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2. 7 steps to predictive leak testing: whether it is to test the integrity of containers, such as blister packs, vials, and blow-fill-seal containers, or products like inhalers or valve assemblies, leak testing is often an absolute requirement in the pharmaceutical industries

Author

Zimmer, Ben

Subjects
Pharmaceutical industry -- Management, Leak detectors -- Usage, Company business management, Business, Engineering and manufacturing industries
Abstract

Leak testing can be a complicated process, particularly for high-speed processes, such as those found in the pharmaceutical industry. The main challenge is the time it takes for the part [...]

Published
2005

3. Lies! Murder! Lexicography!

Author

Zimmer, Ben

Subjects
Oxford University Press (Oxford, England) -- Services -- Media coverage, Oxford English Dictionary (Reference work) -- Media coverage -- Authorship, Book publishing -- Services -- Media coverage, Encyclopedias and dictionaries -- Authorship -- Media coverage, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

HERE'S a tip: if you see the words ''dictionary'' and ''scandal'' in a sensational headline, prepare to be disappointed. Last week, the British newspaper The Guardian broke a story from [...]

Published
2012

4. Twitterology: a new science?

Author

Zimmer, Ben

Subjects
Language and languages -- Research, Social psychology -- Research, Online social networks -- Usage -- Social aspects, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

DENIZENS of the Twitter-verse, please be advised: Whether you are a Libyan celebrating the demise of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, a New Zealand office worker sleepily starting your day or a [...]

Published
2011

5. Decoding Your E-Mail Personality

Author

Zimmer, Ben

Subjects
Electronic mail systems, E-mail, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Ben Zimmer, a former On Language columnist for The New York Times Magazine, is the executive producer of VisualThesaurus.com and Vocabulary.com. IMAGINE, if you will, a young Mark Zuckerberg circa [...]

Published
2011

6. The great language land grab

Author

Zimmer, Ben

Subjects
High technology industry -- Intellectual property -- Innovations, Trademark infringement -- Cases, Computers -- Services, Company legal issue, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

When tech companies engage in legal squabbles about who gets to use our everyday words, what are ordinary speakers of the language to make of it all? Microsoft is suing [...]

Published
2011

7. How the War Of Words Was Won

Author

Zimmer, Ben

Subjects
Egyptian Revolution, 2011 -- Social aspects, Political activists -- Social aspects, Word (Linguistics) -- Usage -- Political aspects, English language -- Usage, Demonstrations -- Political aspects -- Social aspects -- Egypt, Reformers -- Social aspects, Social reformers -- Social aspects, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

How do you tell a dictator to get lost? The answer, in Egypt, was with poetry, tech lingo, hieroglyphics and more. For weeks, in Tahrir Square and elsewhere, demonstrators were [...]

Published
2011

8. The Charles Bonnet Syndrome Visual Perceptive Dysfunction in Sensory Deprivation

Author

Siatkowski, R. Michael, Zimmer, Ben, and Rosenberg, Paul R.

Abstract

We present a series of four patients with the Charles Bonnet syndrome, which is characterized by recurrent vivid visual hallucinations in the presence of normal cognition and insight. It usually occurs in elderly people with ophthalmic pathology causing severe visual sensory deprivation. Our experience suggests that this syndrome is frequently overlooked or misdiagnosed by both ophthalmologists and psychiatrists. To our knowledge this is only the second series of cases of the syndrome in the American literature.

Published
1990

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