l***i
发帖数: 64 | 1 Postdoc(s) Position in Neural Control of Prosthetics
UNC/NC State Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering
The Neuromuscular Rehabilitation Engineering Laboratory (NREL) within the
UNC/NC State Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering invites applications
for a Postdoctoral Research Associate to advance robotic prosthetics.
Currently, two positions are available immediately.
Required Qualifications:
• A recent Ph.D. degree in Biomedical, Electrical, or Mechanical
Engineering or rela... 阅读全帖 |
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p*******i
发帖数: 39 | 2 有没有同志知道 Prosthetic & Orthotics 这个方向的。
先介绍下我的情况，我是运动学 kinesiology 的硕士，今年刚刚上，但是本身对搞研
究并不敢兴趣。想考一个有执照的科目作为以后发展的职业，但是由于本科跟医学没有
关系是工程类的，所以很多执照要受到很大的限制。
这个信息是上 CLINICAL GAIT ANALYSIS的时候老师有提到过，我留意的。
不知道这个就业前景如何，谢谢各位了。 |
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发帖数: 12393 | 3 The Uncanny Valley
Masahiro Mori
1970
Energy, 7(4), pp. 33-35
Translated by Karl F. MacDorman and Takashi Minato
Valley of familiarity
There are mathematical functions of the form y = f(x) for which the
value of
y increases (or decreases) continuously with the value of x. For
example,
as the effort x increases, income y increases, or as a car's accelerator
is
pressed, the car moves faster. This kind of relationship is ubiquitous
and
easily understood. In fact, it covers most phenomena, so we mig... 阅读全帖 |
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l*h
发帖数: 4124 | 4 possibly it's a fetal subarachnoid hemorrhage in the last trimester.
the treatment is very complex. the patient should be taken care of by a
multidisciplinary team including pediatrician, physiatrist (PM&R), physical
therapist, language pathologist, child neurologist, neurosurgeon and
orthopedic surgeon, sometimes also other specialists such as a
reconstructive plastic surgeon.
treatment includes rehabilitation training (motor function, language and etc
.), surgery, use of prosthetics etc. the t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 9094 | 5 WASHINGTON (AP) — A high school student from California won a $100,000
scholarship Monday for research that created a tiny particle she likened to
a "Swiss army knife of cancer treatments" because of its precision in
targeting cancer tumors.
Angela Zhang, 17, of Cupertino, Calif., won top individual honors at the
Siemens Foundation's annual high school science competition, which announced
winners in Washington. Top team honors went to a pair of students from Oak
Ridge, Tenn., for their research ... 阅读全帖 |
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p****m
发帖数: 510 | 6 科学竞赛得奖的90%是中国血统。 o yeah!
http://news.yahoo.com/calif-teen-takes-100k-national-science-pr
“Calif. teen takes $100K national science prize”
WASHINGTON (AP) — A high school student from California won a $100,000
scholarship Monday for research that created a tiny particle she likened to
a "Swiss army knife of cancer treatments" because of its precision in
targeting cancer tumors.
Angela Zhang, 17, of Cupertino, Calif., won top individual honors at the
Siemens Foundation's annual high school science... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4845 | 7 Researchers convince people they have three arms--then threaten one with a
knife [Video]
http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=need-an-extr
A knife-wielding researcher is bearing down on your right hand梠r is it
your hand? You see three arms in front of you, and you can feel your pal
ms dampen with fear-induced perspiration. But is it your right hand the
kitchen knife is plunging toward, or a false, rubber right hand?
The dilemma might sound ridiculous, but tell that to the 154 healt... 阅读全帖 |
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l***i
发帖数: 64 | 8 The Neuromuscular Rehabilitation Engineering Laboratory (NREL) within the
UNC/NC State Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering invites applications
for a Postdoctoral Research Associate to advance robotic prosthetics.
Required Qualifications
1. A recent Ph.D. degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Computer, or
Biomedical Engineering or related fields.
