When a node first starts, it only knows of its immediate neighbours, and the direct cost involved in reaching them.

Its immediate neighbours include the Solomon Islands and New Caledonia, and Australasia is the closest continent.

In 1184, the Pomeranians, whose rule had previously extended as far as the land of Gützkow and to Demmin and thus made them the immediate neighbours of the now Danish Principality of Rugia, were commissioned by their overlord, the Holy Roman Emperor, to seize Rügen for the empire, but were defeated in the Bay of Greifswald.

The dukedom survived mainly because it was larger than its immediate neighbours.

His immediate cell neighbours were a rapist and a murderer.

In simple symmetric random walk on a locally finite lattice, the probabilities of the location jumping to each one of its immediate neighbours are the same.

Taking work as a private tutor, Watts lived with the Nonconformist Hartopp family at Fleetwood House, on Church Street in Stoke Newington, and later in the household of their immediate neighbours Sir Thomas Abney and Lady Mary.

The beginning of Samudragupta's reign was marked by the defeat of his immediate neighbours, Achyuta, ruler of Ahichchhatra, and Nagasena.

First, as many players as possible line up such that they can whisper to their immediate neighbours but not hear any players further away.

The Gujral Doctrine is a set of five principles to guide the conduct of foreign relations with India ’ s immediate neighbours as spelt out by Gujral, first as India ’ s External Affairs Minister and later as the Prime Minister.

If a node wants to find a resource on the network, which may be on a node it does not know about, it could simply broadcast its search query to its immediate neighbours.

In other words, the probability that a random variable assumes a value depends on the other random variables only through the ones that are its immediate neighbours.

* All Sweden's immediate neighbours drove on the right ( including Norway, with which Sweden has a long land border ).

This caused immediate tensions with its neighbours.

Among his immediate neighbours were the Kearney family, ancestors of U. S. President Barack Obama.

Bisley's immediate neighbours are West End, Chobham and Knaphill.

Their immediate neighbours are Aka ( Hrusso ), Miji ( Sajalong / Dhammai ), Sherdukpen and Monpa.

Genua was most likely established as a far flung colony of the Morporkian Empire, thus explaining why it shares more similarities with Ankh-Morpork / Sto Plains than its immediate neighbours Überwald and Muntab.

Her testimony negated the positive testimonies of neighbours who had heard Thompson crying out in horror during her husband ’ s murder, and the statements from police who dealt with the immediate investigation stating that Thompson appeared to be in a genuine state of shock and disbelief and attested to her assertions of, “ Oh God, why did he do it ?” and, “ I never wanted him to do it ”.

Those groups who were immediate neighbours to the warring Fulbe, such as the Vute and Gbaya, dislodged others who lay in their path, such as Cameroon's Bantu peoples.

* Interactions are primarily but not exclusively with immediate neighbours and the nature of the influence is modulated.

Its immediate neighbours are St James's Cathedral ( Anglican ) and St Michael's Cathedral ( Roman Catholic ) and the trio of similarly designed churches are a striking Christian witness immediately adjacent to Canada's financial hub.

All the following are Meisburg ’ s immediate neighbours:

The immediate neighbours of router E are router C and router D. DUAL in router E asks for the reported distance from routers C and D respectively to router A.

The immediate families of the generals and the admirals are well fed: a despot does not economize on his generals.

There was no reference to the incident on the stairs, his powers being absorbed by this more immediate business.

The extent to which we can persuade the less developed countries to appraise their own resources, to set targets toward which they should be working, to establish in the light of this forward perspective the most urgent priorities for their immediate attention, and to do the other things which they must do to help themselves, all on a realistic long-term basis, will depend importantly on the incentives we place before them.

But if space and money are no problem and small children are not on hand every day, it is certainly more restful to have your pool and entertainment area removed from the immediate environs of the house.

Louise climbed onto a stool and clutched the hand with which I was trying to hold the phone, claiming my immediate attention on grounds of extreme emergency.

Thus he may be referring to some concrete thing, or incident, in his immediate environment by some symbolic-sounding, hyperbolic reference to transcendental events on the global scene.

that on the immediate horizon, if further large-scale ( relatively speaking ) desegregation comes, it will result from court orders on suits filed in several Middle-South states.

If the patient can perceive figure kinesthetically when he cannot perceive it visually, then, it would seem, the sense of touch has immediate contact with the spatial aspects of things in independence of visual representations, at least in regard to two dimensions, and, as we shall see, even this much spatial awareness on the part of unaided touch is denied by the authors.

Time perspective -- the ability to plan for the future and to postpone gratifying immediate wants in order to achieve long-range objectives -- is more easily developed if, from infancy on, the individual has been able to rely on and trust people and the world in which she lives.

But with the months moving on -- and the immediate confrontations with the Communists showing no gain for the free world -- the question arises:

The state is now faced with the immediate question of raising new taxes whether on utilities, real estate or motor vehicles, he said, `` and I challenge Mitchell to tell the people where he stands on the tax issue ''.

Merritt D. Hill, Ford Motor Co. vice president, says his company is starting to get calls daily from dealers demanding immediate delivery or wanting earlier shipping dates on orders for corn pickers.

So, too, was the insistence on the relativity of the external world, and the ideas that language and things perceived by consciousness were poor substitutes indeed for immediate perception by pure, indwelling spirit: the opposition of pure consciousness to ratiocinating consciousness.

* They composed and performed personally for friends and associates on topics of immediate interest to them ;

others which were near-ready on an immediate basis, in addition to two additional ones a year later.

Upon completing their initial adjustments, the pair configured Orion for their three-day stay on the lunar surface, removed their spacesuits and took initial geological observations of the immediate landing site.

Under the Act of Settlement, male-preference primogeniture succession of an Anglican legitimate descendant of the Electress Sophia is automatic and immediate, neither depending on, nor waiting for, any proclamation.

The results of this work was the report A Public Trust at Risk: The Heritage Health Index Report on the State of America's Collections, which was published in December 2005 and concluded that immediate action is needed to prevent the loss of 190 million artifacts that are in need of conservation treatment.

Critics of the 18th century — Guichard Folard and the Prince de Ligne — were unanimous in thinking Aelian greatly inferior to Arrian, but Aelian exercised a great influence both on his immediate successors, the Byzantines, and later on the Arabs, ( who translated the text for their own use ).

The feature was launched on Monday, August 13, 1934 in eight North American newspapers — including the New York Mirror — and was an immediate success.