New broom at the DHSS

Ockham's broom: A new series

Although it is increasingly difficult to gauge what people can be expected to know, it is probably safe to assume that most readers are familiar with Ockham's razor – roughly, the principle whereby gratuitous suppositions are shaved from the interpretation of facts – enunciated by a Franciscan monk, William of Ockham, in the fourteenth century. Ockham's broom is a somewhat more recent conceit, ...

John Broom

DHSS waiting list statistics--a major deception?

It has been suggested recently that the Department of Health and Social Security's instructions for collecting National Health Service waiting list statistics in England and Wales' contain anomalies as a result of the exclusion of several categories of patients awaiting surgery.2 The aim of this study was to quantify the anomalies in one district general hospital and to assess their effect in d...

674 Broom 13 Welfare invertebrates

Pre-publication copy 1 Broom, D.M. 2013. The welfare of invertebrate animals such as insects, spiders, 2 snails and worms. In Animal Suffering: From Science to Law, International 3 Symposium, ed. Kemp, T. A. van der and Lachance, M., 135-152. Paris: Éditions 4 Yvon Blais. 5 THE WELFARE OF INVERTEBRATE ANIMALS SUCH AS INSECTS, 6 SPIDERS, SNAILS AND WORMS 7 8 D. M. Broom 9 10 ABSTRACT 11 The conc...

new semigroup compactifications via the enveloping semigroups of associated flows

this thesis deals with the construction of some function algebras whose corresponding semigroup compactification are universal with respect to some properies of their enveloping semigroups. the special properties are of beigan a left zero, a left simple, a group, an inflation of the right zero, and an inflation of the rectangular band.