Promoting Leningrad Cadres in the First Post-War Years

War veterans 50 years after the war Anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder and depression in Korean

Anchors, Habitus, and Practices Besieged by War: Women and Gender in the Blockade of Leningrad

The Post-War Probationer

tioner" in The Hospital and Health Review for May, you ask for your readers' views on the problem of the dearth of probationers. We are two nurses now in training, and would like to state our views. We know that nursing must necessarily be a very strenuous life, but surely the work could be reduced from a 10-hour day (totalling 60 hours a week excluding off duty time) to the 8-hourday system. E...

Five years post-DORA: promoting best practices for research assessment

The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) was penned 5 years ago to articulate best practices for how we communicate and judge our scientific contributions. In particular, it adamantly declared that Journal Impact Factor (JIF) should never be used as a surrogate measure of the quality of individual research contributions, or for hiring, promotion, or funding decisions. Since t...

Control Engineering at the University of Manchester in the Post War Years

The purpose of this paper is to outline the leading role the Electrical Engineering Department at Manchester played in the early development of control engineering teaching and research in the UK after the war. The holding of a major UK conference in Control Engineering in Manchester roughly 60 years after the start of this work seems an appropriate time to remind today’s researchers of these e...