2. Research experiences in one or more of the following areas: robotic
manipulation and haptics, EMG control of robotic prosthesis, and skelet... 阅读全帖 |
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l********y
发帖数: 2295 | 9 endocarditis prophylaxis:这个以前贴过了，要和手术指征放在一起记住。
to get antibiotics, you need DRS(abbreviation of doctors, stands for Dental,
Respiratory, Skin) to give you PE & CT (Prosthetic valves, Endocarditis,
Cyanotic heart disease, Transplant).
IE什么时候valve replacement: RAPE is Fun,这样的想法多危险，赶紧的换了修理了。
R:rupture
A:abscess
P:prosthetic valves
E:embolic events
Fun：fungal endocarditis |
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发帖数: 95 | 10 ：）你看看John Donoghue老爷子组的东西吧，已经做到用电子技术让四肢瘫痪的人在
跑步机上走了。你提的问题是prosthetics修复方面的问题，关于这点，做脑机接口BMI
的人几乎都在想办法用电路绕开神经通路。我们这里不是做prosthetics，而是研究病
理、用药和computational neurosci. 这样的话首先是屁股坐的位置不一样，其次对“
电路能否/是否完全仿真神经通路”这个问题容忍程度不一样。
眼， |
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发帖数: 60932 | 11 X-Men: First Class was released in theaters on June 3rd, 2011, earning over
$146 million dollars domestically and over $352 million worldwide, the 12th
highest grossing movie (so far) in 2011. Matthew Vaughn, director of the
comic book movie Kick-Ass, creates a prequel to the previous four X-Men
films, while it also could be considered a reboot of the whole X-Men movie
franchise after the previous movies X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men Origins:
Wolverine. However, it still tries to retain contin... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29576 | 13 obamacare搞很多tax还有fee，养了一群官僚机构，美国中产阶级逆来顺受还一大堆人
选巴马民党，觉悟真是高。
New ObamaCare fees coming in 2014
WASHINGTON — Here comes the ObamaCare tax bill.
The cost of President Obama’s massive health-care law will hit Americans in
2014 as new taxes pile up on their insurance premiums and on their income-
tax bills.
Most insurers aren’t advertising the ObamaCare taxes that are added on to
premiums, opting instead to discretely pass them on to customers while
quietly lobbying lawmakers for a break.
But one insu... 阅读全帖 |
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t****z
发帖数: 8931 | 14 Inventions and improvements
Notable Canadian inventions and improvements to existing technologies
include:
Computing and Animation
Key frame animation was co-invented by Nestor Burtnyk and Marcelli Wein at
the NRC in the 1970s.[1]
Multi-Dynamic Image Technique was invented by Christopher Chapman in 1967.
IMax Movie System was co-invented by Grahame Ferguson, Roman Kroitor, and
Robert Kerr in 1968.[2]
The trackball was first built for the DATAR computer (although the concept
was first mentioned i... 阅读全帖 |
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m***a
发帖数: 13878 | 16 https://www.sae.org/news/2018/09/darpa-subject-controls-multiple-simulated-
aircraft-with-brain-computer-interface
DARPA subject controls multiple simulated aircraft with brain-computer
interface
2018-09-12 WILLIAM KUCINSKI
Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love mind-controlled UAV swarms
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) officials confirmed that
an individual equipped with an experimental brain-computer interface (BCI)
was able to successfully command and control multiple s... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 17 by Jammie
What would Christmas be without a massive lump of coal from the Scrooge in
the White House?
Here comes the ObamaCare tax bill.
The cost of President Obama’s massive health-care law will hit
Americans in 2014 as new taxes pile up on their insurance premiums and on
their income-tax bills.
Most insurers aren’t advertising the ObamaCare taxes that are added on
to premiums, opting instead to discretely pass them on to customers while
quietly lobbying lawmakers for a break.
B... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 18 Taxpayers paid nearly $175 million for vacuum erection systems (VES),
commonly known as “penis pumps,” from 2006 to 2011, according to an
inspector general report released on Monday.
The federal government paid more than double the retail price for VES, the
Department of Health and Human Services IG found. Medicare prices for the
systems, the report said, “remain grossly excessive compared with the
amounts that non-Medicare payers pay.”
Medicare paid 473,620 VES claims during calendar years 2006... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 19 WASHINGTON — It’s one of those promises the president would probably like
to forget.
In vowing to make the Veterans Administration the model of national health-
care reform back in 2008, the outlook for scandal-plagued Obamacare suddenly
seems even worse.
WND has discovered that during his transition into the White House in 2008-
09, President Obama proposed in his “Obama-Biden” plan to “make the VA a
leader of national health care reform so that veterans get the best care
possible.”
However, in... 阅读全帖 |
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b******i
发帖数: 1183 | 20 HAYWARD -- The felony conviction for an attorney who killed a Chinese
tourist in a hit-and-run crash in 2011 was reduced to a misdemeanor by an
Alameda County judge on Friday over "strenuous objection" by prosecutors,
according to the district attorney's office.
Hayward Judge Michael Gaffey also changed the terms of the sentence he
handed down to Spencer Freeman Smith just two weeks ago, much to the chagrin
of an American friend of the man Smith killed.
"Obviously, I am not a judge or a lawyer b... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 260 | 21 UPDATE below:
The adjuster request that I provide "out-of-pocket" receipts in order for
her to issue payments. I asked her basis for the request. After a few
months, she only produced the following quotation:
Per Massachusetts Automobile Insurance Policy, page 5, Part 2. Personal
Injury Protection: Part A. A. Medical Expenses:
“We will pay all reasonable expenses incurred as a result of the accident
for necessary medical, surgical, X-ray and dental services. This includes
prosthetic devices. ... 阅读全帖 |
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m****1
发帖数: 736 | 22 http://www.nae.edu/Projects/MediaRoom/20095/130169/130172.aspx
New Members
Atwater Jr., Harry A., Howard Hughes Professor of Applied Physics and
Materials Science, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena. For
contributions to plasmonics.
Balakrishnan, Hari, professor of computer science, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, Cambridge. For contributions to wired and wireless networks
and distributed systems.
Bardasz, Ewa A., president, ZUAL Associates Consulting, Mentor, Ohio. For
novel au... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1016 | 23 https://www.nae.edu/MediaRoom/178117.aspx
Abadi, Martín, principal scientist, Google Inc., Palo Alto, Calif. For
contributions to the formal theory of computer security.
Abrahamson, Norman A., chief engineering seismologist, Pacific Gas &
Electric Co., Piedmont, Calif. For contributions to seismic hazard
assessment and for leadership in engineering seismology and earthquake
engineering.
Adams, Robert W., senior fellow, Analog Devices Inc., Acton, Mass. For
contributions to digital storage and... 阅读全帖 |
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b***p
发帖数: 1398 | 25 Hey<
implant?
do you mean "ion implantation" or "prosthetic implant"? |
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t*******n
发帖数: 4445 | 26 1. If the root is intact, then consider filling (if the cavity is too large,
a crown may be required instead)
2. If the root is not too good, probably root canal + crown. The usual
crown is made of precious metal (with optional creamic/polymer shell on top
for a more natural appearance, & it adds to the cost). All-ceramic crowns
are also available but they don't last as long -- esprecially on the molars.
3. If the root is beyond repair, then extraction and often prosthetics/
implants. You can |
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c**i
发帖数: 6973 | 27 【 以下文字转载自 pets 讨论区 】
发信人: choi (choi), 信区: pets
标 题: World's First Bionic Cat
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sat Jun 26 14:22:12 2010, 美东)
Bionic feet for amputee cat. BBC, June 25, 2010.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_environment/10404251.stm
My comment:
(a) The blue sockets at the end of metal prosthetics are detachable.
