Like a number of gull species, the silver gull Larus novaehollandiae has expanded its population in response to human food subsidy. The major anthropogenic food source is food waste at rubbish tips. Other sources of human food waste are also exploited. Many problems result from the activities of these birds, including human health and safety, economic impacts, and effects on the conservation of...

on its production. The first part consists in an enumeration of the duties of a Sanitary Inspector and an explanation of each duty. Part II is entitled " Sanitary Facts " and explains what is meant by night-soil, urine, rubbish, cesspools and open drains. Then comes a short description of various diseases as plague, t}'phoid, small-pox, etc. Part III gives a short account of the characters of g...

The second half of Ethics, Part 5, presents Spinoza’s theory of the participation of human minds in the eternal. Although this theory constitutes the culmination of the Ethics, it has often proven opaque to even its most attentive and penetrating readers. Edwin Curley has written candidly, “In spite of many years of study, I still do not feel that I understand this part of the Ethics at all ade...

2 Robot Design 3 2.1 Mechanical Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.2 Localisation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.3 Rubbish detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2.4 Classification of Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 2.5 The main control cycle . ....

The pronouncements of the ENCODE Project Consortium regarding "junk DNA" exposed the need for an evolutionary classification of genomic elements according to their selected-effect function. In the classification scheme presented here, we divide the genome into "functional DNA," that is, DNA sequences that have a selected-effect function, and "rubbish DNA," that is, sequences that do not. Functi...

When are tabloid newspapers going to tire of the 'naughty nurse' fantasy (news December 6)? The Sun has produced yet another stereotypical pile of rubbish, this time publicising a 100% Real Nurses calendar.