This article throws light on Lord Mountbatten’s enduring involvement in India after 1964, an overlooked feature of his later life. On a number issues such as the abolition titles, privileges and privy purses Indian Princes (1967–71), imposition Emergency (1975), arms sales, expulsion BBC (1970–72) evolution history-writing Partition, this evaluates changing role ‘friend India’ Britain, while be...

A method is presented by which pure absorption spectra can be derived from spin echoes with a symmetric envelope amplitude, but with arbitrary phases 4 in the centers of the echoes. It is shown that without any phase correction, absorption spectra can be obtained in which the amplitudes of the spectral lines are either proportional to cos 4 or sin (b. or independent of q%. As an example a T2 me...

A questionnaire relating to smoking habits, respiratory symptoms, and health attitude was administered to schoolchildren aged between 11 and 17 throughout a defined geographical area in both 1975 and 1979, with a valid response from 10498 and 12002 young people respectively. Each cohort was almost entirely different. The results suggest that although the prevalence of regular smoking has decrea...

IN THIS note we extend to the 3-dimensional case the results of M. Kreck on bordism of diffeomorphisms [3]. Some of this work is from the author’s doctoral dissertation [S]. It is a pleasure to acknowledge my indebtedness to Robion Kirby for his insight and encouragement. We also thank the referee for a careful reading and many useful suggestions. First recall the bordism relation for ditfeomor...

During the past decade the application of light pulses in the picosecond time domain has received increasing attention. In these investigations it is of primary interest to know the duration of the ultrashort light pulses. Two methods to measure the pulse duration have found frequent application: The two-photon fluorescence technique, TPF [I] and the streak camera [2]. The autocorrelation patte...