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A new model of adaptability, the diversified portfolio model (DPM) of adaptability, is introduced. In the 1950s, Markowitz developed the financial portfolio model by demonstrating that investors could optimize the ratio of risk and return on their portfolios through risk diversification. The DPM integrates attractive features of a variety of models of adaptability, including Linville's self-com...

Strong and predictable environmental variability can reward flexible behaviors among animals. We used long-term records of activity data that cover several lunar cycles to investigate whether behavior at-sea of swallow-tailed gulls Creagrus furcatus, a nocturnal pelagic seabird, varied with lunar phase in the Galápagos Islands. A Bayesian hierarchical model showed that nighttime at-sea activity...

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From Griffith Health Institute, Griffith University, Gold Coast, QLD (A.G.P.R., A.W.C.), and the Division of Infectious Diseases, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane (D.P.M.) — both in Australia; the School of Medicine, University of California Riverside, Riverside (G.R.O.); and Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (J.J.F.). Address reprint requests...

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