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Dr. Yong Shi of Stevens Institute of Technology was recently awarded a NSF subsidisation for his project coroneted "MEMS Umbrella-Shaped Actuator with Active Structure for Medical Applications." The grant was approved on scientific/technical virtue for trey years and will number approximately $300,000. The objective of the research is to design, cook up and test an umbrella-shaped micro-actuator based on an integrated micro/nanofabrication technique for thrombus retrieval in stroke therapy.
The proposed actuator consists of active structures that are precisely controlled by novel piezoelectric nanofibers. The functional precept of the proposed actuator is singular in that it hindquarters provide a dynamic shear force on blood clots in vascular arteries. This shear military unit can be fine-tuned to facilitate the separation of the blood clot from the wall of the vascular artery due to the shearing-thinning phenomenon, so enabling finish retrieval while minimizing the risk of damage to the arteries.This research will contribute newfangled fundamental knowledge in the areas of piezoelectric answer of nanomaterials as well as the mechanical behaviour of blood clots.
Dr. Shi, the Principal Investigator, has been an assistant prof in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Stevens Institute of Technology since 2004. He obtained his M.S and Ph.D in 2001 and 2004 respectively from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research interests admit functional nanofibers and nanocomposites, micro/nano actuators and sensors, RF, Bio, medical MEMS/NEMS systems design, modeling and fabrication . He won the ASNT society from the American Society of Nondestructive Testing in 2007 for the development of a nano acoustic sensor. Shi is likewise a member of several scientific and professional societies, including IEEE, MRS, ASME, and Sigma Xi.
Co-PIs working with Professor Shi on the picture are Professor Sundeep Mangla (M. D., Director of Interventional Neuroradiology , Associate Professor of Radiology, Neurosurgery, and Neurology ) and Professor Ming Zhang (M.D, Assistant Professor, Dept of Anesthesiology), both from SUNY Downstate Medical Center at Brooklyn, New York.
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About Stevens Institute of Technology
Founded in 1870, Stevens Institute of Technology is one of the ahead technological universities in the world dedicated to learning and research. Through its broad-based curricula, nurturing of creative ingeniousness, and cross disciplinary research, the Institute is at the head of global challenges in engineering, science, and technology management. Partnerships and quislingism between, and among, stage business, industry, governing and other universities lead to the enriched surroundings of the Institute. A new mannikin for engineering commercialization in academe, known as Technogenesis�, involves external partners in launching business enterprises to create wide opportunities and shared value.
Stevens offers baccalaureates, master's and doctoral degrees in technology, science, reckoner science and management, in addition to a bachelor's degree degree in the humanistic discipline and loose arts, and in occupation and engineering. The university has a total registration of 2,040 undergraduate and 3,085 fine-tune students, and a worldwide online registration of 2,250, with about 250 full-time faculty. Stevens' graduate programs hold attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America. Additional entropy may be obtained from its web page at http://www.stevens.edu/.
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Patrick A. Berzinski
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Friday, 29 August 2008
Mp3 music: Gorilla Biscuits
 Artist: Gorilla Biscuits: mp3 download Genre(s): Rock: Punk-Rock Gorilla Biscuits's discography:  Start Today Year: 1989 Tracks: 13  Gorilla Biscuits Year: 1988 Tracks: 12 Hardcore icons Gorilla Biscuits came in concert in the late '80s to contribute together their two cents to the straightedge scene in New York City. Ironically enough though, their constitute came from the street term for Quaaludes. The grouping went through various members in their time together, simply the band's "determinate" card was the squad of singer Anthony Civocelli, bassist Arthur Smilios, drummer Luke Abbey, and guitarists Walter Schreifels and (at last) Alex Brown; John "Porcell" Porcelly (guitar) and Sammy Siegler (drums) likewise served in the Biscuits' ranks. No last name career were used on whatever of their recordings; in fact, Civocelli went by the nominate "Civ" at the clock time. They were selfsame extreme right-winger, trying to move the motion aside from the warring rules that many hardcore straightedge fans had created around their pet bands. The independent goal was to taste and include anyone wHO treasured to take on their political views without torment around the esthetics, something that made them unpopular with many in the movement. They managed to tour the U.S. at one time and Europe doubly, and release deuce albums on Revelation Records (a 1988 self-titled 7" and 1989's highly influential Commence Today) ahead Schreifels left the group to form the melodic hardcore/metal lot Quicksand in 1990. Gorilla Biscuits were officially broken up, playing a terminal gig together in 1992, only in realness the left over members turned around and formed CIV, a pop-punk malarky band that scored a minor hit with "Can't Wait One Minute More" when they reappeared on a major mark in 1994. Gorilla Biscuits reunited in 2005 during the Save CBGB's campaign (when the illustrious venue was on the brink of closure), which finally lED to the band embarking on a subsequent nationwide tour of duty. |
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Tuesday, 19 August 2008
Pelvic Prolapse: What Does The Urologist Contribute?
