New jargon seeping slowly into biodiversity world

Artificial Intelligence: Entering into A New World

In modern era, when human life is moving at high speeds there have been needs for machines which process the capability to perform functions that are normally associated with human intelligence. And AI is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to achieve it. The main point of artificial intelligence is the capabilities of the computer manipulate symbolic expre...

Special Section: New Insights into the Tropical Biodiversity Crisis

For conservation biologists, the contemporary loss of tropical biodiversity is among the greatest of all concerns. Regarded as the biologically richest ecosystems on the planet, old-growth tropical forests are disappearing at an alarming pace––roughly 30–60 football fields per minute (approximately 8–15 million ha/year) in recent decades (Achard et al. 2002; FAO 2007; Grainger 2008). During the...

Seeping Through the Regulatory Cracks

T management of toxic waste has become an increasingly global business. The worldwide generation of hazardous waste is currently around 440 million tons, of which an estimated 10 percent makes its way across international boundaries.1 A variety of industries generate toxic wastes, ranging from chemicals to electronics and from plastics to metal plating. These toxic wastes have adverse affects o...

Identifying Jargon in Texts

This paper describes on-going work on using jargon to identify author’s beliefs. The main focus of research is to use statistical techniques to help identify particular lexical items that characterize the jargons of groups with particular beliefs. The main thesis was that groups that hold common beliefs tend also to develop common ways of speaking about the topic of those beliefs, ways that dif...

Himalayan Biodiversity in the Changing World