Conservation in the real world

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph M. Kiesecker ◽  
Kei Sochi ◽  
Jeff Evans ◽  
Michael Heiner ◽  
Christina M. Kennedy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Real World ◽  
Stakeholder Engagement ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Human Population ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Development ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Face ◽  
Development Objectives

This chapter highlights the challenge of meeting conservation goals in the face of a rapidly expanding human population, and advocates for the conservation community to expand its focus from the siting of protected areas to also include spatial planning for how to achieve development objectives. A framework entitled, Development by Design, is introduced to proactively identify when development impacts are compatible with conservation goals and when they are not, and to invest as much analysis into anticipating where development is likely to occur as into biodiversity needs. This chapter examines two applications of this framework—oil and gas development in the western USA and mining in Mongolia, documenting how a mix of stakeholder engagement, strong science, and ultimately a willingness to compromise can not only produce significant conservation gains but also meet economic objectives.

scholarly journals Options in the Real World: Lessons Learned in Evaluating Oil and Gas Investments

1999 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
James E. Smith ◽  
Kevin F. McCardle
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
The Real

scholarly journals Real-world decision making in the upstream oil and gas industry—prescriptions for improvement

2008 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 329
Author(s):  
Steve I Mackie ◽  
Steve H Begg ◽  
Chris Smith ◽  
Matthew Welsh
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Real World ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
The Real ◽  
Decision Outcomes ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Decision Making Model

Business under-performance in the upstream oil and gas industry, and the failure of many decisions to return anticipated results, has led to a growing interest in the past few years in understanding the impacts of decision-making processes and their relationship with decision outcomes. Improving oil and gas decision making is, thus, increasingly seen as reliant on an understanding of the processes of decision making in the real world. There has been significant work carried out within the discipline of cognitive psychology, observing how people actually make decisions; however, little is known as to whether these general observations apply to decision making in the upstream oil and gas industry. This paper is a step towards filling this gap by developing the theme of decision-making process. It documents a theoretical decision-making model and a real-world decision-making model that has been distilled from interviews with many Australian upstream oil and gas professionals. The context of discussion is to review the theoretical model (how people should make decisions) and the real-world model (how people do make decisions). By comparing and contrasting the two models we develop a prescriptive list of how to improve the quality of decisions in practice, specifically as it applies in the upstream oil and gas industry.

Xenophon'sCyropaediaand military reform in Sparta

2006 ◽  
Vol 126 ◽  
pp. 47-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Christesen
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Constitutional Theory ◽  
Trained Group ◽  
Military Reform ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Past ◽  
Fictional Narrative ◽  
The Face ◽  
Historical Basis ◽  
Special Relevance

AbstractXenophon'sCyropaediacan be read as a proto-novel, a biography, or as an essay on leadership or constitutional theory. This article argues that theCyropaediacan and should also be read as a pamphlet on practical military reform with special relevance to the Spartan state.The inclusion of a series of proposals for the reform of the Spartan army in theCyropaediahas not heretofore been recognized because Xenophon presented those proposals in the guise of a reform of the Persian army undertaken by Cyrus. There was no historical basis for this part of theCyropaedia, and there is no trace of a major military reform in either the Greek or the Persian tradition about Cyrus as it existed before Xenophon. Cyrus' military reform was thus an authorial invention that presumably served some important narrative purpose.Xenophon inserted a military reform into theCyropaediaas a way of presenting a proposal for the restructuring of the Spartan army. When Xenophon wrote theCyropaedia, the Spartans were struggling desperately to maintain their position in the face of a powerful Boeotian army. The Boeotians could put many more hoplites into the field and had a large cavalry force that they were using to excellent effect. The obvious response on the part of the Spartans was to take whatever measures were necessary to increase the number of men in their phalanx and to assemble a sizeable, highly trained group of horsemen. The programme of military reform enacted by Cyrus in theCyropaediaproduces just this result. If implemented in Sparta, this programme would have involved the wholesale addition of non-Spartiates to the Spartan phalanx and the conversion of the Spartanhomoioiinto an all-cavalry force.Xenophon thus used Cyrus' army in theCyropaediato show what a revamped Spartan military might look like. The use of fictional narrative to explore ideas with immediate application to the real world has long been recognized as an integral part of theCyropaedia.This aspect of theCyropaediahas in the past been explored largely in regard to Xenophon's thinking about leadership and ethics, but it can and should be extended to include military reform in Sparta.

