Principles of Ecology Revisited: Integrating Information and Ecological Theories for a More Unified Science

A call for more effectively integrating behavioral and social science principles into comprehensive diabetes care.

R esearch has clearly demonstrated that reductions in hyperglycemia, blood pressure, and lipids through medication and healthy living can retard diabetes progression and reduce cardiovascular risk (1). The Diabetes Prevention Program (2) has convincingly shown that healthy living and appropriate medication can reduce or even halt the progression to full diabetes for individuals with pre-diabete...

The Art of Integrating Care: Theories Revisited

Integration of care is high on public health agendas all around the world. The development and implementation of integrative arrangements has been promoted for more or less two decades. Despite this every so often extensive history, there are recognised needs to take research into areas yet poorly explored, which include measures and outcomes of integrated care. On the other hand, existing evid...

Integrating restoration ecology and ecological theory: A synthesis

Restoration ecology would be easier in a world of linear, deterministic, ordered, predictable change tending toward stable equilibria. In such a world, many restoration projects would require only that the restorationist give a degraded or damaged ecosystem an initial push, and then stand back and watch the system heal itself. But this is not the world that most ecologists believe we inhabit (B...

Integrating Ecological Data Using Linked Data Principles

This paper presents a framework to manage, treat and integrate ecological data in the context of the PELD project, currently in development in Brazil. These data, which are produced and collected from different resources, are stored in distinct relational databases and transformed later into RDF triples, using a traditional relational-RDF mapping. Taxonomical, spatial and trophic relations are ...

Integrated Theories for a Unified Lexicon of Information Systems