Reproductive assurance increased seed production by 27%, on average (Table 1 and Additional file 1: Table S1), and declined significantly with increasing patch floral display (N =27 patches; estimate: − 0.06; SE =0.03; R 2 = 0.18; P =0.029; Figure 1B).
In cognitive radio systems, challenges in providing QoS assurances increase due to the fact that secondary users should operate under constraints on the interference levels that they inflict on the primary users.
Ali said the al-Shabaab pullout would give the international community "the necessary confidence and assurance" to increase the aid effort in Mogadishu.
Removal of confidentiality claims on biosafety data is necessary to adhere to standard scientific procedures of quality assurance, to increase transparency, to minimize impacts of conflicts of interests, and ultimately to improve public confidence in GMOs [51].
After the meeting, Mr. Mateo said he was pleased by the commissioner's assurances to increase patrols, using overtime money originally slated for a narcotics initiative.
Mrs. Hess' life-long charitable endeavors and her assurance of increasing the quality of life for members of our healthcare community is a legacy that will live on in the hearts and minds of medical staff, constituents, and local residents who were and forever will be positively impacted by her graciousness and unfaltering generosity.
The municipal representatives acknowledged these changes, yet their focus was rather on quality assurance and increased efficiency.
Pollination failure may promote the evolution of selfing, which can provide reproductive assurance by increasing seed production when pollinators and/or mates are scarce [ 5, 6].
A long-lived seed bank could also theoretically offset the advantage of reproductive assurance by increasing the effective population size, thereby providing more opportunities for outcrossing events (Pannell and Barrett 1998).
We found that reproductive assurance clearly increased seed production in small patches in which mates were scarce, but the gain was almost entirely cancelled out by ID (see also [ 8]).
