The study of language, linguistics, has been developing into a science since the first grammatical descriptions of particular languages in India more than 2000 years ago. Today, linguistics is a scien ...
In some cases, especially involving transnational migration, or colonial expansion, ethnicity is linked to nationality. Anthropologists and historians, following the modernist understanding of ethnici ...
The term ethnic is derived from the Greek word ?θνο? ethnos (more precisely, from the adjective ?θνικ?? ethnikos, which was loaned into Latin as ethnicus). The inherited English-language t ...
At present, the biological basis of ageing is unknown. The rate of ageing varies substantially across different species, and this, to a large extent, is genetically based. In model organisms and labor ...
Gender studies is a field of interdisciplinary study and academic field devoted to gender, gender identity and gendered representation as central categories of analysis. This field includes Women's st ...
Scholars generally regard gender as a social construct, and various researchers, including some feminists, consider sex to only be a matter of biology and something that is not about social or cultura ...
The modern English word gender comes from the Middle English gendre, a loanword from Norman-conquest-era Old French. This, in turn, came from Latin genus. Both words mean "kind", "type", or "sort". Th ...
A firm in the market economy survives by producing goods that persons are willing and able to buy. Consequently, ascertaining consumer demand is vital for a firm's future viability and even existence ...
The formation of public opinion starts with agenda setting by major media outlets throughout the world. This agenda setting dictates what is newsworthy and how and when it will be reported. The media ...
The global climate models used for climate projections are very similar in structure to (and often share computer code with) numerical models for weather prediction but are nonetheless logically disti ...
The initialism GCM stands originally for general circulation model. Recently, a second meaning has come into use, namely global climate model. While these do not refer to the same thing, General Circu ...
Sea ice is part of the Earth's biosphere. When sea water freezes, the ice is riddled with brine-filled channels which sustain sympagic organisms such as bacteria, algae, copepods and annelids, which i ...
Sea ice does not simply grow and melt. During its lifespan, it is very dynamic. Due to the combined action of winds, currents and air temperature fluctuations, sea ice expanses typically undergo a sig ...
The Hadley Centre maintains the HadCRUT4, a monthly-mean global surface temperature analysis, and NASA maintains GISTEMP, another monthly-mean global surface temperature analysis, for the period since ...
Carbon dioxide content in fresh air (averaged between sea-level and 10 kPa level, i.e., about 30 km altitude) varies between 0.036% (360 ppm) and 0.039% (390 ppm), depending on the location.CO2 is an ...
