RELEASE THE GREASE: MOLE DAY FESTIVITIES

The Poststructural Festivities Begin

ClC chloride channels orchestrate the movement of chloride necessary for proper neuronal, muscular, cardiovascular, and epithelial function. In this issue of Neuron, Jentsch, Pusch, and colleagues use the structure of a bacterial ClC homolog to guide a mutagenic analysis of inhibitor binding to ClC-0, ClC-1, and ClC-2.

Does Immigration Grease the Wheels

MOST STUDIES OF the economic impact of immigration are motivated by the desire to understand how immigrants affect various dimensions of economic status in the population of the host country. This motivation explains the persistent interest in determining whether immigrants “take jobs away” from native workers, as well as the attention paid to measuring the fiscal impact that immigration inevit...

Burns during Easter festivities in Greece.

Easter is the most important holiday for the Greek Church. It is rich in traditions and rituals but during the Greek Easter festivities, especially at midnight Mass on Easter Saturday night, it is customary to throw fireworks around. These fireworks are not part of the true Easter tradition and they are potentially fatal. Unfortunately, in the past few years, the custom has become more and more...

Grease-gun Injury.

Grease Noise in Ball Bearings Noise generation in bearings and its effect, influence of the lubricating grease, grease noise tester, test procedure and requirements

The essential customer needs of today, namely long bearing service life and low noise performance, demand the availability of a means to verify that the required cleanliness level and lubrication conditions are fulfilled. To fulfil these needs, a new equipment, the SKF BEQUIET+ tester has been developed to assess the quality of the lubricant with regard to cleanliness and damping characteristic...