Residences located close to urban parks frequently sell at a premium. The increased home values represent a ‘capitalization’ of a park’s value to proximate homeowners and this phenomenon has been termed ‘the proximate principle’. The evolution of the principle from squares and gardens in small private estates to large park areas occurred with the development of Regent’s Park in London. The prox...

The study was carried out to determine the proximate and quantitative phytochemical analysis of two species Detarium microcarpum from Kano state, north-western Nigeria. Proximate composition sample A shows a moisture content 13.86±0.002, Ash 3.73±0.030, lipid 9.40±0.059, crude protein 21.20±0.360, fiber 4.52±0.038 carbohydrate 47.50±1.06, while B 14.32±0.082, 2.27±0.360, 4.72±0.372, 17.88±0.102...

While enormous progress has been made in unraveling the proximate physiological mechanisms that account for anxiety, stress, and low mood, these states continue to give rise to considerable conceptual confusion. This is, in part, because proximate studies have neither been adequately distinguished from, nor integrated with, evolutionary explanations for the adaptive functions of anxiety, stress...

In the 2D point searching problem, our goal is to preprocess n points P = {p1, . . . , pn} in the plane so that, for an online sequence of query points q1, . . . qm, we can quickly determine which (if any) of the elements of P are equal to each query point qi. This problem can be solved in O(log n) time by mapping the problem down to one dimension. We present a data structure that is optimized ...

Changes in proximate composition, colour and textural characteristics of ozone-processed shrimp as affected by combined effects of increasing ozone exposures and iced storage were investigated and for the first time. Whilst proximate composition comprised of fat, moisture, and protein contents and colour comprised of L*, a*, b* and metric chroma (C), the texture comprised of adhesiveness, fract...

In recent years, a small group of animal behaviorists has been calling for a renewed focus on proximate mechanisms in the study of behavioral evolution (Kennedy, 1992; Stamps, 1991). These calls have been made to counter the current view, implicit in most contemporary analyses of animal behavior, that we can understand ultimate causation without worrying about the mechanistic details. As noted ...