The Cutting Mechanism of Honing

The revised CONSORT statement: honing the cutting edge of the randomized controlled trial.

A revision of the CONSORT (Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials) statement is being published this week in major medical journals. 1 Although randomized controlled trials provide our best evidence of the relative efficacy of competing treatments, they are not without controversy. Sometimes debate can help further our understanding; however, debate that springs from confusion about what ac...

Striation Mechanism in Laser Cutting – the Review

High-power laser cutting is extensively used in many industrial applications.The quality of a laser-made cut is of the utmost importance in laser processing. Any improvements in this area would be of considerable significance, in that it would lead to an elimination of post-machining operations. Although there have been numerous techniques developed over the years, currently there are few appro...

Hearing the music, honing the mind.

Cutting Mechanism of Sulfurized Free-Machining Steel

In order to improve efficiency of cutting process in production industry, development of new steel which has good machinablity is desired. The work material which has good surface roughness, easy breakable chip and small tool wear as the good machinablity is expected. And the free-machining steel was developed owning to adding elements which could make the machinablity better. Of all others, le...

Honing in on enteric fever

The use of metabolomics could lead to improved diagnostics for enteric fever.