Recent Advances in Carbohydrate Bioengineering Edited by H. J. Gilbert (University of Newcastle upon Tyne), G. J. Davies (University of York), B. Henrissat (Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique), and B. Svensson (Carlsberg Laboratory). Royal Society of Chemistry:  Cambridge, UK. 1999. xii + 312 pp. $150.00. ISBN 0-85404-774-3.

2000 ◽  
Vol 122 (16) ◽  
pp. 3983-3984
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Recent Advances ◽  
Newcastle Upon Tyne

BLADDER CONTROL AND ENURESIS. Edited by I. Kolvin, R.C. Mackeith, and S. R. Meadow. Philadelphia, JB Lippincott Co, $29.50; 328 pp

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 58 (6) ◽  
pp. 919-919
Author(s):  
David B. Friedman
Keyword(s):  
Bladder Control ◽  
Royal Victoria Infirmary ◽  
Recent Advances ◽  
Psychological Medicine ◽  
Newcastle Upon Tyne

Bladder Control and Enuresis is described on its jacket as "a comprehensible review of enuresis." The book derives from a colloquium on "Recent Advances in Knowledge of Bladder Control in Children," held under the auspices of the Department of Psychological Medicine, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England. The editors have selected certain topics and asked individuals to provide papers presenting a fusion of their own ideas and those put forward at the colloquium. The result is an important contribution to the field of developmental pediatrics.

scholarly journals Sir Humphry Davy and the coal miners of the world: a commentary on Davy (1816) ‘An account of an invention for giving light in explosive mixtures of fire-damp in coal mines’

2015 ◽  
Vol 373 (2039) ◽  
pp. 20140288 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Meurig Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Coal Mines ◽  
Coal Industry ◽  
Coal Miners ◽  
Literary Expression ◽  
The North ◽  
Royal Institution ◽  
Humphry Davy ◽  
Michael Faraday ◽  
Newcastle Upon Tyne

In the period between 1815 and 1818, Sir Humphry Davy read four papers to the Royal Society and published a monograph dealing with a safety lamp for coal miners, all of which record in detail the experimental work that he carried out, with his assistant Michael Faraday, so as to determine how to prevent catastrophic accidents in coal mines by the explosion of fire-damp (methane) in the presence of a naked flame. This article describes the key experiments that he performed at the Royal Institution and some of the subsequent trials made in the coal mines of the north of England. It begins, however, with an account of Davy's prior achievements in science before he was approached for help by the clergymen and doctors in the Gateshead and Newcastle upon Tyne areas. There is little doubt that the Davy lamp, from the 1820s onwards, transformed the coal industry worldwide. It also profoundly influenced the science of combustion, and in the words of a pioneer in that field, W. A. Bone, FRS, ‘There is no better model of logical experimental procedure, accurate reasoning, philosophical outlook and fine literary expression.’ It is a remarkable fact that it took Davy essentially only two weeks from the time he was given samples of fire-damp to solve the problem and to devise his renowned miner's safety lamp. A brief account is also given of the contemporaneous invention of a safety lamp by George Stephenson, and of some of Davy's subsequent accomplishments. This commentary was written to celebrate the 350th anniversary of the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society .

scholarly journals Proceedings of the Forty-first Meeting of the Agricultural Research Modellers' Group

2009 ◽  
Vol 147 (6) ◽  
pp. 731-742 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. A. CROMPTON ◽  
T. R. WHEELER
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Agricultural Science ◽  
Newcastle Upon Tyne

This group, which is concerned with the applications of mathematics to agricultural science, was formed in 1970 and has since met at approximately yearly intervals in London for one-day meetings. The forty-first meeting of the group, chaired by Dr Derek Rose of the School of Agriculture, Food and Rural Development, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, was held in the Kohn Centre at the Royal Society, 6–9 Carlton House Terrace, London, on Friday, 3 April 2009 when the following papers were read.

scholarly journals Discussion on recent advances in the study of enzymes and their action

1932 ◽  
Vol 111 (771) ◽  
pp. 280-297 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Molecular Hydrogen ◽  
Preliminary Survey ◽  
Important Work ◽  
Recent Advances ◽  
Free Hydrogen ◽  
The Subject

The president: We meet this afternoon to discuss Enzymes and their action. So much important work has been done on that I think you will admit that the occasion is timely. The Royal Society is honoured to-day by the presence of distinguished guests from abroad. I would like to say how deeply we appreciate their Presence. It is not proposed that our discussion shall form pre-determined lines, but rather that each speaker should deal with any aspect of the subject with his present interest is concerned. It is not my duty, therefore, to attempt from the Chair any preliminary survey of the fields of discussion. In opening, I will be very brief. I wish to call your attention to certain observations made on bacteriological enzymes by my colleagues, Miss Margaret Stephenson and Dr. L. H. Stickland. They have recently shown that the enzymes of Bacillus Coil hydrogen in three different senses or modes. They can activate molecular hydrogen when present in the atmosphere to which the organisms are exposed. As a result, reduction occur in the medium which are not observed in the absence of the organism, nor when free hydrogen is absent from system. My colleagues were the first to show that this activity is possessed by B. Coli , and no less by some other common bacteria.

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