scholarly journals The ups and downs of working with industry to collect fishery-dependent data: the Irish experience

2011 ◽  
Vol 68 (8) ◽  
pp. 1670-1678 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colm Lordan ◽  
Macdara Ó Cuaig ◽  
Norman Graham ◽  
Dominic Rihan
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Data ◽  
Dependent Data ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Project Design ◽  
Critical Aspect ◽  
Successful Management ◽  
Joint Research ◽  
Time Horizons ◽  
Fisheries Policy ◽  
The Many

Abstract Lordan, C., Ó Cuaig, M., Graham, N., and Rihan, D. 2011. The ups and downs of working with industry to collect fishery-dependent data: the Irish experience. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 68: 1670–1678. Working with the fishing industry to collect fishery-dependent data for scientific and advisory purposes is essential in most countries, but despite the many advantages of working with fishers, it is not without challenges. The objectives and the ups and downs of 16 recent projects in Ireland are described, and four case studies are discussed in detail. Some common themes that characterize both successful and unsuccessful experiences are identified. One critical aspect is industry's sometimes unrealistic time-horizons and expectations when engaging in scientific data collection. Detailed communication of objectives, procedures, results, and relevance not only to industry representatives, but also to vessel owners and crew, is required throughout the life cycle of a project. For some projects, there is a clear need to include incentives in the design, but for others this is less critical. The critical needs for ongoing quality control and assurance, validation of data, and appropriate project design are discussed, along with the link between successful management systems and participatory research. Finally, comment is provided on how the expected reforms of the EU's Common Fisheries Policy will place new demands on joint research.

scholarly journals Atlas of Yellowstone, 2nd Edition: Celebrating 150 Years of the World’s First National Park, 1872–2022

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
W. Andrew Marcus ◽  
James E. Meacham ◽  
Justin T. Menke ◽  
Aleathea Y. Steingisser ◽  
Ann E. Rodman
Keyword(s):  
Key Management ◽  
Yellowstone National Park ◽  
National Park ◽  
Scientific Data ◽  
Light Pollution ◽  
Natural Setting ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many ◽  
Management Issues

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> The Second Edition of the Atlas of Yellowstone will celebrate the 150-year history of the world’s first national park – and reflect on the future of Yellowstone and its evolving place in the world. Like the first Atlas of Yellowstone published in 2012, the Second Edition will provide a comprehensive view of the human and natural setting of Yellowstone National Park. Also like the First Edition, the new edition will portray variations over space and time, explore human-nature interactions throughout the region, document connections of Yellowstone to the rest of the world, and &amp;ndash; ultimately &amp;ndash; guide the reader to a deeper appreciation of Yellowstone.</p><p>Beyond that, the new edition will provide much expanded coverage of the park’s history. Readers will better understand the many different ways in which the creation of Yellowstone National Park has preserved and altered the landscapes and ecology of Yellowstone and conservation thought and practice, both locally and around the world.</p><p>The new atlas will also reflect advances in scientific data collection, knowledge, and insight gained since publication of the first edition. New topic pages will address key management issues ranging from increased visitor impact to wildlife disease to light pollution. In addition, many of the 850 existing graphics will be updated, reimagined, or replaced by new graphics that capture the remarkable wealth of data that has become available since the First Edition. Whether it be tracking of individual wolves, ecosystem imagery from space, or detailed visitor surveys &amp;ndash; new data provide insights that could not be graphically displayed before.</p><p>The Second Edition celebrates 150 years of America’s best idea and what that has meant to the world. The significance of Yellowstone National Park to conservation, scholarship, and the human experience is enormous, and deserves a volume that captures that importance.</p>

Looking for the best compromise in rapid food mycotoxin tests: speed, sensitivity, precision and accuracy

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 407-415 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.J. Alldrick
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Safety Management Systems ◽  
Successful Management ◽  
Statistical Process ◽  
Commercial Arbitration ◽  
Local Conditions ◽  
High Dependency ◽  
Precision And Accuracy

