The research work of Glaxo Laboratories Limited

1957 ◽  
Vol 146 (923) ◽  
pp. 181-193
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Research Work ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
The World ◽  
Manufacturing Facilities

Before considering its research activities, the Company, and more particularly, lie nature of its business must be described, for this determines the field of its; Research. Glaxo Laboratories Limited has its headquarters at Greenford, Middlesex, and as, in addition to the factory at Greenford, five other factories in the United Kingdom, at Ulverston, Barnard Castle, Montrose, Driffield and Uxbridge. The company has also Subsidiary Companies in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Cuba, Eire, India, Italy, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa and Uruguay, most of them with manufacturing facilities. The products of the Company are therefore known throughout most of the world.

The Co-ordination of Aeronautical Research in The British Commonwealth

1956 ◽  
Vol 60 (542) ◽  
pp. 95-100
Author(s):  
L. P. Coombes
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Wind Tunnel ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Recent Origin ◽  
The Subject ◽  
British Commonwealth ◽  
Vital Matter

I have chosen for my address the subject of Co-ordination of Aeronautical Research in the British Commonwealth, not only because this is a very important and vital matter, but because at this time there are being held in Melbourne meetings between aeronautical research workers from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and the United Kingdom in certain fields of research. Simultaneously, in Canada similar meetings are being held between aeronautical research workers from Canada, United Kingdom and Australia.Aeronautical research, like human flight, is of comparatively recent origin as far as serious work is concerned. In Australia we can be proud to have had one of the pioneers—Lawrence Hargreaves—while the Wright Brothers based the design of their aircraft on experiments with aerofoils carried out in a wind tunnel of their own design.

scholarly journals The spectacle of research assessment systems: insights from New Zealand and the United Kingdom

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (6) ◽  
pp. 1219-1246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bikram Chatterjee ◽  
Carolyn J. Cordery ◽  
Ivo De Loo ◽  
Hugo Letiche
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Research Assessment ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Context Specific ◽  
The Impact

PurposeIn this paper, we concentrate on the use of research assessment (RA) systems in universities in New Zealand (NZ) and the United Kingdom (UK). Primarily we focus on PBRF and REF, and explore differences between these systems on individual and systemic levels. We ask, these days, in what way(s) the systemic differences between PBRF and REF actually make a difference on how the two RA systems are experienced by academic staff.Design/methodology/approachThis research is exploratory and draws on 19 interviews in which accounting researchers from both countries offer reflections on their careers and how RA (systems) have influenced these careers. The stories they tell are classified by regarding RA in universities as a manifestation of the spectacle society, following Debord (1992) and Flyverbom and Reinecke (2017).FindingsBoth UK and New Zealand academics concur that their research activities and views on research are very much shaped by journal rankings and citations. Among UK academics, there seems to be a greater critical attitude towards the benefits and drawbacks of REF, which may be related to the history of REF in their country. Relatively speaking, in New Zealand, individualism seems to have grown after the introduction of the PBRF, with little active pushback against the system. Cultural aspects may partially explain this outcome. Academics in both countries lament the lack of focus on practitioner issues that the increased significance of RA seems to have evoked.Research limitations/implicationsThis research is context-specific and may have limited applicability to other situations, academics or countries.Practical implicationsRA and RA systems seem to be here to stay. However, as academics we can, and ought to, take responsibility to try to ensure that these systems reflect the future of accounting (research) we wish to create. It is certainly not mainly or solely up to upper management officials to set this in motion, as has occasionally been claimed in previous literature. Some of the academics who participated in this research actively sought to bring about a different future.Originality/valueThis research provides a unique contextual analysis of accounting academics' perspectives and reactions to RA and RA systems and the impact these have had on their careers across two countries. In addition, the paper offers valuable critical reflections on the application of Debord's (1992) notion of the spectacle society in future accounting studies. We find more mixed and nuanced views on RA in academia than many previous studies have shown.

scholarly journals Acute and General Medicine on Opposite Sides of the World

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-68
Author(s):  
Alasdair B MacDonald ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Medicine ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
General Medicine ◽  
Acute Medicine ◽  
Shared Learning ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World ◽  
Compare And Contrast

The environments in which General, Acute and Emergency Medicine have evolved in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom have differed significantly. As a result of this, the development and the role of Acute Medicine have also had significant contrasts but there are also many similarities and opportunities for shared learning. We are now in a position to look maturely at our services and allow a little constructive ‘compare and contrast’. Confidence in our own models means now we can each embrace diversity rather than believe one size fits all – not just across the world but also in our own backyards.

