Only the Legislation is Insufficient

Last resort: the threat of federal steroid legislation--is the proposed legislation constitutional?

The Only Constant Is Change

describe how software has penetrated so many of the systems and services that we as consumers often take for granted—airliners, mass transit, and washing machines—where it lies hidden in plain sight. Meanwhile, many of our other authors frequently write about the enabling technologies that have allowed software to become so influential—the methods, tools, and practices that enable software deve...

Change is the only constant.

‘Change’ is a word we hear a lot these days, especially when it comes to fundamental reforms in the Australian health industry. As this issue goes to print there is much discussion around the national health reform agenda, in particular the recently announced National Health and Hospitals Network. Over the next 12 months the merits and drawbacks of the reforms will be discussed and debated by p...

Low Rate Is Insufficient for Local Testability

Locally testable codes are error-correcting codes for which membership of a given word in the code can be tested probabilistically by examining it in very few locations. A linear code C ⊆ F2 is called sparse if dim(C) = O(log(n)). We say that a code C ⊆ F2 is -biased if all nonzero codewords of C have relative weight in the range ( 1 2 − , 1 2 + ), where may be a function of n. Kaufman and Suda...

Only watching others making their experiences is insufficient to enhance adult neurogenesis and water maze performance in mice

In the context of television consumption and its opportunity costs the question arises how far experiencing mere representations of the outer world would have the same neural and cognitive consequences than actively interacting with that environment. Here we demonstrate that physical interaction and direct exposition are essential for the beneficial effects of environmental enrichment. In our e...