Abstract Natural selection is the major force driving adaptive evolution in natural populations, varying strength, direction, and form through space time, especially highly variable environments such as Mediterranean ecosystems. Although a conservative resource‐use strategy has been hypothesized to be taxa, patterns of at intraspecific level, that is, suite traits determining individual fitness...

The purpose of the study is to extend further from the result studying overconfidence effects of CEOs on single deal of Malmendier and Tate (2008)’s article to study overconfidence effects of CEOs on multiple mergers and acquisitions. Based on the psychological and financial theories, the likelihood of overconfident CEOs acquiring a company is the net effect of two manifestations of overconfide...

2 The heroin epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s and its effect on crime trends-then and now Contents Summary 3 Chapter 1: Introduction and methodology 6 Chapter 2: An overview of crime trends and explanations of the crime drop 10 Chapter 3: A historical overview of the spread of heroin in England and Wales 24 Chapter 4: The relationship between opiate/crack use and crime 31 Chapter 5: The relation...

Lianas are increasing in relative abundance and biomass many tropical forests. We tested the hypothesis that lianas conform to fast acquisitive end of continuum plant strategies, allowing acquire resources faster than trees. assessed functional traits representative leaf (LES) wood economics spectrum (WES), including hydraulics, 16 liana tree species canopy two forests at extremes climatic geol...