Database «Uncensored Siberian periodicals (1920-1990)»

World Medical Periodicals

building which the Admiralty acknowledged: "Though science is much respected by their Lordships and your paper is much esteemed, it is too learned." Young was also appointed as Superintendent of the Nautical Almanac and Secretary of the Board of Longitude. In this he was unable to satisfy the demands both of the navigators and of the astronomers, incurring the displeasure of both. A bibliograph...

Scientific Publications on Medical Ethics in Thomson Reuters Database, 1990-2010

GP Education in Northern Ireland 1920 – 1990. A Study of the Use and Misuse of Power

The use and misuse of power has been demonstrated. It has been shown that GP education has changed very significantly between 1920 and 1990. Many excellent improvements have been achieved. Nevertheless, despite these gains, it is quite impossible to accept the hypothesis that there has been a constant steady improvement through history to the present perfect state (so-called Whiggism). Rather, ...

Human Capital , Demographics and Growth across the US states 1920 - 1990 1

This paper finds robust evidence that age structure matters for subsequent growth in per capita income across the US states 1920-1990. The age groups 25-65 year are positively related to subsequent per capita income growth. Another conclusion is that the average years of schooling affects subsequent per capita income growth positively when age structure is controlled for. Moreover, the estimate...

Negotiating needletime: the Musicians’ Union, the BBC and the record companies, c. 1920–1990

This article examines an important, but hitherto largely overlooked, licensing system which operated in the UK between the late 1920s and late 1980s and limited the amount of recorded music that broadcasters could use in radio progammes. Known as ‘needletime’ the system was formalized in the 1930s when the BBC reached a collective agreement with the UK’s record companies – here acting via the c...