If I Had a Hammer

If I had a hammer

We present the case of a 64-year-old man who was referred to our service after sustaining a self-inflicted nail-gun injury to his chest. He received three nails penetrated into his chest. Computer tomography revealed no massive haemorrhage or damage to major vessels. He underwent an emergency sternotomy, two nails caused pericardial perforation and myocardial injury were noted easily and remove...

If I had...Cataract.

in some cities in the USA,6 but the general level of health consciousness and the public attitude to family medicine and emergency care are so different in the USA that it is far from clear that American experience is relevant to the United Kingdom. The number of lives that MCCUs can be expected to save in the United Kingdom is therefore small, so establishing MCCU services on a wider basis mus...

If I had a Hammer: Design and Theory of an Electromagnetically-prepared Piano

In an attempt to create alternative methods of both playing and studying vibrating strings, we have modeled and constructed a software-driven instrument for use in the electromagnetic excitation of an acoustic grand piano’s strings. Both a virtual and material version of such a system are discussed, along with some of the theory of operation. Applications to musical composition and expression, ...

If I had resistant hypertension.

If I Only Had A Brane!

This thesis starts with a review of supersymmetric solutions of 11-dimensional supergravity; in particular flat M-branes and BPS configurations which can be constructed from them. The harmonic function rule is discussed and it is shown why this cannot be expected to apply to intersecting brane configurations where the intersection is localised. A new class of spacetimes is needed to cover these...