Are ecosystem services adequately quantified?

Ecosystem services

Humans have always depended on nature for environmental assets like clean water, nutrient cycling and soil formation. These have been called by different names through human history, but are presently gaining global attention as 'ecosystem services'. Gretchen Daily defines ecosystem services as " the conditions and processes through which natural ecosystems, and the species that make them up, s...

Quantified Matchmaking of Heterogeneous Services

As the service-oriented computing paradigm and its related technologies mature, it is expected that electronic services will continue to grow in numbers. In such a setting, the course of service discovery could yield many alternative yet heterogeneous services which, by all means, may be of different type and moreover distinguished by their quality characteristics. To come through such situatio...

Managing for Ecosystem Services and Livestock Production: Are There Tradeoffs?

Are women adequately informed before gynaecological surgery?

BACKGROUND Surgery for pelvic organ prolapse, urinary incontinence, and hysterectomy are the most common gynaecological surgeries that can affect the function of the bladder and bowel as well as one's sexual life. There is evidence that adequate patient information given preoperatively regarding expected outcomes of surgery is important because well-informed patients are more satisfied with the...

Are families of diabetic children adequately taught?