He called the idea an "illiberal measure that constrains rather than sustains Bristol" and wants to see it scrapped.
He opposes any measures that would constrain where his institute's scientists publish.
But measures that could slow growth or constrain consumption will be politically unfeasible, Mr. Kerner said, as they will undermine the government's base of support.
Bob Furness, a seabird biologist at the University of Glasgow, U.K., says the data could provide strong evidence for the need to improve measures that reduce the seabird bycatch or constrain certain fisheries.
Already encumbered with new health care burdens, employers are faced with additional legislative measures that seem to know no bound and constrain new hires.
The fact that measures of richness and of range size are related to each other in ways that constrain their possible values has been, until very recently [6], consistently ignored in the literature of biodiversity patterns.
These two meta-analyses are informative but their use of effect sizes rather than primary data constrained the biodiversity measures that could be considered.
Aircraft repair conditions were simulated by using a steel bonding rig that constrained the effective thermal expansion to the level measured from real locally heated aircraft structures.
Is that constraining investment in day-to-day operations?
Mr. Manahan said he does not find that constraining.
