American book publishing during the Second World War had to cope with a huge increase in demand for books coupled with scarcity of resources, especially paper rationing imposed by the War Production Board. Based on research in the Random House archives and focusing on the Modern Library series, this article examines how publishers coped with wartime challenges and opportunities. Random House gr...

This paper focuses on the ways that innovative applications of digital technologies are being developed in Manchester (in the North West of England) and in the UK’s largest urban regeneration area, East Manchester, with the aim of tackling the “digital divide,” reengaging citizens in civic life, and transforming the delivery of public services in the context of urban regeneration. The paper sug...

This is a case report on piggyback lens implantation with late hyperopic shift occurrence associated with Elschnig pearl formation in the peripheral interface between two lenses.

Little is known about variations in the levels of access and satisfaction within the disabled Medicare population. Based on the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS), beneficiaries under 65 years of age were classified by original reason for disability (mental versus physical). Those with a mental disability were less likely to have a private physician as a usual source; were less satisfie...

After the Civil War wages fell in the South relative to the non-South, but interest rates and othermeasures of the costs of capital increased.Using archival data formanufacturing establishments, we show that capital–output and capital–labor ratios in southernmanufacturing declined relative to non-southern manufacturing after the War, precisely in the direction implied by the regional shifts in ...

The purpose of this paper is to outline the leading role the Electrical Engineering Department at Manchester played in the early development of control engineering teaching and research in the UK after the war. The holding of a major UK conference in Control Engineering in Manchester roughly 60 years after the start of this work seems an appropriate time to remind today’s researchers of these e...

In this paper, we compute the adiabatic limit of the scalar curvature and prove several vanishing theorems, we also derive a Kastler-Kalau-Walze type theorem for the noncommutative residue in the case of foliations.