One of the often-cited challenges in biodiversity conservation is financing. But publications on financing are mostly confined to specific financial mechanisms, regions and actors. Fewer attempts have been made find overall trends. Through a thematic review 64 peer-reviewed articles, covering different disciplines published since 2010, this study found three dominant themes recurring around top...

In this paper we present efficient deterministic and randomized algorithms for selection on any interconnection network when the number of input keys (n) is ≥ the number of processors (p). Our deterministic algorithm runs on any network in time O(np log log p + T s p logn), where T s p is the time needed for sorting p keys using p processors (assuming that broadcast and prefix computations take...

This paper introduces a six paper series that examines the manner in which complexity impacts the informing process. Two of these papers specifically consider how the objective complexity of the domain being studied changes the nature of the solution—with domains consisting of many interacting elements and changing criteria for success tending to produce highly rugged fitness landscapes that vi...

WordPress offers users a wide choice of themes defining the structure, functionality, layout and presentation of a website together with its content types. These themes are shared by the WordPress community, enabling users to benefit from the skills of others. However, it is not possible to mix themes, so users often have to choose from a set of themes that only partially meet their requirement...

Ubiquitylation--the conjugation of proteins with a small protein called ubiquitin--touches upon all aspects of eukaryotic biology, and its defective regulation is manifest in diseases that range from developmental abnormalities and autoimmunity to neurodegenerative diseases and cancer. A few years ago, we could only have dreamt of the complex arsenal of enzymes dedicated to ubiquitylation. Why ...

Two characteristics of cognitive science are central and obvious. First, it is cognitive, aiming toward empirical and theoretical understanding of cognition. Its founding disciplines addressed intelligence in humans (cognitive psychology) and computers (artificial intelligence), with special scrutiny given to language as a paradigmatic domain of human competence (linguistics). Over time, the un...

This paper presents a framework for indexing and browsing databases of stories, in particular characterizing and visually exploring each narrative’s thematic content. We introduce a method for discovering thematic content in texts via lexical dissimilarity statistics. A maximumlikelihood algorithm clusters words into pools of similar meaning, using a thesaurus for rough estimates of word sense ...

We gather in Ho Chi Minh City with high expectations for the future of particle physics and high hopes for the future of science in Vietnam. We are in the midst of a revolution in our perceptions of nature, when the achievements of our science have brought our insights closer to everyday life than ever before. I will devote this lecture to seven themes that express the essence of our understand...