John Maxwell Fairley was a prolific collector and amassed quite a collection of old dental instruments, obtained mainly from the North East of Scotland. John qualified LDS in 1941 and a year later graduated BDS from St Andrews University. He was a member of the Lindsay Society in 1985 and on the committee from 1988 until 1990. One of his contributions to dental history was a comprehensive accou...

A tool was developed that assists surgeons in manipulating surgical instruments more precisely than is possible manually. The tool is a telemanipulator that scales down the surgeon's hand motion and filters tremor in the motion. The signals measured from the surgeon's hand are transformed and used to drive a six-degrees-of-freedom robot to position the surgical instrument mounted on its tip. A ...

We present the timing and spectral properties of the transient Be/X-ray binary pulsar 3A 0535+262 during quiescence using three observations with the narrow field imaging instruments (NFI) of BeppoSAX. Assuming a distance of 2 kpc for this system, the 2–10 keV X-ray luminosities measured from the three observations are in the range of 1.5–4.0 × 10 33 erg s −1 , indicating a very low rate of acc...

The need for properly trained sterile processing staff members has grown with the increased sophistication of surgical procedures. In 1998, I conducted a survey of hospitals about various aspects of training sterile processing personnel, including the length of time for training employees to process general surgical and specialty surgical instruments. To evaluate trends, I conducted a second su...

Background Haemorrhoidectomy is frequently associated with significant postoperative pain and prolonged hospital stay; different techniques and devices have been developed to overcome these problems, including modifications of the technique (excision without legation) and introduction of new surgical instruments (LigasureTM, Harmonic ScalpelTM). We evaluated the surgical outcomes of Milligan Mo...

BACKGROUND Guidance on the cleaning of dental instruments in primary care has recently been published. The aims of this study are to determine if the publication of the guidance document was enough to influence decontamination best practice and to design an implementation intervention strategy, should it be required. METHODS A postal questionnaire assessing current decontamination practice an...

Archaeology is one of the sectors that can benefit by new surveying techniques (i.e. those ones related to the use of GPS) for the representation and the management of an archaeological site. Another aspect of the archaeological sector that can take advantage from the use of both GPS and GIS instruments is guided visits of archaeological sites. Today, during visits in museums, visitors often us...

We prove that for any r⩾2 the moduli space of stable Ulrich bundles rank r and determinant OX(r) on smooth Fano threefold X index two is dimension r2+1 same holds true even when four, in which case no odd–rank exist. In particular this shows such wild. As a preliminary result, we give necessary sufficient conditions existence projective terms curve enjoying special properties.