ANALYSING ASSOCIATIONS AMONG MORE THAN TWO SPECIES

Analysing Qualitative Data: More Than ‘Identifying Themes’

Reliance on the identification of themes as the goal of analysis is endemic in qualitative research. Often, in funding proposals, there will be a lengthy description of how qualitative data are going to be gathered, but the only thing said about how these data are going to be managed or analysed is that ‘themes will be identified in the data’. Similarly, writers of journal articles often simply...

multi - species and more - than - two - site inter - actions

Multi-species reaction-diffusion systems, with more-than-two-site interaction on a one-dimensional lattice are considered. Necessary and sufficient constraints on the interaction rates are obtained, that guarantee the closedness of the time evolution equation for Ea n (t)’s, the expectation value of the product of certain linear combination of the number operators on n consecutive sites at time...

A model of competition among more than two languages

We extend the Abrams–Strogatz model for competition between two languages [Nature 424, 900 (2003)] to the case of n(≥ 2) competing states (i.e., languages). Although the Abrams–Strogatz model for n = 2 can be interpreted as modeling either majority preference or minority aversion, the R. Fujie · K. Aihara FIRST, Aihara Innovative Mathematical Modelling Project, Japan Science and Technology Agen...

Comparing More Than Two Groups

Protein–Protein Interactions More Conserved within Species than across Species

Experimental high-throughput studies of protein-protein interactions are beginning to provide enough data for comprehensive computational studies. Today, about ten large data sets, each with thousands of interacting pairs, coarsely sample the interactions in fly, human, worm, and yeast. Another about 55,000 pairs of interacting proteins have been identified by more careful, detailed biochemical...