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Shell suits

It’s a problem not widely faced amongst animals: but, for those such as beetles and turtles with hard, round shells, it is serious. Ending upside down presents a major, lifethreatening problem if they are unable to right themselves pretty quickly. A new study of this convex problem is reported by Gabor Domokos at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics and Peter Varkonyi at Princeto...

Defending Ophthalmology Malpractice Suits

Wave theory originated in quantum physics as an elegant way to describe the properties and movement of light, sound, atoms and, eventually, all forms of energy. The underlying thesis migrated to the world of finance in postulations such as the Elliott Wave Theory, which holds that there are repeated, predictable patterns in market pricing. Most recently, social scientists have been applying wav...

Medical negligence suits: risk management.

Medical negligence suits have become an issue of concern for doctors as well as for the health service departments. The main objectives of medical malpractice law are to compensate patients who are injured by negligence and to improve the quality of medical care. The amount of money and time spent on these cases may not be an effective allocation of social resources to minimize patient safety. ...

The physiology of pressure suits.

D E S P I T E the recent advances in the field of pressure suit development no suit exists which, while giving adequate protection against the effects of exposure to low barometric pressure, does not seriously interfere with the functional efficiency of the wearer. Thus in high altitude military aircraft the cabin is generally pressu,rized, and pressure suits, if worn at all, are used for emerg...

The Leading Edge of Future Technology "Cybernics": Project HAL - Toward Robot Suits and Cyber Suits?