The Place of the Monarchy

2016 ◽  
pp. 181-188
Author(s):  
Donald W. Winnicott
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Everyday Lives

In this paper, Winnicott proposes to look at the place of the monarchy in Great Britain but not from the point of view of a specialist. The monarchy, he notes, is something we experience as part of our everyday lives. Winnicott notes the importance of the question ‘has God saved the Queen?’ and how behind it is the saying: ‘The King is dead, long live the King!’ The significance for Winnicott is that it implies that the monarchy survives the death of the reigning monarch.

Climate change and fl ood insurance in Germany, Great Britain and Serbia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Slobodan Jovanovic ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Insurance Premium ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Prevention Measures ◽  
Natural Risk ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Risk Insurance ◽  
The Impact ◽  
High Winds

In this paper, the author analyzes the organization of fl ood risk insurance, the risk which signifi cantly deteriorates due to climate change in Germany, the United Kingdom and Serbia. Th e author used selected studies and works, national legislation, insurance conditions and materials of specialized organizations. Climate change signifi cantly aff ects the frequency and severity of the harmful consequences of fl ood risks, which, due to their catastrophic consequences and territorial exposure, require more effi cient prevention measures and the design of their insurance. Floods are increasingly occurring as a result of heavy rainfall and high winds that simultaneously enhance their harmful potential. Th erefore, insurers cannot ignore the impact of climate change on the conditions for taking risks, determining the insurance premium, excesses and all other aspects related to these risks. From the point of view of risk assessment and selection techniques, the principle of fl ood insurability will certainly be applied in the future. Th erefore, refraining insurers from insuring those risks where the recurrence of fl oods is more frequent than a certain number of years (fi ve or ten years), based on the historical development of claims or classifi cation of zones into the danger class with increased frequency, will certainly pose a problem for policyholders. In Germany, fl ood risk cover is provided similarly to a number of Serbian insurers, ie. as an additional risk to basic property risks. However, the German insurance practice provides an opportunity to insure a number of other natural risks as a supplementary risk in the form of a natural risk package. It should be pointed out that there are also insurers in Serbia, whose policy terms regarding the cover scope more or less coincide with the insurance of named risks in Great Britain. Th ese are insurance conditions that represent an extension of the so-called traditional insurance of named fi re risks, which certainly represents a good step in the direction of modernizing the household insurance conditions in Serbia.

Pain, Painrelieving Mechanisms and Trauma

1987 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-13
Author(s):  
B. Sjolund
Keyword(s):  
Spinal Cord ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Nerve Fibers ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Pain Sensation ◽  
Small Peptides ◽  
Periaqueductal Gray Matter ◽  
Nociceptive Afferents ◽  
The Central Nervous System ◽  
Areas Of Interest

Activity in nociceptive nerve fibers does not only trigger the sensation of pain but it also starts a variety of nocifensive reflexes to protect the organism from the noxious agent. Some of these reflexes may, if active long enough, be harmful themselves, causing ischemia in visceral organs or other inadvertent reactions. Recently, several endogenous mechanisms have been discovered that can inhibit the transmission of nerve impulses from nociceptive afferents to other nerve cells, thus not only preventing the pain sensation but also modulating the nocifensive reflex responses. Several such mechanisms may involve the release of endorphins. These are small peptides, with opiate-like activity that were first discovered in 1975 by Hughes and Kosterlitz in Great Britain and by Terenius in Sweden. The distribution of such endorphins in the central nervous system was first investigated by Hökfelt and his coworkers. They found terminals and cell bodies containing endorphins in several areas of interest from the point of view of nociception. Thus the dorsal horn of the spinal cord, the corresponding area of the fifth cranial nerve and the periaqueductal gray matter contained such material.

SOCIAL RIGHTS OF THE POLES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AFTER BREXIT

2020 ◽  
Vol 556 (7) ◽  
pp. 12-17
Author(s):  
Paweł Kaleta
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Transition Period ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Social

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union (Brexit) has definitely been bringing various consequences in the field of social security. It is therefore worthwhile to analyse it from the point of view of the social rights of Poles residing in the United Kingdom (as well as, in a comparative and auxiliary manner, of the British residing in Poland), following the formal conclusion of the withdrawal. The article therefore synthetically presents this current, post-Brexit situation, taking into account the ongoing transition period as well as the perspective of negotiations on the possible agreement(s) on future EU-UK relations. Notably, the rights in question have been preserved in the transition period, but their status afterwards remains open.

The Politics of Employment Policy in Germany and Great Britain

1977 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaus Beyme ◽  
Ghiţa Ionescu
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Political ◽  
Employment Policy ◽  
Employment Policies ◽  
Political Processes

NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT POLICIES IN GENERAL HAVE BEEN ESPECIALLY intensively studied from a comparative point of view in the last decade during which unemployment has again become an object of universal concern. But, at least to our knowledge, these studies have been focused more on the economic and social asects of the problems of employment/unemployment, and less on the political aspects, or what we call the politics of employment policies, i.e. how are these policies made, by what kind of institutions and especially through what kind of political processes?

scholarly journals British Policy in Palestine: Interests versus Reality (1917-1922)

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 112-135
Author(s):  
Liudmila Maksimovna Samarskaia
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Middle East ◽  
White Paper ◽  
League Of Nations ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Core ◽  
British Policy ◽  
National Movements ◽  
Strategic Goals

