Cuba not only is the most diverse country for the Porifera but also has the most unique sponge composition by far (Figure 7a).
Although not composed of various ethnic groups since its foundation, the Netherlands has been a diverse country for a long time.
Scotland is an interesting and diverse country for clinical trial recruitment and one would think that with a population of 5 000 000 and only five designated cancer centres, it would be possible to incorporate the majority of suitable or eligible patients into clinical trials or to offer the optimal and best designed treatments.
We assess whether associations of specific mental disorders with diabetes are consistent across diverse countries after controlling for age and gender.
Overall, our results are consistent with other studies that pointed out that life satisfaction is positively associated with most of the prudent health behaviours across culturally diverse countries, with effects strong for psychical exercise, intermediate for fruit intake and lower but significant for cigarette smoking and dietary fat avoidance [ 16].
He was also widely criticized for appointing an all-white, all-male cabinet in one of the most culturally diverse countries in the world and for folding the Ministry of Women, Racial Equality and Human Rights into the Ministry of Justice.
Malians need a consensual political formula for governing their diverse country, and for creating a system based on sustainable development and not a scramble for personal riches, licit and illicit.
In order to test this hypothesis, and following the many studies done for diverse countries,6 and in particular the work of Guiso et al. (2003), we regress stockownership on a series of variables including income, wealth and education.
Similarly the attention placed on supporting country education assessment systems is important as it suggests that there is not a one-size fits all solution and that diverse countries will have different priorities for effectively improving assessment and learning (depending on what they have in place already).
The enlargement of the EU to the current 27 very diverse countries has provided further arguments for European wide policies aimed at enabling all people, independently of where they live, to benefit from the opportunities created by the Union (Barca 2009).
In a recent study by Kato et al. [50], 39 samples of house dust that had been collected in diverse countries worldwide in 2004 were tested for concentrations of 17 PFCs.
