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Founded by individuals pursuing higher education in the United States, the Marshallese community in Orange County today also represents family and national interests in access to business opportunities, employment, education, medical services, and other goals. This community has become an "official" Marshallese overseas community, site of the first Marshallese consulate in the mainland United States, and a link between overseas Marshallese and the home islands. Individuals and family units traverse networks of inter-linked households, high- lighting processes of Islanders' investments, including at least a short-term reversal of theoretically expected remittance flows. We explore the process of community formation, and compare rural and urban sites in the Marshall Islands to call attention to the community's place in a system of geographically dispersed locations within the global political economy.

AbstractAdequate prediction of a response variable using a multiple linear regression model is shown in this article to be related to the presence of multicollinearities among the predictor variables. If strong multicollinearities are present in the data, this information can be used to determine when prediction is likely to be accurate. A region of prediction, R, is proposed as a guide for prediction purposes. This region is related to a prediction interval when the matrix of predictor variables is of full column rank, but it can also be used when the sample is undersized. The Gorman‐Toman ten‐variable data is used to illustrate the effectiveness of the region R.

By presenting joint analysis from three IEA-Bioenergy (hub of the International Energy Agency) subtasks on how to apply the know-how gained from bioenergy to develop a sustainable biobased economy, this book provides an understanding on how current markets will transition towards a global bioeconomy.

Today's youth will inherit a world made hazardous by greenhouse gases. As a general rule, those chiefly responsible for emitting these gases will be spared the full brunt of their effects. Age has become a clear fault line of this phenomenon: while today's adults will experience some impacts of these emissions, adolescents and future generations will face their full force in time. ; http://www.samj.org.za ; pm2020 ; Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology