Great Britain and the Taipings

The Great Britain Historical GIS

Although the first censuses were the only practical means of surveying a nation’s population, the development of sample survey methodologies means censuses are increasingly justified by the specifically geographical detail they uniquely provide. The same is arguably true of historical census studies: a two per cent sample taken from many millions is quite sufficient to study national class or h...

Maternity in Great Britain

Here is a comprehensive study of nearly 14,000 cases of births during the week beginning March 3rd, 1946. The enquiry was sponsored by the Joint Committee of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the Population Investigation Committee, under the chairmanship of Professor James Young. Antenatal supervision, the places of confinement, and care during confinement, the relief of...

The Climates and Baths of Great Britain

Printed in Great Britain

Stopped-flow spectrophotometry and e.p.r. spectroscopy were used to study the kinetics of reduction by dithionite of the oxidized Fe protein of nitrogenase from Klebsiella pneumoniae (Kp2.0 ) in the presence of MgADP at 230C at pH7.4. The active reductant, SO2-, produced by the predissociation of S2042= 2SO2-, reacts with Kp20. (MgADP),, with k 3.0 x 106 + 0.4 x 106 M-l' s-1. The inhibition of ...

Work in Great Britain

Up to the present in this country there has not been a great deal of systematized work done along the lines of child guidance. On the medical side much attention has been paid to the problem of mental deficiency, but with this child guidance has little or nothing to do, except in so far as it may be necessary to recognize the mental defective who comes to the clinic and transfer him to the care...