Magazine and Repeating Rifles

Auditory risk of air rifles.

OBJECTIVE To characterize the impulse noise exposure and auditory risk for air rifle users for both youth and adults. DESIGN Acoustic characteristics were examined and the auditory risk estimates were evaluated using contemporary damage-risk criteria for unprotected adult listeners and the 120-dB peak limit and LAeq75 exposure limit suggested by the World Health Organization (1999) for childr...

Hearing Hazard from Small-bore Rifles

Ever mindful of its duty to affiliated clubs and members, the National Small-bore Rifle Association organised a large-scale research project into this question by the Audiology Group of the Institute of Sound and Hearing at the University of Southampton. With the aid of a grant by the Medical Research Council and provision of ammunition and targets by the National Small-bore Rifle Association, ...

MAGAZINE Connectionism and Information

TIME magazine

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of two handwriting approaches, D’Nealian and Sunform, on kindergartners’ letter formations. Forty-one participants received D’Nealian handwriting instruction as the control group; 133 kindergartners were instructed in Sunform as the experimental approach. Pre-post tests at the beginning and end of school year asked kindergarten students to wr...

Regimental doctoring in a battalion of the King's African Rifles.

THE following account is based on eighteen months' experience as R.M.O. of the 6th Battalion K.A.R. stationed at Dar es Salaam, Tang'anyika, East Africa. Dar es Salaam, the coastal capital of Tanganyika, is situated almost directly opposite Zanzibar Island. Its Arabic name means the "Haven of Peace" and despite the hustle and bustle of the modern world that centres round the new deep water bert...