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  Neighbourhood system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A neighbourhood basis or local basis for a point x is a filter base of the neighbourhood filter, i.e.
Trivially the neighbourhood system for a point is also a neighbourhood basis for the point.
Every neighbourhood system for a non empty set A is a filter called the neighbourhood filter for A.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Neighbourhood_system   (253 words)

  
 Complexity theory and the new public management
The world of complex systems is one of surprises but, as with scenario planning exercises, it may be possible to consider the range of possible attractors and work back to identify the early-warning signs that would suggest a new scenario – perhaps a new system state – is emerging.
Clearly, whether a system is at a strange attractor is of great policy importance as it suggests that a parameter change may cause dramatic change for the system, beyond its ability to damp down the perturbation.
A run-down neighbourhood is likely to be at a strange attractor and neighbourhood renewal is a type of energy input that seeks to move the neighbourhood towards equilibrium.
www.whb.co.uk /socialissues/tb.htm   (5801 words)

  
 The Neighbourhood System - Introduction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The neighbourhood fare system remains as the single greatest upheaval that Melbourne's public transport ticketing arrangements have ever gone through - indeed, if the previous zone system was viewed as the cocoon, then the neighbourhoods were the metamorphosis.
The neighbourhood fare structure is perhaps an interesting system to review, as it lies in the middle ground between the trials with multi-modal tickets in the 1970's and the automation of Melbournes fare collection in the mid-1990's.
The system represented the fruition of those 1970's ideas, and then itself, was responsible for concepts that the later AFC system had to be designed to accomodate.
www.railpage.org.au /metcard/nhood/html/nhintro.html   (409 words)

  
 Ian Mason's Creating Neighbourhood Community   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
There is a small neighbourhood in Heathcote, Sydney, whereby the residents have an acre of park that they have removed weeds and revegetated every 1st Saturday of the month for the past 8 years, pulling the neighbourhood together.
Neighbourhoods in Adelaide are starting to have gatherings and street parties, whereby people get to know the other people in their neighbourhood.
There is a small neighbourhood in Heathcote, Sydney, whereby the residents have an acre of park that they have removed weeds and revegetated to native woodland every 1st Saturday of the month for the past 8 years, pulling the neighbourhood together.
home.bluepin.net.au /sdn/ian_mason/communitybooklet.htm   (1799 words)

  
 Homepage
In this process, the system creats a root directory for you and this is depicted by the consumption of some meagre amount of your quota space (typically 2,048 bytes).
The neighbourhoods page is essentially for browsing through neighbourhoods, viewing their members or even joining a neighbourhood.
Neighbourhoods are created in a somewhat similar fashion to folders, only that they do not have anything to do with the physical filesystem.
jamesthornton.com /doc/homepage.html   (4443 words)

  
 ZNet | Latin America | The People's Assemblies in Argentina
It's a rough majority system although to be honest it is in flux and nobody counts the votes very closely.
Although the media system is fundamentally corporate and right wing many of the journalists are hit by the same problems as everybody else.
When I asked a cab driver what he thought of of the piqueteros he said 'what else are they supposed to do' and that blockading the roads 'was an important part of the struggle.' That said, there are large portions of the population who wouldn't have even heard of the assemblies.
www.zmag.org /content/LatinAmerica/plath_argentina.cfm   (1982 words)

  
 How the local government system works
The general objectives of the system of local government established by and under the Local Government Act, “are to involve as many citizens as possible in the task of managing and developing the communities in which they live and ensuring popular participation in organising the political, economic, social and cultural life of those communities”.
The local government system is contained in several pieces of legislation, with the main ones being the Local Government Act, the Local Democratic Organs Act, the Municipal and District Councils Act, the Local Authorities (Elec-tions Act), and the Amerindian Act.
However councillors and the officers of the neighbourhood which covers a large number of villages on the East Bank of Demerara are appreciated as garbage is picked up on time and some of the old problems of flooding and drainage are not as bad as five years ago.
www.landofsixpeoples.com /news304/ns311013.htm   (13600 words)