Bioscience enterprise: Postgraduate education at Cambridge and Auckland

1969 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Allan ◽  
Joerg Kistler ◽  
Chris Lowe ◽  
Wendell Dunn ◽  
Claire McGowan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Postgraduate Education ◽  
Employment Opportunities ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
The World ◽  
The University

Leading universities around the world are addressing the demand for science-business-skilled professionals with a variety of novel programmes. The University of Cambridge (the United Kingdom) and University of Auckland (New Zealand) have each developed a Master's in Bioscience Enterprise programme providing specialist business and legal skills relevant to employment in the bio-economy. The biotechnology contexts in which these programmes were developed are significantly different and are reflected in the internship choices, thesis topics and postgraduate employment opportunities. In each case, industry feedback has been excellent to date as evidenced by the increasing engagements of companies in these programmes.

Access to Government Publications: Australia, New Zealand, and Assorted Anglophonic Countries in Southeast Asia and the South Pacific

1977 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-209
Author(s):  
Igor I. Kavass
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Federal Republic ◽  
The United States ◽  
Federal Republic Of Germany ◽  
Relative Ease ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World

Almost every country in the world publishes official documents of some kind or another. There is much in these documents of interest to law libraries because they normally include official texts of codes, laws, and subordinate legislation, official court and government reports, statistics, and official gazettes or other official publications of periodical or serial nature. The content of some of these publications can be of considerable legal importance, but their usefulness is limited unless they can also be identified and acquired with relative ease. Unfortunately, this is not true for documents of most countries. The root of the problem is that very few countries, e. g., Canada, Federal Republic of Germany, Netherlands, the United Kingdom, the United States, etc. are in the habit of regularly publishing bibliographies, catalogs or other “search aids” for their documents. In most countries such bibliographic information, if available at all, tends to be incomplete, inaccurate, and sporadic. Finding a document (or even finding out about its existence) in such circumstances becomes more a matter of luck than the result of a skillful professional search.

scholarly journals Multiplex qPCR discriminates variants of concern to enhance global surveillance of SARS-CoV-2

PLoS Biology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. e3001236
Author(s):  
Chantal B. F. Vogels ◽  
Mallery I. Breban ◽  
Isabel M. Ott ◽  
Tara Alpert ◽  
Mary E. Petrone ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome ◽  
Immune Responses ◽  
Primary Target ◽  
Pcr Assay ◽  
Gene Target ◽  
Spike Gene ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World

With the emergence of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variants that may increase transmissibility and/or cause escape from immune responses, there is an urgent need for the targeted surveillance of circulating lineages. It was found that the B.1.1.7 (also 501Y.V1) variant, first detected in the United Kingdom, could be serendipitously detected by the Thermo Fisher TaqPath Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) PCR assay because a key deletion in these viruses, spike Δ69–70, would cause a “spike gene target failure” (SGTF) result. However, a SGTF result is not definitive for B.1.1.7, and this assay cannot detect other variants of concern (VOC) that lack spike Δ69–70, such as B.1.351 (also 501Y.V2), detected in South Africa, and P.1 (also 501Y.V3), recently detected in Brazil. We identified a deletion in the ORF1a gene (ORF1a Δ3675–3677) in all 3 variants, which has not yet been widely detected in other SARS-CoV-2 lineages. Using ORF1a Δ3675–3677 as the primary target and spike Δ69–70 to differentiate, we designed and validated an open-source PCR assay to detect SARS-CoV-2 VOC. Our assay can be rapidly deployed in laboratories around the world to enhance surveillance for the local emergence and spread of B.1.1.7, B.1.351, and P.1.

scholarly journals Human Rights in Hong Kong

1999 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Robin Cooke
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Constitutional Law ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World ◽  
The Republic

In this address to the UNDR commemorative seminar in April 1998 Lord Cooke speaks of human rights, his current judicial roles and the prospects for a common law of the world. Lord Cooke discusses the importance of human rights law in both substance and implementation. The author reports on the process of implementing constitutional law and human rights in New Zealand, Samoa, the Republic of Fiji, the United Kingdom, and Hong Kong. 

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