Ashurst Hospital

The liberalization of India's economy since 1991 has brought with it considerable development of its financial markets and supporting legal institutions. An influential body of economic scholarship asserts that a country's “legal origin”—as a civilian or common law jurisdiction—plays an important part in determining the development of its investor protection regulations, and consequently its financial development. An alternative theory claims that the determinants of investor protection are political, rather than legal. We use the case of India to test these theories. We find little support for the idea that India's legal heritage as a common law country has been influential in speeding the path of regulatory reforms and financial development. Rather, we suggest there are complementarities between (1) India's relative success in services and software; (2) the relative strength of its financial markets for outside equity, as opposed to outside debt; and (3) the relative success of stock market regulation, as opposed to reforms of creditor rights. We conclude that political economy explanations have more traction in explaining the case of India than do theories based on “legal origins.”

Computer simulation has been widely used to predict the corrosion related electric and electromagnetic signatures of naval vessels. The modelling strategy has varied from simple dipole type models to detailed boundary element models of the vessel and its environment. For the dipole models users have had to choose the location and strength of the dipoles based upon experience, using range data or data from similar vessels. Whereas the boundary element model enables the user to define the actual geometry of the vessel, the electrochemical properties of the materials and the properties of the environment as data to the model and obtain predictions of the electric and magnetic signatures. This paper describes the simulation tools developed as part of the BEASY software to predict electric and magnetic signatures. Comparison is made between results of the boundary element detailed models and the dipole type models.

This review summarizes the important books, reviews and papers published in 1996 that will help purchasers and providers to decide how best to estimate the need, and therefore the resources, for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services.The literature discussed addresses epidemiology, treatment efficacy, evaluation, outcome and costing of services.