Dirty Linen?

The stench of tobacco industry dirty linen.

This issue of Tobacco Control contains four papers reporting revelations found in the 26 million page “haystack” of tobacco industry internal documents open to researchers and the public on the world wide web. Anne Landman, who since August 1999 has daily posted document gems on the Smokescreen website, summarises evidence on how the tobacco industry intimidates and retaliates against companies...

Whither hospital linen? Two centre observational study of alien hospital linen.

An efficient linen service is a priority for any institutional healthcare system. Many sheets and pillowcases disappear, and pilfering has been considered as one explanation. In an effort to designate ownership and presumably to prevent theft, some units have stamped their laundry with an identifiable trust logo. We noticed that some hospital linen bore logos signifying a distant origin, and we...

Dirty Liberals!

Many moral codes place a special emphasis on bodily purity, and manipulations that directly target bodily purity have been shown to influence a variety of moral judgments. Across two studies, we demonstrated that reminders of physical purity influence specific moral judgments regarding behaviors in the sexual domain as well as broad political attitudes. In Study 1, individuals in a public setti...

Dirty RF

Future wireless communications systems are expected to provide ever higher data rates. Still, devices have to be produced at reasonable cost in order to be affordable to customers. The widely known impairments – ”dirt effects” – in analog RF tend to aggravate as we go for the large transmission bandwidths and high carrier frequencies that usually come with an increased data throughput. To date,...

Dirty Money