Do locational fundamentals such as coastlines and rivers determine town locations, or can historical events trap towns in unfavorable locations for centuries? We examine the effects on town locations of the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, which temporarily ended urbanization in Britain, but not in France. As urbanization recovered, medieval towns were more often found in Roman-era town lo...

currency, through the press, that persons claiming refunds of British income-tax have been called upon to pay duty on income derived from sources outside Great Britain. An impression so utterly false and entirely erroneous in its conception and distinctly libellous on the British Inland Revenue authorities should be immediately refuted. Applications for the refund of British tax cannot in any w...

The daily number of individuals practising the group dynamics of consciousness-group practice of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programme-in Great Britain was compared with daily fluctuations in the Financial Times Actuaries 'All Share' (FTA) Index. The FTA Index is a measure of the current market capitalizations of the 750 largest companies in Great Britain, and may be seen as an i...

Annual sickness absence rates in Great Britain since 1950 have been compared with similar measurements obtained from eight other countries. Frequency has tended to rise more than severity, indicating a shortening of the average length of a spell. The rise in British rates is not unique, and has been exceeded in Sweden, Holland, Italy, and West Germany. From the Swedish experience with self-cert...

Using data from large-scale establishment surveys in Britain and France, we show that incentive pay for non-managers is more widespread in France than in Britain. We explain this finding in terms of the ‘beneficial constraint’ arising from stronger employment protection in France, which provides an impulse to develop incentive pay; employer networking activities in France, which facilitate join...

Babies born in Britain to women of South Asian ethnic origin are lighter on average than the offspring of women of European origin. The causes have been incompletely elucidated but nutritional factors, low socioeconomic status and maternal pre-pregnancy weight have been implicated. This health inequality has received little policy prioritization in Britain. As further research clarifies reasons...

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Role of Heart-Type Fatty Acid-binding Protein in Early Detection of Acute Myocardial Infarction, Farooq Ghani, Alan H.B. Wu, Louis Graff, Christoph Petry, Glenn Armstrong, Florence Prigent, and Milton Brown ( Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Hartford Hospital, Hartford, CT 06102; 2 New Britain General Hospital, New Britain, CT 06050; 3 Bayer Diagnostics, Tarrytown, NY 10591; 4 W...

Grant Heatlie PhD MRCP,1 Bernd C. Cornelius MD,2 Andreas Kilkowski MD,2 Sanjay Prasad, MD MRCP,1 Mary N. Sheppard FRCPath,3 and Raad Mohiaddin FRCR FRCP FESC1 Royal Brompton Hospital, Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Unit, London, Great Britain, United Kingdom,1 Klinikum Ludwigshafen am Rhein gGmbH, ZIR und Medizinische B Klinik, Ludwigshafen, Germany,2 and Royal Brompton Hospital, Department ...

This paper examines the relationship between firm births and job creation in Great Britain. We use a new data set for 60 British regions, covering the whole of Great Britain, between 1980 and 1998. The central theme of the paper is that, with the exception of a recent paper by Audretsch and Fritsch for Germany, the relationship between new-firm startups and employment growth has previously been...