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They reinforced the importance of globally coherent Internet operations, and warned against Internet fragmentation at a national level.

It's fragmentation at best.

The effects of land - use change on species through landscape fragmentation at the regional scale may further exacerbate impacts from climate change (Holman et al., 2005a; Del Barrio et al., 2006; Harrison et al., 2006; Rounsevell et al., 2006).

This is an overestimate of the true gene number due to overprediction, unrecognized transposable elements and gene fragmentation at contig or scaffold boundaries.

The recovered DNA sequences exhibited signatures of postmortem DNA damage typical of ancient DNA, with preferential fragmentation at purines and inflated rates of cytosine deamination at single - stranded overhangs (19, 20).

Picente also opposed fragmentation at the state level and called for an end to having the county in parts of two Senate Districts.

A spokesperson for Corbyn said: «Rebuilding Labour support after its fragmentation at the 2015 election was always going to be a challenge.

She also warned that efforts to devolve responsibilities within the railway industry has «caused fragmentation at a time when we need to be more integrated» and may act as a barrier to the sharing of information, ideas and data.

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«We expect further fragmentation of the political landscape, and, as a result, difficulties in forming a new government coalition,» economists at Rabobank told CNBC via email.

BRUSSELS - Participation by ECB Board member Pentti Hakkarainen in a panel discussion on «Risks of International Fragmentation» at the 2018 European Bank Executive Committee Forum organised by BNP Paribas in Brussels, Belgium 1300 GMT.

These risks and uncertainties include competition and other economic conditions including fragmentation of the media landscape and competition from other media alternatives; changes in advertising demand, circulation levels and audience shares; the Company's ability to develop and grow its online businesses; the Company's reliance on revenue from printing and distributing third - party publications; changes in newsprint prices; macroeconomic trends and conditions; the Company's ability to adapt to technological changes; the Company's ability to realize benefits or synergies from acquisitions or divestitures or to operate its businesses effectively following acquisitions or divestitures; the Company's success in implementing expense mitigation efforts; the Company's reliance on third - party vendors for various services; adverse results from litigation, governmental investigations or tax - related proceedings or audits; the Company's ability to attract and retain employees; the Company's ability to satisfy pension and other postretirement employee benefit obligations; changes in accounting standards; the effect of labor strikes, lockouts and labor negotiations; regulatory and judicial rulings; the Company's indebtedness and ability to comply with debt covenants applicable to its debt facilities; the Company's ability to satisfy future capital and liquidity requirements; the Company's ability to access the credit and capital markets at the times and in the amounts needed and on acceptable terms; and other events beyond the Company's control that may result in unexpected adverse operating results.

John Mauldin: The author of Thoughts from The Frontline who has dedicated more than 30 years of his life to keeping people informed about risk, John has written at length about the fragmentation of society and the changing nature of employment.

Predictions For Local Search In 2012 — Year of the Dragon — Over at Search Engine Land, Chris Silver Smith lays out his predictions for 2012 as far as local search is concerned (hint: more fragmentation).

In a «Globes» interview today, Tal Inbar, head of the Space Research Center at the Fisher Institute for Air & Space Strategic Studies, stated, «The backbone of Hamas's missile batteries is the Grad missile, a standard 122 - mm rocket with a 20 - 40 km range and a metal fragmentation warhead designed to cause casualties.»

Still, the biggest winner appears to be Hezbollah and its allies, who look set to scoop up at least some of the seats lost by Hariri's coalition, largely because of the expected fragmentation of the Sunni vote.

Before the Western Roman Empire slid into decay and fragmentation in the 5th century, it had lived out many of its glory years looking over its shoulder at Constantinople, wary of a rival that could exceed it in beauty and power.

What at an earlier stage could be regarded as fruitful tension now appears as destructive fragmentation.

The internal struggle of the last two decades has resulted not in fragmentation, but realignment: Jerry Falwell, a bitter foe of the old, moderate «dominated SBC, was a voting delegate at last year's convention.

The common habit of using the Bible by concentrating on one verse at a time (which may or may not be a complete sentence) is at best a very slow, plodding way to get at the author's main points, rather like playing dominoes or checkers at the rate of one or two moves per day or per week, and at worst a fragmentation and distortion.

Widespread Christian observance within Christendom not only survived the fragmentation of the church at the Reformation but even seemed to show a new burst of vitality.

Hartshorne's trust in the wholeness of reason and the wholeness of man in the universe is a refreshing reminder that man may at least still hope that alienation and fragmentation are not the final descriptions of his existence.

At stake could be the possibility of assembling a common assault on social incivility and fragmentation.

In newly independent nations, there seems to be at first a pattern of cooperation followed by fragmentation.

Diversity often leads to fragmentation of life, conflict and confusion, at best, to a sullen co-existence.

He has also taken a look at the Indian market, where yoghurt is already a staple food, but says the fragmentation of retailers makes distribution more difficult.

