How Great Britain Governs Her Colonies

Local marriage markets in Great Britain: how diverse?

Estimates are made of the number of potential marriage partners available for unmarried men and women, by age, in Great Britain in 1991 and how this varies across local districts. The preferences of men and women in relation to partner ages are taken into account in the estimates. Average partner supply declines by age for women and increases with age for men. Marriage markets differ between lo...

Maternity in Great Britain

Here is a comprehensive study of nearly 14,000 cases of births during the week beginning March 3rd, 1946. The enquiry was sponsored by the Joint Committee of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the Population Investigation Committee, under the chairmanship of Professor James Young. Antenatal supervision, the places of confinement, and care during confinement, the relief of...

Printed in Great Britain

Stopped-flow spectrophotometry and e.p.r. spectroscopy were used to study the kinetics of reduction by dithionite of the oxidized Fe protein of nitrogenase from Klebsiella pneumoniae (Kp2.0 ) in the presence of MgADP at 230C at pH7.4. The active reductant, SO2-, produced by the predissociation of S2042= 2SO2-, reacts with Kp20. (MgADP),, with k 3.0 x 106 + 0.4 x 106 M-l' s-1. The inhibition of ...

Work in Great Britain

Up to the present in this country there has not been a great deal of systematized work done along the lines of child guidance. On the medical side much attention has been paid to the problem of mental deficiency, but with this child guidance has little or nothing to do, except in so far as it may be necessary to recognize the mental defective who comes to the clinic and transfer him to the care...

Maternity in Great Britain