1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910164340003321

Autore

Gosling George Campbell

Titolo

Payment and philanthropy in British healthcare, 1918-48 / / George Campbell Gosling

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester University Press, 2017

Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

9781526114358

9781526114327

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 221 pages) : map, charts, portraits

Collana

Social histories of medicine

Disciplina

362.10941

Soggetti

Medical care - Great Britain - History - 20th century

Medical care, Cost of - Great Britain - History - 20th century

Medical fees - Great Britain - History - 20th century

Social medicine - Great Britain - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

"There were only three decades in British history when it was the norm for patients to pay the hospital; those between the end of the First World War and the establishment of the National Health Service in 1948. At a time when payment is claiming a greater place than ever before within the NHS, this book uses a case study of the wealthy southern city of Bristol as the starting point for the first in-depth investigation of the workings, scale and meaning of payment in British hospitals before the NHS. Payment and philanthropy in British healthcare, 1918-48 questions what it meant to be asked to contribute financially to the hospital by the medical social worker, known then as the Lady Almoner, or to subscribe to a pseudo-insurance hospital contributory scheme. It challenges the false assumption that middle-class paying patients crowded out the sick poor. Hopes and fears, at the time and since, that this would have an empowering or democratising effect or that commercial medicine would bring about the end of medical charity, were all wide of the mark. In fact, payment



and philanthropy found a surprisingly traditional accommodation, which ensured the rise of universal healthcare was mitigated and mediated by long-standing class distinctions while financial contribution became a new marker of good citizenship. Anyone interested in these changing notions of citizenship, charity and money, as well as the hospital as a social institution within the community in early twentieth-century Britain, will find this book a valuable companion" --OAPEN.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910830791303321

Autore

Diston Dominic J

Titolo

Computational Modelling and Simulation of Aircraft and the Environment [[electronic resource] ] : Platform Kinematics and Synthetic Environment

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, : Wiley, 2009

ISBN

1-282-12349-1

9786612123498

0-470-74413-8

0-470-74414-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (384 p.)

Collana

Aerospace Series

Disciplina

629.1301/13

629.133011

Soggetti

Aeronautics - Systems engineering - Data processing

Airplanes - Computer simulation

Airplanes - Performance - Mathematical models

Airplanes

Atmosphere - Compter simulation

Atmosphere - Computer simulation

Gravitational fields - Computer simulation

Navigation (Aeronautics) - Computer simulation

Spherical astronomy - Data processing

Mechanical Engineering

Engineering & Applied Sciences

Aeronautics Engineering & Astronautics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa



Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Computational Modellingand Simulation of Aircraftand the Environment; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; How To Use This Book; Series Preface; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1 Computational Modelling; 1.2 Modelling and Simulation (M&S); 1.3 Development Processes; 1.4 Models; 1.5 Meta-models; 1.6 Aerospace Applications; 1.6.1 Synthetic Environment; 1.6.2 Aerospace Vehicles; 1.7 Integration and Interoperability; 1.8 The End of the Beginning; Chapter 2: Platform Kinematics; 2.1 Axis Systems; 2.1.1 Platform Axis System; 2.1.2 Local Axis Systems

2.1.3 Earth-Centred Axis Systems2.1.4 Orientation; 2.1.5 Flight Axis System; 2.2 Changing Position and Orientation; 2.3 Rotating Axis Systems; 2.3.1 Inertial and Non-inertial Frames; 2.3.2 Vector Differentiation; 2.3.3 Poisson's Equation; 2.4 Quaternions; 2.4.1 Method of Construction; 2.4.2 Frame Rotation via Quaternions; 2.4.3 Relationship between Quaternions and Euler Angles; 2.5 Line of Sight; Chapter 3: Geospatial Reference Model; 3.1 Spherical Earth; 3.2 Spherical Trigonometry; 3.3 Great Circle Navigation; 3.4 Rhumb Line Navigation; 3.5 Reference Ellipsoids

3.5.1 World Geodetic System (WGS84)3.5.2 Geoid Approximations; 3.6 Coordinate Systems; 3.6.1 Geocentric and Geodetic Latitude; 3.6.2 Parametric or Reduced Latitude; 3.6.3 Cartesian Coordinates; 3.6.4 Approximate Cartesian Coordinates; 3.6.5 Latitude, Longitude and Altitude; 3.7 Navigation on an Ellipsoidal Earth; 3.7.1 Differential Geometry; 3.7.2 Geodesics; 3.7.3 Geodesic Trajectory; 3.7.4 Geodesic Length; 3.7.5 Meridian Distances; 3.7.6 Rhumb Lines; 3.8 Mapping; 3.9 General Principles of Map Projection; 3.10 Mercator Projection; 3.11 Transverse Mercator Projection; 3.11.1 Forward Projection

3.11.2 National Grid of Great Britain3.11.3 Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) Grid; 3.11.4 Projection Geometry; 3.11.5 Inverse Projection; 3.12 Conformal Latitude; 3.13 Polar Stereographic Projection; 3.13.1 Basic Formulation; 3.13.2 Universal Polar Stereographic (UPS) Projection; 3.14 Three-Dimensional Mapping; 3.15 Actual Latitudes, Longitudes and Altitudes; Chapter 4: Positional Astronomy; 4.1 Earth and Sun; 4.2 Observational Reference Frames; 4.2.1 Horizontal Frame; 4.2.2 First Equatorial Frame; 4.2.3 Second Equatorial Frame; 4.2.4 Frame Transformations; 4.3 Measurement of Time

4.3.1 Mean Time4.3.2 Diurnal Cycle; 4.3.3 Universal Time; 4.3.4 Time Zones; 4.3.5 Sidereal Time; 4.3.6 Terrestrial Time; 4.4 Calendars and the J2000 Reference Epoch; 4.5 Chronological Scale; 4.6 Astrometric Reference Frames; 4.6.1 Inertial Frame; 4.6.2 Rotating Frame; 4.6.3 Precession; 4.6.4 Coordinate Transformations; 4.7 Orbital Mechanics; 4.7.1 Kepler's Laws; 4.7.2 Orbital Energy and Velocity; 4.7.3 Anomalies and Kepler's Equation; 4.7.4 Orbital Elements; 4.8 Solar System Orbit Models; 4.8.1 Planetary Data; 4.8.2 Planetary Trajectories; 4.8.3 Mean Sun and the Equation of Time

4.9 GPS Orbit Models

Sommario/riassunto

This first volume of Computational Modelling of Aircraft and the Environment provides a comprehensive guide to the derivation of computational models from basic physical & mathematical principles, giving the reader sufficient information to be able to represent the basic architecture of the synthetic environment. Highly relevant to practitioners, it takes into account the multi-disciplinary nature of the aerospace environment and the integrated nature of the models needed



to represent it. Coupled with the forthcoming Volume 2: Aircraft Models and Flight Dynamics it represents a c