Anticipation encompasses a global vision of the domain environment: past, present, and future.
The Global Information Locator Service GILSS) encompasses a global vision framed by the fundamental values of open societies.
Moreover, some fisheries have expanded further and further away from their driving market, encompassing a global fishery by the 1990s.
In the second approach, ontologies have been used as basis for the development of mediators, i.e., software entities that encompasses a global knowledge (global database schema) and, at the same time, are able to provide mappings to the specific (local) schemas to be integrated (e.g., [ 33- 36]).
Soils with clay subsoil layers or "claypans" encompass a large global area and may be more susceptible to surface compaction and N losses due to perched water in the surface horizons caused by the relatively low hydraulic conductivity of the claypan.
These tropical ecosystems incorporate a high diversity of associated flora and fauna, and the nations that border the Caribbean collectively encompass a major global marine biodiversity hot spot.
The emerging International Arctic Vegetation Database will represent the first vegetation database containing georeferenced plant data to encompass an entire global biome (Walker & Raynolds, 2011).
Comparisons are complex, as these studies encompass a variety of global health systems and health economies, with varying levels of correcting for confounding.
Pioneered with excavations of ancient shipwrecks along the Mediterranean coast of Turkey, maritime archeology now encompasses a full global spectrum to include shipwrecks of all ages, submerged paleoshorelines, harbors and coastal areas, and maritime cultural landscapes that examine human use of marine locales on broad geographic and temporal scales.
Mountain ecosystems cover around a quarter of the world's land area and encompass a large portion of global biodiversity as well as cultural diversity.
