Mediterranean mountains are sensitive agroecosystems that have suffered intense land use and cover changes (LULCC) during the last century. From middle of twentieth century, most cultivated lands in were abandoned, allowing recovery vegetation (through natural revegetation afforestation programmes). To examine effects farmland abandonment, secondary succession (natural revegetation) afforestati...

Arrival processes to queues often exhibit time dependence, but time-dependent queues are notoriously difficult to analyze. Usually one adopts some kind of steadystate approximation for time-dependent performance. We consider a range of queueing models that see wide use in practice, particularly in the modeling of service industry applications, and develop approximations for the error involved i...

Afforestation or abandonment of agricultural fields to forest regeneration is a method sequestering carbon offset the increasing atmospheric concentration CO2. We selected 11 sites with altitudes ranging from 14 2056 m and paired regenerated adjacent fields. Our objectives were (1) examine changes in soil organic (SOC) stock after (2) identify factors related elevation practices that affect SOC...

OBJECTIVE To calculate the abandonment rate of oral oncolytic medications and identify factors that may affect likelihood of abandonment. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional cohort study using administrative claims data. METHODS We analyzed a nationally representative pharmacy claims database and identified 10,508 patients with Medicare and commercial insurance for whom oral oncolytic therapy was ...

This paper examines the external influences on ERP project abandonment. The recent literature supposes that the adoption of ICT can be motivated by external institutional pressures, in a process called isomorphism. To gain legitimacy, some firms accept mimetic, coercive, and normative pressures arising from its organizational field to adopt some structures and technologies. Same process is expe...

Taking a landscape-based approach, the Aurifer Tagus project has demonstrated significance of gold mining in Roman province Lusitania. New radiocarbon dates reveal foundation, use and abandonment Covão do Urso Mina da Presa sites. Combined with ancient literature, this evidence sheds light on territory's organisation evolution its social structure.

The scope of this study was to analyze the events involved in preterm infant abandonment by their mothers. A qualitative study was carried out with 12 mothers of preterm infants interned in the NICU of the Federal University of Maranhão - Brazil. The techniques were semi-structured interviews and a focus group performed during internment and in follow-up in the outpatient unit. The sample was d...