Mycotoxins provide additional challenges to food businesses in terms of successful management of food-safety management systems. These reflect, in part, an unusually high dependency on the activities of others in the supply chain to ensure that levels of contamination remain within set limits. Consequently analyses for mycotoxins by food businesses are primarily commissioned for one or a combination of two reasons: to determine compliance with regulatory or commercial standards or; as part of an exercise to verify the efficacy of the businesses foodsafety management systems. Given the regulatory/commercial implications, the standard of evidence needed to demonstrate (non)compliance will be the greater than that needed for simple verification. Consequently, decisions relating to matters of regulatory or commercial arbitration need to be based on agreed and well defined methods of analysis, which are normally laboratory-based. These data are also often sufficient to be used to verify foodsafety management systems. However, supply conditions may predicate the need for increased levels of verification and rapid mycotoxin test-kits have the potential to both meet this need and satisfy the requirements of statistical process control. Nevertheless, it is important to note that deployment of such test-kits cannot be considered to be a ‘turnkey’ exercise and that, as in the case of laboratory-based assays, care must be taken in the validation and subsequent verification of their use for a given material being used within a food business. In particular, this means demonstrating under local conditions that results from the use of these test-kits are comparable to those that would be obtained using official or reference methods.

Salvage Procedures

2018 ◽  
pp. 307-322
Author(s):  
Joaquin Sanchez-Sotelo
Keyword(s):  
Surgical Technique ◽  
Surgical Procedures ◽  
Glenohumeral Joint ◽  
Resection Arthroplasty ◽  
Successful Management ◽  
The Many ◽  
And Function ◽  
Surgical Option

The many surgical procedures summarized in previous chapters allow successful management of most shoulder conditions and result in improved pain, motion, and function. However, salvage procedures that sacrifice the glenohumeral joint or the scapulothoracic joint represent the best surgical option for a few patients. These salvage procedures are uncommon, but shoulder surgeons need to be familiar with their indications, surgical technique, and reported outcomes. This chapter addresses glenohumeral arthrodesis, scapulothoracic arthrodesis, and glenohumeral resection arthroplasty.

Ethics and Natural Resources Management

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 56-71
Author(s):  
Manuel Pacheco Coelho ◽  
José António Filipe ◽  
Manuel Alberto M. Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Natural Resources Management ◽  
Approval Process ◽  
Ethical Problems ◽  
Resources Management ◽  
Common Resources ◽  
Fisheries Policy ◽  
The Many ◽  
Control Regime

This paper proposals are: first, to show how the utilization of common resources can carry important ethical problems; second (and mainly), to stress that the many attempts to solve tragedies in fisheries, by creating interesting projects in aquaculture, are confronted with many obstacles and barriers in the approval process. These obstructions conduct to inefficiencies and carry out also important ethical problems. The Portuguese aquaculture case is used to develop an empirical study on the emergence of an “anticommons tragedy”. The control regime of Common Fisheries Policy is discussed.

scholarly journals From embracing to managing risks

BMJ Open ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. e022921 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin Keen ◽  
Emma Nicklin ◽  
Nyantara Wickramasekera ◽  
Andrew Long ◽  
Rebecca Randell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Middle Managers ◽  
Safety Information ◽  
Active Management ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Quality Of Data ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Information Infrastructures ◽  
The Many ◽  
Board Level

ObjectiveTo assess developments over time in the capture, curation and use of quality and safety information in managing hospital services.SettingFour acute National Health Service hospitals in England.Participants111.5 hours of observation of hospital board and directorate meetings, and 72 hours of ward observations. 86 interviews with board level and middle managers and with ward managers and staff.ResultsThere were substantial improvements in the quantity and quality of data produced for boards and middle managers between 2013 and 2016, starting from a low base. All four hospitals deployed data warehouses, repositories where datasets from otherwise disparate departmental systems could be managed. Three of them deployed real-time ward management systems, which were used extensively by nurses and other staff.ConclusionsThe findings, particularly relating to the deployment of real-time ward management systems, are a corrective to the many negative accounts of information technology implementations. The hospital information infrastructures were elements in a wider move, away from a reliance on individual professionals exercising judgements and towards team-based and data-driven approaches to the active management of risks. They were not, though, using their fine-grained data to develop ultrasafe working practices.

