Assessing real progress towards effective ocean protection

Assessing progress towards global marine protection targets: shortfalls in information and action

Current global marine protection targets aim to protect 10-30% of marine habitats within the next 3 to 5 years. However, these targets were adopted without prior assessment of their achievability. Moreover, our ability to monitor progress towards such targets has been constrained by a lack of robust data on marine protected areas (MPAs). Here we present the results of the first explicitly marin...

Effective Coverage as a New Metric for Monitoring Progress towards Universal Health Coverage

Recent Progress towards a Cost - Effective Neutrino Factory Design

A Neutrino Factory, sending > 10 20 decay neutrinos per year from a high-energy stored muon beam towards remote detectors, has been suggested as the ultimate tool for precision measurement of the neutrino mixing matrix. Following two rounds of design studies that focused primarily on feasibility, the latest such study has begun the process of cost optimization. New ideas include muon 'phase rot...

Progress Towards Effective Automated Reasoning with World Knowledge

There is a growing demand for automated reasoning with world knowledge. SPASS-XDB is an automated reasoning system that incorporates world knowledge from multiple external sources, asynchronously on demand, during its reasoning process. This paper describes how SPASS-XDB’s reasoning is focussed and controlled, its sources of world knowledge, and their use in solving a range of test problems.

Progress in ocean wave forecasting

Progress in ocean wave forecasting is described in the context of the fundamental law for wave prediction: the energy balance equation. The energy balance equation gives the rate of change of the sea state caused by adiabatic processes such as advection, and by the physical source functions of the generation of ocean waves by wind, the dissipation due to whitecapping and the nonlinear four-wave...