(b) Bailiwick of Jersey together with Bailiwick of Guernsey form Channel Islands, neither of which--each a crown dependency officially--is part of the United Kingdom; rather they ar |
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e****j
发帖数: 42 | 29 谢谢！你提到的company是指insurance吗？我们这里做头盔有个专门的部门Orthotics
& Prosthetics Center,儿医把我们refer给他们了。我昨天打电话先问过他们，他们给
了我code，让我问保险公司是不是cover。他们会给做一个evaluation，不过是收费的。 |
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发帖数: 11530 | 31 3-D-printed organs are on the way
By James O'Toole @jtotoole November 4, 2014: 12:41 PM ET
NEW YORK (CNNMoney)
Add one more to the growing list of 3-D-printed products: human organs.
California-based biotech firm Organovo (ONVO) is set to begin selling 3-D-
printed liver tissue by the end of the year, part of the growing movement to
bring the technology to the medical field.
Organovo can't yet print a fully functioning liver. But the company has
already been working with a handful of laboratori... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 32 Obamacare’s Hierarchy of Privilege
No one who favors the law wants to be bound by it.
By Mark Steyn
On his radio show the other day, Hugh Hewitt caught me by surprise and asked
me about running for the United States Senate from New Hampshire. My
various consultants, pollsters, PACs, and exploratory committees haven’t
fine-tuned every detail of my platform just yet, but I can say this without
a doubt: I will not vote for any “comprehensive” bill, whether on
immigration, health care, or anything ... 阅读全帖 |
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l******n
发帖数: 11737 | 33 http://elizabethwarren.com/issues/jobs-and-the-economy
Jobs & The Economy
Read More
Small Business
Research & Innovation
Workers Rights/Free Trade
Fishing
Made in Massachusetts
Budgeting for our Future: Cutting Spending and Smart Investing
Downloadable PDFs
Elizabeth Warren's Proposals Cut "67 Percent More" Debt than Brown's
More than three years after the greatest economic crisis since the Great
Depression, we are still in the midst of a jobs crisis. As I travel all
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发帖数: 10425 | 34 HBO and the honchos behind "Game of Thrones" have issued an official apology
for putting George W. Bush's head on a spike in an episode during Season 1.
You may have heard ... producers recently revealed they used a Dubya mask as
the base for a prop of a decapitated head ... .which actually appeared on
the show.
Show creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss insisted the move was NOT a
political statement ... but an honest mistake.
The two released a joint statement saying, "We use a lot of prosthet... 阅读全帖 |
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s********r
发帖数: 529 | 35 也想做这个。请问有用保险COVER这个手术的么？这个应该属于prosthetics吧？看了下
保险条例上说包啊 |
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d**n
发帖数: 3172 | 36 San Ramon attorney's conviction over killing of Chinese tourist reduced to
misdemeanor
By Malaika Fraley [email protected]
/* */
POSTED: 10/12/2015 08:31:55 AM PDT12 COMMENTS| UPDATED: ABOUT 2 HOURS
AGO
Spencer Freeman Smith
Spencer Freeman Smith (Alameda County Sheriff's Department)
RELATED STORIES
Sep 18:
San Ramon attorney to be sentenced for killing Chinese tourist in Dublin hit
-and-run
HAYWARD -- The felony conviction for an attorney who killed a Chinese
tourist in a hit-and-run ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 17328 | 37 这个牛不？
Bank of America demands thumbprint from man with no arms
Cory Doctorow at 1:51 AM Thursday, Oct 1, 2009
The Bank of America in Tampa, Florida has a no-exceptions policy requiring a
thumbprint when cashing a check. And they do mean no exceptions: the bank
refused to cash a check for a man with no arms because he couldn't provide a
fingerprint.
"They looked at my prosthetic hands and the teller said, 'Well,
obviously you can't give us a thumbprint'," Steve Valdez told CNN on
Wednesday.
