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A global index of biocultural diversity

open access: yesEcological Indicators, 2005
Abstract The relationships between biological and cultural diversity are drawing increasing attention from scholars. Analyses of these relationships are beginning to crystallize around the concept of biocultural diversity, the total variety exhibited by the world's natural and cultural systems. Here, we present the first global measure of biocultural
Jonathan Loh, David Harmon
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Equilar Gender Diversity Index (EGDI)

open access: yes, 2021
The objective of this chapter is to provide a comprehensive review of the Equilar Gender Diversity Index (EGDI). The EGDI highlights the prevalence of women within the Russell 3000 company board of directors as a response to increasing calls for diversity from investors and other stakeholders.
Griffiths, Heather   +2 more
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Changes in Fish Communities in the Upper Patuxent River from 1966 to 1977 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1979
Ten year comparison of fish survey's with respect to diversity evenness and composition of fish communities. The upper Patuxent River was divided into Piedmont Plateau and Coastal Plain regions, not only for geographical purposes, but also because of the
Gollembiewski, Sandra Lee, Tsai, Chu-fa
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Diversity and Polarization of Research Performance: Evidence from Hungary [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Measuring the intellectual diversity encoded in publication records as a proxy to the degree of interdisciplinarity has recently received considerable attention in the science mapping community.
Kampis, George, Soos, Sandor
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Study on Mollusk and Algae or Phytoplankton Community in Southeast Waters of Bali [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
A study was carried out to observe the relation between mollusk with algae or phytoplankton in southeast waters of Bali. The study was conducted at Mertasari, Sindhu, Serangan, Purnama, and Kethewel beach.
Perwira, I. Y. (Ima), Ulinuha, D. (Devi)
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A generalized framework for analyzing taxonomic, phylogenetic, and functional community structure based on presence-absence data [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Community structure as summarized by presence–absence data is often evaluated via diversity measures by incorporating taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional information on the constituting species.
Pavoine, Sandrine   +2 more
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Sociolinguistic Indexicalities in Ethnic Diversity [PDF]

open access: yesNew West Indian Guide, 2018
Abstract Ethnicity and language have often been considered jointly on the grounds of their intrinsic interrelation: hard ethnic boundaries are manifested by the use of heritage languages, while dynamics of assimilation reduce the need to linguistically project ethnic distinctness.
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Linguistic diversity and redistribution [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This paper investigates the effect of linguistic diversity on redistribution in a broad cross-section of countries. We use the notion of "linguistic distances" and show that the commonly used fractionalization index, which ignores linguistic distances ...
Desmet, Klaus   +2 more
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Phytoplankton Diversity as Ecological Indicator in Jimbaran Bay Waters [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
A study was carried out to evaluate the ecological condition in Jimbaran Bay Waters by using Phytoplankton Diversity Index. The study was conducted at Balangan, Pemuda, Jimbaran, Kedonganan, Kelan and Segara Beach located in Jimbaran Bay. Shannon-Wiener
Perwira, I. Y. (Ima), Ulinuha, D. (Devi)
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Efficient indexing for diverse query results [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 2013
This paper examines the problem of computing diverse query results which is useful for browsing search results in online shopping applications. The search results are diversified wrt a sequence of output attributes (termed d-order) where an attribute that appears earlier in the d-order has higher priority for diversification.
Li, L., Chan, C.-Y.
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