Abstract Composite components combine the benefits of different materials, leading to improved product properties, enhanced resource- and energy efficiency widening spectrum. Draw-forging is unique combination deep-drawing cold forging, where a core material encapsulated within thin sheet metal blank. Previously, basic draw-forging process only allowed covering shaft tip, covered length was lim...

Parallel programs are difficult to understand and the research community is determined to provide tools to help improve that understanding. As a result, there is intense interest in using visualization to understand the execution of parallel programs. But visualization is like the surgeon’s knife: properly used it will quickly cut to the essentials; improper use brings colorful but disastrous r...

The draw-a-man (DAM) and draw-a-woman (DAW) tests were given to 307 schoolchildren in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. The children were ethnically Malay, Chinese, or Indian (Tamil), and all came from lower socioeconomic groups. The standard scores of the Chinese children averaged 118 in the DAM and 112 in the DAW tests. These scores were significantly better than the American standards. Malay children...

Sir,?In their excellent paper on Naga Sore, in the January number of the Indian Medical Gazette, Drs. Panja and Ghosh have mentioned my copped sulphate-phenol solution under the heading ?* treatment. May I draw attention to a modification of my original solution, recommended by James (1938), which I have found superior. It consists in the substitution glycerine for water and the formula is as f...