The benefits of a specialist epilepsy nurse in the management of people with epilepsy are still in question. Evidence from controlled clinical trials suggests that patients supported by a nurse specialist are well informed and have a high degree of satisfaction. However, no significant effect on health status or the number of seizures has been yet demonstrated, although this is not the primary ...

I worked with Peter for eight years and during that time I learned a great deal from a man who had an abundance of drive and enthusiasm. I had been warned he had quite a bark and that it was often heard, which was very true. He could be forthright about his views as many of us probably know from having been at the receiving end or overhearing from a distance. His bark was tempered though by an ...

1 This paper is dedicated to my colleague and friend Alexandru Mateescu, the first author of Parikh matrix mapping.

What role does visualisation—such as images and maps—play in environmental landscape governance? As pointed out by our late colleague Eirin Hongslo, surprisingly little research has been conduc...

We love to talk about the unintended consequences of others’ technological innovations. document air pollution and traffic congestion accompanying automobile dependence, surrender personal privacy in order gain online convenience, political violence abetted by social media algorithms optimized generate advertising revenue.

1 This paper provides an account of deenite and pronominal anaphora which draws together insights from dynamic semantics and situation semantics. The result is a dynamic semantics in which contexts consist of the parts of a scenario which have been brought to a hearer's attention. The contexts are structured by meta-level disjunction, corresponding to a set of situations where one is in attenti...

A colleague heading a research group recently contacted me. The group had a piece of software that it was about to license out to a company. The software encapsulated the results of several years of work: some fancy algorithms for data manipulation. The company would take over the source code to maintain and evolve it. My colleague wanted to know what sort of “objectively testable guarantees” h...