An added advantage attributed to bundled payments is that they automatically force our health care delivery system to change from its current fragmented organization toward clinically integrated health care, generally thought to yield health care of superior quality (and often lower costs).
The ecological landscape index showed that distinct landscape patches were small, scattered and highly fragmented, moving toward a more monotonous landscape.
Enter near universal broadband access; marginal distribution costs trend toward zero, and suddenly the news industry is super-fragmented, trending toward what economists call "perfect competition".
A network approach could help conservation strategies move away from the fixed width buffer model, which results in a more fragmented landscape, and toward a landscape with contiguous forests and wetlands that could benefit multiple migratory species (Baldwin et al. 2006).
Most of the information relevant to health systems is fragmented but converges toward four oil-rich areas: the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, Angola, southern Chad and Southern Sudan.
Despite the crucial importance of signaling fidelity in biological organization and cellular responses to environmental cues, our perception of how peptide specificity is encoded in the kinase domain has been highly fragmented and biased toward certain kinase families, non-human species, or a subset of kinase domain residues (e.g., those close to the peptide substrate).
Primary care doctors, it was hoped, would fix what had become an expensive, fragmented specialty system geared toward treating emergencies and episodes of acute illness.
For example, a tendency toward shallow, fragmented sleep could be explained by a weakened circadian arousal signal at that time [ 15].
First, not only are aDNA molecules highly fragmented [ 13], but the fragmentation process itself is biased toward breakpoints bordered by 5′ purine residues (and hence 3′ pyrimidine residues) [ 14] which could result in biased coverage patterns.
Several accomplished computer scientists share a grave concern of the shift toward our more fragmented web.