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p*b
发帖数: 442 | 38 http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/7455943/believing-tim-tebow
I've come to believe in Tim Tebow, but not for what he does on a football
field, which is still three parts Dr. Jekyll and two parts Mr. Hyde.
No, I've come to believe in Tim Tebow for what he does off a football field,
which is represent the best parts of us, the parts I want to be and so
rarely am.
Who among us is this selfless?
Every week, Tebow picks out someone who is suffering, or who is dying, or
who is injured, flies them and... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 159 | 39 LOS ANGELES - An online gambling site is taking bets on whether Heather
Mills’ artificial leg will fall off during her upcoming appearance on “
Dancing with the Stars.”
Mills, 39, the estranged wife of Beatle Paul McCartney, lost her left leg
below the knee in a traffic accident in 1993. She is the first contestant on
the hit ABC television show to compete with an artificial limb.
A week before Mills’ March 19 debut, Antigua-based gaming site bodog.com
opened bets on whether her prosthetic leg w |
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发帖数: 1802 | 40 Emmy nominations:
Best Drama Series: Game of Thrones
Supporting Actor in a Drama Series: Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister
Writing in a Drama Series: David Benioff and Dan Weiss for “Baelor”
Direction in a Single-Camera Series: Timothy van Patten for “Winter is
Coming”
Casting in a Drama Series: Nina Gold and Robert Sterne
Costumes for a Drama Series: Michelle Clapton and Rachael Webb-Crozier
for “The Pointy End”
Hairstyling in a Single-Camera Series: Kevin Alexander... 阅读全帖 |
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m**c
发帖数: 7299 | 41 MA woman, Carissa Hads, 25, posed as teenage boy to have sex with 15-year-
old W VA girl she met online …using prosthetic penis
This has been in the news before. She pled guilty on Wednesday and could get
30 years. I think twisted is the operative word.
A Massachusetts woman who authorities say pretended to be a teenage boy
to have sex with a 15-year-old girl from West Virginia pleaded guilty to one
federal count on Wednesday.
Carissa Hads, 25, of Quincy, could face up to 30 years in pri... 阅读全帖 |
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P*****t
发帖数: 4978 | 42 Why Is The Penis Shaped Like That? (EXCERPT)
Excerpted from "WHY IS THE PENIS SHAPED LIKE THAT? …And Other Reflections
on Being Human" by Jesse Bering. Published July 7th by Scientific American/
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. Copyright © 2012 by Jesse Bering. All
rights reserved.
If you’ve ever had a good long look at the human phallus, whether yours or
someone else’s, you’ve probably scratched your head over its peculiar
shape.
Let’s face it: it’s not the most intuitively configured appen... 阅读全帖 |
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P*****t
发帖数: 4978 | 43 Three Boobs
In our awe over the wild costumes at Comic Con 2012, we skipped over perhaps
the wildest one of all: Kaitlyn Leeb's sexy red costume and her daring
cleav -- wait a second. Does she have... three breasts?
Indeed, Leeb showed up to Comic Con sporting triple cleavage, thanks to
prosthetics. Leeb, a Toronto-based model and actress, stars as a "seductive
woman" in the upcoming "Total Recall" remake starring Colin Farrell, Kate
Beckinsale and Jessica Biel.
Schwarzenegger fans will recall t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2723 | 44 Paws for thought: pioneering surgery puts cat back on his feet
Oscar the cat can put a collision with a combine harvester behind him as
custom-made implants provide new back paws
Sam Jones, The Guardian, Friday 25 June 2010
Oscar may not be better than he was before – not faster, not stronger –
but he is, indisputably, more bionic.
The cat, who took a nap in a sunny field unaware of the combine harvester
steaming towards his hind paws, is back on his feet thanks to a world-first
operation and st |
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发帖数: 1192 | 48 Is there any prosthetic limb for dog? better if cheap and useful.
Any one who had a pet being amputated? How was it? Will it become aggressive
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