Guided Weapon Simulators

1968 ◽  
Vol 72 (688) ◽  
pp. 356-360
Author(s):  
I. N. Cartmell ◽  
R. W. Williams
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
Past History ◽  
Original System ◽  
Future Trends ◽  
Paper Briefly ◽  
Joint Paper ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Model Technique

The authors were requested to present short papers giving opposing views on the subject of Guided Weapon Simulators. Much of this subject is now a matter of fact and the authors found themselves in agreement on far too many points regarding the present situation to follow the requested approach, and instead have adopted the method of writing a joint paper briefly reviewing the past history of simulation and setting out the present state of the art as they see it, leaving the discussion of probable future trends to encourage controversy. It has still been difficult to be controversial, but if some of the statements made stimulate discussion then a useful purpose will have been served. It may turn out that what the authors have found difficult to produce between themselves has been created only too readily between themselves and their audience. It is not possible to discuss simulators without bringing in the concept of modelling, indeed an apt title for this paper could have been “From Simulation to Modelling”. The model technique has been defined as “a procedure in which a representation of a system is developed in some more convenient medium and checked to show that its behaviour agrees with that of the original system for a wide variety of conditions”.

Inter-Church Relations: A Retrospect

1959 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 257-276
Author(s):  
A. C. Cheyne
Keyword(s):  
Past History ◽  
Complete Agreement ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Joint Report ◽  
Presbyterian Churches

The subject of relations between the Anglican and Presbyterian Churches exercises a peculiarly urgent claim upon the attention of contemporary students of theology. Nevertheless many may be reluctant to allow that the task of dealing with it can profitably be undertaken by a historian–even if he be a church historian; and I suspect that some will read the words ‘a Retrospect’ with depression or alarm. Is this not a time for looking forward rather than back? Did we not read with approval the signatories' declaration in the Joint Report on Relations between Anglican and Presbyterian Churches: ‘We have renounced, and believe that the Churches concerned should renounce, the method of selecting and measuring such faults and errors in the past history of the Churches now conferring as might be judged to be responsible for our present divisions. These matters have been investigated frequently, and complete agreement on them is not to be expected at this stage in history… The time has come when the voice of mutual recrimination should be silent'? And has Bishop How not reminded us that ‘Scotland needs a purged memory’?

The Measurement of the Rate of Population Growth

1934 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-77
Author(s):  
C. D Rich
Keyword(s):  
Population Growth ◽  
Birth Rate ◽  
Past History ◽  
Popular Press ◽  
The Past ◽  
Theoretical View ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Size And Structure

The size of the population of this country is a question of considerable interest and importance. Attention has been drawn to it in recent years owing to the continued fall in the birth-rate, and it has formed the topic of innumerable articles in the popular press and elsewhere. The subject of population growth is one on which the actuary should be most qualified to judge and yet it is seldom discussed by actuaries as a whole. The reason probably is that to some extent it is cut and dried; the past history of the size and structure of the population is recorded and analysed in official publications and calls for little argument, while future estimates where they cannot be made by fairly straightforward methods are largely a matter of guesswork. The problem of the rate of population growth has been investigated from a theoretical view very fully by certain foreign writers. The purpose of this paper is to give a description of one aspect of the subject and to illustrate it by calculations based on the statistics of this country.

Balloons, airships and kites – lighter than air: past, present and future

2008 ◽  
Vol 112 (1133) ◽  
pp. 421-429 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Folkes
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Past History ◽  
New Materials ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
The Past ◽  
Hot Air ◽  
Current State ◽  
History Of ◽  
Technical Innovations

Abstract One hundred years on from the advent of aeronautics at Queen Mary, University of London, developments in lighter than air technology have progressed at a somewhat slower pace than the technology for heavier than air. Innovations afforded by the ‘discovery’ of helium, the development of the modern day hot air balloon and the application of new materials have all contributed to today’s technical innovations. A review is given of the past history of lighter than air, a note is made of the current state of the art and a brief overview of future applications is discussed. The author’s personal experience in long distance gas balloon flights is mentioned.

The Finance of Fire Insurance

1876 ◽  
Vol 19 (05) ◽  
pp. 328-351
Author(s):  
Cornelius Walford
Keyword(s):  
Past History ◽  
Insurance Companies ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Main Design ◽  
The Past ◽  
Fire Insurance ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject

In connexion with a series of articles I have recently prepared for theInsurance Cyclopædia, bearing upon the history and practice of Fire Insurance, the subject of the Finance of Fire Insurance Offices has been very forcibly brought under my consideration. It is no part of the main design of that work, as I believe is very generally understood, to propound new theories in regard to the conduct of insurance companies. Its humbler purpose is to give a faithful record of the past history of insurance, to examine the foundations on which the different branches of the business are based, and to criticise, upon occasion, the data which has been relied on in their establishment; as also to supplement this data by reference to the new and ever increasing sources of information. In all this it has been my aim to present the views of others, rather than my own.

