Why bother with mental representations?

Why Bother With Syntax?

Rohit and I go back a long way. We started talking about Dynamic Logic back when I was a graduate student, when we would meet at seminars at MIT (my advisor Albert Meyer was at MIT, although I was at Harvard, and Rohit was then at Boston University). Right from the beginning I appreciated Rohit’s breadth, his quick insights, his wit, and his welcoming and gracious style. Rohit has been interest...

Why bother with nectar?

Orchids comprise one of the most spectacular groups of flowering plants but they are rather a mean bunch: a large number of species go to some length to attract pollinators but produce no nectar or other reward for their visit. This is a highly unusual strategy amongst flowering plants. So how do such ‘rewardless’ species manage to propagate themselves while surrounding plants must reward their...

Mental health consumer and carer participation: why we bother.

Omega — why Bother with Unicode?

Yannis Haralambous’ and John Plaice’s Omega system employs Unicode as its coding system. This short note (which previously appeared in the UKTUG magazine Baskerville volume 5, number 3) considers the rationale behind Unicode itself and behind its adoption for Omega.

Congenital anomalies--why bother?

The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025729X 15 March 2010 192 6 300-301 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2010 www.mja.com.au Editorials system, including the considerable expense of provid to screen for, diagnose and terminate pregnancie major congenital anomalies (Down syndrome and defects in particul r). Importantly, some anomalies able, including neural tube defects (70% preventa quate ...