A New Decapitating Instrument

Decapitating Tadpoles

We argue that perturbative quantum field theory and string theory can be consistently modified in the infrared to eliminate, in a radiatively stable manner, tadpole instabilities that arise after supersymmetry breaking. This is achieved by deforming the propagators of classically massless scalar fields and the graviton so as to cancel the contribution of their zero modes. In string theory, this...

Cardplay, a New Textual Instrument

W e are exploring what it means to 'play' textual literature. We don't mean, by this, playing games that incorporate textual material within their structure but rather textual and literary structures for which play is a primary means of interaction. We are conducting our exploration both as creators and scholars of digital media. This paper discusses a number of related issues — including the n...

Pancreatitis Quality of Life Instrument: Development of a new instrument

OBJECTIVES The goal of this project was to develop the first disease-specific instrument for the evaluation of quality of life in chronic pancreatitis. METHODS Focus groups and interview sessions were conducted, with chronic pancreatitis patients, to identify items felt to impact quality of life which were subsequently formatted into a paper-and-pencil instrument. This instrument was used to ...

Pseudacteon Decapitating Flies: Potential Vectors of a Fire Ant Virus?

A New Neurosurgical Instrument : A Micro - Vibrato -

O B J E C T I V E : We developed an instrument (a dissector tool with micro vibrating system) to make make brain tissue dissection easy and safe. Method: We used this instrument and conventional technique to dissect 18 fresh cadaver sheep brains (9 of them were dissected by the vibrating-dissection technique and the remaining 9 with a conventional dissector). Dissection and separation were grad...