as A regional social worker for the Spastics Society I am increasingly aware of the diversity of my clients' needs, their dependence for facilities on specific geographical areas and the way local authorities interpret the statutory provisions. The knowledge that spasticity is irreversible makes an immediate impact. However I try I know I cannot change the status quo and this is the premise on ...

facilitate their treatment, has been used by authors to arrange material in books, and by museums to arrange displays and catalogues. Within most general classifications of musical instruments, a class of 'brass instrument' accommodates all instruments in which sound is generated by the player applying their lips to the instrument and blowing in such a way that the lips vibrate and admit an int...

Abstract We discuss first results from hidden photon dark matter searches made with a prototype of the Broadband Radiometric Axion/ALPs Search Setup (BRASS-p) in range particle mass 49.63 μeV to 74.44 (frequency 12 GHz 18 GHz). The conceptual design BRASS and detailed description its present prototype, BRASS-p, are given, view potential application such setups photon, axion, axion-like (ALP) us...

This study concerns effects on water-borne lead from combinations of chlorine (CL) or chloramines (CA) with fluosilicic acid (FSA) or sodium fluoride (NaF). CL is known to corrode brass, releasing lead from plumbing devices. It is known that CA and CL in different ratios with ammonia (NH) mobilize copper from brass, which we have found also enhances elution of lead from leaded brass alloys. Pha...

Some years ago I visited M. F. Perutz, the Cambridge biochemist who deciphered the structure of the hemoglobin molecule. Professor Perutz showed me a series of artifacts from his 20-year struggle to unravel the twists and folds of the oxygen-carrying protein. There was an x-ray diffraction film whose symmetrical array of dots looked like a lace doily, a contour map of electron density drawn on ...

When a brass compensator is set in a treatment beam, beam hardening may take place. This variation of the energy spectrum may affect the accuracy of dose calculation by a treatment planning system and the results of dose measurement of brass compensator intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT). In addition, when X-rays pass the compensator, scattered photons are generated within the compens...

Current experimental investigation deals with the effects of asymmetrical rolling parameters on the inhomogeneity, microstructure, mechanical, and geometrical properties of rolled brass wire. Toward this end, a roll machine with three different roll radii ratios was set up. The asymmetrical conditions are arranged using three different sets of rolls with different diameters that result into dif...

Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, and the Lineberger Comprehensive 10 Cancer Center, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7292; 11 Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, 12 Galveston, TX 77555-7030, USA; Biochemical Pharmacology, Virology DBA, Roche Palo 13 Alto, 3431 Hillview Ave, Palo Alto, CA 943...

Brass metal work is one of the oldest cottage industries in West Bengal, India. Workers performing rigorous hand intensive jobs are likely to suffer from MSD affecting the upper limbs. The present investigation was intended to establish the prevalence of upper limb MSD among the brass metal workers and to identify the causative factors behind its development. In this study, 50 male brass metal ...

This study investigated whether trachea pressures during brass instrument play of laryngectomised patients are within the range of those measured during tracheoesophageal voicing, and whether application of an automatic speaking valve can 'free' both hands to play a brass instrument. Objective assessment of voicing and music playing parameters was carried out in 2 laryngectomised patients with ...