Download or read book Build the Micro Stim written by Reginald W. Davis and published by . This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Microcurrent therapy is the use of an extremely small pulsating current of electricity to treat pain and to stimulate healing in the body. These currents are on the same scale as the currents produced by the body on its own. This means you cannot feel them because they are below the level of sensory perception. Doctors and physical therapists are using microcurrent therapy to reduce pain and promote faster healing of wounds, injured muscles, tendons, and broken bones. There is enormous potential in the possibility that this type of therapy can eliminate many viruses in the blood. It may also have a similar effect on bacteria, fungi, and parasites. In effect, it may be possible to apply this technology (through the Micro-Stim) as a "Blood Purifier." The Micro-Stim is a device that is capable of introducing a microcurrent into the body. It then monitors this current through a numerical display. As the body's electrical resistance changes, the amount of current flowing through it changes.
Download or read book Electroceuticals written by Arshad Majid and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers recent advances in the use of electrostimulation therapies in movement disorders, epilepsy, inflammatory bowel disease, memory and cognition, disorders of consciousness, foot drop, dysphagia, brain injury, headache, heart failure, hearing loss, and rheumatoid arthritis. It describes techniques such as vagus nerve stimulation, deep brain stimulation, and electrical stimulation of the pharyngeal nerve. Electroceuticals: Advances in Electrostimulation Therapies is aimed at clinicians and basic researchers in the fields of neurology, neurosurgery, cardiology and rheumatology.
Download or read book Augmentation of Brain Function Facts Fiction and Controversy written by Mikhail Lebedev and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2018-09-14 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume I, entitled “Augmentation of Brain Functions: Brain-Machine Interfaces”, is a collection of articles on neuroprosthetic technologies that utilize brain-machine interfaces (BMIs). BMIs strive to augment the brain by linking neural activity, recorded invasively or noninvasively, to external devices, such as arm prostheses, exoskeletons that enable bipedal walking, means of communication and technologies that augment attention. In addition to many practical applications, BMIs provide useful research tools for basic science. Several articles cover challenges and controversies in this rapidly developing field, such as ways to improve information transfer rate. BMIs can be applied to the awake state of the brain and to the sleep state, as well. BMIs can augment action planning and decision making. Importantly, BMI operations evoke brain plasticity, which can have long-lasting effects. Advanced neural decoding algorithms that utilize optimal feedback controllers are key to the BMI performance. BMI approach can be combined with the other augmentation methods; such systems are called hybrid BMIs. Overall, it appears that BMI will lead to many powerful and practical brain-augmenting technologies in the future.
Download or read book Auditory Information Processing written by Harunori Ohmori and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains neural function at the level of ion channels and membrane excitability in neurons along the ascending auditory pathway. Airborne sound information is captured by the ears, transformed to neural electrical signals, and then processed in the brain. Readers will find full descriptions of these processes of signal transduction and transformation. First, it is described how, at the level of hair cells, the receptor cells in the cochlea, the sound-evoked vibration is transduced to electrical signals and transmitted to the auditory nerve fibers. In the second section it is explained how the electrical activity of these fibers is processed at the cochlear nucleus in order to extract the temporal and level information of sound separately and then transmitted to the third nucleus for processing of the interaural differences, such as the interaural time difference and the interaural level difference. The third section summarizes the transformation of auditory temporal information to the rate of neural firing activity in the midbrain and the higher nuclei, including the cortex, based on in vivo results. Finally, emerging new technologies to investigate auditory signal processing are reviewed and discussed.
Download or read book Telecommunications and Remote Sensing written by Boris Shishkov and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-12-20 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the proceedings of ICTRS 2022 (the 11th International Conference on Telecommunications and Remote Sensing), held in Sofia, Bulgaria, on 21-22 November 2022. ICTRS is an annual event that brings together researchers and practitioners interested in telecommunications, remote sensing, and their societal implications. As mentioned already, ICTRS is essentially leaning toward telecommunications and remote sensing plus relevant societal implications. In this, ICTRS 2022 addresses a large number of research areas and topics, such as: Wireless Telecommunications and Networking; Electromagnetic Waves and Fields; Electronics and Photonics; Remote Sensing and Data Interpretation; Remote Sensing and Internet-Of-Things; and Societal Impact.