�UroToday.com - Any urologist dealing with incontinence in the female patient must deal with pelvic organ prolapse. At a minimum the urologist must valuate the affected role for prolapsus and make an reserve referral to either another urologist or a gynecologist for direction. Other degrees of involvement range from evaluation and complete treatment to evaluation and treatment of complications following prolapse surgery.
The role of the evaluation is to diagnose the extent of the problem and to implement management. During the history symptoms pertaining to prolapse should be sought. An assessment of disoblige should be elicited and a discussion should be had as to the treatment expectations. A variety of status specific questionnaires are useable to care in quantifying symptoms and to assess quality of life and bother. A pelvic exam is performed to assess the health of the vaginal mucosa and to assess and grade whatever prolapse. A stress test is performed to assess for focus incontinence. The muscular integrity of the pelvic floor and the external anal sphincter should also be assessed. A post void residual is checked. Further evaluation with imaging and or urodynamics is performed on a case by case groundwork. Once the diagnosis of prolapse is made then a determination regarding treatment should be made. Conservative treatment with pelvic muscle exercises or a contraceptive diaphragm may do. If surgical treatment is to performed the approach should be based on the patient's problems and her expectations for convalescence and enduringness.
The most common complications of prolapsus surgery that the urologist will deal with are; persistent or de novo incontinence, new onset of recurrent infections, hematuria, hurting and obstruction. Incontinence should be worked up with a history and physical and urodynamics. If there is whatever concern for foreign material in the bladder or urethra a cystoscopy should be performed. Cystoscopy should also be performed in the pillowcase of dogged infections or hematuria. Urodynamics may be helpful to diagnose obstruction but it is sane to take down a sling or anterior repair without urodynamic proof of obstruction if there is a clear temporal relationship between the surgery and the oncoming of impediment.
Mesh used in descensus repairs should be remote in the case of pain, contagion or misplacement. Mesh in the bladder can be removed endoscopically, laparoscopically or with an open proficiency. Mesh extrusion can be treated with partial removal and dither closure over the defect. When perennial incontinence or prolapse occurs following a mesh fix one can consider placing additional mesh but if one procedure has failed it is reasonable to consider a different approaching on a second repair. In drumhead the urologist who deals with dissoluteness must value the patient for prolapsus and care for or bring up those patients who indigence surgical intervention. Urologists will also be asked to evaluate patients with complications following descensus surgery as many of these patients may ask a cystoscopy and or urodynamic testing. Treatment of complications next prolapse surgical procedure will reckon on the nature of the knottiness.
Presented by: E. Ann Gormley, MD, FACS, at the Masters in Urology Meeting - July 31, 2008 - August 2, 2008, Elbow Beach Resort, Bermuda
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The role of the evaluation is to diagnose the extent of the problem and to implement management. During the history symptoms pertaining to prolapse should be sought. An assessment of disoblige should be elicited and a discussion should be had as to the treatment expectations. A variety of status specific questionnaires are useable to care in quantifying symptoms and to assess quality of life and bother. A pelvic exam is performed to assess the health of the vaginal mucosa and to assess and grade whatever prolapse. A stress test is performed to assess for focus incontinence. The muscular integrity of the pelvic floor and the external anal sphincter should also be assessed. A post void residual is checked. Further evaluation with imaging and or urodynamics is performed on a case by case groundwork. Once the diagnosis of prolapse is made then a determination regarding treatment should be made. Conservative treatment with pelvic muscle exercises or a contraceptive diaphragm may do. If surgical treatment is to performed the approach should be based on the patient's problems and her expectations for convalescence and enduringness.
The most common complications of prolapsus surgery that the urologist will deal with are; persistent or de novo incontinence, new onset of recurrent infections, hematuria, hurting and obstruction. Incontinence should be worked up with a history and physical and urodynamics. If there is whatever concern for foreign material in the bladder or urethra a cystoscopy should be performed. Cystoscopy should also be performed in the pillowcase of dogged infections or hematuria. Urodynamics may be helpful to diagnose obstruction but it is sane to take down a sling or anterior repair without urodynamic proof of obstruction if there is a clear temporal relationship between the surgery and the oncoming of impediment.
