THE DESTRUCTOR NUISANCE AT TORQUAY.

Precious and base metal selenide mineralization at Hope's Nose, Torquay, Devon

Precious and base metal selenide minerals have been identified in gold-bearing carbonate veins cutting Middle Devonian limestones of the Torquay Limestone Group at Hope's Nose, Torquay. The selenide assemblage consists of clausthalite (PbSe), tiemannite (HgSe), klockmannite (CuSe), umangite (Cu3Se2), tyrrellite (Cu,Co,Ni)3Se4, trustedtite (Ni3Se4), penroseite (NiSe2), naumannite (AgzSe), eucair...

Cluster theory and competitive Advantage: the Torquay surfing experience

This paper aims to explain the global expansion of the Rip Curl and Quiksilver surfing brands through the lens of Michael Porter’s cluster theory of comparative advantage (Porter, 1998). According to Porter, a cluster of linked businesses can generate commercial synergies and strengths that enable it to achieve a global presence even when it is geographically distant from the major world market...

The elimination of nuisance parameters

We review the Bayesian approach to the problem of the elimination of nuisance parameters from a statistical model. Many Bayesian statisticians feel that the framework of Bayesian statistics is so clear and simple that the elimination of nuisance parameters should not be considered a problem: one has simply to compute the marginal posterior distribution of the parameter of interest. However we w...

Neighborhoods as Nuisance

Diseases Due to Medical Treatment *A paper read at the B.M.A. Annual Meeting, Torquay, 21st June 1960.