1 Centre for Computational Finance and Economic Agents (CCFEA), University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester CO4 3SQ, Great Britain, E-Mail: [email protected] 2 University of Bath, School of Management, Claverton Down, Bath BA2 7AY, Great Britain, E-Mail: [email protected] 3 Department of Computer Science, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester CO4 3SQ, Great Britain, E-Mail: edward@e...

Dying to know : public release of information about quality of health care. p. cm. " MR-1255-NT. " Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-8330-2891-X 1. Medical care—Great Britain—Quality control. 2. Medical care—United States—Quality control. 3. Consumer education—Great Britain. 4. Consumer education—United States. 5. Medical care—Great Britain—Evaluation. 6. Medical care—United States—Ev...

OBJECTIVES The increased incidence of multiple myeloma (MM) across China and East Asia stimulated us to examine the current rates in Great Britain, where rates increased dramatically in the second half of the 20th century. However, rates have been stable and high during this period in Malmö, Sweden, where there is a keen interest in MM. We thus assessed recent changes in MM incidence in Great B...

This article examines popular beliefs about language in Britain and the United States within a language ideology framework. With particular reference to Silverstein's discussion of second-order indexicality, it argues that language varieties in Britain and the United States are differently ideologized in such a way as to foreground social class groups in Britain and ethnic groups in the United ...

The aim of this paper is to determine whether the association between the provision of informal care and the health status of caregivers is affected by the country of residence. We focus on two European countries, Belgium and Great Britain, and develop a methodology, which consists of matching a subset of areas from Britain with areas in Belgium that are demographically and socioeconomically si...

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 ...

Objective genetic improvement in specialized meat breeds of sheep in Britain is based largely on the performance recording and genetic evaluation service provided by Signet and the Meat and Livestock Commission. This includes the use of ultrasonic scanning and a selection index to identify animals with high genetic merit for lean growth. More than 20 sire referencing schemes (SRS) have been est...

Infections due to Cryptococcus neoformans, a pathogenic yeast causing the disease torulosis, have been reported infrequently in Britain, but are more common than the 10 cases so far published would suggest (Symmers, 1953). Torulosis is a worldwide disease and is endemic in Britain. The association of this infection with Hodgkin's disease has been reported previously (Gendel, Ende, and Norman, 1...

this study attempts to explore the development and evolution of mackinder's geopolitical thinking in global politics of british empire and its influence thereafter. this research paper examines the characteristics of geopolitical perspective of britain, through halford mackinder's heartland theory during the three periods of the early twentieth century to the present time. in this reg...

A fragment termed fragment Fc' and a related fragment termed fragment pFc' produced by the actions of papain and pepsin respectively on human immunoglobulin G have been isolated and characterized. Amino acid analyses and experiments utilizing cyanogen bromide to cleave the methionyl bonds of the Fc' and pFc' fragments make it possible to locate both fragments within the known chain structure of...