### succession:

Succession planning
* is an essential part of business planning for closely-held businesses
  - the key issue in the maintenance of a successful management structure
* lifelong process that goes beyond routine estate planning.
* major part of a company's overall strategic plan.
* topic that is much larger than estate planning.

Succession planting
* means using the same area to grow successive crops.
* way of achieving a continuous harvest, every gardener's dream.

### sugar substitutes:

Artificial sweetener
* All artificial sweeteners are sweeter when they are combined with other sweeteners.
* Some artificial sweeteners provide a bitter taste to fruits after extended storage.
* are a concern for mothers with diabetes
  - aspartame, nutri-sweet, equal, etc
  - used in many 'Light'-products today
* are, by their very nature, extremely sweet, and sweet begets sweet.
* can be especially harmful
  - trigger a migraine
* contain chemical compounds that are developed in laboratories.
* have no food value.
* is sugar substitutes.
* prevent satiety by blocking the adrenaline receptor.
* provide fewer calories and the sweet taste.
* tend to turn bitter from the heat used in canning.
+ Sandoz: Swiss companies
  * It invented saccharin in 1899. Saccharin is an artificial sweetener, a substitute for sugar. Artificial sweeteners are used in many 'Light'-products today.

### suitability:

Convenience
* are comfort.
* is comfort
  - important if a household is going to give up owning one or more cars
* is the main benefit of commercial foods
  - number-one factor that keeps shoppers coming back
* key element to the habituation of shellfish harvesting.
* plays a big role in the growing popularity of treadmill running
  - large role in travel consumers' decision to shop online
  - an important role in making wish-fulfillment attractive

### suitability | convenience:

Availability
* affects distribution
  - growth
* challenge that occurs over an application's entire life cycle.
* depends on ability
  - consumption
  - quality
* function of time
  - whether a particular service is functioning properly
* has an impact on risk perception
  - effects
  - negative effects
* improves conditions
  - physical conditions
* influences fruit production
* is how well a system can work in times of a failure
  - important in getting jobs
* is the ability to utilize the resource whenever it is needed
  - main factor in diet
  - percentage of time that a site is accessible
* key factor in drug use.
* measure of the readiness of a system.
* refers to the percentage of time a system is available.

### suitability | convenience | availability:

Nutrient availability
* Most nutrient availability influences fruit production.
* critical factor in forage and seed production.
* is central in shaping food webs
  - dependent upon soil pH levels
  - subject to biological, geological, and chemical processes
* ratio between decomposition and unlimited growth.
* varies considerably, especially the supply of usable nitrogen and phosphorous.

Selective availability
* is deliberate degradation of signal imposed for reasons of national security.
* works by allowing the clocks in the satellites to drift.

### suitability | convenience | availability:

Water availability
* factor in determining many migration patterns in mobile systems.
* is affected in natural and man made disasters
  - an essential component of human welfare and productivity
  - another major focus in physiological ecology
  - expressed as water activity - how much water is available
  - one of the most important factors influencing plant growth
  - the total amount of freshwater water in the system
* major determinant of pollutant degradation rates by microbes in biofilters
  - factor in determining how many black rhinos can live in an area