OBJECTIVES To reduce the annual incidence of hot water bottle burns by reviewing cases, classifying injury, invoking a multimedia campaign to increase public awareness. To stimulate state, federal, and international government review of manufacturing standards with a view to reinforcing legislation. METHODS A multimedia warning was launched following the scalding death of an elderly lady. Our...

When looking at static visual images, people often exhibit mental animation, anticipating visual events that have not yet happened. But what determines when mental animation occurs? Measuring mental animation using localized brain function (visual motion processing in the middle temporal and middle superior temporal areas, MT+), we demonstrated that animating static pictures of objects is depen...

quart bottle, through the rubber stopper of which pass two pieces of glass tubing,?one short,-just reaching the neck of the bottle. To this the can ill a is attached by about four feet of rubber tubing such as is used for infants' feeding bottles. The canuia can be made by the silversmith out of a rupee, or a hydrocele canuia can be firmly tied in. I have on one occasion used a small quill. The...

Two liter bottle rockets made from recycled soda bottles are often used in high school science classes and in introductory college courses. Typically, it is often more challenging to shoot bottle rockets for distance instead of shooting them straight up and measuring altitude, as is often done. Using a device made from pipe and wood to launch bottle rockets and control the launch angle creates ...

OBJECTIVE To identify characteristics of adolescent mothers who bottle-feed who considered breast-feeding their infants and strategies to promote breast-feeding within this special group. DESIGN Adolescents completed an hour-long interview within 48 hours of delivery that elicited factors considered important to the mother's feeding decision and indices of mental health. SETTING Postpartum ...

interaction of menthol with polyethylene terephthalate bottles during storage time was tested at three different temperatures. menthol is a mint flavor agent added to yogurt drinks in iran and is considered as a factor affecting consumer acceptance. absorption of menthol to packaging material could cause a loss of quality in the final product due to diminished flavor intensity. tests were done ...

Drift bottles and drift buoys have been used to explore currents and, more recently equipped with sensors, also to record other data about oceans, lakes, and other waters—and occasionally to carry messages or small items in a rather unpredictable fashion. (Moored) buoys may also be equipped with network interfaces to transmit their results or serve as network infrastructure to relay data from, ...

As a consequence of that terror threat it is now being discussed to prohibit liquids in cabin baggage. The underlying reason is illustrated in figure 1. The x-ray image of the bottle on the left contains a liquid explosive. The x-ray image in the middle depicts a bottle with a soft drink. The image on the right shows a bottle of mineral water. As you can see in the pictures it is not very easy ...