One of the largest threats to biodiversity is land use change and habitat loss. Hollow oaks (Quercus spp. L.) are well-defined patches that are hotspots for biodiversity and red-listed species, but they are often rare and fragmented in the landscape. We investigated the effect of patch size, habitat quality, and isolation on functional groups and red-listed saproxylic beetles in hollow oaks (n ...

In human in-vitro fertilization (IVF)-embryo transfer, the in-vitro culture environment differs from in-vivo conditions in that the oxygen concentration is higher, and in such conditions the mouse embryos show a higher concentration of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in simple culture media. ROS are believed to cause damage to cell membranes and DNA fragmentation in somatic cells. This study was ...

I defend the epistemic thesis that evaluations of people in terms of their moral character as good, bad, or intermediate are almost always epistemically unjustified. (1) Because most people are fragmented (they would behave deplorably in many and admirably in many other situations), one’s prior probability that any given person is fragmented should be high. (2) Because one’s information about s...

Unfortunately, the authors have missed our 2 publications on this topic which have been tested in a larger population of CD patients with an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) (FECHA study) [2,3]. We included 98 patients from 14 centers in Latin America, all of them with CD cardiomyopathy and an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD). The mean follow-up was 33±20 months. Mean LV...

(EN) We describe an ongoing research project on efficient methods for identification and reconstruction of broken objects among large collections of irregular fragments. Applications include archaeology, art restoration, failure analysis, and other disciplines. Our solution for flat objects uses multi-scale matching and constrained dynamic programming. We are now extending it to curved pottery ...

Retrenchment is presented in a simple relational framework as a more flexible development concept than refinement for capturing the early preformal stages of development, and briefly justified. Fragmented retrenchment permits the granularity of actions to decrease across a development step, many concrete steps retrenching a single abstract one. This generates the usual proliferation of inter-le...

Coarctate reactions are defined as reactions that include atoms at which two bonds are made and two bonds are broken simultaneously. In the pursuit of the discovery of new coarctate reactions we investigate the fragmentation reactions of cyclic ketals. Three ketals with different ring sizes derived from indan-2-one were decomposed by photolysis and pyrolysis. Particularly clean is the photolysi...

General systems theory (GST) holds the potential to address some of the issues that information systems (IS) field faces today. This paper addresses the question whether the concepts, principles and approaches prevalent in GST can be gainfully employed for studying and conducting research in IS. Using the concepts embedded in GST, we analyze the problem of “fragmented adhocracy” in IS research....