IN Britain, since the passage of the 1960 Betting and Gaming Act, gambling has rightly been termed a growth industry. In the last annual report of the Churches' Council on Gambling, gambling's annual turnover was estimated as some ?2,230 million. One leading expert places Britain foremost among European nations for its per capita gambling expenditure, and fourth in the world league, only excell...

Citation: Liu R, Wang L, Liu Q, Wang Z, Li Z, Fang J, Zhang L and Luo M (2018) Depth-Resolved Distribution of Particle-Attached and Free-Living Bacterial Communities in the Water Column of the New Britain Trench. Front. Microbiol. 9:625. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.00625 Depth-Resolved Distribution of Particle-Attached and Free-Living Bacterial Communities in the Water Column of the New Britain Trench

In his paper the author deals with disparities in living and economic conditions between the main South Asian ethnic minorities in Great Britain based on the 1991 Census of Britain which, for the first time, posed a question on ethnicity. He discusses these differences taking into consideration age/sex structure, socio-economic profiles, educational levels, family patterns, housing conditions a...

BACKGROUND Internationally trained health professionals are an important part of the domestic workforce, but little is known about pharmacists who come to work in Great Britain. Recent changes in the registration routes onto the Register of Pharmacists of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain may have affected entries from overseas: reciprocal arrangements for pharmacists from Austr...

Last year Australia, with a population only one-quarter that of Britain, did 365 kidney transplant operations compared with the total of 671 in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. In fact, Britain is well down the league table when countries are ranked by the proportion of all patients with renal failure on treatment by dialysis or transplantations; Australia has consistently been c...

Suicide statistics for Britain (England and Wales) from 1950 to 1990 are analysed. A rising suicide rate among males, particularly the young, is associated with an increased use of hanging as a suicide method. The same trend is not seen among females. Death by hanging can seldom be concealed or regarded as other than suicide, so statistics for suicidal hanging are likely accurate. Increased sui...

The relative length of the second and fourth fingers (the 2D:4D ratio) has been taken to be an indicator of prenatal exposure to testosterone, and hence possibly relevant to sexual orientation and other sex-differentiated behaviors. Studies have reported a difference in this ratio between Caucasian males in Britain and in the U.S.: higher average 2D:4D ratios were obtained in Britain. This rais...

Since penicillinase-producing Neisseria gonorrhoeae appeared five years ago in West Africa and South-east Asia reported cases have doubled annually in Great Britain, primarily as a result of increasing importation. Importation of penicillinase-producing Neisseria gonorrhoeae has increased exponentially because dramatic expansion of these strains in their regions of origin has led to increasing ...

In the USA, people who are high in autistic traits have been found to lower degrees of general belief a just world than low traits. One explanation for this relationship could be that with levels receive relatively little influence from their social contexts and therefore less likely adopt cultural views. If assumption is correct, between should mitigated cultures wherein (e.g., Great Britain)....

This paper sets out a new research agenda for the study of family historians’ (referred to as ‘genealogists’) use of genetic ancestry tests in the course of their family history research in postcolonial Britain. My focus is upon the ways in which the use of these tests shapes the formation of genealogists’ ethnic, racial, national, class and gender identities and their ancestries. I argue that,...