Browsing Through a Treasure House: The Literature of the Burma Campaign

The artilce overviews the collections of the Burma Campaign Memorial Library (BCML), which is housed within SOAS Library and contains a huge range of books, both English and Japanese about the Burma Campaign. The author of this article is the founder of BCML

BREEAM for Healthcare - a report for NHS Estates and Facilities Policy

This report considers sustainable healthcare properties and in particular the use of BREEAM for Healthcare 2008 and the options for improving sustainability across the NHS

LIFT: 21st century health care centres

Purpose To examine the processes used to procure and develop new primary health care premises in the United Kingdom and in particular the use of the private finance initiative and related methods. Design/methodology/approach An in-depth study of two local improvement finance trust schemes to procure new primary health care premises. These are contrasted against the ad-hoc arrangements for the traditional procurement of general practice doctor's surgery premises. Interviews were undertaken with key participants on both sides of the negotiations. Findings The process can be an unequal struggle between large consortia and small, inexperienced clients that may result in a wasted opportunity to obtain the optimum design and price. Research limitations/implications The research is limited to early use of the local improvement finance trust process and procedures; client bodies, such as primary care trusts, may benefit from the experience of earlier projects. The method of procurement will evolve and be refined and will become more widely used, not only for health but also in the education sector. Further examination of the procurement of education buildings using similar methods would be beneficial. Originality/value This method of procuring buildings is relatively new, and therefore, largely untried

On the nature of ideological argument

The thesis is concerned with the logic of the language of political ideologies and their relation to political and moral conduct. First, the view that ideology is the determination of the ends of political and moral conduct, and the rational consideration of the various 'philosophies' which thinkers have devised, is considered and, after some analysis rejected. This leads to a consideration of a general scepticism concerning ideology, namely that ideology is an essentially spurious form of reasoning and understanding. The notions of ‘rationalisation’,' false-consciousness’ and ' abstraction’ are those given particular scrutiny. As a result, the sceptical view of ideology is rejected. In the Second part, a parallel, often suggested, between ideology and religion is explored. It is argued that ideological and religious understanding is essentially subjective, in a carefully specified sense of the term, and that both are views of the world sub specie aeternitatis. These two features entail their being under-standings categorically distinct from theoretical understanding like history or science. But religions and ideologies are not the same and the distinction between the two is drawn in the context of an examination of the notions of eternity and temporality. The parallel is continued, however, in a comparison of the logic of ideological and theological reflection, where it is argued that a corpus of authoritative literature may allow concrete and reasoned reflection. Part Three of the thesis is concerned with the place of ideological reflection in conduct. It is claimed that ideological literature way sustains the vocabulary of an ethical tradition and thereby preserve political identity

True play attitudes and behaviors in intercollegiate athletes : a thesis ...

This thesis investigated the attitudes and the behaviors in the main sport environment of 53 intercollegiate athletes. Two instruments were developed, administered, and combined to give three measures of the true play characteristics of the subjects who were members of the men\u27s golf, men\u27s basketball, men\u27s tennis, women\u27s basketball, women\u27s tennis and women\u27s volleyball teams at the University of the Pacific. Results were determined by using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences: Update 7-9. ANOVA and Scheffe\u27s post hoc test revealed, at the .05 level, that female athletes scored higher in true play characteristics than did male athletes; that star athletes scored higher in true play characteristics than did regular and substitute athletes; and that the sport of volleyball scored higher in true play characteristics than did the sport of golf

Phytosociological studies of relict woodlands in the North East of England

This thesis attempts within a more limited area, and by a more exhaustive analysis than is usual, a phytosociological investigation of some relic woodlands in the North of England. In and around the woodlands some 226 Aufnahmen were made and nine Associations recognised. A further six partial Associations or noda are considered. Epiphytic communities are studied in detail in some 257 Aufnahmen and a number of epilithic communities also are examined. From these, ten epiphytic Associations or parts of Associations are described and a number of epilithic Associations indicated. The Associations of the ground flora are related to the system advanced by Lohmeyer et al (1962) and emended by Westhoff and Den Held (1969), and some phytogeographic relationships of the kindred Alliances are considered. The epiphytic Associations are fitted as far as possible into the framework advocated by Barkman (1958) and some relationships are noted between the epilithic Associations and those of Klement (1955)'The thesis is divided into six parts:-Part I reviews the previous work done in the area; introduces the problems of application of phytosociological methods within a restricted area; and outlines the geology, topography, climate, and other factors, as they bear on the ecology of that area. Part II summarises the history of woodland vegetation in the North of England; examines the general structure and composition of the woods in question; and considers them from a general ecological stand point as they compare or contrast with those woodlands previously mentioned in traditional British ecological literature

Observations on Drug Metabolism and Liver Disease

A summary of the experimental chapters is included at the start of each of these chapters, however for the ease of the reader these are also compiled in this summary. The aim of this thesis is to explore the relationship between hepatic drug metabolism and liver disease and in particular to determine if the parameters of drug elimination provide useful information as liver function tests