Scientific evidence is fundamental for guiding effective conservation action to curb biodiversity loss. Yet, research resources in are often wasted due biased allocation of effort, irrelevant or low-priority questions, flawed studies, inaccessible outputs, and poor-quality reporting. We outline a striking example resources, highlight powerful case data rescue/reuse, discuss an exemplary model e...

The second concern is that irradiation may be used to conceal bacterial contamination of spoilt food without inactivating toxins generated by the earlier bacterial contamination."0 But the same need for good hygiene applies equally to other food processes like canning and freezing. Thirdly, there could be a novel pattern of nutrient loss either from the radiation or because irradiated "fresh" f...

BACKGROUND Surgical hand scrub (SHS) is an important antisepsis measure before participating in surgical operation. It reduces the risk of microbial contamination of the surgical wound by skin flora. SHS is usually performed in a scrub sink with taps that have hand operated handles. During the scrub process large volume of water is wasted. The aim of this study was to determine the volume of wa...

Let n random intervals I 1 ; : : : ; I n be chosen by selecting end-points independently from the uniform distribution on 0; 1]. A packing is a pairwise disjoint subset of the intervals; its wasted space is the Lebesgue measure of the points of 0; 1] not covered by the packing. In any set of intervals the packing with least wasted space is computa-tionally easy to nd; but its expected wasted sp...