Editorial Corridors and Towers When C P Snow wrote "The Corridors of Power" he sought to demonstrate the inner workings of the political process in Whitehall. Now that we are coming towards the end of the useful life of the building known as the "RVH corridor" it is time to consider some of the inner workings of our own profession. Wards 1-20 in the Royal Victoria Hospital represent only a smal...

We formulate variants of the cardinals f, p and t in terms of families of measurable functions, in order to examine the effect upon these cardinals of adding one random real.

Given two isospectral not isometric manifolds, we construct a new couple of such manifolds as the total spaces of two Riemannian submersions with totally geodesic fibers isometric to the given ones and of basis any other given manifold. By iteration, we obtain families of isospectral not isometric manifolds.

We study convex domino towers using a classic dissection technique on polyominoes to find the generating function and an asymptotic approximation.

We would like to describe a new illusion of perspective that to our knowledge has not been reported before. Figure 1 shows two images of the Leaning Tower of Pisa placed next to one another. One obtains a strong impression that the tower on the right leans more, as if photographed from a different angle. Yet the two images are identical, as close inspection will reveal. The explanation for this...

A tower is a sequence of words alternating between two languages in such a way that every word is a subsequence of the following word. The height of the tower is the number of words in the sequence. If there is no infinite tower (a tower of infinite height), then the height of all towers between the languages is bounded. We study upper and lower bounds on the height of maximal finite towers wit...

This article aims to study the self-supporting truss towers used to support large wind turbines. The goal is to evaluate and validate numerically by finite element method the structural analysis when the lattice structures of the towers of wind turbines are subjected to static loads and these from common usage. With this, it is expected to minimize the cost of transportation and installation of...

Valves are usually used in conjunction with large water-tower storage structures. Large pipes carry water from the storage tower to the flush gutter. Valves are used at appropriate locations in the pipeline to control flush water flow to individual gutters. Figure 1 is a schematic layout of a flush system using storage towers, pipelines and valves to flush several gutters. Use of multiple, inte...

Three building complexes in Kuala Lumpur were surveyed for the presence of legionellae in cooling towers. The organisms were grown from 12 out of 46 samples of water collected from 30 towers. L. pneumophila serogroups 1 and 7 were the commonest serogroups isolated. None belonged to the Pontiac subgroup of L. pneumophila serogroup 1.