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The English language: the past and the present

Russian journal of linguistics: Vestnik RUDN, 2010
The article deals with the history of the English language and discusses the classification of dialects in Great Britain.
A A Minasyan
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Rail privatisation in Britain - lessons for the rail freight industry [PDF]

, 2004
Until 1994, the rail industry in Britain – as in most of Europe – was organised in the form of a single integrated state owned company providing passenger and freight services, and the infrastructure on which they ran, throughout the country.
Fowkes, A.S., Nash, C.A.
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Structure Formation in Butterfly Scales: Interplay of Genetic Control, Mechanical Instabilities, and Dynamic Material Properties

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Butterfly wing scales are intricate cuticular functional nanosctructures. This perspective suggests that spatially varying material properties, cytoskeletal constraints, and growth‐driven mechanical instabilities shape the resulting nanoscale architectures created from single cells.
Anupama Prakash, Victoria Lloyd, Yi Yang, Anna‐Lee Jessop, Anthony McDougal, Primož Pirih, Guillaume Duclos, Andrew Parnell, Mathias Kolle, Nicola J. Nadeau, Bodo D. Wilts   +10 more
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Henry Thornton: seminal monetary theorist and father of the modern central bank [PDF]

Henry Thornton’s Paper Credit of Great Britain (1802) established once and for all the notion that central banks have the prime responsibility for controlling the money stock and the price level.
Robert L. Hetzel
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Explaining Anglo-German productivity differences in services since 1870 [PDF]

, 2004
Germany overtook Britain in comparative productivity levels for the whole economy primarily as a result of trends in services rather than trends in industry.
Broadberry, Stephen
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Furan‐Substituted Phosphine‐Oxide as an Efficient Interfacial Modifier for Wide‐Bandgap Perovskite Solar Cells

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
We report phosphine‐oxide interlayers for wide‐bandgap perovskite solar cells, in which tuned P = O Lewis basicity enables selective passivation of buried NiOx/perovskite interfaces and introduces interfacial dipoles that strengthen the built‐in field.
JeeHee Hong, Juan Anthony Prayogo, Soobin Heo, Jae Sung Yun, Dong Ryeol Whang, Dong Wook Chang, Hui Joon Park   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Towards an understanding of the phases of goodwill accounting in four Western capitalist countries: From stakeholder model to shareholder model [PDF]

The objective of this paper is to illustrate that the change in shareholders’ attitude towards firms (from stakeholder model to shareholder model) influences the accounting treatments of goodwill. This study is based on four countries (Great Britain, the
Ding, Yuan, Richard, Jacques, Stolowy, Hervé   +2 more
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Educating Britain? Political Literacy and the Construction of National History [PDF]

, 2014
Despite the reflexive nature of historical enquiry and the degree of national interconnectness now theorized by historians in the United Kingdom, education debates over history teaching in Britain often yield a comforting defence of Britain's 'island ...
Barton, Barton, Bennett, Bevir, Biesta, Breuilly, Brocklehurst, Brocklehurst, Cannadine, Connolly Paula, Conway, Cooper, Crawford, Daugherty, Department for Education (DoE), Department for Education and Science (DES), DfEE (Department for Education and Employmnet), Economou, Fass, Garton-Ash, Geruluk, Goalen, Grant, Grek, Grek, Grek, Grek, Grever, Heider, Jamali, Jenkins, Law, Lawn, Lawn, Learning Wales, Marsden, Marshall, Marshall, McCrone, Nóvoa, Nóvoa, Ozga, Philippou, Philippou, Phillips, Phillips, Phillips, Pocock, Prochaska, Reicher, Ribeiro, Savvides, Scottish Executive, Stow, Thane, Trowler   +55 more
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Laser‐Assisted Processing and Modification of Bioactive Glasses: A Review

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Laser technologies provide powerful tools to process and transform bioactive glasses for advanced biomedical applications. This review discusses laser‐matter interaction mechanisms, laser surface engineering, and laser‐assisted fabrication of scaffolds and nanofibers.
Antonio Riveiro, Mario González‐Quintas, Mónica Fernández‐Arias, Jesús del Val, Félix Quintero, Rafael Comesaña, Fernando Lusquiños, Julian R. Jones, Juan Pou   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

History of the Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain [PDF]

, 2015
The journalist and politician Edward Baines (1800–90) succeeded his father as editor of the Leeds Mercury and as MP for Leeds. From a dissenting family, he was a social reformer but passionately believed that the state should not interfere in matters such as working hours and education.
openaire   +2 more sources