scholarly journals Zhuangzi’s Theory on “Fate” and the Humanistic Spirit within

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 115
Author(s):  
Rongkun Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Real ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Humanistic Spirit ◽  
The Face ◽  
The One

Conventional accounts of Zhuangzi’s concept of fate are limited to only a certain aspect of it. At the same time, they seem to be mutually contradictory. This essay investigates this concept afresh based on textual analysis and elucidates Zhuangzi’s real concerns about fate. This analysis reveals that Zhuangzi laid stress on the virtue demonstrated in confronting the unavoidable. More specifically, the important meaning of fate encompasses, on the one hand, a whole acceptance of the facts facing us by forgetting oneself, and on the other hand, responding positively to the facts by following the “Heavenly Way” until a spontaneous state is reached. We shall see as well how Zhuangzi’s views on the relation between Heaven and the Human, and on certain moral values, help to validate his theory on fate. Thus, through exploring his underlying thoughts and showing how their various aspects are logically connected, we shall show that Zhuangzi’s concept of fate is imbued with a humanistic spirit in the face of affairs in the real world.

scholarly journals Real-World Automatic Makeup via Identity Preservation Makeup Net

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhikun Huang ◽  
Zhedong Zheng ◽  
Chenggang Yan ◽  
Hongtao Xie ◽  
Yaoqi Sun ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Face Image ◽  
Task Demands ◽  
Reference Image ◽  
Target Image ◽  
Identity Preservation ◽  
The Real ◽  
Face Images ◽  
The Face ◽  
Robust System

This paper focuses on the real-world automatic makeup problem. Given one non-makeup target image and one reference image, the automatic makeup is to generate one face image, which maintains the original identity with the makeup style in the reference image. In the real-world scenario, face makeup task demands a robust system against the environmental variants. The two main challenges in real-world face makeup could be summarized as follow: first, the background in real-world images is complicated. The previous methods are prone to change the style of background as well; second, the foreground faces are also easy to be affected. For instance, the ``heavy'' makeup may lose the discriminative information of the original identity. To address these two challenges, we introduce a new makeup model, called Identity Preservation Makeup Net (IPM-Net), which preserves not only the background but the critical patterns of the original identity. Specifically, we disentangle the face images to two different information codes, i.e., identity content code and makeup style code. When inference, we only need to change the makeup style code to generate various makeup images of the target person. In the experiment, we show the proposed method achieves not only better accuracy in both realism (FID) and diversity (LPIPS) in the test set, but also works well on the real-world images collected from the Internet.

Study on High Resilient Structures for IoT Systems to Detect Accidents

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 1073-1080
Author(s):  
Hideyuki Shintani ◽  
◽  
Tomomi Aoyama ◽  
Ichiro Koshijima
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Covariance Structure ◽  
Cyber Physical Systems ◽  
System Structure ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Physical Systems ◽  
The Real ◽  
Human In The Loop ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Internet Of Things

In order to operate the Internet of Things (IoT) or Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) in the real world, the system needs to be structured to have people in the real world incorporated as a part of its process: Human-in-the-Loop CPS (HITLCPS). With people in the real world incorporated as a part of its process, the system must have a secure structure to be able to continue operating normally. With sensors, actuators and other devices connected in a network, it becomes vulnerable to cyberattacks; hence, its framework must be resilient and secure in order to ensure its safety in the face of any disturbances. In this paper, we describe a safety-based secure system structure, using a STAMP model and a covariance structure.

Real-world progress in overcoming the challenges of adaptive spatial planning in marine protected areas

2015 ◽  
Vol 181 ◽  
pp. 54-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morena Mills ◽  
Rebecca Weeks ◽  
Robert L. Pressey ◽  
Mary G. Gleason ◽  
Rose-Liza Eisma-Osorio ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Marine Protected Areas ◽  
Real World ◽  
Spatial Planning

Current Issues: Evidence-Based Practice for the Real World: Thoughts on Clinical Education in Communication Disorders

2010 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 100-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne K. Bothe
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Education ◽  
Real World ◽  
Evidence Based Practice ◽  
Communication Disorders ◽  
University Faculty ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Speech Language Pathology ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
The Real ◽  
Language Pathology

This article presents some streamlined and intentionally oversimplified ideas about educating future communication disorders professionals to use some of the most basic principles of evidence-based practice. Working from a popular five-step approach, modifications are suggested that may make the ideas more accessible, and therefore more useful, for university faculty, other supervisors, and future professionals in speech-language pathology, audiology, and related fields.

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