaborations between the criminal ...
<p>Gene duplication is an important evolutionary tool for fostering diversification and expanding gene families. However, while this concept is well understood and accepted in a theoretical capacity, the particular changes ...
<p>Understanding the mechanisms that underlie the formation of, and innovation in biochemical pathways is an important goal in evolutionary biology. The following work addresses the problem of biochemical pathway evolution ...
<p>Sexual reproduction in fungi is governed by a specialized genomic region called the mating-type locus (MAT). The ascomycetes, the largest phylum of fungi, primarily possess a bipolar mating system while the basidiomycetes, ...