Summary and Perspectives

Summary, Discussion and Perspectives

Summary And Future Perspectives

161 Despite the rising popularity of guided surgery and immediate loading, profound scientific evidence is lacking to support this approach in dental implant treatment. Nevertheless, the possible advantages of guided surgery protocols such as flapless and minimally invasive surgery, protection of vital anatomical structures, and immediate restoration have been extensively highlighted as marketi...

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Biodiversity and landscape—summary, conclusions and perspectives

Based on the contributions in this special issue and further references approaches to indicate biodiversity at the landscape scale are summarized and discussed. The complexity of biodiversity, its levels of aggregation and its specific relations to “natural” and “anthropogenic” environmental conditions depending on spatio-temporal scales are emphasized. The necessity of further research is stre...

Clay-polymer Interactions: Summary and Perspectives

-The adsorption of uncharged polymers by clays is largely "entropy-driven." Polymer conformation changes from a random coil in solution to an extended form at the surface in which adsorbed polymer segments or trains alternate with loops and tails extending away from the surface. Although the net interaction energy, e, per segment-surface contact is small (--1 kT unit), the total energy of adsor...