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This article discusses some of the learning processes involved in the three‐day introductory phase of an open learning programme for unemployed managers. Open learning in this application means the individual having responsibility for setting her or his own learning tasks and choosing processes and timescale.

Since the first Volume of this Bibliography there has been an explosion of literature in all the main areas of business. The researcher and librarian have to be able to uncover specific articles devoted to certain topics. This Bibliography is designed to help. Volume III, in addition to the annotated list of articles as the two previous volumes, contains further features to help the reader. Each entry within has been indexed according to the Fifth Edition of the SCIMP/SCAMP Thesaurus and thus provides a full subject index to facilitate rapid information retrieval. Each article has its own unique number and this is used in both the subject and author index. The first Volume of the Bibliography covered seven journals published by MCB University Press. This Volume now indexes 25 journals, indicating the greater depth, coverage and expansion of the subject areas concerned.

June 1982 saw the start of a new programme of courses for unemployed managers in the North East. Called the PROSPECT programme it is sponsored by the Manpower Services Commission and run by the Northern Regional Management Centre. PROSPECT features a coherent approach to meeting the needs of the unemployed manager and includes the use of open learning. PROSPECT has built on the staff experience of dealing with the effects of unemployment in the North East over the last few years, has taken into account overseas work and is providing data for research into several topics.

The purpose of this paper is to address the gaps in knowledge about how people get information in a flood and what they want to know.

A total of 27 people were interviewed from two communities that suffered flooding in the 12 months before the interviews. Slow‐moving flood and flash flood were covered.

The type of disaster determines how people seek information. In slow‐moving flood, people heard from others, tracked it visually and via web‐available river gauge information, and talked to others with more flood experience. Radio was an important confirmation tool in the slow‐moving flood. In flash flood, people first heard from others and then turned to television.

Participants made up a small sample skewed toward regional areas and were selected by snowball/convenience sampling methods. A survey is required to confirm or refute findings.

Word of mouth needs to be tapped into by agencies, and mobile phone networks and social media are critical to this. Radio and television should be more proactively used by emergency agencies and maps should be a feature of all flood communication.

The focus of disaster communication research tends to have been on agency use of communication rather than the individual's use of a range of communication channels. This study encourages agencies to look at how individuals look for information, the channels they use to get information and the type of information they seek.

An enhanced version of a mixed field‐based formulation for magnetostatics previously developed by the authors is presented and its features are discussed. The formulation minimises the residual of the constitutive equation, and exactly imposes Maxwell’s equations with Lagrange multipliers. Finite elements satisfying the physical continuity properties for both the magnetic and the magnetic induction fields are used in the numerical approximation. The possibility of decoupling the formulation in two separate sets of equations is discussed. A preconditioned iterative method to solve the final algebraic linear system is presented. Finally, a very natural refinement indicator is defined to guide an adaptive mesh refinement procedure.

The danger attending the use of the insufficiently purified waters derived from the Thames and Lea should, we think, be constantly pressed upon the attention of the Legislature and of the public. We regard it as a duty to endeavour to prevent the continued neglect of the warnings which have been put forward from time to time by those who have made a careful and unbiassed study of the subject, and which have recently been again uttered and emphasised by SIR A. BINNIE, the late Engineer of the London County Council. In the public interest it is greatly to be regretted that the system of analytical control, which was maintained by certain London Borough Councils with regard to the water supplied within the areas under their jurisdiction, has been discontinued. The local checks referred to were of the greatest value to the inhabitants of the districts concerned by affording timely warning when water of dangerous character was being supplied, thus enabling some protective measures to be taken. They also served the useful purposes of keeping public attention fixed upon the matter.

Gives introductory remarks about chapter 1 of this group of 31 papers, from ISEF 1999 Proceedings, in the methodologies for field analysis, in the electromagnetic community. Observes that computer package implementation theory contributes to clarification. Discusses the areas covered by some of the papers ‐ such as artificial intelligence using fuzzy logic. Includes applications such as permanent magnets and looks at eddy current problems. States the finite element method is currently the most popular method used for field computation. Closes by pointing out the amalgam of topics.

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the use of the finite element (FE) method in calculating accurate field gradients to achieve good estimates of aberration coefficients in accelerator tubes.

Gradient fields up to third order are calculated using FE calculations with higher order basis functions. A commercial code with the ability to use high order basis functions was embedded within the MathCad system which provides a convenient interface for evaluating the aberration coefficients. Analytic and realistic models are used to test the methodology.

It is shown that the ability to use higher order FEs achieves sufficient accuracy and smoothness to allow the third order aberration coefficients to be determined with confidence.

The results demonstrate the importance of using higher order basis FEs in determining optical properties of accelerator tubes and other particle optical devices.

To investigate the effectiveness of a simple analytic model for the calculation of electrostatic fields and optical properties of particle beams in accelerator tubes.

The analytic model is derived by superimposing the solution obtained from two co‐axial circular apertures. Potentials and fields derived from the model are compared to solutions based on finite element analysis together with first, third, and fifth order optical parameters and aberration. More realistic models are also compared.

It is shown that the model is capable of capturing many of the ion optical effects produced in small electrostatic accelerator tubes. Even for more realistic tube models the basic optical parameters, first and third order, are sufficiently accurate to allow a preliminary design to be achieved.

The work demonstrates that the first stages of the optical design of accelerator tubes can be rapidly achieved by analytic means which then provide good starting parameters for a fuller optimisation carried out by advanced numerical methods. The results also serve as a benchmark for numerical methods.

Sane and civilised people, capable of thinking clearly, now recognise that if the peace of the world is to be secured, and that if another and even greater cataclysm is to be prevented, the Huns and their accomplices must be crushed, and crushed so completely that their recovery of the power to do evil shall be rendered utterly impossible. The persons who are “Pro‐German” for reasons at present best known to themselves, and the peace‐at‐any‐price cranks, may be left out of consideration except in so far as the advisability of placing the former under lock and key and the latter in lunatic asylums demands attention. A premature and inconclusive peace which would make it possible for our abominable enemies to rise again and threaten civilised mankind is unthinkable, and the Allied Powers must of necessity carry on the war until the Thugs of Europe have bitten the dust and have been compelled to sue for peace without terms or conditions. When the “Central Powers” have been forced to their knees, and the Allied armies of occupation have made them taste the bitterness and humiliation of invasion, the surviving criminals will be placed at the bar to receive the sentence of their judges, while the populations who have approved and applauded their hideous acts must also have adequate punishment meted out to them. What form is that punishment to take? The long and ghastly account has got to be read out and settled—so far as it can be settled in this world. What is to be the settlement?