Habitat fragmentation undermines the functioning of ecosystems, and so biodiversity conservation often entails maintaining or restoring landscape connections.
A huge component to staying ahead of the curve is keeping a close eye on competitors in your market, which entails maintaining a watchful eye on industry news.
And given Facebook's goal of becoming the social fabric of the web — which entails maintaining a presence on countless third party sites — it's imperative that it keeps its various widgets and authentication buttons working properly.
In an experiment in Eddleston Forest near Edinburgh in the 1980s, "artificial sheep" were used in open and forest conditions, the energy consumption entailed in maintaining mammalian body temperature being measured, inside simulated insulating layers.
This suggests that expression of these genes of the four pathways entailed to maintain genetic and epigenetic stability are intrinsically sensitive to parent-of-origin effects even under normal conditions, but tissue culture-induced mis-expression substantially augments the preexisting parent-of-origin effect.
While the court accepted the police argument that the kettle needed to be prolonged due to the violent behaviour of a minority after the kettle's formation, at no point did the court consider that the coercion entailed in creating and maintaining the kettle might itself have caused the violence.
That is because such tasks are probably too simple to reliably entail sharing others' emotions and maintaining a self other distinction, both widely regarded as hallmarks of empathy (Singer and Lamm 2009).
Five students were arrested; four, the activists tell me, were brought to Holborn, which then entailed a "rescue support" delegation maintaining a vigil overnight.
But the more we recognize and openly acknowledge that parenting is complex, and that putting your children at "the center" of your world means different things at different moments, the easier it will become for all parents to talk about the balancing act that maintaining that center entails.
The paper highlights that the dual goals to reduce pressures from modern agriculture on biodiversity, while maintaining food security, entails more extensive collaboration with farmers oriented toward ecologically sound practices.