The period between the publication of the Balfour Declaration in 1917 and League of Nations mandates official assignment to Great Britain in 1922 was not lengthy, but highly eventful. All this time England was maneuvring between the Jewish and the Arab national movements, which also gradually formed their own demands and objectives. The problem was, pursuing British interests was possible through maneuvring only, as support of just one local force was not quite strategically advantageous. Britains official commitment to the Balfour Declaration remained at the core of its policy, however it could not completely ignore the demands of the Arab polutaion of Palestine. Although there were quite a number of British administrators and imperial politicians, who were sympathetic towards the Zionist cause and thus were ready to meet their requests to a certain extent, adherence to the British Middle East interests remained crucial to them. The idea of a Jewish national home (not a state, though) in Palestine did not come into contradiction with the general policy of Great Britain in the Middle East: it was rather its integral part. At the same time implementing the Zionist project had to be in line with it: any relatively radical (from the British administrators point of view) proposals were rejected or postponed indefinitely. Towards the Arabs of Palestine Great Britain was conducting mainly declarative policy without any serious consideration of their problems and grievances, although trying to appease their demands to a certain extent. Even the Arab riots of 1920 and 1921 did not cause a serious change in the British political course in Palestine, although they did contribute to the emergence of Churchills White Paper in 1922, declaring certain concessions to the Arab national movement, which never accepted the document. At the same time British policy in general was neither pro-Zionist, nor pro-Arab: England was pursuing its long-term strategic goals in the Middle East, skillfully utilizing Zionist and Arab national movements to achieve them.

scholarly journals Fonctionnement familial et rapports à la santé : essai d’analyse typologique

2015 ◽  
pp. 67-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Cardia-Vonèche ◽  
Malik von Allmen ◽  
Benoit Bastard
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Federal Republic ◽  
Health Management ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Family Health ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Federal Republic Of Germany ◽  
Family Role ◽  
The Family

This article deals with the daily health management within the family which, far from involving skills only, is based on the existence and significations or contents of family relations themselves. To study the family/health connection from this point of view enables: 1) to underline that the role played by the family is not only curative but also preventive, 2) to observe that this role resides also in other types of activities which are but indirectly related to health and, 3) to show that this role is also highly dependent on the state of relations within the family cell. This investigation of the family role in health matters is based on studies conducted in various European countries (France, Switzerland, Great Britain, Federal Republic of Germany) and favours the analysis of broken families, since it brings out the unknown dimensions of daily health management and its related specific family forms of sociability.

Organization and Procedure of the Peace Conference

1919 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-212
Author(s):  
Charles G. Fenwick
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Special Functions ◽  
The United States ◽  
Great Powers ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Prime Ministers ◽  
Western Front

The difficulty of threading one's way through the intricacies of the organization of the Peace Conference is due chiefly to the fact that the conference is from one point of view a continuation of various interallied conferences and councils created for the prosecution of the war. In some cases the functions of these bodies have apparently been taken over by the conference, and in other cases the preëxisting councils and commissions have continued in operation as interallied agencies distinct from the organization of the conference. A brief review of the most important of these agencies will be of assistance, therefore, in making clear the origin and special functions of the conference.The Supreme War Council was created by an agreement between Great Britain, France and Italy at a meeting held at Rapallo, Italy, in the first week of November, 1917. It was composed of the prime ministers and a member of the governments of each of the great powers fighting on the western front. Its purpose was to watch over the general conduct of the war and prepare recommendations for the decision of the governments. It was to be assisted by a permanent central military committee, consisting of Generals Foch, Wilson and Cadorna, but the decisions of these technical advisers were merely to be the basis of recommendations from the War Council to the several governments, leaving the general staffs and military commands of each power responsible to their individual governments. The United States subsequently adhered to the Rapallo agreement, and participated in the meeting of the council at Versailles on December 1, 1917.

Family Size from the Child's Point of View

1982 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 319-327 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. M. Langford
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Family Size ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
The Family ◽  
Mean Size ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Using Data

SummaryThe mean size of sibship in which children are reared is greaterthan the mean number of children born to those children's parents' generation. In this paper, family size is considered from the child's point of view, and estimates made of how many siblings (and some other relatives) children have, using data from a survey carried out in Great Britain in the late 1960s. The size of the ‘family’ experienced by children is largerthan may at first sight appear. For example, women who married in the period 1941–55 onaverage had 2·2 children, but these women's children grew up, on average, in sibships of3·5 children; 38% of them grew up in a family with four children or more. Moreover, on average, these women's children had six uncles and aunts and possibly twice that number of first cousins. More than half of the children had at least one parent who was brought up in a family with six children or more and almost one in five had at least one parent who came from a family with ten children or more.

scholarly journals BRITISH PRESS ON THE FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF “WOE FROM WIT” (1857)

2021 ◽  
pp. 93-114
Author(s):  
N. A. Tarkhova
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
English Translation ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
General Picture ◽  
Science And Art ◽  
British Press ◽  
Xix Century ◽  
Life Structure

The article is devoted to the responses of the English press to the publication of the first translation of A. S. Griboyedov’s comedy “Woe from Wit” into English, made by N. D. Benardaki in 1857 (London). Reviews that appeared in the Scottish magazine “McPhail’s Edinburgh Ecclesiastical Journal and Literary Review” and in the London newspaper “The Literary Gazette, and Journal of Archeology, Science, and Art”, and the names of their authors have remained unknown in Russia so far. In both issues, British readers are introduced to the content of the Russian play and with its characters, both publications tell about the life and work of its author. At the same time, each publication has features that reflect not only the personal preferences of its author, but also some general ideas about Russia in the middle of the XIX century that existed in Great Britain. The first article, relying on the text of the comedy, made an attempt to draw a general picture of the life structure and moral climate of modern Russia as a “not quite civilized” country, from the point of view of the British. The author of another one tendentiously covers the life of Griboyedov, revealing dislike for him as a diplomat whose activities in Persia were successfully directed against British influence in this country.

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