Broken Thermometer in Child's Rectum.

The Thermometer in Epilepsy

following were miscarriages, and the last an abortion in December last. First attack of epilepsy occurred in the third month of the first pregnancy ; the last, two days before admission. The fits occur during the night; of this the patient does not retain recollection the following morning. The patient was under treatment from 22nd September to 22nd November, during which period 11 observations...

Broken heart: Broken mind.

The increased frequency of sudden cardiac death after earthquakes and bombings has long proposed that emotional distress plays a role in acute coronary syndromes and arrhythmias. Since the 1960s, several controlled, prospective, epidemiological studies have reported emotional distress as a major risk factor for the onset and worsening of coronary heart disease (CHD) [1]. The Interheart study, a...

It’s Childs play - The Games Software Industry in Ireland

Over the last decade, Ireland has become one of the largest exporters of computer software in the world. However, the games software development sector has received little attention from industrial development agencies, academia and financiers until recently, despite the global games software industry market being worth an estimated €16bn in 2001 and being projected to grow by over 70% by 2007 ...

An Imaging Radiation Thermometer

For many years radiation thermometers have been used to make non-contact temperature measurements of hot objects, particularly in industrial situations such as reformer furnaces, steel reheat furnaces, and ceramics kilns. They occupy an important niche in temperature measurement since any other type of thermometer would have very slim chances of surviving in these and other such hostile environ...

An improved tele-thermometer.