Historic Approaches to Sonic Encounter at the Berlin Wall Memorial

A medical student trapped behind the Berlin Wall, 1961.

Address at the Memorial Service to Dr. T. P. Rees

Rees was born in 1899 in Wales. He was one of eight sons of a Welsh farlllri That he was Welsh and that he had always belonged to a happy family group vve. i characteristics which marked his later career and contributed to the formation of character his friends knew. He qualified from St. Bartholomew's Hospital in y'. and graduated in the University of Wales two years later. His interest in psy...

Research on Exoskeletons at the TU Berlin

We present an overview of the work devoted to exoskeletons which has been performed for the last seven years at TU Berlin. Three different types of exoskeleton devices have been developed: hand and finger exoskeletons for rehabilitation, a leg exoskeleton for motion support, and an arm exoskeleton for multimodal human-computer interaction. The research has been focused on different types of con...

Address at a memorial service.

We are met here to-day, all of us friends and many of us colleagues of George Frederic Still, in testimony of our sorrow at his passing, but also in proud recollection of his work and character. This is not the time to speak of his professional achievements; it is enough to say that he was universally recognized, not only in this country but throughout the world, as a master in that branch of m...

Scaling approaches to steady wall-induced turbulence

The problem of discerning key features of steady turbulent flow adjacent to a wall has drawn the attention of some of the most noted fluid dynamicists of all time. Standard examples of such features are found in the mean velocity profiles of turbulent flow in channels, pipes or boundary layers. The aim of this review article is to expound the essence of some elementary theoretical efforts in th...