Australian science: Budget dismays even ministers

The Australian terrestrial carbon budget

V. Haverd, M. R. Raupach, P. R. Briggs, J. G. Canadell, S. J. Davis, R. M. Law, C. P. Meyer, G. P. Peters, C. Pickett-Heaps, and B. Sherman CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, P.O. Box 3023, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia University of California, Dept. of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, USA CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, PB1, Aspendale, Victoria 3195, Australia CICERO, P.O. Box 1129...

Online (and Offline) on an Even Tighter Budget

We develop a fast online kernel algorithm for classification which can be viewed as an improvement over the one suggested by (Crammer, Kandola and Singer, 2004), titled ”Online Classificaton on a Budget”. In that previous work, the authors introduced an on-the-fly compression of the number of examples used in the prediction function using the size of the margin as a quality measure. Although di...

Why finance ministers favor carbon taxes, even if they do not take climate change into account -

Fiscal considerations may shift governmental priorities away from environmental concerns: Finance ministers face strong demand for public expenditures such as infrastructure investments but they are constrained by international tax competition. We develop a multi-region model of tax competition and resource extraction to assess the fiscal incentive of imposing a tax on carbon rather than on cap...

Budget worries cloud Europe’s science plans

because the Commission had been unable to spend all of last year's money. " We accept that this is a priority area, but since you are already underspending, we don't believe they'll be able to spend more of it, " an official said. " It is unhelpful and unfortunate that the commission should choose to single out one country when, as presidency, we are representing the whole council and this is a...

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