The objective of this project is to develop a bed that has the physical dimensions, including width and features of a standard hospital bed, and that also has the additional feature of being capable of automatically folding itself into a configuration resembling a powered wheelchair, preferably no wider than a conventional wheelchair so as to enable maneuverability . Such a device would provide...

Love in the Time of Coronavirus:Wherein We Realize This Is Not Temporary Angela Alaimo O'Donnell (bio) Thus first thing that plague brought to our town was exile. —Albert Camus, "The Plague" It so lovely. didn't even know itThe place we were let live each day.Even if knew it, show it.Expectation & regret got wayof seeing life for giftit was. That another country ago.The train has left, all mone...

Distributed Simulation has still to be adopted significantly by the wider simulation community. Reasons for this might that distributed applications are difficult develop and access multiple computing resources required. Cloud offers low-cost on-demand resources. Developing can use cloud also complex, particularly those run on different clouds. Cloud-based (CBDS) is potentially attractive, as i...

Concentrations of 6 organophosphate esters (OPEs) were determined in 60 indoor (ID) and outdoor (OD) dust samples collected from 20 homes Basrah, Iraq. From each home, two ID collected, one elevated surfaces (ESD) the floor (FD) living room; while OD front yard same house. Total Σ6OPEs concentrations ranged between 681 17900 ng/g with median 5950, 3590 1550 ESD, FD samples, respectively. Chlori...

The honeycomb worm Sabellaria alveolata is a gregarious tube-dwelling polychaete that builds remarkable biogenic reefs in marine coastal waters. are considered valuable habitats requiring protection measures for their conservation, as they play key role the functioning of ecosystems. Sabellarid extensively developed along Atlantic coasts Europe and reported Mediterranean Sea Italian coasts, whe...

The process regarding the formation of different mosque gardens and the elements that contribute to the respective process is the from the foci point of this paper. The significance of the topic lies in the fact that certain scholars have associated the courtyard in mosques with the concept of garden, and have not taken into account the elements that contribute to the development of various typ...