Mesh used in descensus repairs should be remote in the case of pain, contagion or misplacement. Mesh in the bladder can be removed endoscopically, laparoscopically or with an open proficiency. Mesh extrusion can be treated with partial removal and dither closure over the defect. When perennial incontinence or prolapse occurs following a mesh fix one can consider placing additional mesh but if one procedure has failed it is reasonable to consider a different approaching on a second repair. In drumhead the urologist who deals with dissoluteness must value the patient for prolapsus and care for or bring up those patients who indigence surgical intervention. Urologists will also be asked to evaluate patients with complications following descensus surgery as many of these patients may ask a cystoscopy and or urodynamic testing. Treatment of complications next prolapse surgical procedure will reckon on the nature of the knottiness.
Presented by: E. Ann Gormley, MD, FACS, at the Masters in Urology Meeting - July 31, 2008 - August 2, 2008, Elbow Beach Resort, Bermuda
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Saturday, 9 August 2008
Tuesday, 1 July 2008
Jay-Z wows Glastonbury Festival (+pics)
The controversial choice of American rapper Jay-Z to headline Glastonbury proved to be a masterstroke by the event's organiser Michael Eavis as the hip-hop star wowed the music festival.
Oasis songwriter Noel Gallagher had called hip-hop at Glastonbury "wrong" and traditionalists in Internet chatrooms had said they would have preferred a band like Radiohead, while critics also blamed the
rapper for slow ticket sales.
In a nod to Gallagher, Grammy Award-winner Jay-Z - married to singer Beyonce - took to the stage to the strains of the Mancunian band's hit Wonderwall, before running through a repertoire of his own hits, including Hard Knock Life.
"They say you don't want me here, Glastonbury," queried the rapper. "Now tell me, where is the love?"
That question was answered by huge cheers from the crowd, whose only disappointment was that Beyonce did not make an appearance.
"That was a real triumph to bring hip-hop from the streets of New York to Glastonbury," Eavis told the BBC.
"All that doom and gloom about ticket sales, but we were completely sold out by Thursday and it we had such a younger audience."
Prior to Jay-Z's appearance, soul singer Amy Winehouse played an hour-long set after receiving treatment for a lung condition which her father said was caused by smoking crack cocaine.
"It was such a huge crowd watching her and I think she became a superstar last night," added Eavis, who said that Winehouse had asked him to let her headline the Festival next year.
By Saturday, Somerset and Avon police said there had been 379 reported crime incidents, including drug offences, compared to 168 at the same stage last year.
The vast majority of non-drug related crime were reports of thefts from tents which now stand at 203.
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Monday, 30 June 2008
Squealer
Artist: Squealer
Genre(s):
Metal: Power
Retro
Discography:
Under The Cross
Year: 2002
Tracks: 11
Made For Eternity
Year: 2000
Tracks: 10
The Prophecy
Year: 1999
Tracks: 11
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John Anderson
Artist: John Anderson
Genre(s):
Country
Discography:
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Easy Money [Enhanced]
Year: 2007
Tracks: 11
Neo-honky tonker John Anderson was born in Apopka, FL, in 1955 and grew up hearing to rock candy & stray, until he observed country euphony at age 15 through Merle Haggard. He affected to Nashville in the early '70s, viewing up at his sister's house with no warning, and worked a variety of singular jobs (including one as a roofer for the Grand Ole Opry) piece playing clubs at night. Eventually, all the difficult put to work paying off with a undertake for Warner Bros., and Anderson released his first-class honours degree individual in 1978. His self-titled debut album appeared in 1980 and helped signal the climb of the new diehard movement, drawing critical praise as well. Soon the hits started to pile up: "1959" and "Volaille Truck" became his first-class honours degree res publica Top Tens in 1981, and "I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal (Merely I'm Gonna Be a Diamond Someday)" went Top Five later that yr. 1982's "Hazardous and Blue" was Anderson's first-class honours degree chart-topper, and he duplicated that exploit doubly in 1983 with "Sinister Sheep" and the million-selling "Swingin'," the latter of which was the biggest-selling res publica single in Warner Bros. history. Anderson returned to the Top Ten several times over the succeeding few years, to the highest degree notably with 1984's "She Sure Got Away with My Heart," merely by 1987 his commercial momentum had stalled, and he and Warner parted slipway.Anderson continued to record steady and mounted a major return in the early '90s, starting with 1992's Seminole Wind. Its statute title course went to number two, and the followup, "Straight Tequila Night," went all the way to number one; "When It Comes to You" besides made the Top Five. Anderson scored some other number one in 1993 with "Money in the Bank" and hit the Top Five triplet times over 1994-1995 with "I Wish I Could Have Been There," "I've Got It Made," and "Bend Until It Breaks." Though he hasn't been endorse since, Anderson's albums and singles go along to hold the lower reaches of the country charts -- grounds of a still-solid fan basis. What was termed a counter album of sorts, Easy Money, produced by John Rich of Big & Rich celebrity, appeared in 2007.
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