Significant transformations in the socio-political and economic landscape of Sri Lanka in recent years encouraged five development partners-World Bank, Asia Foundation, and the governments of the United Kingdom, Netherlands ...

Modeling the dynamics of commercial fisheries is an active field at the crossroads of mathematics, ecology, and economics. Population levels are one of the most basic statistics used for all conservation. In all natural ...

The endogenous microbiota of gastrointestinal tract play an important role in maintenance of human health and development of disease. Some critical functions of the commensal flora for the host include regulation of fat ...

The purpose of this study was to determine factors, which motivate people to watch electronic sports. The sample consisted of males and females aged 18 to 65 watching e-sport, both online and at live e-sport viewing ...

Early exposure to multiple languages shapes children's experiences and language background as well as influences later functioning. Prior research indicates that students who speak a minority language at home experience ...

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), one of the most common neurological diseases is epilepsy with over 50 million people globally diagnosed to date. Epilepsy is defined as a chronic noncommunicable disease ...

Two common reef fishes, the bluehead wrasse (Thalassoma bifasciatum) and the bicolor damselfish (Stegastes partitus), are used as model species for understanding the function of marine protected areas (MPAs) in the ...

Although the childhood aggression literature is well developed, there is relatively little research examining longitudinal relations between early childhood parenting and peer interaction and later aggressive behavior ...

This dissertation presents annual measures of earnings inequality for 255 metro regions in the U.S. for the years 1990 to 2004. Measures of industrial structure are also calculated for each metro to observe whether there ...