scholarly journals XXXVI. On the influence of temperature on the refraction of light

1858 ◽  
Vol 148 ◽  
pp. 887-894 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Field Of View ◽  
Refractive Indices ◽  
Narrow Slit ◽  
Joint Research ◽  
Influence Of Temperature ◽  
Fine Wire ◽  
Different Temperatures ◽  
Influence Of Temperature On ◽  
The Many ◽  
Cobalt Blue

Fraunhofer, in his original measurements of the fixed lines of the spectrum, noted the thermometer, and those who since his time have occupied themselves with the determi­nation of refractive indices, must have frequently noticed that changes of temperature affect the amount of refraction; yet of the many observations now on record, few have affixed to them the temperature at which they were made. Baden Powell has drawn out some refractive indices of the same substance taken at different temperatures, but remarks that the whole subject, both as to the facts of the case and as to their bear­ing on the theoretical formulæ, remains to be investigated. Among his beautiful researches on light, M. Jamin has recently published one or two experiments on refrac­tion, heat, and density; but, with this exception, he has left untouched the great question of the influence of temperature. Some years ago Baden Powell kindly lent his instrument to one of us for the pur­pose of investigating this question. It is described and figured in the Report of the British Association for 1839. It consists essentially of a small telescope moving on a circle graduated so finely, that by means of a vernier and magnifying glass it may be read to 10"; to ensure accuracy, there is a vernier at each end of the moveable arm: in front of the telescope are appliances for fixing any solid prism, or a hollow prism capable of containing liquids, in such a position that there may be seen through it a ray of light proceeding from a distant slit. The telescope may be moved till a fine wire fastened in the field of view is brought to coincide with any of Fraunhofer’s lines the prismatic spectrum thus obtained, and the angle indicated by the position of the telescope on the graduated circle may he read off. In our recent joint research, as we desired measure the positions of the extreme lines A and H, it was necessary to work with the full light of the sun; its mirrored image, therefore, was kept behind the narrow slit by a heliostat, and the eye was protected from the glare of the yellow ray by means of a cobalt-blue glass.

An ontology-centric architecture for extensible scientific data management systems

2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 641-653 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuan-Fang Li ◽  
Gavin Kennedy ◽  
Faith Ngoran ◽  
Philip Wu ◽  
Jane Hunter
Keyword(s):  
Data Management ◽  
Scientific Data ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Data Management Systems ◽  
Scientific Data Management

A note on relations between carcass characteristics of bacon pigs and weaning weight, rate of gain and length

1965 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 389-392
Author(s):  
J. P. Bowland ◽  
R. Braude ◽  
J. G. Rowell
Keyword(s):  
Carcass Characteristics ◽  
Subsequent Development ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Housing Conditions ◽  
Weaning Weight ◽  
Series Of Experiments ◽  
The Many

This note describes the results of various analyses which were carried out to study relations between measurements indicative of the amount of fat and lean in the carcasses of bacon pigs and their weaning weights, rates of gain between weaning and slaughter, and the lengths of the carcasses. The data involved were taken from a series of experiments, the original purpose of which was to compare various feeding treatments used between weaning and slaughter (205 lb.). The interpretation of these analyses presents some difficulty because of the many ways in which variations in weaning weight, for example, may occur; such variations arise naturally (because of variations in genotype, mothering ability of the sow, etc.) or may be induced by changing methods of management (systems of feeding, housing conditions, etc.). Considerable caution should therefore be exercised in attempting to extend the relations discussed here to conditions outside their own context. The difficulties are emphasised by the variety of different results which other workers have reported on the effect of weaning weight on subsequent development (reviewed by Braude, 1964).

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