K E Y W O R D S : interpersonal perception, music, preferences, personality The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night And his affections dark as Erebus; Let no such man be trusted. William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice According to Shakespeare’s Lorenzo, musi...

Choosing a suitable part of the lung by dissection distorts and often spoils the tissue for detailed histological study, especially when the peripheral part of the lung is concerned. These difficulties may be overcome by injecting the bronchial tree with radio-opaque material and choosing suitable areas from the abnormalities seen in a radiograph of the specimen. The parallax method is well sui...

It has recently been shown that, contrary to common belief, infinite matroids can be axiomatized in a way very similar to finite matroids. This should make it possible now to extend much of the theory of finite matroids to infinite ones: an aim that had previously been thought to be unattainable, because the popular additional ‘finitary’ axiom believed to be necessary clearly spoils duality. We...

Diamond coatings have been increasingly used in cutting tools applications. Coating delamination is the major tool failure mode and occurs due to deposition-induced residual stresses and thermomechanical loading in machining. This study applies finite element analysis to investigate stress distributions, with the edge radius focused, in diamond coating tools considering depositions and machinin...

Henoch-Schonlein purpura (HSP) is the most common form of acute vasculitis primarily affecting children. Clinical features include skin rashes, arthritis, abdominal pain and nephritis. Skin biopsy on immunofluorescence often reveals granular depositions of immunoglobulin A (IgA) and C3 within the walls of the dermal vessels as well as in the connective tissue of the upper dermis. The diversity ...

We report the case of a 68-year-old male non-smoker suffering from shortness of breath for 1 year. He was referred to our institution for a definitive diagnosis. Both chest X-ray and computed tomography scans showed bilateral hydrothorax with no pleural thickening. We performed flexi-rigid thoracoscopic pleural biopsy on the right side with a single port under local anaesthesia. Multiple white ...

Nickel–Tungsten–Titanium carbide (Ni–W–TiC) coatings were produced by pulse electrodeposition from a Ni–W electrolyte containing TiC particles. The effects of concentration in the on morphology, crystallite size, microstrain, mechanical, tribology and electrochemical properties reinforced co-depositions investigated. highest hardness 8.3 GPa modulus elasticity 207 observed case coating at 15 g/...