Executing multi-taxa eDNA ecological assessment via traditional metrics and interactive networks

Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Environmental Assessment and Management

It is now a policy requirement that “traditional ecological knowledge” (TEK) be incorporated into environmental assessment and resource management in the North. However, there is little common understanding about what TEK is, and no guidance on how to implement the policy in public arenas where knowledge claims must be tested. The problems are inconsistent and unclear definitions of TEK, and in...

Multi-criteria Assessment of Ecological Process Models

The Pareto Optimal Model Assessment Cycle (POMAC), a multiple-criteria model assessment methodology, is described for exploring uncertainty in the relationships between ecological theory, model structure, and assessment data. Model performance is optimized to satisfy, simultaneously, each component of a vector of assessment criteria (model outputs), rather than the usual procedure of optimizing...

Form Metrics for Interactive Rendering via Figural Models of Perception

Multi-resolution Structural Degradation Metrics for Perceptual Image Quality Assessment

In this paper, a multi-resolution analysis is proposed for image quality assessment. Structural features are extracted from each level of a pyramid decomposition that accurately represents the multiple scales of processing in the human visual system. To obtain an overall quality measure the individual level metrics are accumulated over the considered pyramid levels. Two different metric design ...

Executing Assertions via Synthesized Logic Programs

Programming with assertions constitutes an effective tool to detect and correct programming errors. The ability of executing formal specifications is essential in order to test automatically an implementation against its assertions. However, formal assertions may describe recursive models which are difficult to identify so current assertion checkers limit, in a considerable way, the expressivit...