I have written several times before about how measures of social and economic well-being in the United States have slipped compared to other advanced countries.
He'd been working on papers that investigated how measures such as lactate threshold, running economy and lung capacity (all of which have a limiting effect on running speed and endurance) related to athletic performance.
This demonstrates elegantly how measures which seek to curtail activities causing emissions - like ETS - are a lot tougher to sell than those designed to incentivise investment in cleaner technologies.
"They will be looking for ways of showing how measures in the Queen's speech will help ease the squeeze on living standards – but anything they can come up with is likely to be small beer compared with the scale of the challenge," said Kelly.
In a crowdsourcing effort, the Smithsonian last year began inviting visitors to provide audio descriptions on mobile devices of the nearly 137 million objects in its collection — an example of how measures primarily to help people with disabilities can often benefit the public.
In this paper we discuss why and how measures related to human aspects should be incorporated into software development processes.
