‘Command of the air’: Alfred T. Mahan, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston S. Churchill and an Anglo-American personal diplomacy of air power

Franklin D. Roosevelt: his poliomyelitis and orthopaedics.

Winston Churchill and peer review

Welcome to the second edition of Clinical Ophthalmology. Once again, this edition refl ects the diversity of ophthalmology from basic science to state of the art clinical care. Colleagues in other specialties often ask me how I can maintain my interest in such a 'small' speciality but those of us who deal with the eye and its diseases, rather than knowing everything, are eternally humbled by ho...

Encounters with Winston Churchill.

W Russell Brain (1895-1966) was two weeks short of his fifty-fourth birthday when he first saw Winston Churchill in consultation at the request of Lord Moran' on 5 October 1949. Russell Brain was a consultant physician at the (then) London Hospital and the Maida Vale Hospital For Nervous Diseases. He earned his living primarily from his private practice in Harley Street as a consultant neurolog...

Performance Characteristics of Personal Samplers in Still and Moving Air

Personal samplers or in general blunt body samplers are widely used in occupational hygiene for collecting air contaminants in the work environments. This work is part of an ongoing research into the performance evaluation of personal samplers, particularly in terms of their aerodynamic properties. Velocity profiles have been measured around and within typical cylindrical sampling devices, ...

contribution of setting to the study of characters and the main idea in e. brontes: wuthering heights and t. hardys: return of the native.

this thesis aims to adduce an unmitigated and comprehensive explication concerning the relationship of three significant elements of fiction: setting, chracter and theme. my research is basically placed on two outstanding novels of the 19th century: emily brontes wuthering heights and thomas hardys return of the native. my endeavour lies in studying the correlation among the three above-mention...