Optimal Diversification in Allocation Problems [PDF]
Because real choice is an important quality parameter for the retail sector, managers of retailing companies need an instrument to assist them in optimising the diversity of options provided to their customers. In this paper, using the weighted diversity
Ion Purcaru
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The birds of the Bush Heritage, Cravens Peak Reserve [PDF]
, 2009 Bird communities were studied in two subregional areas of Cravens Peak, the Toko Plains and the Simpson-Strzelecki Dunefields, using the point counts method. A total of 42 2ha 20 minute surveys, 46 five-hundred metre radius area surveys and 170 5km drive
Wells, Dez
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A diversity index is a way to measure the prevalence species in an ecosystem. Although these arise naturally in ecology, diversity indexes show up elsewhere as well.
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Diversity indices of selected macrobenthos in Karanja Creek (District-Raigad), Maharashtra, west coast of India [PDF]
, 2007 The diversity indices can be used as a good measure for studying the effect of industrial pollution because industrial wastes and sewage almost always reduce the diversity of natural systems into which they are discharged.
Kulkarni, B.G., Pawar, P.R.
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Poverty Traps, Distance, and Diversity: The Migration Connection [PDF]
Within-country ethnic diversity in high-wage immigrant nations is driven by long distance migration. This paper documents the migration-diversity connection for the first global century before 1914 and the second global century after 1950.
Jeffrey G. Williamson
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A new measure of conservation value combining rarity and ecological diversity: a case study with light trap collected caddisflies (Insecta: Trichoptera) [PDF]
, 2004 The objective of the present study was to analyse the conservation importance of streams, rivers and lakes for maintaining caddistly assemblages of Hungarian localities.
Kiss, O., Schmera, Dénes
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Linguistic diversity and redistribution. [PDF]
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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Comparing Predictors of Diet Quality in Canada Over Time Under Consideration of Altering Food Guides [PDF]
Latest data on the diet of Canadians from the Canadian Community Health Survey reveals that the diet quality of Canadians needs improvement. Within this paper predictors of diet quality in Canada are identified based on two cross-sectional data sets from
Drescher, Larissa S., Goddard, Ellen W.
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Diversity and mosaic structure of ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) community in traditional cocoa agroforestry systems in southern Cameroon [PDF]
, 2009 In cocoa agrosforestry systems, ants are the major arthropod component of the canopy. Since dominant ant species are usually active predators of insects. Ant community may contribute to protect cocoa against insect pests, and especially from cocoa mirids.
Babin, Régis +5 more
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Diversification Based Static Index Pruning - Application to Temporal Collections
, 2013 Nowadays, web archives preserve the history of large portions of the web. As medias are shifting from printed to digital editions, accessing these huge information sources is drawing increasingly more attention from national and international ...
Gançarski, Stéphane +2 more
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