Safeguarding the rare woodland species Gagea spathacea : Understanding habitat requirements is not sufficient

Impacts of Woodland Fragmentation on Species’ Occurrences – The Combination of a Habitat Model with Landscape Metrics

Policy Capacity Is Necessary but Not Sufficient; Comment on “Health Reform Requires Policy Capacity”

Policy capacity focuses on the managerial and organizational abilities to inform policy decisions with sound research and analysis, and facilitate policy implementation with operational efficiency. It stems from a view of the policy process that is rational and positivistic, in which optimal policy choices can be identified, selected, and implemented with objectivity. By itself, however, policy...

Why is it not Sufficient to Model Requirements Variability with Feature Models ?

Variability is a central concept in software productline engineering. Feature Models are a well accepted technique to model variants and invariants within the automotive industry. Feature models are able to express variability through mandatory, optional, and alternative features of a product. Unfortunately the variability information is localised in the feature models and difficult to transfer...

Predicting Landscape-Genetic Consequences of Habitat Loss, Fragmentation and Mobility for Multiple Species of Woodland Birds

Inference concerning the impact of habitat fragmentation on dispersal and gene flow is a key theme in landscape genetics. Recently, the ability of established approaches to identify reliably the differential effects of landscape structure (e.g. land-cover composition, remnant vegetation configuration and extent) on the mobility of organisms has been questioned. More explicit methods of predicti...

Concealing Block Sizes Is Not Sufficient

correctly noted that blocked randomiza-tion has a disadvantage that " the executer can predict the next assignment " and this is clearly incompatible with allocation concealment. So we can agree that permuted blocks with a fixed block size should never be used in ran-domized trials. 2) But what is the solution to this problem? Kim and Shin 1) indicated that " To solve this problem, the allocato...