Download or read book Spring Fever written by P. G. Wodehouse and published by Everyman's Library P G WODEHOUSE. This book was released on 2004 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a man needs only two hundred pounds to marry his cook and buy a public house, one would expect his life to be trouble free, but the fifth Earl of Shortlands has to reckon with his haughty daughter, Lady Adela, and Mervyn Spink, his butler, who also happens to be his rival in love. Mike Cardinal offers to sort out the problem by pretending to be Stanwood Cobbold but his way is blocked by Spink and reformed burglar, Augustus Robb. Confused? Let P.G.Wodehouse untangle the complications in this light-hearted comedy which ends happily - for almost everyone.
Download or read book Stimulation of the Peripheral Nervous System written by K.V. Slavin and published by Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers. This book was released on 2015-09-09 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among neuromodulation procedures, electrical stimulation of peripheral nerves (PNS) is probably the most underappreciated modality. Although PNS is used for all kinds of medical conditions, ranging from chronic neuropathic pain and headache to epilepsy, depression, hypertension and heart failure, its importance is frequently overshadowed by spinal cord stimulation and deep brain stimulation. While the earlier version of this book dealt exclusively with various pain syndromes, this new volume covers the entire spectrum of PNS applications. Written by recognized authorities in their respective fields, the chapters of this title describe the use of PNS in the management of neurological, psychiatric, otorhinolaryngological, cardiovascular, pulmonary, colorectal and genitourinary disorders. To reflect the complexity of the regulatory process, the book ends with a special chapter dedicated to the current state of approval of different PNS devices. This book will be of great value to all those who deal with neuromodulation, including clinicians who select PNS candidates, surgeons and other specialists who implant PNS devices, and researchers and engineers who work on making the stimulators safer and more effective.
Download or read book Building Continents of Knowledge in Oceans of Data The Future of Co Created EHealth written by A. Ugon and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2018-05-18 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The domain of eHealth faces ongoing challenges to deliver 21st century healthcare. Digitalization, capacity building and user engagement with truly interdisciplinary and cross-domain collaboration are just a few of the areas which must be addressed. This book presents 190 full papers from the Medical Informatics Europe (MIE 2018) conference, held in Gothenburg, Sweden, in April 2018. The MIE conferences aim to enable close interaction and networking between an international audience of academics, health professionals, patients and industry partners. The title of this year’s conference is: Building Continents of Knowledge in Oceans of Data – The Future of Co-Created eHealth, and contributions cover a broad range of topics related to the digitalization of healthcare, citizen participation, data science, and changing health systems, addressed from the perspectives of citizens, patients and their families, healthcare professionals, service providers, developers and policy makers. The second part of the title in particular has attracted a large number of papers describing strategies to create, evaluate, adjust or deliver tools and services for improvements in healthcare organizations or to enable citizens to respond to the challenges of dealing with health systems. Papers are grouped under the headings: standards and interoperability, implementation and evaluation, knowledge management, decision support, modeling and analytics, health informatics education and learning systems, and patient-centered services. Attention is also given to development for sustainable use, educational strategies and workforce development, and the book will be of interest to both developers and practitioners of healthcare services.
Download or read book Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems written by Hajime Asama and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a new strategy to realize the goal of flexible, robust, fault-tolerant robotic systems, the distributed autonomous approach has quickly established itself as one of the fastest growing fields in robotics. This book is one of the first to devote itself solely to this exciting area of research, covering such topics as self-organization, communication and coordination, multi-robot manipulation and control, distributed system design, distributed sensing, intelligent manufacturing systems, and group behavior. The fundamental technologies and system architectures of distributed autonomous robotic systems are expounded in detail, along with the latest research findings. This book should prove indispensable not only to those involved with robotic engineering but also to those in the fields of artificial intelligence, self-organizing systems, and coordinated control.
