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Climatic Niche Conservatism and Biogeographical Non-Equilibrium in Eschscholzia californica
Species climate requirements are useful for predicting their geographic distribution. It is often assumed that the niche requirements for invasive plants are conserved during invasion, especially when the invaded regions share similar climate conditions. California and central Chile have a remarkable degree of convergence in their vegetation structure, and a similar Mediterranean climate. Such similarities make these geographic areas an interesting natural experiment for testing climatic niche dynamics and the equilibrium of invasive species in a new environment. We tested to see if the climatic niche of Eschscholzia californica is conserved in the invaded range (central Chile), and we assessed whether the invasion process has reached a biogeographical equilibrium, i.e., occupy all the suitable geographic locations that have suitable conditions under native niche requirements. We compared the climatic niche in the native and invaded ranges as well as the projected potential geographic distribution in the invaded range. In order to compare climatic niches, we conducted a Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Species Distribution Models (SDMs), to estimate E. californica's potential geographic distribution. We also used SDMs to predict altitudinal distribution limits in central Chile. Our results indicated that the climatic niche occupied by E. californica in the invaded range is firmly conserved, occupying a subset of the native climatic niche but leaving a substantial fraction of it unfilled. Comparisons of projected SDMs for central Chile indicate a similarity, yet the projection from native range predicted a larger geographic distribution in central Chile compared to the prediction of the model constructed for central Chile. The projected niche occupancy profile from California predicted a higher mean elevation than that projected from central Chile. We concluded that the invasion process of E. californica in central Chile is consistent with climatic niche conservatism but there is potential for further expansion in Chile.
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Role of Family Climate in Shaping Entrepreneurial Characteristics
In order to gain insights into entrepreneurial behaviour from a psychological perspective, this study examined the role of family climate in development of Entrepreneurial Behaviour. Two standardized self-report measures, namely Family Climate Scale and Entrepreneurial Behaviour Inventory, were used on 61 participants (30 corporate employees and 31 venture owners). Then, the results were analysed using Pearson product moment correlation to see the relationship between Family Climate and Entrepreneurial Behaviour. For the comparison of both family climate and Entrepreneurial Behaviour between corporate employees and venture owners, the researchers used student’s t-test. The results of the present study indicate that family does not play a major role in determining entrepreneurial behaviour as there were a number of other external factors, which played a huge role in determining the entrepreneurial spirit. Future studies should explore other factors that affect the entrepreneurial spirit. Besides the family climate, taking the other psycho-social factors like locus of control, family, gender, and caste, further studies can be suggested as there is a growing need for entrepreneurial growth in the under developed and developing country like India.
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American Catholic
American Catholic places the rise of the United States'
political conservatism in the context of ferment within the Roman
Catholic Church. How did Roman Catholics shift from being perceived
as un-American to emerging as the most vocal defenders of the
United States as the standard bearer in world history for political
liberty and economic prosperity? D. G. Hart charts the development
of the complex relationship between Roman Catholicism and American
conservatism, and shows how these two seemingly antagonistic
ideological groups became intertwined in advancing a certain brand
of domestic and international politics.
Contrary to the standard narrative, Roman Catholics were some of
the most assertive political conservatives directly after World War
II, and their brand of politics became one of the most influential
means by which Roman Catholicism came to terms with American
secular society. It did so precisely as bishops determined the
church needed to update its teaching about its place in the modern
world. Catholics grappled with political conservatism long before
the supposed rightward turn at the time of the Roe v. Wade
decision in 1973.
Hart follows the course of political conservatism from John F.
Kennedy, the first and only Roman Catholic president of the United
States, to George W. Bush, and describes the evolution of the
church and its influence on American politics. By tracing the roots
of Roman Catholic politicism in American culture, Hart argues that
Roman Catholicism's adaptation to the modern world, whether in the
United States or worldwide, was as remarkable as its achievement
remains uncertain. In the case of Roman Catholicism, the effects of
religion on American politics and political conservatism are
indisputable.
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European and American Extreme Right Groups and the Internet
How do right-wing extremist organizations throughout the world use the Internet as a tool for communication and recruitment? What is its role in identity-building within radical right-wing groups and how do they use the Internet to set their agenda, build contacts, spread their ideology and encourage mobilization? This important contribution to the field of Internet politics adopts a social movement perspective to address and examine these important questions. Conducting a comparative content analysis of more than 500 extreme right organizational web sites from France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States, it offers an overview of the Internet communication activities of these groups and systematically maps and analyses the links and structure of the virtual communities of the extreme right. Based on reports from the daily press the book presents a protest event analysis of right wing groups' mobilisation and action strategies, relating them to their online practices. In doing so it exposes the new challenges and opportunities the Internet presents to the groups themselves and the societies in which they exist.
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