Quantifying Housekeeping Challenge and Conservation Need

Kenya's conservation challenge

advice. That is what we are looking for from the work of the review group,” he said. In a report to EU leaders, Barroso said the food price rises had added a ‘new dimension’ to the public debate on GM crops. “The recent surge in agricultural commodity prices could be exacerbated by trade obstacles related to GMOs, thus resulting in an increase of [animal] feed and food prices in the EU higher t...

Quantifying the Need for Force Agility

In this paper, we address the question of the likely nature of the future conflict environment, and the need for force agility in dealing with this environment. The approach we take is to characterise this future conflict environment through five dimensions, drawn from UK work on global futures. We define metrics for each of these dimensions, and show, by looking back over the past 60 years, th...

Conservation Biology: The Need for Multidisciplinary Approaches

The need for evidence-based conservation.

Much of current conservation practice is based upon anecdote and myth rather than upon the systematic appraisal of the evidence, including experience of others who have tackled the same problem. We suggest that this is a major problem for conservationists and requires a rethinking of the manner in which conservation operates. There is an urgent need for mechanisms that review available informat...

Quantifying Gait Similarity: User Authentication and Real-World Challenge

Template-based approaches using acceleration signals have been proposed for gait-based biometric authentication. In daily life a number of real-world factors affect the users’ gait and we investigate their effects on authentication performance. We analyze the effect of walking speed, different shoes, extra load, and the natural variation over days on the gait. Therefore we introduce a statistic...