  
 Neighbourhood Management - A Key Instrument in Integrative Urban District Development
Neighbourhood managers should therefore be reachable at a local contact address ("community bureau") and, for example, offer advice under the motto "helping others to help themselves", promote personal commitment and responsibility by a variety of campaigns, and encourage residents to contribute their own ideas and talents to integrative urban renewal.
However, neighbourhood management is to be understood - at the neighbourhood level, not within the municipal organisation or in competence allocation - as a limited-term institution that promotes or creates self-supporting structures in the area, and thus makes itself obsolescent after five or ten years.
Neighbourhood management plays a key role in the programme: all experience has shown that without effective neighbourhood management and appropriate administrative and political structures, government and the citizenry would fall back into their old roles of service supplier and service demander, hindering the lasting, self-sustained reversal of the difficult developments in disadvantaged urban areas.
www.difu.de /english/occasional/neighbourhood-management.shtml   (7537 words)

  
 SA Neighbourhood Watch - About us   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
By that we mean that once a person has joined and committed themselves to the system, and when acting as members of SA Neighbourhood Watch stay within the system, they are not required to report back to a central controlling body, but operate autonomously, within the system.
The day to day operation of the system within the various neighbourhoods is completely decentralised, and the various neighbourhood watches raise their own funds and organise their own activities, staying within the parameters of the system.
Our System should be viewed as an addition and enhancement to the security arrangements people have, and should complement them, not be a replacement or substitute for them.
www.sanwatch3.homestead.com /aboutus.html   (1668 words)

  
 Krzysztof Ciesielski
Thus in general situation it is impossible to present a neighbourhood of a point as a union of "parallel" segments of trajectories.
In the case of dynamical systems the presented definition is equivalent to the classical one.
In some systems on not locally compact spaces it may happen that some trajectories "begin" inside the box and their time intervals are shorter.
www.utm.edu /~jschomme/topology/c/a/a/h/13.htm   (471 words)

  
 Neighbourhood of our solar system
The solar system is inside a "bubble" measuring 1,000 light years in diameter and filled with very dense and hot gas at a temperature of one million degrees.
This cavity, one million times bigger than our solar system, was probably created by a series of supernova explosions (or a single explosion of the gamma-ray burst type) over the last several million years.
It is also possible that it was blown through "tunnels" by massive stellar winds from the region neighboring Scorpius-Centaurus.
www.obspm.fr /actual/nouvelle/jun03/ssn.en.shtml   (810 words)

  
 NESTA Futurelab - showcase - neighbourhood   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Welcome to the Neighbourhood is a combination of sculpture and multimedia that helps people to inhabit the solar system (without leaving the surface of the earth).
Our initial focus was to understand what models of the solar system are currently held by members of the public and the questions that arise from them.
The second challenge was to develop a mechanical system that drives the sign about two axes as it points to and tracks celestial objects.
www.nestafuturelab.org /showcase/neighbourhood/neighbourhood.htm   (899 words)

  
 Parks and Open Space
A neighbourhood is generally considered to be an area served by one elementary school.
Generally, a neighbourhood park includes playgrounds for preschoolers and older children, open grass areas for informal sports and an area for recreation by people of all ages.
The Urban Trail System, adopted by Council in 1990 and updated to September 1997, is fully integrated with the previously approved trail system, providing for a comprehensive City-wide trail system for Burnaby.
www.city.burnaby.bc.ca /admin/PageFactory.aspx?PageID=1219   (3625 words)

  
 Democratic Reform   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
I believe an answer to the bioregional question lies within the development of a Neighbourhood Assembly System - a concept that I have been working on for a few years, which I originally drafted in response to the rampant apathy that is obvious in our nation.
A Neighbourhood Assembly forms when there is a neighbourhood issue or event to rally behind - something simple, such as a beach clean-up or a community barbeque on a special summer holiday.
A recall initiative may be started, whereby the NA system efficiently and successfully facilitates such an action to see the MP ousted and a new MP elected in a by-election.
www.krownstone.com /portal/politics/Richmond/nas.htm   (794 words)

