Solar, for instance, is less useful in the long dark night of the northern winter.Washington Post (Aug 14, 2015) sol (sun) + ar (suffix forming adjectives) As the roots and definition show, the word should be an adjective, but the example sentence uses it as a shortened form of the noun phrase solar energy..
Disproportionality is the overrepresentation of a particular race or cultural group in a program or system compared to their representation in the general population. Disproportionality affects all systems such as the educational, mental health and judicial systems creating additional costs within these areas.
There are three types of dispersion patterns. Clumped dispersion is when individuals in a population are clustered together, creating some patches with many individuals and some patches with no individuals. In uniform dispersion, individuals are spaced evenly throughout an area. And in random dispersion, individuals are arranged without any apparent pattern. In natural populations, random dispersion is rare, while clumped dispersion, which we'll focus on in this lesson, is the most common pattern. Clumped dispersion is often due to an uneven distribution of nutrients or other resources in the environment.