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A solar-powered airplane finished crossing the United States on Saturday, landing in New York City after flying over the Statue of Liberty during its historic bid to circle the globe, the project team said.  The spindly, single-seat experimental aircraft, dubbed Solar Impulse 2, arrived at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport at about 4 a.m. local time after it took off about five hours beforehand at Lehigh Valley International Airport in Pennsylvania, the team reported on the airplane's website.  Such a pleasure to land in New York! For the 14th time we celebrate sustainability," said the project's co-founder Andre Borschberg on Twitter after flying over the city and the Statue of Liberty during the 14th leg of the trip around the globe. The Swiss team flying the aircraft in a campaign to build support for clean energy technologies hopes eventually to complete its circumnavigation in Abu Dhabi, where the journey began in March 2015. The solar cr...

Playing music in the operating theatre can be disruptive

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Playing music in the working theater can be problematic and specialists ought to mull over squeezing the play catch, as indicated by a little study. Analysts recorded 20 operations at two UK doctor's facilities to watch.  At the point when music was played, working staff regularly needed to rehash themselves to be heard - when asking for a surgical instrument, for instance. The Royal College of Surgeons says there is no confirmation of an across the board issue in NHS healing centers.  For the study, distributed in the Journal of Advanced Nursing, the specialists put numerous cameras at vital focuses around the working space to watch the verbal and non-verbal correspondences between staff. The 35 hours of footage demonstrated to it was normally the senior specialists in the group who settled on the choice about the ambient sounds, as opposed to the medical attendants. Music was played in 16 of the 20 watched operations. 

Image result for Music in the operating room off-putting, study suggestsMove music and drum and bass were frequently played reasonably uproariously, with well known tracks now and then impacted out, which made talking troublesome. In a few frequencies, nurture obviously attempted to hear the specialist's guidelines. In one operation, the clean attendant requested that the specialist turn the music down on the grounds that she was thinking that its difficult to tally up what number of swabs had been utilized. 
On the other hand, studies recommend music can help specialists stay cool and centered. The Royal College of Surgeons says if music is played amid surgery, it "should not be diverting". 

Lead analyst Sharon-Marie Weldon, from the Department of Surgery and Cancer at Imperial College London, said: "Music can be useful to staff working in working theaters where there is regularly a ton of foundation clamor, and different diversions - it can enhance focus. 
"That said, we'd like to see a more considered methodology, with considerably more talk or transaction about whether music is played, the kind of music and volume inside of the working groups."

Source-bbc news

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