Yarns produced by Japanese Open-end BD-200 spinning machines give these major advantages: (1) They are somewhat stronger than yarns spun by Czecho BD-200's. (2) They are almost as strong as yarns spun by ring spinning machines. This strength is obtainable without raising the cost of raw cotton if the right fore-spinning processes and spinning conditions are used. (3) They have maximum strength ...

The history of the development of sound on film offers us lessons for the development of sound and music for interactive artforms. Now that technological developments have enabled almost unrestricted importation of audio into interactive platforms, the time has come for us to ask: is the content of the audio good enough?

People are extremely good at hitting falling balls with a baseball bat. Despite the ball's constant acceleration, they have been reported to time hits with a standard deviation of only about 7 ms. To examine how people achieve such precision, we compared performance when there were no added restrictions, with performance when looking with one eye, when vision was blurred, and when various parts...

The Guideline for Good Clinical Practice (GCP) of the International Conference of Harmonisation (ICH) is an international standard for the ethical and scientific quality of the designing, conducting, recording and reporting of trials that involve the participation of human subjects. Today, most regulators and funding agencies follow the ICH guidelines. These were drawn up by a small number of r...

BACKGROUND Increasing antioxidant levels in fruit through breeding is an important option to support higher antioxidant intake particularly when fruit consumption is low. Indeed, if nutritional components are also combined with a high standard of sensorial fruit quality, the perspective for consumer health can be further improved by encouraging more fruit consumption. Wild species are valued by...