Close Quarters Battle

Pantry, Kitchen & Servant's Quarters

Comfortable Quarters for Rabbits in Research Institutions

In the past, laboratory rabbits have usually been kept singly in small cages that provide neither social nor environmental enrichment, and frequently the cages have been too small to permit some normal behaviors such as sitting up on the hind legs, hopping, digging, and hiding. Stereotypical bar licking or chewing, pawing at the corners of the cage, psychogenic polydipsia, and excessive self-gr...

Close to close packing ∗

For various lattice gas models with nearest neighbour exclusion (and, in one case, second-nearest neighbour exclusion as well), we obtain lower bounds on m, the average number of particles on the non-excluded lattice sites closest ∗We dedicate this work to the memory of Ann Stell, beloved friend of OP and beloved wife of GS.

The last battle.

When Australian soldiers returned from World War I they were of ered the chance to settle on ‘land i t for heroes’. Promotional material painted a picture of prosperous farms and contented families, appealing to returned servicepeople and their families hoping for a fresh start. Yet just 20 years after the inception of these soldier settlement schemes, fewer than half of the settlers remained o...

Arctic battle deepens

Researchers were hoping the dramatic melting of Arctic ice recorded last year may have been exceptional, but the latest evidence suggests that this year's summer melting has been equally dramatic, with some scientists now predicting that the Arctic may be ice-free in the summer in as little as five year's time. While there has been much hand-wringing about the ecological consequences of such de...