Market demands have lead to a significant improvement of the vibration and comfort level, especially for complex ship types such as RoRo and RoPax ships. The need to optimise the design for efficiency does not allow to spend extra material with the single purpose to keep the vibration levels at the required values. The better strategy is to minimize the exciting forces as such, where the propel...

Piercing invades subcutaneous areas and has a high potential for infectious complications. The number of case reports of endocarditis associated with piercing is increasing. We studied a 25-year-old man with a pierced tongue, who arrived at Memorial Health University Medical Center with fever, chills, rigors, and shortness of breath of 6 days' duration and had an aortic valvuloplasty for correc...

A 43-year old man presented with chest pain and fever. He had inadvertently inhaled a nasal piercing which caused injury to the descending aorta through the left bronchus. The resulting pseu-doaneurysm was treated with endovascular stenting after left carotido-subclavian bypass (Figs 1 and 2). The patient died 2 years later due to drug overdose. Figure 1: CT scan showing the false aneurysm (ast...

Medical microrobots have been widely used in clinical applications, particularly the spiral type locomotion mechanism, which was recently considered one of the main self-propelling mechanisms for the next medical microrobot to perform tasks such as capsule endoscopy and drug delivery. However, limits in clinical applications still exist. The spiral action of the microrobot while being used for ...

Propeller induced structural vibration through the thrust bearing is an important source for low frequency shipboard noise and underwater sound radiation from a submarine hull. Such vibration is investigated using a scaled experimental model. This research concentrates on the experimental characterization of propeller force, hydrodynamic force of the thrust bearing and vibration transmission th...

The present paper attempts to explore the body in relation theatricality Bode Jatra, tongue-piercing festival of Newar community Bode, Bhaktapur. study treats as territorial site foreground how performance becomes theatrical, taking performativity tongue-piercing, its text. raving tongue piercing generates an expression cosmogonic consciousness. It encompasses movement both from micro and macro...