While apex predators often become extinct under anthropogenic influence, delivering many examples of mesopredator releases [2], [5], only few studies have shown a restoration of the mesopredator suppressed state after reintroduction or recolonization of the apex predator [3], [6], [7], [8].
It is almost 25 years since the American academic Joseph Nye first introduced his distinction between hard power – force delivered through guns and money – and soft power – influence delivered through attraction and relationship.
In much the same state as the sanitized and bloodless version of punk's origins and influence delivered by the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the name of fashion.
Some have drunk the Kool-Aid and see its influence everywhere, delivering rapturous whispered monologues.
Among contemporary Islamist radical movements, Hamas and Hezbollah have expanded their influence by delivering social services, competing in elections, and running hospitals and labor unions.
The World Wide Web Consortium Provenance Group [ 65] defines information 'provenance' as the sum of all of the processes, people (institutions or agents), and documents (data included) that were involved in generating or otherwise influencing or delivering a piece of information.
To measure resistance of the Combitube, a supraglottic ventilatory device used in the management of the patients with difficult airways, and its influence on delivered ventilatory pressures.
By removing the Conservatives from other mainstream centre-right parties in Europe, David Cameron has isolated his party and potentially this country when we need influence to deliver on the issues that matter for Britain today".
The gamble of democracy is that this evidently unwarranted equality of influence may deliver suboptimal policy in the short run, but will deliver the most materially and morally satisfactory results in the long run.
Mr. Hashmall resigned from his county post after the Westchester district attorney, Jeanine F. Pirro, began an investigation into whether he used his influence to deliver numerous county construction contracts to a former client and political mentor.
This paper reports lessons learnt from three parallel and complementary user studies, where motivational features for sustainable urban mobility, including social influence strategies delivered through social media, were prototyped, tested and refined.
