Competition in the UK Retail Financial Service Sector: Some Implications for the Spatial Distribution and Function of Bank Branches

1990 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 571-588 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dawn Burton
2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Perry

Craniofacial trauma remains a common health problem throughout many areas of the UK. Although the ‘combination of alcohol and testosterone’ is often regarded as a major aetiological factor, a significant number of injuries are not related to either. Motor vehicle collisions and equine-related sports injuries in particular can result in devastating injuries to the skull and face and are frequently seen.Over the last few decades, management has moved away from closed methods to open exposure, anatomical reduction and internal ‘rigid’ fixation of facial fractures, with significant improvements in outcomes. Nevertheless, current management of ‘high energy’ or complex fractures can still result in residual functional disability and cosmetic deformity.Today’s challenge is to restore patients back to their pre-injury form and function, consistently, but this is not always possible. Greater understanding and a number of developments have significantly improved outcomes, although controversy still exists in some areas. Some of these will be discussed.


2010 ◽  
Vol 34 (7) ◽  
pp. 270-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jackie Gordon ◽  
Sonia Wolf

Aims and methodTo investigate liaison psychiatry services across 38 acute trusts in the south of England. We used a telephone survey and compared the results to service structure and function as recommended by the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of Psychiatrists.ResultsApproximately two-thirds of trusts surveyed had a dedicated liaison service and this was not significantly related to hospital size. Most liaison teams were understaffed in all disciplines and only a third had a full-time consultant. Services for specialist patient groups were generally well provided for; 37% of teams had been created in the past 5 years and 33% were planning to increase their staffing levels in future.Clinical implicationsLiaison services in the south of England are similar to those in other parts of the UK that have been surveyed. Although the services did not meet the Colleges' recommendations, our study shows some recent growth and development in this specialty.


1994 ◽  
Vol 41 (8) ◽  
pp. 1663-1671 ◽  
Author(s):  
W.A. Cerbito ◽  
F.V. Quero ◽  
C.R. Balagapo ◽  
K. Miyazawa ◽  
K. Sato

Author(s):  
Nabil Khattab

<p class="pagecontents"><span lang="EN-GB">This paper analyses the patterns of occupational attainment and earnings among the Jewish community in Britain using UK Labour Force Survey data (2002-2010). The findings suggest that although British-Jews cannot be distinguished from the majority main stream population of British-White in terms of their overall occupational attainment and earnings, it seems that they have managed to integrate through patterns of self-employment and concentration in the service sector economy, particularly in banking and financial services. It is argued that this self-employment profile is a Jewish strategy used to minimise dependency on majority group employers and by doing so to helping to escape any religious penalties.</span></p>


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amine Driouchi ◽  
Scott Gray-Owen ◽  
Christopher M Yip

Mapping the self-organization and spatial distribution of membrane proteins is key to understanding their function. We report here on a correlated STORM/homoFRET imaging approach for resolving the nanoscale distribution and oligomeric state of membrane proteins. Live cell homoFRET imaging of CEACAM1, a cell-surface receptor known to exist in a complex equilibrium between monomer and dimer/oligomer states, revealed highly heterogenous diffraction-limited structures on the surface of HeLa cells. Correlated super-resolved STORM imaging revealed that these structures comprised a complex mixture and spatial distribution of self-associated CEACAM1 molecules. This correlated approach provides a compelling strategy for addressing challenging questions about the interplay between membrane protein concentration, distribution, interaction, clustering, and function.


2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-27
Author(s):  
Kamaljit Singh ◽  
Vinod Kumar

The main objective of this paper is to analyze the trend and pattern of the Nifty-Fifty and sectorial indices. An attempt has been also made to find out the causal relationship among the Nifty-Fifty and NSE sectorial Indices. The unit root test and Granger-causality test has been applied to check the causal relationship between Nifty-Fifty and sectorial indices. The finding of the study shows that the financial service sector had performed better and followed by the banking sector among all the indices while the Pharma sector and the Realty sector were Under-performed in comparison to other indices. The Nifty-Fifty has been found less volatile in comparison to other sectorial indices however Realty sector indices show the highest volatility during the study period.


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