Potential flow assurance problems in oil and gas pipelines related to gas hydrates have traditionally been resolved by implementing avoidance strategies, such as water removal, insulation, and injection of thermodynamic inhibitors.
Additionally, most flowers are hermaphroditic, leading to efficiencies in pollination by animals, as well as potential reproductive assurance by autonomous self-pollination in the event of pollinator failure.
Future studies are required to test whether smaller-seeded selfing annuals are more likely than their outcrossing annual relatives to disperse further or colonize new habitats and thereby incur potential reproductive assurance benefits of selfing.
The practitioners' legitimation strategies are underpinned by a commitment to opening up dialogue within the assurance process which is evident in their engagement with potential users of assurance and their efforts to expand assurance statement content and encourage user influence over what is assured.
The copper and gold mine would cost more than $10 billion to build, and the potential investors wanted assurances.
To minimise such confounding effects, we employed a standardised methodology that involved explaining the survey objectives to potential respondents, providing assurances of confidentiality and allowing individuals to complete and return questionnaires through a mechanism that clearly maintained their anonymity.
Permanent residence also gives potential employers the assurance that they would not lose employees for failing to renew their work permits.
This paper proposes a conceptual framework to systematize the use of Nature-based solutions (NBS) by integrating their resilience potential into Natural Assurance Scheme (NAS), focusing on insurance value as corner stone for both awareness-raising and valuation.
Unlike ICBMs and SLBMs, bombers can be visibly deployed forward, as a signal in crisis to strengthen deterrence of potential adversaries and assurance of allies and partners.
The potential for reproductive assurance is therefore likely to be overestimated if the pollination parameters and the actual mating system are not assessed together with lifetime ID.
