This paper assesses the waking effectiveness of strobe lights and pillow and bed shakers as smoke alarm warning devices and compares them to an auditory signal. The signals were activated at increasing intensity levels during slow wave (deep) sleep in two groups, (i) 38 adults aged 18-77 years with hearing loss of 2570 dBA in both ears, and (ii) 32 young adults aged 18 -26 years impaired with a...

In cylindrical chess, one plays on a regular chessboard with the pieces in their standard positions, but imagines that the left and right edges of the board are identified. So, for example, when a rook travels horizontally off the right-hand edge, it reappears in the same row on the left-hand side of the board. It is easy to make a cylindrical chessboard out of paper, by taping together the lef...

This study evaluated the effect of specific postural support on motor behaviour of infants with and without minor neurological dysfunction (MND). The following questions were addressed: (1) Does application of supportive pillows affect the time during which the infant exhibits general movements (GMs) or specific movements? We defined specific movements as movements of specific parts of the body...

Dome-forming eruption is a frequent eruptive style and a major hazard on numerous volcanoes worldwide. Lava domes are built by slow extrusion of degassed, viscous magma and may be destroyed by gravitational collapse or explosion. The triggering of lava dome explosions is poorly understood: here we propose a new model of superficial lava-dome explosivity based upon a textural and geochemical stu...

Accurate forecasts of lava flow length rely on estimates of eruption andmagma properties and, potentially more challengingly, on an understanding of the relative influence of characteristics such as the apparent viscosity, the yield strength of the flow core, or the strength of the lava’s surface crust. For basaltic lavas, the relatively high frequency of eruptions has resulted in numerous oppo...

pillow basalts, belonging to late cretaceous yüksekova complex are extensivelly exposed around elazıg in eastern turkey. this unit is a part of southeastern anatolian ophiolite belt and the southern branch of the neotethys. it represents the products of intra- oceanic subduction volcanism and mainly comprises pillow lavas, dykes and associated with sedimentary rocks. pillow lavas and feeder dyk...