Why Are Radar Data so Difficult to Assimilate Skillfully?

Small Targets: Why are they So Difficult to Acquire?

Facilitating the acquisition of small targets is an active area of research. Despite the usefulness of the techniques proposed so far, we show why this topic can benefit from more fundamental work. We investigate three factors that might account for the observed drop in performance when selecting small targets: motor accuracy, visual legibility and quantization. Our findings suggest that visual...

Why is ALS so Difficult to Treat?

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is proving intractable. Difficulties in pre-clinical studies contribute in small measure to this futility, but the chief reason for failure is an inadequate understanding of disease pathogenesis. Many acquired and inherited processes have been advanced as potential causes of ALS but, while they may predispose to disease, it seems increasingly likely that none...

Why are the next steps in biomaterials research so difficult?

Strategically, ‘biomaterials research’ should be refocusing its science on new areas – but it has not! Traditionally, biomaterials research has been heavily leveraged in ‘synthetic biomaterials product-testing’, but it should be moving towards ‘biological materials and clinical research’. There is an adage (Lubin’s Rule) that says ‘If another scientist thought your research was more important t...

Why Do Students Find Statistics So Difficult?

Why is Knowledge Management So Difficult?

The “big idea” with knowledge management is that in a fast-moving and increasingly competitive world, a firm’s only enduring source of advantage is its knowledge – the knowledge of its individual employees, and the knowledge that gets built into its structures and systems. Consulting companies and R&D organisations have known this for years, but increasingly even “old economy” firms in oil, ste...