Touring my state on a consulting contract, I was shocked at the low level of professional knowledge of breastfeeding, and even more disturbed by the fragmentation of maternal and child health services.

Bodin also noted that any division of sovereignty tended to generate fragmentation and, in the end, lead to its reconstitution at another level.

We've said very clearly is that the industry because of its fragmentation introduces a lot of extra costs, we need to look at that.

That fragmentation of society is, for me, the spectre of broken Britain and it is one that we should worry about hastening at our peril.

«The political stalemate at the centre, and the fragmentation of the traditional party system, has left us with a set of polls incapable of telling what will ultimately happen, when there are so many potential scenarios.

At the Gladstone, cardiovascular scientist Robert Mahley, working with a team including neuroscientist Yadong Huang, has identified small «corrector» molecules that modify the structure of ApoE4 protein to one more like that of ApoE3, thereby reducing abnormal fragmentation.

«They give the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service a place at the table for siting decisions; they help protect sites with high potential risk for birds; and they minimize habitat fragmentation.»

The team of researchers highlights the need to tackle at least the following three areas of research for the rest of the felids: differentiating habitat loss from the effects of fragmentation using theoretical scenarios; selecting priority areas for conservation, and analysing the consequences of habitat loss.

With the three - year grant, Vanapalli and his collaborators Boyd Butler in the Department of Biological Sciences and Everardo Cobos at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, will build microfluidic devices that mimic blood flow to study how tumor cells move inside capillaries, how they squeeze through tight spaces, whether they are subject to fragmentation and how they become stuck.

Dr Nicolás Gálvez, now a lecturer at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, commented: «Land subdivision and fragmentation have a far bigger impact on güiña survival.

It's just amazing that, you know, you could capture that much information and it's interesting in the scientific perspective because what we are finding right now with issues like climate change and conservation is that we really need fine - grained samples from very large geographic areas to really understand the dynamics of species range movements and how fragmentation is occurring and many biogeographic questions, and literally, the only way we can do this is through voluntary networks like this because it would cost billions and billions to send professionals out at that finer scale to understand it.

The finding, reported in today's Nature, suggests that although fig trees may require a relatively large area to reproduce successfully, they also may be better than other trees at coping with isolation or habitat fragmentation.

Lead author Winston Vickers, an associate veterinarian with the UC Davis Wildlife Health Center at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, said fragmentation of mountain lion populations by highways is happening to a serious degree in the Santa Ana mountain range, as well as elsewhere in Southern California, such as the Santa Monica Mountains.

At present, fertility experts examine embryos under a microscope, looking at potential indicators of health of the embryo such as the number and symmetry of cells, and degrees of cell fragmentatioAt present, fertility experts examine embryos under a microscope, looking at potential indicators of health of the embryo such as the number and symmetry of cells, and degrees of cell fragmentatioat potential indicators of health of the embryo such as the number and symmetry of cells, and degrees of cell fragmentation.

A particularly fascinating aspect of the percolation theory is that this universal size distribution is, at the critical point, independent of the small - scale mechanisms that led to fragmentation.

When comparing between four size classes, two microplastic < 4.75 mm and meso - and macroplastic > 4.75 mm, a tremendous loss of microplastics is observed from the sea surface compared to expected rates of fragmentation, suggesting there are mechanisms at play that remove < 4.75 mm plastic particles from the ocean surface.

Morphologic examination of the Hoechst - stained cell preparations at 16 hours after treatment with 20 nmol / L rapamycin showed morphologic evidence of apoptosis, such as nuclear condensation and fragmentation in ALCL cells (A, bottom right).

Alternatively, turbulence or charging effects might lead to a reservoir of small grains at the surface layer that is not affected by the dust growth and fragmentation cycle dominating the dense disk midplane.

Set up to overcome the siloing, fragmentation and inaccessibility of datasets from different projects, it links omics data with phenotypic data and information in registries and biobanks at both an individual ‐ patient and whole ‐ cohort level to enable researchers to analyse their own data and gain a complete view of their disease and patient population of interest.

«We found that fragmentation of the circadian rhythm — meaning when someone had frequent short periods of rest or sleep during the day, and frequent brief periods of activity at night — was associated with preclinical Alzheimer's disease,» said Dr. Yo - El S. Ju of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

Chelsea Reynolds, an assistant professor of communications at California State University, Fullerton, who researches dating behavior, said the fragmentation of online dating markets is a trend that has been building for years.

Curriculum — Compulsory EBacc for all; SAT resits for 11 year olds who don't receive a level 4 at primary school; continued fragmentation of levels.

The car received PAS 300 certification after undergoing testing that involved getting fired at by different types of ammunition and exposing itself to blast and fragmentation threats.

It is quite a paradox that the Internet is the greatest historical tool ever invented — all the information at your fingertips — and yet the methodology of our modern technologies is all about speed and motion and the fragmentation of our multi-tasking minds.

And thanks to Android fragmentation, only five are available from the Android Market on a Xoom 2 at present.