Sfudy on needles of knitting machines 2, Unevenness of bearded needles

Needles, needles, everywhere!

A 55-YR-OLD man with endstage renal disease presented for emergent removal of an infected arteriovenous dialysis graft. This patient had multisystemic disease, including hepatitis C, human immunodeficiency virus, cardiomyopathy, and atrial fibrillation. He also had a history of left internal jugular thrombosis and right common carotid septic pseudoaneurysm, corrected via partial sternotomy. A c...

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Tensile test on pine needles and crack analysis of pine needles short fiber reinforced composites

Natural fibers are widely used as reinforcing material in composites. Pine needles can be used as natural fibers which are abundantly found in the hilly areas of India. A study on tensile test of pine needles and the crack analysis of pine needles short fiber reinforced composites has been presented in this paper.ASTM D638-10 standard is followed for tensile testing and a number of specimen is ...

Life on a bed of needles

led by Richard Festenstein (Imperial College, London) and Thierry Cheutin and Tom Misteli (National Cancer Institute [NCI], Bethesda, MD). Both groups used fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP) to track the behavior of heterochromatin protein 1 (HP1). HP1 was not static but moving around, as Misteli puts it, in the “same sort of range” as transcription factors. Although both groups ...

Needles in a haystack

supplements, as in the case of vita­ min a. yet, other studies suggest that the main impact of poverty extends beyond diet and cannot be addressed through improved nutrition alone. Such is the expe­ rience from peru, where a study by the tuberculosis research group at imperial college (london, uK) has been evaluat­ ing whether dietary supplementation with vitamin a, vitamin D and zinc reduces t...