Brief Notes on Non-Lethal Acoustic Weapon

Brief Notes on 3-fold Birational Geometry

A brief survey of 3-fold birational geometry with a special look at del Pezzo fibrations is given. The subject involves questions such as the rationality and birational rigidity problems, birational automorphisms, Mori fiber spaces, and ctr.. 1. What we would like to know. These notes are devoted to give a short description of some ideas and results of up-to-date birational geometry. In what fo...

Poppy: The Elegant Flower or a Lethal Weapon of Addiction.

Notes on Non-parametric estimation

To tie up the discussion on the topic op estimation, more specifically spectral estimation, we derive here some tighter properties related to the direct use of the Fourier Transform, as contrasted to the properties of parametric methods such as the Levinson-Schur algorithm, where parameters of a model are estimated. We shall obtain a better insight in how well the Fourier Transform on discrete ...

Acoustic shock waves, a new weapon against angina?

In the years before direct revascularisation for drug-refractory angina pectoris, some indirect methods were explored to improve myocardial ischaemia. Carotid nerve stimulation activated by the patient when angina emerged and Vineberg surgery [1] with implantation of the free end of the mammary artery (started about 1963) are examples of desperate attempts to suppress untreatable symptoms. Both...

An Hybrid Experimental/numerical Method to Assess the Lethality of a Kinetic Energy Non-lethal Weapon System

Assessing the lethality of Kinetic Energy Non-lethal Weapons (KENLW) is very complicated because of the wide variety of projectiles currently in use, as well as the complexity that characterises the interaction between the projectile and the human body. This article describes and applies injury criteria found in the literature to perform a lethality assessment of a 40mm Nobel Sport sponge grena...