Does the anticipation of medical treatments, financial investments and leisure time activities sometimes make you anxious? Have you thought about taping your face up? A new research project from the Niedenthal Emotions Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, US, investigated whether the nervous anticipation of a balloon-popping task and a jack-in-the-box spring* might to some extent […]
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Twisty Tape in a Tube, in Confab
Today’s twisty tale is a study about twisted tape in tubes: “Heat Transfer Enhancement Through The Round Tube By Twisted Tape,” Shambhu Kumar, Pitambar Gadhave, V.N. Kapatkar, Mechanica Confab, vol. 1. no. 2, November 2012, pp. pp. 11-17. Thanks to Retraction Watch for alerting us to the existence of CONFAB, the journal’s publisher, and for […]