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National Health Service
National Health Service. Established in 1948, the NHS grew out of the Second World War's reconstruction planning of social and medical services, after long debate over health-care provision (Dawson Report, 1920; Cathcart Report, 1936; Sankey Commission, 1937). The 1942 Beveridge Report assumed that... Read more |
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time and motion study
time and motion study analysis of the operations required to produce a manufactured article in a factory, with the aim of increasing efficiency. Each operation is studied minutely and analyzed in order to eliminate unnecessary motions and thus reduce production time and raise output, which... Read more |
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relativity
relativity physical theory, introduced by Albert Einstein, that discards the concept of absolute motion and instead treats only relative motion between two systems or frames of reference. One consequence of the theory is that space and time are no longer viewed as separate, independent entities but... Read more |
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dynamics
dynamics branch of mechanics that deals with the motion of objects; it may be further divided into kinematics, the study of motion without regard to the forces producing it, and kinetics, the study of the forces that produce or change motion. Motion is caused by an unbalanced force acting on... Read more |
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motion
motion the change of position of one body with respect to another. The rate of change is the speed of the body. If the direction of motion is also given, then the velocity of the body is determined; velocity is a vector quantity, having both magnitude and direction, while speed is a scalar... Read more |
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magnetohydrodynamics
magnetohydrodynamics , study of the motions of electrically conducting fluids and their interactions with magnetic fields. The principles of magnetohydrodynamics are of particular importance in plasma physics. See nuclear energy .... Read more |
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motion pictures
motion pictures movie-making as an art and an industry, including its production techniques, its creative artists, and the distribution and exhibition of its products (see also motion picture photography ; Motion Picture Cameras under camera ). Origins Experiments in photographing movement had... Read more |
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Times Square
Times Square in New York City. Formed by the intersection of Broadway, Seventh Ave., and 42d St., this famous square was named (1904) for the building there that formerly belonged to the New York Times. The building, located in the center of the square, is still famous for the outdoor news ... Read more |
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Wave motion
WAVE MOTION CONCEPT Wave motion is activity that carries energy from one place to another without actually moving any matter. Studies of wave motion are most commonly associated with sound or radio transmissions, and, indeed, these are among the most common forms of wave... Read more |
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Sir Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac Newton 1642-1727, English mathematician and natural philosopher (physicist), who is considered by many the greatest scientist that ever lived. Early Life and Work Newton studied at Cambridge and was professor there from 1669 to 1701, succeeding his teacher Isaac Barrow as Lucasian... Read more |
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NHS Careers steps up campaign success.
...epilepsy falling in slow motion. The role of the...obtained from the NHS Careers website...www.nhscareers.nhs.uk. 'Real time' job vacancies can...on http://www.nhs.uk/jobs. There...more than 160 case studies from all over ... |
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CORRECTION - NHS careers steps up campaign success.
...epilepsy falling in slow motion. The role of the...obtained from the NHS Careers website...www.nhscareers.nhs.uk. 'Real time' job vacancies can...on http://www.nhs.uk/jobs. There...more than 160 case studies from all over ... |
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ASK YOUR MP TO MAKE A STAND AND SAY: NO MORE NHS FUNDING OF HOMEOPATHY OR...
...tabled an 'Early Day Motion' in support of the NHS funding more research...outrageous that the NHS is funding the provision...s climate where NHS budgets are being...and since that time homeopathic medicines...their own scientific ... |
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TUC report
...new three-year study carried out by the...would benefit from time off around the birth...carried unanimously. NHS issues The Society...staffing levels in the NHS, arguing that this...safety problem. The motion was composited with several ... |
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Trials of the 'new' NHS: studies from left and right have concluded that,...
...Europe says the days of the NHS as a tax-funded...warning about for some time. In a new book, called NHS PLC, PFI's most high...and the plan to give all NHS hospitals independent...unanimously in favour of a motion calling for the BMA to... |
 "The Independent (London, England)")
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Private patients get pounds 250 NHS bonus
...Health, has tabled a motion calling on the company...rewards left the NHS "wide open" to...choose to go into the NHS are not going in to support the NHS but to fill their...College of Health. The study found waiting times ... |
 "Scotland on Sunday (Edinburgh, Scotland)")
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NHS exodus sees nursing levels plunge
...coincide with a new study by the Royal College...for the Scottish NHS and promised a...in the Scottish NHS. The latest figures from the NHS show that the number...pounds a year and time off for training...private members ... |
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Tax rise threat over fresh NHS inquiry
...executive of NatWest, to study whether the NHS needs more money on...stability for the NHS, he now intends to...year by checking the NHS's progress against...health policy at a time when ministers are...have signed a Commons ... |
 "South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)")
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Viewpoints Nye gets taste of today's NHS.(Features)
...up with the idea of the NHS. On a visit to Cardiff...Oh, that was before time and motion studies came about involving the...What's happening to our NHS? And will it survive the...debts in the wake of many NHS trusts becoming ... |
 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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Controversial NHS leader James Ackers mourned.(News)
...and the head of the NHS in the region for...national positions at the NHS policy board, the...business. By that time he had been serving...a House of Commons motion called for his resignation...consultants charging the NHS as much as ... |
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