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Jakub Bielawski, Marcin Jakubek
We study the migrants' assimilation, which we conceptualize as forming human capital productive on the labor market of a developed host country, and we link the observed frequent lack of assimilation with the relative deprivation that the migrants start to feel when they move in social space towards the natives. In…
Jia Xing, Siwei Li, Dian Ding, James T. Kelly + 4 more
'Carey Jang' 'Yun Zhu' 'Jiming Hao'] Data assimilation for multiple air pollutant concentrations has become an important need for modeling air quality attainment, human exposure and related health impacts, especially in China that experiences both PM2.5 and O3 pollution. Traditional data assimilation or fusion methods…
Ian Stewart, René Leyva Flores, Tim Riffe, Ingmar Weber + 1 more
'Emilio Zagheni'] The degree to which Mexican immigrants in the U.S. are assimilating culturally has been widely debated. To examine this question, we focus on musical taste, a key symbolic resource that signals the social positions of individuals. We adapt an assimilation metric from earlier work to analyze…
Li Fang, Xiwu Zhan, Christopher R. Hain, Jifu Yin + 2 more
'Mitchell A. Schull'] Recent studies have shown the unique value of satellite-observed land surface thermal infrared (TIR) information (e.g., skin temperature) and the feasibility of assimilating land surface temperature (LST) into land surface models (LSMs) to improve the simulation of land-atmosphere water and energy…
Youngja Nam, James H. Smith-Spark
The Perceptual Assimilation Model (PAM)-L2 framework posits that the discriminability of L2 speech contrasts can be predicted from how L2 phones are assimilated to L1 categories. This study examined how such assimilation types relate to variability in L2 vowel discrimination within the PAM-L2 framework, with particular…
Ken Nishikawa, Akira R. Kinjo
Conrad H. Waddington discovered the phenomenon of genetic assimilation through a serflies of experiments on fruit flies. In those experiments, artificially exerted environmental stress induced plastic phenotypic changes in the fruit flies, but after some generations the same phenotypic mutant started to appear without…
Ji-Hyun Kim, Dooyoung Jung, Junsuk Kim, Sung-Phil Kim
This study investigated neural activity related to the assimilation effect in the perception of vibrotactile stimuli. The assimilation effect refers to a tactile perceptual bias in which the perception of the vibrotactile frequency on one finger is biased towards a distracting vibrotactile stimulus targeting other…
Piaopiao Chen, Jianzhi Zhang
Genetic assimilation is the evolutionary process by which an environmentally induced phenotype becomes genetically encoded and constitutive. Genetic assimilation has been proposed as the concluding step in the plasticity-first model of environmental adaptation and has been observed in multiple species, but its…
Dafeng Xu, Zhengbing He
I now report the empirical results of this paper. In [pone.0194296.t002], I report odds ratios of simple logit models, in which I regress public transit ridership only on the length of stay in the U.S. using the immigrant sample. Column 1 presents evidence of transportation assimilation: public transit ridership…
Sarah Ruth Marzec, Katharine Pelletier, Amy Hui-Pin Chang, Ian Dworkin
Over 65 years ago, Waddington demonstrated ancestrally phenotypically plastic traits can evolve to become constitutive, a process he termed genetic assimilation. Genetic assimilation evolves rapidly, assumed to be in large part due to segregating genetic variation only expressed in rare/novel environments, but…
Alex Mesoudi
How do migration and acculturation (i.e. psychological or behavioral change resulting from migration) affect within- and between-group cultural variation? Here I answer this question by drawing analogies between genetic and cultural evolution. Population genetic models show that migration rapidly breaks down…
Antoine Dubois, Emilio Zagheni, Kiran Garimella, Ingmar Weber
Migrant assimilation is a major challenge for European societies, in part because of the sudden surge of refugees in recent years and in part because of long-term demographic trends. In this paper, we use Facebook data for advertisers to study the levels of assimilation of Arabic-speaking migrants in Germany, as seen…
Jieyi Hu, Chau Kiu Jacky Cheung
Social identity formation is crucial for psychosocial development, particularly in the case of migrating adults. A body of research exploring how social identity influences social integration among migrants shows that social identity affects social integration through a range of moderators and procedures. This study…
Daniel Woldeab, Robert M. Yawson, Irina M. Woldeab
Immigration to the United States is certainly not a new phenomenon, and it is therefore natural for immigration, culture and identity to be given due attention by the public and policy makers. However, current discussion of immigration, legal and illegal, and the philosophical underpinnings is 'lost in translation'…
Özlem Belçim Galip
Sexist and misogynist attitudes towards actresses in the mainstream film industry and other media have been the target of feminists for decades. Stigmatized and stereotyped images of immigrants on the screen have also been scrutinized. However, very little attention has been given to the ways in which actresses with…