Proponents of free trade say such overhauls could transform the Japanese economy for the better, making insular industries more competitive.
Moreover, population constraints such as isolation, sedentary habits, high density and a reduction in genetic diversity make insular organisms especially susceptible to infection [22] [25].
Within this framework, the characteristics inherent to insular populations (see below) could make insular scavengers especially vulnerable to the arrival of new pathogens mainly associated with the increasing mobility of livestock [15].
Nonetheless, the formerly protected domestic market has made them insular.
Further, in studies of decision making the insular cortex is more often associated with negative than positive emotions.
The Yazidis are a tiny, beleaguered, resilient minority in a hostile land, and a history of oppression has made them insular.
He took the labouring oar in starting Tate Liverpool and succeeded in making an insular institution more European in its reach.
We'd sit around during the read-throughs and be like, 'I don't think she would say that.' " Mr. Leight said that the relationship between Ms. Pill and Ms. Treem at times made them "insular" and cryptic.
Upheaval and pain make you insular, and a good way to attenuate their effect is to look outwards: to find the energy and the curiosity to engage with the wider world again.
The first describes the experience of living in a society that has been made less insular and more vibrant through mass immigration, the second a set of political policies, the aim of which is to manage diversity by putting people into ethnic boxes, and using those boxes to shape public policy.
