Rangifer population ecology: a Scandinavian perspective

Fractal Population Ecology Theory

Abstract Purpose - The aim of this paper is to describe the population ecology theory through fractal thinking, an emergent human operating system that is creative, adaptive, healthy, and evolutionary; furthermore, a parallel is drawn between the population ecology model and the fractal structure. Top-down hierarchies are typically characterized by command and control systems of the authority t...

Niche and area of distribution modeling: A population ecology perspective

A Scandinavian Perspective OLE LEHRMANN MADSEN

We discuss a number of open issues within object-oriented programming. The central mechanisms of object-oriented programming appeared with Simula developed more than 30 years ago including class, subclass, virtual function, active object and the first application framework, Class Simulation. The core parts of object-oriented programming should be well understood, but there are still a large num...

The ethical demand in nursing: a scandinavian perspective.

In this column the authors discuss the ethics of information exchange in nursing practice with children. Five concepts identified in three Swedish grounded theory studies and a content analysis that used the theoretical framework of ethical demand were analyzed. A simultaneous concept analysis found five related concepts: being interconnected, acting according to accepted procedure, completenes...

Ethical decision-making in neonatology - a Scandinavian perspective.

Aspects on end-of-life, death and dying in neonatal intensive care units in Latin America are presented in this issue by Fajardo et al. (1). The article is based on reports of 100 deaths from eight Latin American NICUs, and only 19 of these infants born before weeks 27 and 35 were full term. The authors suppose that many live-born extremely preterm infants were never referred to a NICU. The aut...