Typical challenges in an academic environment are short-term contracts, island solutions, pragmatic approaches and loose documentation.
A leading international surgeon who has advised on the future of children's heart surgery in Northern Ireland has said there is a real willingness to make an "all-island" solution work.
The paper proposes a new variation of BBO, named ecogeography-based optimization (EBO), which regards the population of islands (solutions) as an ecological system with a local topology.
"I'm not going to dump on Shelter Island the solution to a regional problem," he said, referring to "bridge" traffic from New England and New York City that crosses Shelter Island to get to the South Fork and which islanders blame for traffic jams.
The anti-embargo crowd should drop its rhetoric about promoting democracy and be honest: the one reason for their push to lift sanctions on Cuba is to pander to well-intentioned American farmers, who have been misled by the agribusiness giants into believing that going into business with a bankrupt Communist island is a solution to the farm crisis in America.
"There has to be an island of Ireland solution that we can live with, and it is critical that we have an Irish government fighting our corner, so the big challenge in the next few weeks is whether the government in the north and the south can come to a common position.
Instead, our combination of both calculated phase diagram (CALPHAD) calculations and experimental verifications indicate that the single phase region in the Co-Cr-Fe-Ni HEA system can be extended from a point to a large single phase solid solution island.
He is the editor of the definitive text on the field, "Road Ecology: Science and Solutions" (Island Press, 2003).
We do that even as we maintain our view that, whatever myriad problems the peoples of these islands face, the solution is not nationalism.