Download or read book Biomedical Micro and Nano Robots in Disease Treatment written by Chun Mao and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2023-05-30 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive resource covering fundamentals at the micro and nano scales, technical advances in micro- and nanorobots, and their biomedical applications Biomedical Micro- and Nanorobots in Disease Treatment: Design, Preparation, and Applications provides foundational knowledge on the subject in the fields of biomaterials, nanotechnology, and biomedicine, discusses the applications of micro- and nanorobots in the cardiovascular, cancer, ophthalmic, orthopedic, gastrointestinal, and nervous system disease treatment, and addresses their biosafety, autonomous motion behavior, and future development trends. The two highly qualified authors comprehensively and systematically introduces the concept source, definition, classification, autonomous movement behavior, and functionality of the technology, providing readers with new ideas, technologies, and methods for modern biomedical research, while also expanding new disease diagnosis, treatment principles, and possible application modes to paint a complete picture of the potential of the technology. Sample topics covered in Biomedical Micro- and Nanorobots in Disease Treatment include: Substrate selection between metal, inorganic, organic, natural, and hybrid materials, as well as driving systems based on biological components, external fields, and chemical reactions In vivo tracking technologies, including fluorescence imaging, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), radionuclide and ultrasonic imaging, and other imaging methods Biosafety of micro- and nanorobot substrate through material composition, micro- and nanoscale influence, ultimate destiny, and genotoxicity Trending behavior mechanisms in magnetotactic, phototactic, and chemotaxis systems, and motion control through speed and direction control modes Study on therapeutic mechanism and application for various physiological diseases Summarizing research progress in the preparation, biosafety, functionality, and therapeutic effects of the technology, Biomedical Micro- and Nanorobots in Disease Treatment is an important and timely resource for biochemists, materials scientists, medicinal chemists, pharmaceutical chemists, bioengineers, biotechnologists, and the greater biotechnological industry.
Download or read book Intelligent Robotics and Applications written by Honghai Liu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-11-18 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The market demand for skills, knowledge and adaptability have positioned robotics to be an important field in both engineering and science. One of the most highly visible applications of robotics has been the robotic automation of many industrial tasks in factories. In the future, a new era will come in which we will see a greater success for robotics in non-industrial environments. In order to anticipate a wider deployment of intelligent and autonomous robots for tasks such as manufacturing, healthcare, ent- tainment, search and rescue, surveillance, exploration, and security missions, it is essential to push the frontier of robotics into a new dimension, one in which motion and intelligence play equally important roles. The 2010 International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications (ICIRA 2010) was held in Shanghai, China, November 10–12, 2010. The theme of the c- ference was “Robotics Harmonizing Life,” a theme that reflects the ever-growing interest in research, development and applications in the dynamic and exciting areas of intelligent robotics. These volumes of Springer’s Lecture Notes in Artificial Intel- gence and Lecture Notes in Computer Science contain 140 high-quality papers, which were selected at least for the papers in general sessions, with a 62% acceptance rate Traditionally, ICIRA 2010 holds a series of plenary talks, and we were fortunate to have two such keynote speakers who shared their expertise with us in diverse topic areas spanning the rang of intelligent robotics and application activities.
Download or read book Platformization of Urban Life written by Anke Strüver and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The increasing platformization of urban life needs critical perspectives to examine changing everyday practices and power shifts brought about by the expansion of digital platforms mediating care-services, housing, and mobility. This book addresses new modes of producing urban spaces and societies. It brings both platform researchers and activists from various fields related to critical urban studies and labour activism into dialogue. The contributors engage with the socio-spatial and normative implications of platform-mediated urban everyday life and urban futures, going beyond a rigid techno-dystopian stance in order to include an understanding of platforms as sites of social creativity and exchange.
