BACKGROUND The aim of the present study was to investigate participation and performance trends regarding the nationality of successful solo swimmers in the 'English Channel Swim'. METHODS The nationality and swim times for all swimmers who successfully crossed the 33.8-km 'English Channel' from 1875 to 2013 were analysed. RESULTS Between 1875 and 2013, the number of successful female (571,...

This important book is a pioneering application of a Geographical Information System (GIS) to medieval data, bringing together two national sources: the Inquisitions Post Mortem (IPM) for the period 1300–49 and the 1327, 1332, and 1334 lay subsidies.The results are in the form of numerous tables, graphs, and maps. Built around these is a series of invaluable commentaries. After a concise accoun...

Nationalist sentiments characterize the Scotish James Macpherson’s Ossianic tales and the Persian Abul-Ghasim Ferdausi’s Shahnameh. Macpherson is remembered for his role in the nationalist Gaelic revival against the cultural dominance of Great Britain and Ferdausi is credited for enlivening Persian language and culture at the time of Arab dominance. However, Macpherson’s dual position, both as ...

in the early 19th century and as a result of war circumstances, iran and britain experienced the formation and development of limited political intercourses. emergence of napoleon, as a serious danger made britain to pay a special attention to iran. on the other side, iran welcomed the expansion of its ties with britain due to its military conflicts with russia. although britain was not interes...

Recent investigations indicate that personality traits are unevenly distributed geographically, with some traits being more prevalent in certain places than in others. The geographical distributions of personality traits are associated with a range of important political, economic, social, and health outcomes. The majority of research on this subject has focused on the geographical distribution...

It is just 10 years since the Society devoted two full meetings to the subject of budgetary and dietary surveys. In the intervening period a further full meeting has been held in Dublin for the purpose of discussing the Irish National Nutrition Survey. But this is the first occasion on which it has been possible to present to the Society a connected series of papers covering various aspects of ...

Recent literature on material flow analysis has been focused on quantitative characterization of past material flows. Fewer analyses exist on past and prospective quantification of stocks of materials in-use. Some of these analyses explore the composition of products' stocks, but a focus on the characterization of material stocks and its relation with service delivery is often neglected. We pro...