Some 8 yr ago, my predecessor as an editor-in-chief (EIC) of the British Journal of Anaesthesia (BJA), Jennie Hunter, wrote an editorial entitled ‘A fond farewell’ in the final issue she was involved in preparing and the following month, I wrote one entitled ‘Changes and challenges’ marking my first solo issue. The time has now come for me to take my fond farewell and to continue the theme it m...

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Throughout, R will be a commutative ring with identity with total quotient ring T (R), group of units U(R), set of zero-divisors Z(R), and Jacobson radical J(R). For a; b 2 R, we de...ne three associate relations: 1. We say a and b are associate, denoted a » b, if ajb and bja, (a) = (b). 2. We say a and b are strongly associate, denoted a 1⁄4 b, if there exists a u 2 U (R) such that a = ub. 3. ...

There is some intuitive plausibility to the idea that composers create musical works by indicating sonic types in a historical context. But the idea is technically indefensible as it stands, requiring a thorough representational reform that also eliminates the type-theoretic commitments of current versions. On the reformed account, musical 'indication' is an operation of high level representati...