History of Mathematics in the Islamic World: The Present State of the Art

1985 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. L. Berggren
Keyword(s):  
Present State ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
History Of Mathematics ◽  
Islamic Culture ◽  
Islamic World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Mathematical Sciences ◽  
Islamic Mathematics

In Recent Years, many discoveries in the history of Islamic mathematics have not been reported outside the specialist literature, even though they raise issues of interest to a larger audience. Thus, our aim in writing this survey is to provide to scholars of Islamic culture an account of the major themes and discoveries of the last decade of research on the history of mathematics in the Islamic world. However, the subject of mathematics comprised much more than what a modern mathematician might think of as belonging to mathematics, so our survey is an overview of what may best be called the “mathematical sciences” in Islam; that is, in addition to such topics as arithmetic, algebra, and geometry we will also be interested in mechanics, optics, and mathematical instruments.

scholarly journals Scarred souls, weary warriors, and military intervention: the emergence of the subject in the just war writings of Jean Bethke Elshtain

2012 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 859-880 ◽  
Author(s):  
PETER LEE
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Just War ◽  
Military Intervention ◽  
Military Force ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Just War Tradition ◽  
A Site

AbstractOver the past three decades Jean Bethke Elshtain has used her critique and application of just war as a means of engaging with multiple overlapping aspects of identity. Though Elshtain ostensibly writes about war and the justice, or lack of justice, therein, she also uses just war a site of analysis within which different strands of subjectivity are investigated and articulated as part of her broader political theory. This article explores the proposition that Elshtain's most important contribution to the just war tradition is not be found in her provision of codes or her analysis of ad bellum or in bello criteria, conformity to which adjudges war or military intervention to be just or otherwise. Rather, that she enriches just war debate because of the unique and sometimes provocative perspective she brings as political theorist and International Relations scholar who adopts, adapts, and deploys familiar but, for some, uncomfortable discursive artefacts from the history of the Christian West: suffused with her own Christian faith and theology. In so doing she continually reminds us that human lives, with all their attendant political, social, and religious complexities, should be the focus when military force is used, or even proposed, for political ends.

Obituary notices of fellows deceased

1877 ◽  
Vol 25 (171-178) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Past History ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Earth ◽  
History Of ◽  
Reign Of Terror ◽  
Accurate Observation

George Poulett Scrope. It is scarcely possible at the present day to realize the conditions of that intellectual “reign of terror” which prevailed at the commencement of the present century, as the consequence of the unreasoning prejudice and wild alarm excited by the early progress of geological inquiry. At that period, every attempt to explain the past history of the earth by a reference to the causes still in operation upon it was met, not by argument, but by charges of atheism against its propounder; and thus Hutton’s masterly fragment of a ‘Theory of the Earth,’ Playfair’s persuasive‘ Illustrations,’ and Hall’s records of accurate observation and ingenious experiment had come to be inscribed m a social Index Expurgatorius ,and for a while, indeed, might have seemed to be consigned to total oblivion. Equally injurious suspicions were aroused against the geologist who dared to make allusion to the important part which igneous forces have undoubtedly played in the formation of certain rocks; for the authority of Werner had acquired an almost sacred cha­racter; and “ Vulcanists ” and “ Huttonians ” were equally objects of aversion and contempt. To two men who have very recently—and within a few months of one another—passed away from our midst, science is indebted for boldly en­countering and successfully overcoming this storm of prejudice. Hutton and his friends lived a generation too soon ; and thus it was reserved tor Lyell and Scrope to carry out the task which the great Scotch philosopher had failed to accomplish, namely, the removal of geology from the domain of speculation to that of inductive science.

The State of the Art in Management Education Applicable to Aerospace Activities

1967 ◽  
Vol 71 (677) ◽  
pp. 344-348
Author(s):  
J. V. Connolly
Keyword(s):  
Management Education ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Aerospace Industry ◽  
List Type ◽  
Industrial Training ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Economic Necessity ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact

During the past two years, there has been a sharp acceleration to the interest which industry has displayed in the subject of management education. This can be attributed to these factors: —(a) A more widespread realisation of the gap developing between the UK and a number of foreign economies, as manifested by diverging rates of the major economic indicators.(b) The attainment of top-management responsibilities by a younger generation of managers, many of whom had been given some earlier training and who were more conscious of its value than the incumbents of the job from earlier generations.(c) The publication of the Franks, Robbins and (in the aerospace industry) the Plowden reports.(d) The impact of the Industrial Training Boards making it manifest, in terms of serious levies, that training was an economic necessity and therefore must be investigated thoroughly.Notwithstanding the widespread awakening of interest, it is very belated and sets numerous problems. The problems are in two areas—scale and quality.

The Investment Policy of Life Assurance Offices.

1938 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 247-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. C. Murray
Keyword(s):  
Past History ◽  
Investment Policy ◽  
Historical Survey ◽  
General Survey ◽  
Life Assurance ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject

Towards the end of Mr. Brown's term of office as President I submitted to him the Table which appears in the appendix to this paper asking whether he thought it of sufficient interest for publication in our Transactions. Mr. Brown replied by inviting me to go further and write a paper for the Faculty on the subject of Investments using the Table as an illustration of past history. Later our present President supported this idea and the notes which I now have the honour to submit are the outcome. Apart from the fact that I dealt with the history of Life Offices' Investments at some length when addressing the Students' Society a few years ago, it seemed to me that something more than a historical survey was desirable. There are few papers in our Transactions dealing with Investment Policy and this was the subject on which I decided. I think that the correct prelude to a discussion of Investment Policy is its own history, and so I give in Part I of this paper a very short general survey of the years from 1871 to 1935. The Table in the appendix will give information additional to what is contained in my remarks to those who wish to go further.

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