The postwar new towns (Harlow, Crawley and so on) were built by development corporations, modelled on the BBC by Lord Reith – who chaired the committee that co-ordinated them after 1946 – with the power to buy land at agricultural prices.
Even today, his Long Island studio – in which he sleeps, monk-like, in a sleeping bag – is based on the "corporation" model and employs 40 workers.
All of this requires government to have a serious view about a new programme of garden cities by providing the national support in terms of funding and by deploying the development corporation model to drive change.
The anions Cl-, NO3-, SO42- were measured by ion chromatography (Dionex corporation, model AS50) and bicarbonate- by a simple alkalimetric method.
Phosphorylation of SRSF1 and SR ΔRS2) by SRPK1 was monitored using a KinTek Corporation model RGF-3 quench flow apparatus.
Height was measured to the nearest cm using a stadiometer (Ayrton Corporation, Model S100, Prior Lake, MN).
Cells were harvested by trypsinisation and counted using a coulter counter (Coulter Corporation model Z2) after 24, 48, 72 and 144 h.
The measurement of blood pressure (BP) was performed with calibrated automatic sphygmomanometers made by American Diagnostic Corporation Model 6013, which had cuff sizes for people with normal weight and for people who were obese.
Another idea is to create a federal bond insurance corporation, modeled after the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which insures the bank deposits from a bank collapse.
This information can quite easily be used by corporations to model future productivity gains and to calculate a likely ROI for the institution of a health promotion programme.
