Numerous investigations have been carried out in recent years to determine the thermal environment in warships at sea in the tropics. As far as is known there has been no previous study of the thermal environment in which men work when a ship is refitting in a dockyard in the tropics. The aim of this investigation was to assess these conditions by measuring air temperatures in a wide variety of...

LAUDEXIUM METHYLSULPHATE (Laudolissin) is a synthetic curarizing agent (Taylor and Collier, 1951) used in prolonged surgical operations. We have previously described some of its pharmacological properties (Collier and Macauley, 1952) and the purpose of the present paper is to report a further exploration of its pharmacology in relation to its clinical use. As Bovet (1951) has stressed, the toxi...

We present an application of a modified Kalman-Filter (KF) framework for data fusion to the estimation of respiratory rate from multiple physiological sources which is robust to background noise. A novel index of the underlying signal quality of respiratory signals is presented and then used to modify the noise covariance matrix of the KF which discounts the effect of noisy data. The signal qua...

Earthworms and plants greatly affect belowground properties; however, their combined effects are more attractive based on the ecosystem scale in the field condition. To address this point, we manipulated earthworms (exotic endogeic species Pontoscolex corethrurus) and plants (living plants [native tree species Evodia lepta] and artificial plants) to investigate their combined effects on soil mi...