Shepherd's Cottage, Suffolk

The Magic Cottage:

This paper presents an exploratory study that investigates the impact of using a Virtual Reality Environment (VRE) on enhancing creativity in imaginative writing at primary school level. The intervention was to present the pupils with an interactive 3D environment, using Virtual Reality (VR) technology, that provided the setting in which their stories could take place. Numerous interactive feat...

Algorithms, nymphs, and shepherds

Computability and complexity are the two major lines along which the science of algorithms has evolved; but the same concepts guide many human activities. We try to catch some glimpses of the connections between these two worlds, to meet the expectations of the audience. We will encounter nymphs and universal Turing Machines, ancient traditions and randomized procedures, all tending to the same...

The First Cottage Hospital

Growth Disorders in Young German Shepherds

Rapid Growth Problems The problems discussed here occur in the younger, rapidly growing German Shepherd. As German Shepherds are far more angulated than most breeds, they can appear to be having serious problems when in many cases they are going through fairly normal stages of development. Common problems are: 1. Excessive looseness of hocks, can be secondary to excessive depth of hindquarter a...

Unoccupied Beds in Cottage Hospitals

Cottage Hospitals?that the Cottage Hospital idea may have been rather overdone because of the steady falling off in the number of occupied beds, and that in England and Wales, excluding London, they had 1,839 beds vacant throughout the whole of last year. No one appreciates more than myself the value of Sir Napier Burnett's report, but I regret that he has lent the weight of his great authority...