I MUST first acknowledge the great honour that has been done me by the invitation to deliver the Sir Thomas and Lady Edith Dixon Memorial Lecture. When I accepted the invitation I requested that I should be permitted to deliver the lecture under the auspices of the Ulster Medical Society so that I might continue the story of the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children at the domestic hearth of...

A paper entitled “Body Image Formation Hypotheses Based on Corona Discharge” was presented at the Dallas Conference on the TS (Turin Shroud) in 2005 by G. Fanti, F. Lattarulo and O. Scheuermann. It contains hypotheses, experimental results and comments; however, some questions which came up during the discussions at the SSG (Shroud Science Group) level, led the author to write the present paper...

knowledge about fatimid’s textiles from the early days of islam comes mainly from egypt, where fragile materials, including linen, cotton, wool, and silk have been found as burial shrouds. these luxury fabrics were used as clothing and furnishing materials. fatimids were famous for their luxury textiles and in particular the so-called tiraz textile workshops. the persian word tiraz denotes an e...

The forms of management the linen subcomplex in Soviet and postSoviet times are analyzed. problems prospects for development industry as a result creation regional cluster considered. advantages clustering main directions integration enterprises cultivation processing flax production competitive high-tech products shown. created clusters economy Russia other countries world, existing proposed m...