Drinking speed using a valved Pat Saunders straw, wide bore straw and a narrow bore straw in school-age children

Plastic straw: future of high-speed signaling

The ever-increasing demand for bandwidth triggered by mobile and video Internet traffic requires advanced interconnect solutions satisfying functional and economic constraints. A new interconnect called E-TUBE is proposed as a cost-and-power-effective all-electrical-domain wideband waveguide solution for high-speed high-volume short-reach communication links. The E-TUBE achieves an unprecedente...

Response from a straw man.

One problem with ivory towers (often sited on Olympian heights) is that the view from them is often grossly distorted and inaccurate. The fog and miasma below often makes viewing the landscape difficult to impossible. I I personally have great difficulty in recognizing the terrain from which Alan A. Stone, MD draws his generalizations about expert testimony. First, although Stone does make one ...

Straw, Sand, and Sophistry

Toxic Effects of Straw

Oregon produces 70% of the world supply of cool season grass seed, including tall fescue (Lolium arundinaceum) and perennial ryegrass (L. perenne). About 225,000 ha of grass seed are currently in production in Oregon. Traditionally, the seed was harvested in June and July and the straw residue in the fields was burned during July and August. Today, the straw is harvested and used for animal fee...

The straw man fallacy

In this paper, an analysis is given of the straw man fallacy as a misrepresentation of someone's commitments in order to refute that person's argument. With this analysis a distinction can be made between straw man and other closely related fallacies such as ad hominem, secundum quid and ad verecundiam. When alleged cases of the straw man fallacy are evaluated, the speaker's commitment should b...