  
 The Solar System Example Essays.com - Over 101,000 essays, term papers and book reports!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The solar system is the earth’s neighbourhood and the planets Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto are the Earth’s neighbours.
Scientists believe the solar system began about 5 billion years ago, perhaps when a nearby star exploded and caused a large cloud of dust and gas to collapse in on itself.
The early solar system was a turbulent mix of hot gas and rocky debris.
www.exampleessays.com /viewpaper/98136.html   (305 words)

  
 Crime Notifying Service   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
If you would like to register as a new user to this system, please go to New User Registration and complete the form.
If you have already registered on this system and would like to view and/or edit and/or remove your details, please go to Login For Existing Users and login.
By registering yourself onto this system, you are giving your consent for some personal information about yourself (username, password, email address and list of addresses) to be stored on the webserver for the sole use of providing this service.
www.highdownnhw.org /police/notify.php   (328 words)

  
 In a widely-reported study for the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing, Patrick Smith and Kennedy Stewart ...
The dilemma is neatly sidestepped under proportional representation systems, in which a voter may have considerable influence over the fortune of her party of choice, regardless of whether this is a larger or a smaller party.
A proposed SMD system has districts that conform well to existing neighbourhoods, that are reasonably compact, and that contain social mixes which should result in a council considerably more representative of geographical areas, social groups, and the minority party than the present one.
She or he might accomplish this by having a strong power base in one geographically concentrated neighbourhood, or in one ethnic community, or in a geographically diffuse community having something else in common, such as a commitment to the environment.
www.npsnet.com /cdd/PR-West.htm   (12622 words)

  
 Neighbourhood watch examines alerts system
According to the secretary of the Brookmans Park and Little Heath Neighbourhood Watch Scheme, Brenda Harris, a system is in place to cover all the areas where residents have requested neighbourhood watch activity.
The system involves the community police officer, Vojislav Mihailovic, contacting the neighbourhood watch team, and the information then being distributed over the phone and door-to-door.
Some neighbourhood watch co-ordinators also receive recorded messages from police headquarters with information to be spread throughout the community.
www.brookmans.com /news/january04/crimealert14.shtml   (439 words)

  
 ASAP Research Group : People : Salwani Abdullah   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Ahuja, Orlin, and Sharma [1] quoted that the critical issue in the design of neighbourhood search algorithm is the choice of the neighbourhood structure, that is the style in which the neighbourhood is outlined.
In Very Large Scale Neighbourhood, VLSN, the word very large is referring to an extremely large number of neighbours, where the size of a neighbourhood structure is increased with respect to the size of the input data.
Generally, the larger neighbourhood will give a better local optimal solution, but at the same time the larger neighbourhood needs longer time to search for the neighbour.
www.cs.nott.ac.uk /~sqa   (727 words)

  
 Extracting the Cliques from a Neighbourhood System - Paget, Longstaff (ResearchIndex)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Abstract: A method is proposed for obtaining the local clique set from a neighbourhood system.
The Markov random field model, which is used extensively in image processing, is defined with respect to a neighbourhood system.
We present a systematic method for extracting the complete local clique set from any neighbourhood system on which a Markov random field maybe defined.
citeseer.ist.psu.edu /547819.html   (497 words)

  
 REGIONS: Helsinki - It feels good to be safe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
He cites the example of homicides, virtually all of which are solved in Finland, largely thanks to the valuable help that members of the public give the police.
One of the ways in which cooperation with the public takes place is a neighbourhood policing system, which has proved an effective means of crime prevention.
The neighbourhood system has inspired residents to think what they can do to increase security and thereby improve their quality of life.
www.publiscan.fi /re14e-9.htm   (615 words)