Download or read book Green Jobs and Skills written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Environmental Audit Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2009 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With correction slip dated January 2010 amending paper numbers incorporated in the volume
Download or read book Energy Simulation in Building Design written by Joseph Clarke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-11-02 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the appearance of the first edition of 'Energy Simulation in Building Design', the use of computer-based appraisal tools to solve energy design problems within buildings has grown rapidly. A leading figure in this field, Professor Joseph Clarke has updated his book throughout to reflect these latest developments. The book now includes material on combined thermal/lighting and CFD simulation, advanced glazings, indoor air quality and photovoltaic components. This thorough revision means that the book remains the key text on simulation for architects, building engineering consultants and students of building engineering and environmental design of buildings. The book's purpose is to help architects, mechanical & environmental engineers and energy & facility managers to understand and apply the emerging computer methods for options appraisal at the individual building, estate, city, region and national levels. This is achieved by interspersing theoretical derivations relating to simulation within an evolving description of the built environment as a complex system. The premise is that the effective application of any simulation tool requires a thorough understanding of the domain it addresses.
Download or read book Smart Sensor Interfaces written by Johan Huijsing and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smart Sensor Interfaces brings together in one place important contributions and up-to-date research results in this fast moving area. Smart Sensor Interfaces serves as an excellent reference, providing insight into some of the most challenging research issues in the field.
Download or read book A Guide to Integrating Intellectual Stimulation for Diversity and Inclusion in Organizations written by and published by Bahiyya Baskerville. This book was released on 2022-07-07 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a tool kit for organizational leadership and members to help nurture diversity and inclusive initiatives in organizations with the use of intellectually stimulating proposals. To increase inclusion, leadership must utilize creative approaches that inspire leadership proficiencies to enable discovery of activities which are universally engaging and promote integration. This book contains friendly-forward recommendations for organizations to employ when creating successful outcomes with team members. It is universally appealing, and leadership driven, supporting consolidative approaches to values, norms, and creative processes that engage employees in formulating healthy connections as a diverse establishment. These healthy connections acknowledge current race stigmas and its influence on work culture. Accepting that racial injustices still exist opens the door to open and honest discussions, enhanced feedback, application of new ideas accepted by team members and rooted in their work. Readers are encouraged to develop an understanding of cultural norms, expectations, and their positive impact on organizational workflow. Leadership is encouraged to utilize innovation to increase knowledge sharing, education, and environments that welcome a diverse and inclusive atmosphere.
Download or read book Closed Loop Systems for Next Generation Neuroprostheses written by Timothée Levi and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2018-04-26 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millions of people worldwide are affected by neurological disorders which disrupt the connections within the brain and between brain and body causing impairments of primary functions and paralysis. Such a number is likely to increase in the next years and current assistive technology is yet limited. A possible response to such disabilities, offered by the neuroscience community, is given by Brain-Machine Interfaces (BMIs) and neuroprostheses. The latter field of research is highly multidisciplinary, since it involves very different and disperse scientific communities, making it fundamental to create connections and to join research efforts. Indeed, the design and development of neuroprosthetic devices span/involve different research topics such as: interfacing of neural systems at different levels of architectural complexity (from in vitro neuronal ensembles to human brain), bio-artificial interfaces for stimulation (e.g. micro-stimulation, DBS: Deep Brain Stimulation) and recording (e.g. EMG: Electromyography, EEG: Electroencephalography, LFP: Local Field Potential), innovative signal processing tools for coding and decoding of neural activity, biomimetic artificial Spiking Neural Networks (SNN) and neural network modeling. In order to develop functional communication with the nervous system and to create a new generation of neuroprostheses, the study of closed-loop systems is mandatory. It has been widely recognized that closed-loop neuroprosthetic systems achieve more favorable outcomes for users then equivalent open-loop devices. Improvements in task performance, usability, and embodiment have all been reported in systems utilizing some form of feedback. The bi-directional communication between living neurons and artificial devices is the main final goal of those studies. However, closed-loop systems are still uncommon in the literature, mostly due to requirement of multidisciplinary effort. Therefore, through eBook on closed-loop systems for next-generation neuroprostheses, we encourage an active discussion among neurobiologists, electrophysiologists, bioengineers, computational neuroscientists and neuromorphic engineers. This eBook aims to facilitate this process by ordering the 25 contributions of this research in which we highlighted in three different parts: (A) Optimization of different blocks composing the closed-loop system, (B) Systems for neuromodulation based on DBS, EMG and SNN and (C) Closed-loop BMIs for rehabilitation.
