The status of generalist versus specialist, for each algorithm, can be discussed using the local performance criteria Sself and Sacross, which are conceived to measure within-single-studies and generalizable prediction performances.
These experts have mainly retired or died off, and the remaining cadre have now been relegated to the status of "generalists," a little of everything.
These results, together with previous in vitro studies suggest that even with host specialization, WNV may retain its status as a generalist [11].
We used the Calflora database (www.calflora.org) to determine native, wetland generalist or non-native species status of each species and found that Dodder parasitism was associated with vernal pool endemics (versus wetland generalists or non-native species; χ= 4.8, df = 2, P = 0.028).
Not needing to go to a generalist may be a kind of social status in some communities.
Butterfly abundance, for both specialist and generalist species (based on common versus rare status), has also decreased significantly during this time period within the study region [ 15].
Illness management was defined broadly as a measure of the patient's efforts at self-care and an illness status indicator, including visits to the generalist and the specialist, the use of telephone health line in the last 12 months, self-rated general health, mental health, and a measure of psychological distress.
Such countries as Great Britain reinforced the traditional ideas of general medical practice by making the general practitioner the entry point to the health care system; however, even in these countries, medical education and social status tended to favour specialists over generalists.
This phenomenon, that younger, better-educated patients who have diseases of longer duration but slightly better overall health status are more prevalent in specialist practices than in generalist practices is well know in the literature[ 14].
An obvious hypothesis that has not yet been rigorously tested is that some monolithic factors such as the family's socioeconomic status or school quality might be responsible for these generalist shared-environmental effects.
