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The Role and Work of Bomber Command: A Note by Air Marshal Sir Arthur Harris for the Prime Minister and Cabinet, 28 June 1942

Editor’s Note: Few senior Allied Commanders have been criticized as strongly as Air Marshal Sir Arthur Harris. And even those critics who recognize the vital contribution Harris and the Bomber Command made to the defeat of Nazi Germany are disturbed by the tone of Harris’ letters to Churchill and Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal. Harris never wavered in his conviction that Germany could be defeated by strategic bombing with ground roops assigned to a secondary role. This view underlay his arguments for assigning priority to strategic bombing. In pursuing the case Harris mixed careful argument and clear logic with emotional attacks on those who doubted his doctrines. The following note, written shortly after Harris assumed command, displays Harris at his best, arguing the case for Bomber Command “as the only means of bringing assitance to Russian in time” and the only means “which will make subsequent invasion a possible proposition.

CAN A SMALL AGRICULTURAL PROCESSOR COMPETE GLOBALLY?

International Relations/Trade,

Consumer and financial services legislation - some reflections on the Maltese position

These past 20 years have witnessed very substantial developments in the legislation relating to consumer protection and the provision of financial services. During this period, the law in these two areas has evolved rather rapidly and beyond recognition. However, it is not always easy to decipher whether and how the two sets of laws dovetail with each other. It would be therefore interesting to explore whether the two sectors constitute a coherent framework and whether there are lessons that two sectors may learn from one another. Many of the legislative changes were homegrown, but significant influence has been predictably exerted by the island's moves towards accession to the European Union. Indeed, one may claim that in the past 10 years, EU law has become the most important inspiration for new legislation. Independently of the growing EU influence on both its formal and substantive aspects, the Maltese legal system already presents a sophisticated and comprehensive framework. It is also an increasingly complex framework. One can speculate whether the complexity of our legal framework may be a reflection of the varied foreign influences that have designed the island's history. Over the years, Malta has been ruled by a series of foreign powers too numerous to list. These have included the Romans, the Greeks, the Phoenicians, the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, the Knights of St. John and, albeit for a few years, the French under Napoleon. For long stretches of its history, the island used to form part of the Italian mainland to its north. More recently, roughly between 1800 and 1964, Malta formed part of the British Empire. For all these reasons, Roman law, Italian law and English law have all contributed towards the development of Maltese legal rules and culture.peer-reviewe

Spartan Daily, November 1, 1939

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Characteristics of Feedback that Influence Student Confidence and Performance during Mathematical Modeling

This study focuses on characteristics of written feedback that influence students’ performance and confidence in addressing the mathematical complexity embedded in a Model-Eliciting Activity (MEA). MEAs are authentic mathematical modeling problems that facilitate students’ iterative development of solutions in a realistic context. We analyzed 132 first-year engineering students’ confidence levels and mathematical model scores on aMEA(pre and post feedback), along with teaching assistant feedback given to the students. The findings show several examples of affective and cognitive feedback that students reported that they used to revise their models. Students’ performance and confidence in developing mathematical models can be increased when they are in an environment where they iteratively develop models based on effective feedback