Progress towards development of the progressive management pathway for improving aquaculture biosecurity (PMP/AB): Highlights of 2019 activities

Progress towards development of the progressive management pathway for improving aquaculture biosecurity (PMP/AB): Highlights of 2019 activities

Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.

Published: 2020-08-01

Total Pages: 42

ISBN-13: 9251331448

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This report highlights the accomplishments of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) consultations and round-table discussions on the PMP/AB that were held during 2019. These include the following: (i) the Second Multi-Stakeholder Consultation on the Progressive Management Pathway for Improving Aquaculture Biosecurity (PMP/AB2) (29–31 January 2019); (ii) the Progressive Management Pathway for Improving Aquaculture Biosecurity (PMP/AB): First Technical Working Group Meeting (TWG1) (20–22 March 2019); and (iii) the Roundtable Discussions on Aquaculture Biosecurity (22–26 July 2019). It reports on the progress made towards formulating, planning and developing implementation mechanisms for the PMP/AB, based on the comments and recommendations provided by the wide range of stakeholders and experts who participated in these events. In August 2019, the Tenth Session of the Committee on Fisheries (COFI) Sub-Committee on Aquaculture, held in Trondheim, Norway endorsed the PMP/AB and the development of a multidonor-assisted, long-term aquaculture biosecurity component of an aquaculture programme, including its five pillars. Therefore, the FAO, through its Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture, now has a mandate for the further development and implementation of the PMP/AB. Future activities include the establishment of an official Technical Working Group (TWG) that will drive the further development of the technical aspects of the PMP/AB, wider consensus building, initial application (pilot testing) and refinement of the PMP/AB tools, and resource mobilization for the aquaculture biosecurity programme. Guidance documents and resources for advocacy and training on the PMP/AB are currently in development to facilitate adoption at the national level.


Rough Sets

Rough Sets

Author: Víctor Flores

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-09-28

Total Pages: 596

ISBN-13: 3319471600

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Rough Sets, IJCRS 2016, held in Santiago de Chile, Chile, in October 2016. The 46 revised full papers presented together with 7 keynotes, tutorials and expert papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 108 submissions. The papers are grouped in topical sections on Rough Sets, Approximation and Granulation; Rough Sets, Non-Determinism and Incompleteness; Rough Sets and Three-way Decisions; Fuzziness and Similarity in Knowledge Representation; Machine Learning and Decision Making; Ranking and Clustering; Derivation and Application of Rules and Trees; Derivation and Application of Feature Subsets.


The Language of Luxe

The Language of Luxe

Author: Ed Ng (Architect)

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781935935544

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Founded over a decade ago, AB Concept has confirmed its position as one of Asia's most ambitious, forward-thinking architectural and design firms. Honoured with an array of international awards, AB Concept has been behind some of the world's most acclaimed executive developments as well as hospitality and residential projects. For the first time in their decade-long history, cofounders Ed Ng and Terence Ngan have compiled their stunning projects into one collection, Language of Luxe by AB Concept. Chronicling their projects over 300 pages, Language of Luxe maps AB Concept's evolution, offering an insight into the team's creative process and artistic vision. As Ed and Terence are authorities in their field, government bodies - including Create HK and Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) - regularly invite them to speak at public forums to promote Hong Kong as a design hub. Innovative and adventurous, Ed and Terence's designs are daring explorations of space and style, each one revealing their genuine respect for history, culture and the arts. Based in Hong Kong and with an office in Bangkok, Ed and Terence are part of a new generation of Asian designers who are bringing a cross-cultural aesthetic to their designs and making an impact on the international scene. Every AB Concept property reflects Ed and Terence's ability to make the elegant look effortless. Driven to create sensual spaces that seamlessly integrate form and function, their style dictum is simple: Understated rather than overkill. As AB Concept's lead architect, Hospitality Design named Terence Ngan as one of its 2010 'Wave of the Future' honorees, acknowledging both the originality of his designs and his technical mastery. For each project, Ed Ng introduces an element of surprise. Whether it's an unexpected use of colour or a modern twist on a classic form, each project tells a new story and evokes a sense of individuality. Together with select residential developments, Language of Luxe captures AB Concept's most acclaimed hospitality projects, including the SPA at the Mandarin Oriental Singapore, the W Retreat & Spa in Bali and Shangri-La's Far Eastern Plaza Hotel, Tainan.


