Three subjects, all smokers, handling stainless steel tubes suffered repeated attacks of general malaise, chills, and fever lasting for several hours, mainly after gas soldering. Provocations by rubbing smoking tobacco against a tube produced similar attacks, and leucocytosis, after a few hours. The presence of fluorine on the tubes and in the febrifacient tobacco was shown. A fluorocarbon poly...

ending copulation. The male then moved away from the female. Gillingham (1974, 1979) emphasized that the high probabilities of toward-jerking and coital neck-bite are species-specific releasing mechanisms in Elaphe. Maybe the head-rubbing can be a species-specific releasing mechanism in H. gigas. My finding points out the need of further studies of behavioral sequences concerning the courtship ...

The golden Alpine salamander Salamandra atra aurorae Trevisan, 1982 is an endemic subspecies found in Sette Comuni and Vezzena plateau Veneto, Italy. We describe aggressive interaction between two males which fought for four minutes, trying to go on top of each other rubbing their chin the antagonist’s head. This first documented case behaviour .

The Black Box is a site based installation that allows users to create unique sounds through physical interaction. The installation consists of a geodesic dome, surround sound speakers, and a custom instrument suspended from the apex of the dome. Audience members entering the space are able to create sound by striking or rubbing the cube, and are able to control a delay system by moving the cub...

Photo-aligned VAN-LCD was developed using the photosensitive polyimide (PI) JALC 2021-R2, illuminated by obliquely incident non-polarized light. It has been shown that the combination of these aligning materials with newly developed derivative of sodium salt of benzidine –3,3’-disulfonic acid (SD-1) gives a reliable and a good electro-optical performance. The response time, contrast ratio and V...

Antiwear additives are added to engine oils in the form of Zinc dialkyl dithiophosphates (ZDDPs). They form an antiwear (bibochemical) film on the rubbing surfaces. High resolution P and S L-edge X-ray absorption near edge (XANES) spectroscopy has been used to characterize the chemical nature of the films formed under air and inert atmosphere. The total electron yield and fluorescence yield det...