From Britain

Managed competition: lessons from Britain.

As phrases like "managed care backlash" become part of the lexicon in American health care policy circles, it is instructive to examine a managed competition experiment in a vastly different context. Britain's Conservative government instituted reforms in 1991 to transform the National Health Service (NHS) from a centrally administered service to managed competition between purchasers and provi...

A case of dyschondrosteosis from Roman Britain.

Crime and Education: New Evidence From Britain

In this paper, we look at the empirical connections between crime and education, using various data sources from Britain. As with Lochner and Moretti’s (2004) US work, we recognise explicitly the need to ensure that the direction of causation flows from education to crime. Therefore, we identify the effect of education on participation in criminal activity using changes in compulsory school lea...

Nephronophthisis. Report of 8 cases from Britain.

Gibson, A. A. M., and Arneil, G. C. (1972). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 47, 84. Nephronophthisis: report of 8 cases from Britain. Eight Scottish children with nephronophthisis are described. The typical clinical picture is thirst and polyuria associated with severe anaemia, progressive impairment of renal function, and dwarfism. Isosthenuria and gross enlargement of the bladder are usuall...

Vertical Orientation in a New Gobioid Fish from New Britain

WHILE VISITING Rabaul, New Britain, during Cruise 6 of the Stanford University vessel "Te Vega" we observed and collected specimens of a small gobioid fish that swam and hovered vertically, with its head up, in midwater close to pockets in the wall of an underwater cliff at depths below 30 feet. Many kinds of fishes, for example scorpaenids and cottoids, are known to orient vertically in contac...