Shackleton's Boat: The Story of the James Caird. Harding McGregor Dunnett. 1996. Benenden (School Farm, Benenden, Cranbrook, Kent TN17 4EU): Neville & Harding, x+150 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 0-948028-02-5. £20.00.

CAPTAIN SCOTT. Ranulph Fiennes. 2003. London: Hodder Stoughton. xiv + 508 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 0-340-82697-5. 20.00

H.G. Wells called the first decade of the twentieth century ‘a period of badly-strained optimism.’ Britain was just emerging from the Boer War. The war — which had gone badly at first — was partly about the rights of non-Boers in the Boer Republics but even more, perhaps, about the diamond fields of the Rand. When the British eventually won, Life magazine summed up international opinion: ‘a sma...

Random Tree-Puzzle leads to the Yule-Harding distribution.

Approaches to reconstruct phylogenies abound and are widely used in the study of molecular evolution. Partially through extensive simulations, we are beginning to understand the potential pitfalls as well as the advantages of different methods. However, little work has been done on possible biases introduced by the methods if the input data are random and do not carry any phylogenetic signal. A...

Private Participation in Health Services Handbook By April Harding, HDNHE

Thermotherapy for Harding-Passey melanoma: light and electron microscopic study.

The changes of implanted Harding-Passey melanoma in C57Bl/6J mice following treatment with wholebody hyperthermia were studied. The treated tumours showed a progressive growth delay, cellular and architectural irregularities as well as cell injury characteristics. The presence of distended and irregular blood vessels, the peripheral localization of the melanosomes and the melanosome complexes w...

the relationship between academic self-concept and academic achievement in english and general subjects of the students of high school

according to research, academic self-concept and academic achievement are mutually interdependent. in the present study, the aim was to determine the relationship between the academic self-concept and the academic achievement of students in english as a foreign language and general subjects. the participants were 320 students studying in 4th grade of high school in three cities of noor, nowshah...