Future Looks Drier as Drylands Continue to Expand

Let ’ s Continue to Expand

Oliver Wendell Homes (Sr.) once said, BThe mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size.[ Next month, December 2012, this Journal will complete Volume 100, and all of us who are associated with this Journal are very proud that we have achieved that milestone with this concept of larger ideas always in our minds! And although Oliver (the elder) was an...

A radiation biologist looks to the future.

Once again we stand on a pinnacle of time. Backward we look to a year that has gone. Forward we look to the year ahead. Except that this particular pinnacle also separates the centuries and the millennia. Everyone, in every field, is taking stock: Where have we been and where are we going? We celebrate 100 years of radiation research. As the nineteenth century became the twentieth, X-rays had a...

MetaStar shows marked improvements for Medicare patients, looks to future.

Gap Will Continue to Expand Unless a Change of Focus in Systems for Myoelectric Control Occurs

R ecently, there have been several media reports on advanced multifunction upper limb prostheses, often hyped as “the mind-controlled artificial hands” [1]. Advanced signal processing of the electromyogram (EMG) signal and innovative surgical procedures, such as the targeted muscle reinnervation (TMR) and targeted sensory reinnervation (TSR), are the driving forces behind these achievements. No...

Home-based medication management system looks to future.