Stephen J. Bensman is a technical services librarian at Louisiana State University Libraries in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA. His main duties have been in cataloging and classification, collection development, and statistical analyses for purposes of collection development and management. He has a master's degree in library science and a doctorate in history, both from the University of Wisconsi...

Research funding and reputation in the UK have, for over two decades, been increasingly dependent on a regular peer-review of all UK departments. This is to move to a system more based on bibliometrics. Assessment exercises of this kind influence the behavior of institutions, departments and individuals, and therefore bibliometrics will have effects beyond simple measurement.

j1 Anna Romanova BEng PhD Student, School of Engineering Design and Technology, University of Bradford, Bradford, UK j2 Kirill V. Horoshenkov BEng, PhD Professor of Acoustics, School of Engineering Design and Technology, University of Bradford, Bradford, UK j3 Simon J. Tait BEng, PhD Professor of Civil Engineering, School of Engineering Design and Technology, University of Bradford, Bradford, U...

The Bradford chromatic adaptation transform, empirically derived by Lam, models illumination change. Specifically, it provides a means of mapping XYZs under a reference light source to XYZs for a target light source such that the corresponding XYZs produce the same perceived color. One implication of the Bradford chromatic adaptation transform is that color correction for illumination takes pla...

Problems and Theories The head of a prestigious scientific institution recently said, by paraphrasing a famous quotation: "we solve problems that are posed, not that we pose". This view totally misses the history and role of human knowledge construction and prepares wrong ways for evaluating it. Science is not problem solving, it is theory building. Any relevant, difficult problem requires the ...