To understand complex systems, it is important to examine the interplay between scale, pattern, and process so that landscape form and landscape function may be inter-related.
Cross-sectional studies have suggested that these two conditions may be inter-related, but the nature of this association is uncertain.
The procedure is general in the sense that non-concurrent altimetric missions may be inter-calibrated, the only requirement being well calibrated tide gauge time series spanning the operational lifetimes of the two satellites.
When studying relationships between the national test result and potential predictors, the significant predictors found in the bivariate analyses may be inter-correlated.
The extents may be, inter alia, expressed in spatial units (e.g. areas in millions of square kilometres) or time units (e.g. durations in hours).
This may be, inter alia, due to the German health insurance system, where 99.8% of the population are covered, whereof 88% are covered by statutory insurances and 12% in private insurances (Federal Statistical Office of Germany, 2011 Microcensus).
Recently, there has been an increasing trend towards the deployment of WSN, where a large number of tiny devices interacting with their environments may be inter-networked and accessible through the Internet.
The connected ac system may be inter-harmonic polluted by nonlinear connected loads including static frequency converters, cycloconverters, subsynchronous converter cascades, adjustable speed drives, arc furnaces; and of course including the loads not pulsating synchronously with the fundamental power system frequency [7, 8].
(These causal variables may be inter-correlated, but the reason for these correlations is not examined in these path analyses).
The examined phenotypes may be inter-correlated to various extents, but according to a recent twin study [43], there is little common underlying genetic or shared environmental aetiology behind these correlations, which justifies the separate analysis of each of the phenotypes in the present study.
