Sydney Harbour has traditionally been seen as a classic case of fragmented governance, involving a multitude of agencies with partial and overlapping responsibilities and often conflicting agendas, and the management of Sydney Harbour being an outcome of the interplay between them. In 1998 this fragmentation was addressed by the appointment of a Sydney Harbour Manager, with a concern to harmoni...

Purpose: High-Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) is a training method aimed at increasing the fitness of individuals. It based on combination periods in which high-intensity alternate with low-intensity exercise or passive rest. The topic this paper reflection benefits and risks HIIT health use recreational athletes. We investigate humans' conscious unconscious motivations for choosing specific...

In the previous paper (Dawkins, Judah & Rees, 1959) it was shown that 10-(3-dimethylaminopropyl)-2-chlorophenothiazine (chlorpromazine) was an inhibitor of cytochrome oxidase and also exhibited some action against oxidative phosphorylation. During the course of this investigation, it became apparent that chlorpromazine also had a second point of action in the respiratory chain. This paper descr...

In 1993, I reported the results of preliminary work on the application of genetic algorithms (GA's) to music.1 This research was inspired by Oxford zoologist, Richard Dawkins2 who describes his journeys through a genetic cyberspace where he models the evolution or organisms he calls "biomorphs." Each biomorph is a small graphic image drawn by a recursive subdivision algorithm that is driven by ...

The orthodox view of the relationship between science and religion, exemplified by Stephen Gould’s “nonoverlapping magisteria” (NOMA) principle 1 is that they are fully compatible and thus can peacefully coexist. This view is exemplified by a National Academy of Sciences pamphlet on Science Evolution and Creationism and a related book by one of its leading authors 3 and it is also eloquently ex...

In this paper we study the emergence and the effects of a possession norm in an artificial society. We link the study of norms and the concept of memes as put forward by Richard Dawkins. Normative behaviour is modelled using memes as carriers for certain behaviours. For our simulations we extend the sugarscape model from Epstein and Axtell (1996) and give the agents the possibility to claim pos...