If British teenage boy asks you to pull his finger, it is usually an indication that he simultaneously wishes to break wind. If you were to tell him that you could pull his finger and stretch it to twice its length, you might expect a similarly irreverent response yet when we pulled the fingers of nearly 600 children and adolescents, 93% reported the illusion of stretching. Grossly distorted bo...

We observed CO J = 2 ! 1 and J = 3 ! 2 lines toward several star formation regions with extremely high velocity (EHV) outtows: W3 IRS5, W28 A2, GL2591, S140, and Cepheus A. The full width of the wings are 90{235 km s ?1. Some wings show clear break of slope in the line proole implying that the nature of the EHV outtow is diierent from that of the high velocity outtow. We suggest that the EHV CO...

The effects of axial stellar rotation on the wind–momentum relation (WLR) for determining the extragalactic distances are investigated. Despite the fact that the mass loss rates grow quite a lot with rotation, remarkably the effects on the WLR are found to be very small on the average. As an example, for an average orientation angle between the rotation axis and the line of sight, the luminosit...

this paper is an attempt to numerical modeling and experimental study of air flow in the yazdi wind-towers. wind towers has been known as one of the most effective climatic elements in iranian traditional architecture. this paper is an attempt to evaluating yazdi wind-tower to discussion the two main questions: 1. what is the role of orientation of wind-towers span, regarding to climate and hei...

Rarely, do we think of cancer as “bacterial”, such that we are often told that “cancer is NOT contagious” Persistent bacterial infections cause persistent irritation of the host’s defense systems, which when ineffective in eradication of the infection, result in a multitude of self-destructive damages. This in some cases occurs to such severity that the resu...

One of a family previously proposed " central engines " for cosmic gamma-ray burst sources (Klu´zniak & Ruderman 1998) is considered in some detail. A steadily accreting 10 6 Gauss magnetic white dwarf should ultimately collapse to a strongly differentially rotating, millisecond-rotation-period neutron star for a wide range of steady accretion rates and initial masses if the accreting white dwa...

rarely, do we think of cancer as “bacterial”, such that we are often told that “cancer is not contagious” persistent bacterial infections cause persistent irritation of the host’s defense systems, which when ineffective in eradication of the infection, result in a multitude of self-destructive damages. this in some cases occurs to such severity that the resulting cellular hyper-proliferation pr...