Beach Week

Beach week: a high school graduation rite of passage for sun, sand, suds, and sex.

BACKGROUND Every year, thousands of suburban high school graduates from mid Atlantic states flock to nearby coastal beaches for a long-anticipated rite of passage known as "beach week." Sand, sun, and sea, and also smoking, binge drinking, drugs, and sex, are reported to be dominant themes. OBJECTIVE To document risk-taking behaviors by girls during beach week. METHOD Fifty-nine female subu...

Beach 2014 Theory Summary Beach 2014 Theory Summary

I summarize key aspects of the quest for physics beyond the Standard Model in flavour physics as discussed at the BEACH 2014 conference in Birmingham.

Macroinfauna of Wainui Beach, Gisborne - impact of beach protection structures

BEACH 2014 Theory Summary

I summarize key aspects of the quest for physics beyond the Standard Model in flavour physics as discussed at the BEACH 2014 conference in Birmingham.

The Crane Beach Conjecture

A language L over an alphabet A is said to have a neutral letter if there is a letter e ∈ A such that inserting or deleting e’s from any word inA does not change its membership (or non–membership) in L. The presence of a neutral letter affects the definability of a language in first–order logic. It was conjectured that it renders all numerical predicates apart from the order predicate useless, ...