Opportunistic Germination Behaviour of Gypsophila (Caryophyllaceae) in Two Priority Habitats from Semi-arid Mediterranean Steppes

Gypsophila tomentosa and G.struthium are closely related species, characteristic of two European priority habitats, salt and gypsum inland steppes, respectively.Germination strategies of the two taxa were investigated in plants from two nearby populations, growing under the same climatic conditions but on different types of soil, and belonging to d

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Property is only another name for monopoly

Objective: to consider the possibility of a property tax promoting allocative efficiency without losses to investment efficiency.Methods: dialectical approach to the Walking Belt cognition of social phenomena, enabling to analyze them in their historical development and functioning in the context of a set of objective and subjective factors, which

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Generalized Multi-Scale Stochastic Reservoir Opportunity Index for enhanced well placement optimization under uncertainty in green and brownfields

Well placement planning is one of the challenging issues in any field development plan.Reservoir engineers always confront the problem that which point of the field should be drilled to Hair Pins achieve the highest recovery factor and/or maximum sweep efficiency.In this paper, we use Reservoir Opportunity Index (ROI) as a spatial measure of produc

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Environmental factors and primary prevention in type 1 diabetes

The incidence of type 1 diabetes has been increasing rapidly among children in most European countries over the last decades.Despite of the known strong genetic component in the disease Cookie Jar only environmental factors can explain such a rapid change.The increase in incidence has been most conspicuous in the youngest age group, which emphasize

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