Adapting man, as an organic link, to closed loop control
systems, is increasingly presenting problems to designers of
systems of any nature. Performance of the human in the systems
is dependent upon a multitude of recognized factors, and
many as yet unknown factors and variables.
In order to investigate the...
Practical parallel programming demands that the details of distributing data to processors and inter- processor communication be managed by the compiler. These tasks quickly become too di cult for a programmer to do by hand for all but the simplest parallel programs. Yet, many parallel languages still require the programmer...
It is usually assumed that most, if not all, small scale fishing communities, particularly in tropical countries, represents the poorest and most disadvantaged part of rural societies. As a result, these populations have been targeted for poverty alleviation by fisheries development programmes since the early 60's. Unfortunately many of these...
The arrival in the 1980s of cultured shrimp has induced large changes on the World shrimp market. In this new environment, the French Guyana fishery production now competes strongly with some of these farm-produced shrimp. Consequently, this fishery has experienced serious export problems during the last decade. This paper is...
The incorporation of fisheries commodities into the International Food Policy Research Institute’s (IFPRI) International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade (IMPACT) model suggests that demand for fisheries products will rise faster than supply over the next two decades, and that fishery commodity prices will rise relative to...
In Africa, there is a growing awareness of the need to learn from the fisheries experiences of Asia, where the fisheries conditions are similar, to solve the deepening crisis in fisheries and poverty in the continent. As a response, technical assistance in the areas of fish stock assessment, fisheries management...