This book is sponsored by the British Social Biology Council and the bulk of it is a restrained and detached account by a research worker, who remains anonymous, of her personal contacts with prostitutes. The initial project for the research which was planned after the War was much more ambitious than it proved possible to carry out, and in the end it had to be drastically curtailed. For the Pu...

This article summarizes and compares the principal arguments and strategies of propaganda at the home front, the military front, as well as in neutral and enemy countries. These included the Manichean approach, the ridiculing of the enemy, the use of scapegoats, the qualities of holding out, duty and sacrifice, the rewards promised for after the war, and the campaign against the enemy’s politic...

Critical theory emerged in Germany in the 1920s with the establishment of the Institute for Social Research at Frankfurt-am Main in 1923. The term ‘critical theory’ was originally coined and used by Max Horkheimer in 1937 to describe the theoretical programme of the school. Known as the ‘Frankfurt School’ the group became exiled to France then to the United States in the early 1930s until 1941 ...

Jean Leray (November 7, 1906–November 10, 1998) was confined to an officers’ prison camp (“Oflag”) in Austria for the whole of World War II. There he took up algebraic topology, and the result was a spectacular flowering of highly original ideas, ideas which have, through the usual metamorphism of history, shaped the course of mathematics in the sixty years since then. Today we would divide his...

The poverty rate among children is higher today than it was in the late 1960s, a few years after the War on Poverty was launched. In 1969, 13.8 percent of all children lived in families with incomes below the poverty line; in 1988, 19.7 percent did. Whereas most studies of child poverty focus on the negative effects of deteriorating economic circumstances and the increasing percentage of childr...

The American “high school movement” of the early 20th century resulted in a dramatic rise in high school graduation rates, a trend that continued into the middle of the century interrupted only by World War II. Previous work has characterized the pre-World War II transformation of secondary education, but less attention has been focused on the continued increased in educational attainment after...

* Prepared in the Division of Finance and Economic Studies, Bureau of Research and Statistics. Use of variable rates of social insurance contributions in preventing a decline in consumer purchasing power and hence in employment is one of the methods advocated by the British Government in its proposed plan for maintaining high employment after the war. The following article outlines briefly that...

The aim of the study was to identify, synthesize and classify software currently available that can help in task phonetic transcription spontaneous speech pre-school children evaluate development children's language. A systematic review performed for articles published, 10-year period (June 2010 June 2020), without restrictions as location language, using Cochrane, Pubmed Web Science databases....

This paper examines the emerging relationship between the US and Japan with respect to A r t i f i c i a l Intelligence and the signif icant trend towards US-Japan cooperative Al research and development. This trend is underscored by the increasing investment by both nations to develop massive 5th generation computer technology. The importance of the US and Japan's relationship is amplified by ...