Dr. Brent Stewart’s review for the Center for Independent Expertise (CIE) contains helpful comments for SWFSC scientists to use in writing the results of our study on population structure of harbor seals in Alaska for journal publication. Here we respond not to positive points but rather to points that require clarification or, when we disagree, a rebuttal. Dr. Stewart also gives legal advice a...

A new CIE color appearance model (CIECAM02) has been developed. This paper describes the three major drawbacks of the earlier CIECAM97s model, and shows how the new model performs in these color regions. In addition, both models were tested using available data groups. The results are consistent in that CIECAM02 performed as well as, or better than, CIECAM97s in almost all cases, there being a ...

We suggest a framework for predicting color appearance of image data. The image data are converted by a series of standardizing transformations into a simpler stimulus with the same color appearance. By working through these standardizing transformations, we can build color appearance models for images without abandoning—or repeating—much of the work that has gone into defining the visual prope...

Much writing on party organisational development in post-communist East Central Europe has argued that, with the partial exception of successor parties to former regime parties, political parties in the region will be state-centred, low-membership organisations dominated by political elites, which loosely approximate to the ‘cartel’ and ‘electoral-professional’ models of party identified by som...

NATO’s enlargement into Central East Europe has been a lively debated topic for almost a decade. The highly variegated opinions and positions on this question in Europe and North America have ranged from angry denunciations, solid criticisms, serious doubts, guarded support to enthusiastic accolades. These contrasting attitudes underlined the flux and uncertainties as well as the divisibility o...

We are pleased to bring together such a great group of people to speak about various aspects of user behaviour and trends, an important topic for us all. We are sometimes guilty of assuming we know what users want. Those assumptions have been challenged in recent years by sophisticated evidence-based studies, the impact of which has been further heightened by digital systems that are responding...