scholarly journals Is There a Genetic Correlation Between General Factors of Intelligence and Personality?

2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 234-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
John C. Loehlin ◽  
Meike Bartels ◽  
Dorret I. Boomsma ◽  
Denis Bratko ◽  
Nicholas G. Martin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Genetic Correlation ◽  
Human Evolution ◽  
Model Fitting ◽  
The United States ◽  
Dizygotic Twin ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
The U.S

We tested a hypothesis that there is no genetic correlation between general factors of intelligence and personality, despite both having been selected for in human evolution. This was done using twin samples from Australia, the United States, the Netherlands, Great Britain, and Croatia, comprising altogether 1,748 monozygotic and 1,329 same-sex dizygotic twin pairs. Although parameters in the model-fitting differed among the twin samples, the genetic correlation between the two general factors could be set to zero, with a better fit if the U.S. sample was excepted.

Counterterrorism Between the Wars

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary S. Barton
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Domestic Politics ◽  
The United States ◽  
League Of Nations ◽  
Great Powers ◽  
Common Interests ◽  
Independence Movements ◽  
Second World ◽  
The U.S

This is a book about terrorism, weapons, and diplomacy in the interwar years between the First and Second World Wars. It charts the convergence of the manufacture and trade of arms; diplomacy among the Great Powers and the domestic politics within them; the rise of national liberation and independence movements; and the burgeoning concept and early institutions of international counterterrorism. Key themes include: a transformation in meaning and practice of terrorism; the inability of Great Powers—namely, Great Britain, the United States, France—to harmonize perceptions of interest and the pursuit of common interests; the establishment of the tools and infrastructure of modern intelligence—including the U.S.-U.K. cooperation that would evolve into the Five Eyes intelligence alliance; and the nature of peacetime in the absence of major wars. Particular emphasis is given to British attempts to quell revolutionary nationalist movements in India and elsewhere in its empire, and to the Great Powers’ combined efforts to counter the activities of the Communist International. The facilitating roles of the Paris Peace Conference and League of Nations are explored here, in the context of the Arms Traffic Convention of 1919, the Arms Traffic Conference of 1925, and the 1937 Terrorism Convention.

scholarly journals Sex Differences in the Heritability of Resilience

2008 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason D. Boardman ◽  
Casey L. Blalock ◽  
Tanya M. M. Button
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Positive Affect ◽  
Psychological Functioning ◽  
The United States ◽  
Psychological Resilience ◽  
Dizygotic Twin ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Environmental Mastery ◽  
Exhaustive List

AbstractWe examine the heritability of psychological resilience among US adults aged 25 to 74 years. Using monozygotic and same sex dizygotic twin pairs from the National Survey of Mid-Life Development in the United States (MIDUS) we show that positive affect is equally heritable among men (h2= .60) and women (h2= .59). We then estimate the heritability of positive affect after controlling for an exhaustive list of social and inter-personal stressors, and we operationalize the residual for positive affect as resilience. According to this specification, the heritability of resilience is higher among men (h2= .52) compared to women (h2= .38). We show that self-acceptance is one of the most important aspects of psychological functioning that accounts for the heritability of resilience among both men and women. However, compared to women, men appear to derive additional benefits from environmental mastery that may enable otherwise sex-neutral resilient tendencies to manifest.

scholarly journals An International Conference on the Protection of Nature

Oryx ◽  
1953 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 150-154
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
The United States ◽  
International Union ◽  
International Conference ◽  
The Third

The third technical meeting of the International Union for the Protection of Nature was held in Salzburg from 15th to 20th September, the last two days being occupied by excursions in which the majority of delegates took part. The term delegates is used though it is not strictly correct, for participants attended the conference as individuals only. Twelve countries were represented: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Yugoslavia. Unfortunately there was nobody from the United States, a great supporter of the Union, but papers and information from America helped to fill this gap.

scholarly journals Same-Sex Marriage: Exploring the Implications of Obergefell v Hodges on the Philippines’ Muslim Law of Marriage and the 1987 Constitution

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-227
Author(s):  
Norhabib Bin Suod Sumndad Barodi
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Legal System ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
Academic Effort ◽  
Traditional Definition ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The U.S

In view of the recent development brought about by the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in Obergefell v. Hodges, jurisdictions that retain the traditional definition of marriage have sufficient reasons to revisit the concept of marriage under their own laws. This article is an academic effort to explore whether the traditional or historic definition of marriage adopted in the Philippines, as articulated in its Constitution and other pertinent laws like the Code of Muslim Personal Laws of the Philippines can withstand the new norm that Obergefell established in the legal system or constitutionalism of the United States. It attempts to project how the issue of same-sex marriage would be treated and decided in the Philippine context had it been an issue for which the Philippine legal system or constitutionalism is made to respond. This article emphasizes the incompatibility of the Obergefell decision with the Islamic definition of marriage and finds that the same decision is not entirely square with how the issue of same-sex marriage will be dealt with in Philippine constitutionalism.

