The invisible neighbours

Learning from the neighbours.

Earlier this summer a middle-aged man with a history of degenerative disk disease in his neck came to see me after an episode of acute low back pain following an active weekend of yard work at his cottage. He had no red-flag symptoms, but he had managed to convince the resident who had seen him 10 days earlier to send him for lumbar x-ray scans and some “routine” blood tests. Not surprisingly, ...

Nextdoor Neighbours

4 HOW THE MEDIA SHOWS AUSTRALIA/NS 4.1 Australian Values 4.2 Identifying as Australian Figure 4 Figure 5 5 THE PICTURE OF AUSTRALIA/NS IN THE MEDIA 5.1 Blonde and blue eyed 5.1.1 Family structure and relationships 5.1.2 Attitudes to sex and sexual relationships 5.1.3 Acceptability of violence 5.1.4 Attitude to work and education 5.1.5 Importance of Religion 5.2 Beer drinking 5.3 Sport loving 5....

Semiring Neighbours

In 1996 Zhou and Hansen proposed a first-order interval logic called Neighbourhood Logic (NL) for specifying liveness and fairness of computing systems and also defining notions of real analysis in terms of expanding modalities. After that, Roy and Zhou presented a sound and relatively complete Duration Calculus as an extension of NL. We present an embedding of NL into an idempotent semiring of...

Smoothing Using Nearest Neighbours

Condor's new neighbours

or next to streams, for example — are left unploughed. Farmers have also left broader field margins alongside hedgerows uncultivated, which have proved a vital asset for many species. Estimates suggest that, in the UK, the rotational set-aside is most likely the first to be ploughed, with 75–80 per cent vulnerable to cultivation whereas only about 25–30 per cent of the permanent set-aside is th...