Ecological restoration (ER) of terrestrial ecosystems has become widespread in past decades. However, assessing its success is complex mainly due to the diversity objectives pursued, actions undertaken but also statistical methods for treating data. We demonstrate here that, heterogeneity collected data, can be overestimated meta-analyses. advocate analyzing distinctly two types ER, those aimin...

Business digitalization is changing the competitive landscape in many industries. Digitally savvy customers are demanding more while threats of digital disruptions from new entrants are rising. The full article describes how DBS, a large Asian bank, responded to digital threats and opportunities by adopting a digital business strategy. It identifies the capabilities needed and provides lessons ...

We propose a new procurement procedure which allocates shares of the total amount to be procured depending on the bids of suppliers. Among the properties of the mechanism are: (i) Bidders have an incentive to participate in the procurement procedure, as equilibrium payoffs are strictly positive. (ii) The mechanism allows to vary the extent to which affirmative action objectives, like promoting ...

Extra-retinal information about eye velocity is thought to play an important role in compensating the retinal motion experienced during an eye movement. Evidently this compensation process is prone to error, since stimulus properties such as contrast and spatial frequency have marked effect on perceived motion with respect to the head. Here we investigate the suggestion, that 'optokinetic poten...

No single approach or simple combination of approaches will bring us an understanding of membrane transport, how it occurs, how it is driven and how it drives other processes. The particularity of the minds of individual investigators usually ensures that numerous attacks on a problem are undertaken, and also that these attacks are continued, and reapplied even after other investigators may hav...

The United States' pursuit of increasingly TRIPS-Plus levels of intellectual property protection for medicines in bilateral and regional trade agreements is well recognized. Less so, however, are U.S. efforts through these agreements to influence and constrain the pharmaceutical coverage programs of its trading partners. Although arguably unsuccessful in the Australia- U.S. Free Trade Agreement...