The study area, one of the most active deforestation frontiers of South American dry forest, was divided into six relatively homogeneous sectors in terms of land property structure and biophysical characteristics.
Empirical (Hallatschek et al. 2007) and simulation (Excoffier and Ray 2008) studies on spatial genetic patterns for a single locus, have recently demonstrated that gene surfing can cause the emergence of genetically homogeneous sectors and thus of a between-sector genetic differentiation.
This paper argues that a number of structural characteristics that emerged as a function of the transition to mass higher education have served to stymie the development of government quality assurance mechanisms, including the decentralization of higher education policy, the development of a relatively homogeneous university sector, and the limited policy capacity of provincial ministries.
Furthermore in such studies, the conversion of monetary values to energy values is often not required, eliminating the assumption of sector homogeneity, as energy values are not determined from homogeneous energy prices.
The charity leaders were clear in the core belief that the charitable sector was "not homogeneous" and, because of that, different charities had different needs and would have different ways of raising money.
For the centre-left Guardian they sum up "late 20th-century Britain: an economy increasingly dominated by women, the growth of the service sector and a homogeneous global culture".
In other words, in the traditional sector, outcomes are homogeneous and individual productivity does not affect to the output.
The use of Infomap on these statistically validated networks gives a partition in communities, which are extremely homogeneous in terms of economic sector.
Analysis of voluntary cooperatives shows that their success is based on the existence of certain core conditions including relatively small homogeneous groups of players, secure sector-allocated and divisible rights, and the ability to form binding contracts among coop members.
Weighting areas representing more homogeneous units, in which census sectors considered subnormal – favela areas – were grouped in specific units, nonetheless representing the boundaries of neighbourhoods and administrative regions in the municipality.
