Having this kind of statistic is essential for designing any quality assurance strategy to evaluate compression results.
"In addition, the Scottish government has already set out a clear programme of development activity in its Information Assurance Strategy to help improve information handling in the NHS in Scotland".
Unit testing and regression testing are important components of a comprehensive quality assurance strategy.
We hope others will consider medical simulation as a complementary teaching and quality-assurance strategy in the fight against sepsis.
We are currently piloting client exit interviews as an additional quality assurance strategy and a mechanism to assess client satisfaction with services.
Selfing can evolve as reproductive assurance strategy in the absence of mating partners, because it is always better to self-fertilise offspring whose fitness may suffer from inbreeding than to leave no offspring at all [ 37].
This is perhaps due to a dilution effect in larger habitats, which makes selfing as a reproductive assurance strategy more often necessary, because potential mates are less often encountered.
It is feasible, therefore, that recurrent transitions to selfing within this clade mostly, if not exclusively, reflect an adaptive 'reproductive assurance strategy' [ 8– 10] in response to similar selective environments that favour reproduction when pollinators or mates are rare or absent, conditions that might accrue from island colonization or habitat fragmentation [ 7, 119, 120].
First, as proposed since Darwin (1862, 1877), selfing can be an adaptive, reproductive assurance strategy in response to low mate and/or pollinator availability (e.g. as a consequence of habitat fragmentation) and may result in increased colonizing ability (Hagerup, 1952; Jain, 1976; Lloyd, 1979; Williamson, 1984; Catling, 1990; Eckert et al., 2010; but see also Busch et al., 2011).
This has led to the development of flow assurance strategies to operate outside the hydrate stability region.