Self-Reflection for the Opaque Mind

Self-Reflection for the Opaque Mind

Author: T. Parent

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2016-12-01

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 1317210964

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This volume attempts to solve a grave problem about critical self-reflection. The worry is that we critical thinkers are all in "epistemic bad faith" in light of what psychology tells us. After all, the research shows not merely that we are bad at detecting "ego-threatening" thoughts à la Freud. It also indicates that we are ignorant of even our ordinary thoughts—e.g., reasons for our moral judgments of others (Haidt 2001), and even mundane reasons for buying one pair of stockings over another! (Nisbett & Wilson 1977) However, reflection on one’s thoughts requires knowing what those thoughts are in the first place. So if ignorance is the norm, why attempt self-reflection? The activity would just display naivety about psychology. Yet while respecting all the data, this book argues that, remarkably, we are sometimes infallible in our self-discerning judgments. Even so, infallibility does not imply indubitability, and there is no Cartesian ambition to provide a "foundation" for empirical knowledge. The point is rather to explain how self-reflection as a rational activity is possible.


Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence

Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence

Author: Marzena Kryszkiewicz

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-06-22

Total Pages: 596

ISBN-13: 3319199412

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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence, PReMI 2015, held in Warsaw, Poland, in June/July 2015. The total of 53 full papers and 1 short paper presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 90 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: foundations of machine learning; image processing; image retrieval; image tracking; pattern recognition; data mining techniques for large scale data; fuzzy computing; rough sets; bioinformatics; and applications of artificial intelligence.


ECAI 2010

ECAI 2010

Author: European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence

Publisher: IOS Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 1184

ISBN-13: 160750605X

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LC copy bound in 2 v.: v. 1, p. 1-509; v. 2, p. [509]-1153.


Information and Software Technologies

Information and Software Technologies

Author: Robertas Damaševičius

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-08-28

Total Pages: 607

ISBN-13: 3319999729

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Information and Software Technologies, ICIST 2018, held in Vilnius, Lithuania, in October 2018. The 48 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 124 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on information systems; business intelligence for information and software systems; software engineering; and information technology applications.


QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE FOR CAT, SECOND EDITION

QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE FOR CAT, SECOND EDITION

Author: GUHA, ABHIJIT

Publisher: PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.

Published: 2019-07-01

Total Pages: 705

ISBN-13: 9389347033

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This fully-solved book has been developed exactly to suit the need of the CAT aspirants. The objective of this textbook is to test the skill of the candidate in applying the concept and logic in solving problems in Quantitative ability section. The USP of the book is that each chapter opens with a self-diagnostic test with analysis so that each aspirant can self-assess one's level and it also guides him the tactics for preparation for that chapter. Main text has been designed with CTP technique (Concept Through Problem) where each concept/theorem/rule has been explained with the help of an illustrated problem following it. CTP enables the reader to master over the concept and to learn as how to apply this in solving a problem in CAT. KEY FEATURES • Each Chapter has Quick concept followed by main text. • It includes Practice sets of problems (with answers and solutions) under three headings: o CAT–START o CAT–TITA (Non-MCQ) o CAT–SPEED • It incorportaes 800 + solved examples and 1500 + practice problems • The Learning Centre section on our website www.phindia.com contains: o Previous years' CAT papers with answers o Mock CAT papers


Education and the Development of Reason (International Library of the Philosophy of Education Volume 8)

Education and the Development of Reason (International Library of the Philosophy of Education Volume 8)

Author: R.F. Dearden

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-02-25

Total Pages: 413

ISBN-13: 1135171106

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Deals with the nature of education and discusses various general aims, such as 'mental health', 'socialization' and 'creativity' which have been thought to characterize it. This book examines the nature of reason and its relationship to feeling, will and action. It considers the development of different aspects of reason in an educational context.