Wildlife consumption ban is insufficient

To ban or not to ban? - that is the question.

Is it time to ban alcohol advertising?

Children and adolescents are particularly vulnerable to the harmful effects of alcohol, with heavy drinking risking impaired brain development and future alcohol dependence. Advertisements increase expectancies about alcohol, leading to a greater likelihood of drinking. A systematic review of 13 longitudinal studies of over 38,000 young people found convincing evidence of an impact of media exp...

Economic and geographic drivers of wildlife consumption in rural Africa.

The harvest of wildlife for human consumption is valued at several billion dollars annually and provides an essential source of meat for hundreds of millions of rural people living in poverty. This harvest is also considered among the greatest threats to biodiversity throughout Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Economic development is often proposed as an essential first step to win-win solution...

Low Rate Is Insufficient for Local Testability

Locally testable codes are error-correcting codes for which membership of a given word in the code can be tested probabilistically by examining it in very few locations. A linear code C ⊆ F2 is called sparse if dim(C) = O(log(n)). We say that a code C ⊆ F2 is -biased if all nonzero codewords of C have relative weight in the range ( 1 2 − , 1 2 + ), where may be a function of n. Kaufman and Suda...

Relative Significance is Insufficient: Baselines Matter Too

We have tabulated retrieval effectiveness claims from a large number of information retrieval research papers from 1998–2008, a period that has seen many innovations. The results of our analysis are not encouraging. Over this period, although a great many papers claimed significant effectiveness improvements, there has been no overall gain in absolute retrieval effectiveness on TREC ad hoc coll...