Inquiry set up into Porton Down nerve-gas death

Clinical findings in 111 ex-Porton Down volunteers.

OBJECTIVE To determine whether the health of Porton Down volunteers (PDV) has suffered as a result of their participation in medical trials, during which they were exposed to single low dose concentrations of chemical warfare agents. METHODS Data were obtained from a self-selected series of ex-Porton Down volunteers who attended the MOD's Porton Down Volunteers' Medical Assessment Programme (...

Fundamentals Design and Set up Radial Inflow Gas Turbine Research Lab

In order to carry out experimental investigations on radial inflow gas turbine, a special test laboratory was designed and constructed at Sharif University of Technology. This laboratory is introduced in the present paper and experimental procedures are elaborated on. Then, some test results are presented and discussed. The trends of performance characterisitics match our expectation and show g...

Fundamentals Design and Set up Radial Inflow Gas Turbine Research Lab

In order to carry out experimental investigations on radial inflow gas turbine, a special test laboratory was designed and constructed at Sharif University of Technology. This laboratory is introduced in the present paper and experimental procedures are elaborated on. Then, some test results are presented and discussed. The trends of performance characterisitics match our expectation and show g...

Ultracold Gas Theory from the Top-Down and Bottom-Up

The Inquiry into Lathyrism

and Major Andrew Buchanau, m.d., i.m.s., and Mr. Stockman, M.R.C.V.S., late Professor of Pathology in the Veterinary College, Edinburgh, have been appointed to conduct the inquiry.* We have before us an outline for the inquiry drawn up by Major Andrew Buchanan, which admirably sums up the prevailing views and opinions on the nature and causation of this strange and interesting disease. Lathyris...