* Diversity and Distributions

When using Simpson's Diversity Index on 10 aggregated ethnic groups, the 2001 census identified Newham as the most ethnically diverse district in England and Wales, with 9 wards in the top 15 .< ref >< cite > Simpson's diversity indices by ward 1991 and 2001-GLA Data Management and Analysis Group ( page 11, Table 3 ) Greater London Authority, January 2006 ), accessed 13 December 2006 </ ref > However, when using the 16 ethnic categories in the Census so that White Irish and White Other ethnic minorities are also included in the analysis, Newham becomes the 2nd most ethnically diverse borough < ref >< cite > Focus on Newham 2006-local people and local conditions-London Borough of Newham, Corporate Research Unit ( chapter 2, page 24 ) ( 2006 ) date accessed 31 March 2007 </ ref > with 6 out of the top 15 wards, behind Brent with 7 out of the top 15 wards.

Animal Diversity Web: University of Michigan Museum of Zoology.

In Butlin, RK, J Bridle, and D Schluter ( eds ) Speciation and Patterns of Diversity, Cambridge University Press, pp. 102 – 126.

Costa Rica is party to many environmental treaties, including the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Convention on Environmental Modification, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Montreal Protocol, the Ramsar Convention, the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling, the Desertification Convention, the Endangered Species Convention, the Basel Convention, the Convention on the Law of the Sea, the Convention on Marine Dumping, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.

Additionally, though 60 % of the Fortune 500 companies have a Chief Diversity Officer ( CDO ) or Diversity leadership position, this and many other C-level titles are not necessarily universally recognized as Corporate Officers, and tend to be specific to particular organizational cultures or preferences as employees.

The Convention on Biological Diversity ( CBD ), known informally as the Biodiversity Convention, is an international legally binding treaty.

The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity is the focal point for the International Year of Biodiversity.

At the 2010 10th Conference of Parties ( COP ) to the Convention on Biological Diversity in October in Nagoya, Japan, the Nagoya Protocol was adopted.

The Convention on Biological Diversity of 2010 would ban some forms of geoengineering.

The National Biodiversity Centre of Singapore represents Singapore in the Convention for Biological Diversity.

The Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization ( ABS ) to the Convention on Biological Diversity is a supplementary agreement to the Convention on Biological Diversity.

* Global Biodiversity Outlook 2 a publication of the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity.

Suggestions for improvement in the operation of CITES include: more regular missions by the Secretariat ( not reserved just for high profile species ); improvement of national legislation and enforcement ; better reporting by Parties ( and the consolidation of information from all sources-NGOs, TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network and Parties ); more emphasis on enforcement-including a technical committee enforcement officer ; the development of CITES Action Plans ( akin to Biodiversity Action Plans related to the Convention on Biological Diversity ) including: designation of Scientific / Management Authorities and national enforcement strategies ; incentives for reporting and timelines for both Action Plans and reporting.

The Convention on Biological Diversity of 2010 would also ban some forms of weather modification or geoengineering.

Damage to forests and other aspects of nature could halve living standards for the world's poor and reduce global GDP by about 7 % by 2050, a report concluded at the Convention on Biological Diversity ( CBD ) meeting in Bonn.

El Salvador is party to the Convention on Biological Diversity, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, CITES, Basel Convention, Partial Test Ban Treaty, Montreal Protocol, Ramsar Convention.

Contrary to critics beliefs this model is used to determine how to proceed in situations that are detrimental to the environment in the way that is least damaging and has the fewest lasting implications .< ref name =" Diversity "> Silveira, Stacy J.

The FAO hosts DAD-IS, the Domestic Animal Diversity Information System, a communication and information tool for the management of animal genetic resources which provides the user with searchable databases of breed-related information, management tools, and contacts for the Regional and National Coordinators for the Management of Animal Genetic Resources programme.

189 countries which are signatory to the Convention on Biological Diversity ( Rio Accord ) have committed to preparing a Biodiversity Action Plan, a first step at identifying specific endangered species and habitats, country by country.

In addition to corporate boards of directors, Kemp served on several advisory boards such as the UCLA School of Public Policy Advisory Board, and the Toyota Diversity Advisory Board as well as the Howard University Board of Trustees, on which he served since 1993.

Legal action by the Center for Biological Diversity led to federal listing of the cat on the endangered species list in 1997.

Critics, including the Center of Biological Diversity and New Mexico Department of Game and Fish, were concerned the jaguar was being sacrificed for the government's new border fence, which is to be built along many of the cat's typical crossings between the United States and Mexico.

Diversity has always been celebrated in Liberian culture, cuisine, music, fashion, language and people themselves.

Distributions will often contain installation scripts ( usually called Makefile. PL or Build. PL ) and test scripts which can be run to verify the contents of the distribution are functioning properly.

Distributions on the CPAN are divided into 24 broad chapters based on their purpose, such as Internationalization and Locale ; Archiving, Compression, And Conversion ; and Mail and Usenet News.

Distributions can also be browsed by author.

Distributions with negative or positive excess kurtosis are called platykurtic distributions or leptokurtic distributions respectively.

Distributions optimized for size may not contain X and tend to use more compact alternatives to the GNU utilities, such as BusyBox, uClibc, or dietlibc.

Distributions that are partly discrete and partly continuous can also be described this way.

Distributions make it possible to differentiate functions whose derivatives do not exist in the classical sense.

Distributions are widely used to formulate generalized solutions of partial differential equations.

Distributions are also important in physics and engineering where many problems naturally lead to differential equations whose solutions or initial conditions are distributions, such as the Dirac delta distribution.

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* CBC Distributions corp. is renamed Columbia Pictures

The Berkeley Software Distributions also have an IPsec implementation and IKE daemon, and most importantly a cryptographic framework ( OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework, OCF ), which makes supporting cryptographic accelerators much easier.

Distributions of the Mizar Proof Checker for all major operating systems are freely available for downloaded at the Mizar Project website.

Chapter 2: PH Distributions ; ASA SIAM, 1999.

These two methods actually form two different quadratic Time-Frequency Distributions, but are equivalent under some conditions.

Distributions of these clades fall geographically within well established areas.

* Colombeau, J. F., New Generalized Functions and Multiplication of the Distributions.

Taxonomic databases tend to be organized in ways which approximate floristic provinces, but which are more closely aligned to political boundaries, for example according to the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions.

Distributions of fortune are usually bundled with a collection of themed files, containing sayings like those found on fortune cookies ( hence the name ), quotations from famous people, jokes, or poetry.

A US Individual Retirement Account CD may allow withdrawal of IRA Required Minimum Distributions without a withdrawal penalty.