TOPIC: Cardiovascular Disease TYPE: Medical Student/Resident Case Reports INTRODUCTION: Myocardial perforation remains as a rare but important complication of pacemaker insertion. Perforation can occur acutely within 24 h after implantation, sub-acutely between to one month implantation and chronically occurring more than implantation. (Sidhu). Acute perforations are well described at medical l...

Decision making is critical in our daily lives and for society in general and is finding evermore practical applications in information and communication technologies. Herein, we demonstrate experimentally that single photons can be used to make decisions in uncertain, dynamically changing environments. Using a nitrogen-vacancy in a nanodiamond as a single-photon source, we demonstrate the deci...

In this keynote Ian Hughes/epredator will show the link between the huge changes in communication of design ideas and the accessibility of tools for user creation of content. How that merges with gaming culture and educational opportunities and how the digital interaction with the physical shows us a path to a very different future. Being able to design and distribute digitally, using easily av...

This Science Fiction Prototype explores the idea that the current interest in maker space activities could continue to grow to the point where it causes a sea change in the manufacturing industry as it shifts from centralised production in factories, to a distributed production in people’s communities or homes. This move is a natural extension of a number of research trends, such as the increas...

One of the most useful aspects of fuzzy set theory is its ability to represent mathematically a class of decision problems called multiple objective decisions (MODs). This class of problems often involves many vague and ambiguous (and thus fuzzy) goals and constraints. The object of the fuzzy decision methodology is to obtain a decision, optimum in the sense that some set of goals is attained w...