Clinical evidence for this effect was found in a series of studies performed in parallel in adolescent school children in the UK and Malawi.

In this study, the UK school children had a low baseline cellular immunity to mycobacteria which was increased by BCG ; in contrast, the Malawi school children had a high baseline cellular immunity to mycobacteria and this was not significantly increased by BCG.

* United Kingdom: The UK introduced universal BCG immunization in 1953, and until 2005, the UK policy was to immunize all school children at the age of 13, and all neonates born into high-risk groups.

The Guardian writes that the six-week-long school summer holiday in the UK is the most dangerous time of the year for these girls, a convenient time to carry out the procedure because they need several weeks to heal before returning to school.

The UK and Australia also refer to School holidays ( typically Christmas, Easter, and Summer ) for the periods between School terms when children are not required to go to school, and Half-term holidays for the short break ( usually one week ) part-way through each School term.

In the UK, students must gain entry into medical school.

Radio Birdman broke up in June 1978 while touring the UK, where the early unity between bohemian, middle-class punks ( many with art school backgrounds ) and working-class punks had disintegrated.

In the UK, the " Top-ups scheme " calls for school children who cannot swim by the age of 11 to receive intensive daily lessons.

After coming to the UK from India in the 1930s he lived at 50 Riseldine Road, Brockley and attended Brownhill Boys ' school ( later Catford Boys ' School, which was demolished in 1994 ).

Some school level textbooks and at least one UK examination board make a further distinction between strong and weak rule utilitarianism.

He has spoken of how, even before leaving school, he bought a house in the UK, in what was likely the Moss Side area of Manchester, relating how it was there that he learned to speak English.

Brooklands Flying Club was the first UK flight school to operate an online booking system.

* FILMCLUB UK network of after school film clubs

In 2005 the Office of Fair Trading ( OFT ) provisionally found that the school exchanged detailed information about prospective fee increases with approximately 50 other prominent UK independent schools, including Eton and Sevenoaks.

Welsh nationalism was ignited in 1936 when the UK government settled on establishing a bombing school at Penyberth on the Llŷn Peninsula in Gwynedd.

The UK government settled on Llŷn as the site for its new bombing school after similar locations Northumberland and Dorset were met with protests.

However, UK Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin refused to hear the case against the bombing school in Wales, despite a deputation representing half a million Welsh protesters.

Protest against the bombing school was summed up by Lewis when he wrote that the UK government was intent upon turning one of the ' essential homes of Welsh culture, idiom, and literature ' into a place for promoting a barbaric method of warfare.

There is a campaign in the UK to encourage school children to consume more dairy products, by installing ' milk bars ' in schools.

* Schools ' Challenge, a UK high school tournament

He now runs his own soccer school in the UK called the Ossie Ardiles Soccer School.

It is therefore the boy's shirt or girl's blouse, rather than a blazer as in the UK, on to which the school badge must be sewn.

Personal Emergency Response Systems ( PERS ), or Telecare ( UK term ), are a particular sort of assistive technology that use electronic sensors connected to an alarm system to help caregivers manage risk and help vulnerable people stay independent at home longer.

NTSC is currently only used with system M, even though there were experiments with NTSC-A ( 405 line ) and NTSC-I ( 625 line ) in the UK.

Nevertheless, it should be noted that the spectrum is broad in the EU, with the UK coming closest to the US system ( Reifner et al., 2003 ; Gerhardt, 2009 ; Frade, 2010 ).

Former NSA employee Margaret Newsham claims that she worked on the configuration and installation of software that makes up the ECHELON system while employed at Lockheed Martin, for whom she worked from 1974 to 1984 in Sunnyvale, California, US, and in Menwith Hill, England, UK.

Another form of e-commerce was the airline reservation system typified by Sabre in the USA and Travicom in the UK.

* Electronic Staff Record, a human resources and payroll system of the UK National Health Service

The UK National Health Service uses a similar system with categories labeled A, B, C, and D. The above Levels are only appropriate for treatment or interventions ; different types of research are required for assessing diagnostic accuracy or natural history and prognosis, and hence different " levels " are required.

In July 1939 Mountbatten was granted a patent ( UK Number 508, 956 ) for a system for maintaining a warship in a fixed position relative to another ship.

Changes to the UK system have been proposed, and alternatives were examined by the Jenkins Commission in the late 1990s.

According to their website, Ceres Power, a UK SOFC fuel cell manufacturer, has developed a method of reducing the operating temperature of their SOFC system to 500-600 degrees Celsius.

In economics, Holt's tenure began with the phasing in of Australia's new system of decimal currency, launched on 14 February 1966, and it was marked by a major realignment of commercial and military ties away from the UK and towards the US and Asia.

The Isle of Man is included within the UK telephone numbering system, and is accessed externally via UK area codes, rather than by its own country calling code.

The Isle of Man adopted postcodes in 1993 using the prefix IM to fit in with the already established UK postcode system.

In August 2009 the UK and US based company EditShare acquired Gee Broadcast and the Lightworks editing platform from, along with their video server system GeeVS.

The loyalty card market in the UK is one of the most significant in the world, with most major chains operating some form of reward system.

Money Laundering Regulations are designed to protect the UK financial system.

The most common of these is the winner-takes-all ( or " first-past-the-post ") system common in some countries of the former British empire, such as the United States, the UK, Canada and India.

The UK category system does, however, class such degrees as Information technology and Game design as ' computer science ', somewhat inflating the actual figure.

The Palace is one of the centres of political life in the United Kingdom ; " Westminster " has become a metonym for the UK Parliament, and the Westminster system of government has taken its name after it.

The agreement formally arranged for the Polaris missile system to be provided to the UK to maintain its independent nuclear deterrent.

The agreement was amended in 1982 to provide the Trident missile system to the UK.

Before the introduction of postage stamps, mail in the UK was paid for by the recipient, a system that was associated with an irresolvable problem: the costs of delivering mail were not recoverable by the postal service when recipients were unable or unwilling to pay for delivered items, and senders had no incentive to restrict the number, size, or weight of items sent, whether or not they would ultimately be paid for.

Rowland Hill and the postal reforms he introduced to the UK postal system are commemorated on several postage issues of the United Kingdom.

Clifford Cocks, an English mathematician working for the UK intelligence agency GCHQ, described an equivalent system in an internal document in 1973, but given the relatively expensive computers needed to implement it at the time, it was mostly considered a curiosity and, as far as is publicly known, was never deployed.