The monitoring and modelling of the evolution of urban areas is increasingly attracting the attention of land managers and administration. New data, tools and methods are being developed and made available for a better understanding of these dynamic areas. We study and analyse the concept of landscape fragmentation by means of GIS and remote sensing techniques, particularly focused on urban are...

We extract the pion fragmentation functions and their uncertainties from a judicious choice of e + e − and semi-inclusive DIS data. These are used to study the error propagation in the extraction of polarized parton densities from semi-inclusive DIS asymmetries. We conclude that the uncertainties on polarized PDs have been underestimated in the past.

Zerumbone is a cytotoxic compound isolated from the herbal plant, Zingiber zerumbet Smith, which exhibits antitumor activity [1-2], anti-inflammatory effects and possesses anti-proliferative potentials in a variety of cell lines [3-4]. DNA fragmentation indicates an early event of apoptosis leading to cell death due to the absence of new cellular proteins synthesizing for cell survival. Previou...

background: although the effectiveness of ginger as an antioxidant agent has been exploited, little human research has been conducted on its activity on male reproductive functions. objective: this study was designed to investigate the effects of ginger (zingiber officinale) on sperm dna fragmentation (sdf) in infertile men. materials and methods: this randomized double-blind, placebo-controlle...

Land cover (LC) and land use (LU) dynamics induced by human and natural processes play a major role in global as well as regional patterns of landscapes influencing biodiversity, hydrology, ecology and climate. Changes in LC features resulting in forest fragmentations have posed direct threats to biodiversity, endangering the sustainability of ecological goods and services. Habitat fragmentatio...

BACKGROUND New Zealand's health system has long been seen as providing highly fragmented, poorly co-ordinated services to service users. A continuing policy challenge has been how to reduce such fragmentation and achieve more 'integrated' care, that is, 'co-ordinated' care that provides a 'smooth and continuous' transition between services, and a 'seamless' journey as service users receive heal...

BACKGROUND Research on gay and other men who have sex with men's (G/MSM) preferences for sexual healthcare services focuses largely on HIV testing and to some extent on sexually transmitted infections (STI). This research illustrates the frequency and location of where G/MSM interface with the healthcare system, but it does not speak to why men seek care in those locations. As HIV and STI preve...

We study the inclusive production of Λ (Λ̄) in several high energy collision processes (e+e−, e±p, ν(ν̄)p, pp), in view of an accurate determination of the unpolarized and polarized fragmentation functions of a quark into a Λ (Λ̄). For polarized fragmentation functions the inaccuracy and the scarcity of present data do not allow to distinguish between various theoretical models. We will indicate h...

The performance of a database can significantly deteriorate due to the fragmentation of data/index files. Manual database defragmentation and performance optimization remain time consuming and even infeasible as it requires knowledge of the complicated behavior of fragmentation and its relationships with system parameters. We propose a model-based detection and management framework for the data...

2011 I In ns st ti it tu ut te e o of f H He ea al lt th h & & S So oc ci ie et ty y La recherche-évaluation "réforme des soins de santé mentale" est commanditée par le 1. The issue: fragmentation and integration of care in mental health care delivery 4 References 6 2. A framework for evaluating public-sector organisational networks, the work of Provan and Milward 8 Network governance 11 Sustai...