Tony Oursler : Vox Vernacular

Vox populi or vox Dei?

t may interest readers to know that Australia has had an unexpected fallout of the 2000 Sydney Olympics—an increase in the population! At a time when politicians are calling for an increase in birth rates, it is pleasing to note that sports medicine is doing its best for the nation. A recent newspaper report noted that 35 overseas athletes who came to Australia for the Olympics did not actually...

Tony Hyman

Q & A the major classes and many physical features are still under debate. To polarise arthropod trees, and define the likely morphological characters and developmental mechanisms of the arthropod ancestor, analysis of sister phyla in the Panarthropoda is required. Tardigrada are all very small, likely to have highly modified developmental processes, and have highly idiosyncratic morphology, an...

Tony Arts

This work focuses on numerical simulations of flows inblade internal cooling system. Large Eddy Simulation (LES) andReynolds-Averaged Navier Stokes (RANS) approaches are com-pared in a typical blade cooling related problem. The case isa straight rib-roughened channel with high blockage ratio, com-puted and compared for both a periodic and full spatial domains.The con...

Tony Roberts

The word ‘this’ refers to something just mentioned; but what? You know, but the reader probably will not. Ensure that your use of “this” is absolutely clear and unambiguous. Often simply insert an appropriate noun after the ‘this’ [1, §4.7]. The following examples illustrate the problem and a remedy. All alternatives in the parentheses are potentially possible. Ambiguous: In 6 out of 15 contest...

Vox Machina (review)