Citizen Concerns and Public Awareness: Metrication Examples

1996 ◽  
Vol 1552 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-102
Author(s):  
Daniel S. Turner ◽  
Jay K. Lindly ◽  
Rodney N. Chester
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Public Education ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
The United States ◽  
Conversion Experience ◽  
Rule Making ◽  
The U.S

The United States is in the process of implementing the metric system. U.S. highway agencies are among the leaders in this effort. One troublesome aspect of being in the lead is that there appears to be no coordinated national public relations program to set the stage for the conversion. Several metric conversion experiences, those in Canada, Australia, and Great Britain, an Ohio research project, and the recent FHWA rule making for sign conversion, are reviewed to determine public awareness and citizen concerns. The conclusions drawn from those studies reinforce the need for an overall, well-coordinated, strong national public education program. Examples illustrate that success is possible (Canada and Australia) with such a program, but without it metrication can grind to an incomplete halt (Great Britain). Currently, the U.S. experience seems to most closely resemble the British metric conversion experience.

Simulation of Aflatoxin Testing Plans for Shelled Peanuts in the United States and in the Export Market

1989 ◽  
Vol 72 (4) ◽  
pp. 644-648 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas B Whitaker ◽  
W J Dickens
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Computer Models ◽  
The United States ◽  
Export Market ◽  
Total Aflatoxin ◽  
Testing Plan ◽  
The U.S

Abstract The 1987 United States aflatoxin testing plan for shelled peanuts was designed with a final accept level of 25 parts per billion (ppb) total aflatoxin. Some of the importers of U.S. peanuts use aflatoxin testing plans with accept levels lower than 25 ppb. For example, the accept level of a testing plan used in The Netherlands is 5 ppb Bi or 10 ppb total aflatoxin. Whenever export lots are re-tested for aflatoxin by an importing country, some lots accepted in the United States will be rejected by the importing country's aflatoxin testing plan. Computer models were developed to determine the effects of decreasing the final accept level of the U.S. testing plan on the number of lots accepted and rejected in the United States and the number of exported lots accepted and rejected by The Netherlands testing plan. Decreasing the final accept level of the U.S. testing plan from 25 to 5 ppb increased the number of lots rejected in the United States by 371% while reducing the number of exported lots rejected by 51%. For every additional 8.3 lots rejected in the United States, one less export lot will be rejected.

The International Opium Commission

1909 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 648-673 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamilton Wright
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
The United States ◽  
The World

The International Opium Commission proposed by the United States and accepted by Austria-Hungary, China, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Persia, Portugal, Russia, and Siam convened at Shanghai on the 1st of last February, completed its study of the opium problem throughout the world, and based on that study, issued nine unanimous declarations. The Commission adjourned on February 27th.

Twenty-five years of Norwegian sovereignty in Svalbard, 1925–50

Polar Record ◽  
1951 ◽  
Vol 6 (42) ◽  
pp. 179-184
Author(s):  
Anders K. Orvin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
South Africa ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
White Island

By a treaty signed in Paris on 9 February 1920, Norway was given the sovereignty of Svalbard, comprising all the islands situated between longs. 10° and 35° E. and lats. 74° and 81° N., thus including Spitsbergen, Bjørnøya (Bear Island), Hopen (Hope Island), Kong Karls Land, and Kvitøya (White Island). The treaty, which has since been recognized by a number of other states, was signed by the United States of America, Denmark, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Great Britain and Ireland, the Dominions of Canada and New Zealand, the Union of South Africa, India, and Sweden. The U.S.S.R. recognized Norway's sovereignty of Svalbard in 1924 but did not sign the treaty until 1935; Germany signed the treaty in 1925. On 14 August 1925, Norway formally took possession and the Norwegian flag was hoisted in Longyearbyen. Since then, twenty-five years have elapsed, and in honour of the occasion the anniversary was celebrated at Longyearbyen in 1950.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document