  
 Linux Magazine - May 2001 | Feature Story | Understanding the Network Neighborhood
It runs on systems that are mounted in racks or stuck onto shelves in locked server rooms where only the geeks are brave enough to go.
In a moment of obvious inspiration, this system was dubbed "PC-Network." It had no support for routing and could only handle a maximum of about 80 nodes.
Per the RFCs, the same system that is running the NBNS also runs a service called the NetBIOS Datagram Distribution Server (NBDD); multicast datagrams are sent to the NBDD, which gets the list of IPs associated with the group name from the NBNS; the NBDD then forwards the datagram individually to each group member.
www.linux-mag.com /2001-05/smb_01.html   (3398 words)

  
 Fair Vote Canada Greater Vancouver Chapter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
How important is it to you that Vancouver's voting system should include a degree of neighbourhood representation, that is that different parts of the city should vote separately for candidates representing their area?
Not only has the downtown eastside become the largest slum in the country due to lack of representation on council, if anyone has to talk to council regarding a problem in their neighbourhood they have to survey nine different councillors to see who may be interested to champion their cause.
It is important to be elected at-large for the City, because we have neighbourhood representation already in the two other senior levels of governments.
www.alternatives.com /fvc/municipal_survey_data.html   (5642 words)

  
 The Neighbourhood System - What the media said   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Before reviewing how the media responded to the new neighbourhood fare structure, it should be pointed out that the critisism it created was by no means an isolated affair.
Change was viewed with suspicion, but changes to the system was precisely what the M.T.A. had been created to achieve, in order to try and keep the metropolitan transport operations viable.
The system came in for another round of critisism from late January as parents encountered confusion with purchasing new neighbourhood based student passes for 1984 and many were not happy at paying (in some cases) quite a lot more for their childrens school travel requirements.
www.railpage.org.au /metcard/nhood/html/nhmedia.html   (582 words)

  
 Experian Ireland Ltd
Irish MOSAIC is a sophisticated new neighbourhood segmentation system developed for the Republic of Ireland by Experian.
Some examples of the Groups included are 'Established Affluence' who are found in large detached homes in the most attractive and wealthy areas in the country; and 'City Singles and Sharers' whose cosmopolitan environment reflects a desire to be closely involved with the animation of city life.
Northern Ireland MOSAIC is a geodemographic classification of neighbourhoods in Northern Ireland.
www.experian.ie /micromarketing.html   (948 words)

  
 ponteland neighbourhood watch vmx   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
It is a computerised Voice Mail System (VMX) which allows Northumbria Police to send recorded messages from the Command Unit at Bedlington Police Station Neighbourhood Watch office to a selected distribution list of Neighbourhood Watch Scheme members.
To be entered on the system you are required to give your authorisation to receive messages, a pro-forma for your signature can be obtained from the Bedlington N.H.W. Desk.
Many of the schemes in Ponteland are already receiving information through this system and passing it on to the residents of their areas which is resulting in an excellent feedback of useful information from residents.
myweb.tiscali.co.uk /csnews/vmx.htm   (290 words)

  
 Neighbourhood (mathematics) - Enpsychlopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
If X is a topological space and p is a point in X, a neighbourhood of p is a set V, which contains an open set U containing p.
If S is a subset of X, a neighbourhood of S is a set V, which contains an open set U containing S.
It follows that a set V is a neighbourhood of S, if and only if, it is a neighbourhood of all the points in S.
www.grohol.com /wiki/Neighborhood_(topology)   (537 words)

  
 Keeping Neighbourhood Watch members informed
The Lincolnshire Police automated messaging system for Neighbourhood Watch allows Police personnel to broadcast messages to Scheme co-ordinators throughout the County.
By utilising this system Neighbourhood Watch members, through the co-ordinators, are kept informed of crimes and crime trends in their areas.
He has the responsibility for servicing and managing over 600 Neighbourhood Watch schemes and, as a retired Lincolnshire police officer, has a wealth of experience and knowledge which in invaluable to the Association, scheme co-ordinators and members.
www.bostonwithhollandnhw.co.uk /KeepingyouInformed.htm   (325 words)

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