Interpreting local adaptation studies

Interpreting iron studies.

A 63 year old woman visits her doctor with a three month history of fatigue and generalised joint pains. Her medical history is unremarkable and she reports no recent stress, infection, or weight loss. There are no abnormalities on clinical examination. Haemoglobin, creatinine, and electrolytes, liver enzymes, glucose, inflammatory markers, and thyroid function tests are normal. Ferritin, iron,...

Genomic Studies of Local Adaptation in Natural Plant Populations.

Local adaptation arises as a result of selection by the local environment favoring phenotypes that enhance fitness. Geographic patterns of phenotypic variation are in part due to this selective process. Classically, the genetic basis of those phenotypes has been studied in plant populations using a quantitative genetic approach in which plants from different source populations are grown in comm...

Interpreting Gentrification Case Studies: A Perspective

Efficiency versus Effectiveness: Interpreting Education Production Studies

To gain analytical insight into whether input resources matter in public education, a Becker/Peltzman/Stigler model of the determination of local educational budgets and outputs by political authorities is constructed. The model results are consistent with empirical findings that resources don’t matter, even when all schools are efficient, if errors in measurement and specification occur. When ...

A Software Studies Approach to Interpreting Passage

The following paper argues for the value of critically analyzing game code, demonstrating two potential methodologies. These draw from literary theory and software studies to reach hermeneutic readings of procedures. We use Jason Rohrer’s Passage as a case study to demonstrate these methods. Passage is one of the most frequently studied, discussed and taught works in game studies. However, many...