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Our anatomy is who we are physically, how we grow and how we age, the outcome of our genes and our diet, an evolving display of our health and our diseases. For millennia we have sought understanding of our structure by dissection of cadavers, which became foundational training for medical education.
There are main causes for high rate for use of "pay and use toilet", are electric cost for water consumption of man; to clean toilet; clearing of skeptic tank. Insufficient of water is another problem at some where. Without compromising of water consumption, without increase electric cost, without effect of underground water level,
Do you have the worst enemy of the environment parked in your garage? To change the car from ENEMY to FRIEND depends on us.
One hundred years ago Henry Ford’s Model T transformed the world.
It put affordable cars in the hands of the common people.
Wearable health monitoring devices from simple pulse monitors, to activity and portable monitors, to sophisticated and expensive implantable sensors are the common traits in remote health care. Medical equipment such as digital stethoscopes, patient monitoring, ECG, EEG, and pulse oximetry have all become more portable through innovation in electronic, battery and battery management technologies,
Traditional TURP surgery (Transurethral Resection of the Prostate) for BPH (Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia) removes excess prostate tissue using a heated wire loop with side effects such as death (1%), incontinence (3%), impotence (5%) and retrograde ejaculation (75%). Alternative techniques using lasers use $1,000 disposable fibers but offer greatly reduced incidence of side effects.
There a long history of space vehicles which use boosters to enable a smaller vehicle to reach greater performance. Stages can also help a business plan for aerospace. Private space ventures often wind up on the rocks of bankruptcy. Horizontal launch is often considered the worst case for development costs,
A new revolutionary patent pending solar technology that increases the power of a solar panel by as much as 200 times, while simultaneously storing the energy in the form of hydrogen for later use, has been invented and developed.
An electron has both wavelike and particle properties.
In recent years there has been a shortage in energy supply like fossil fuel and concerns about environmental issues. Considering only 10-16% of fuel energy burned by the engines is used to drive the vehicles, we developed an innovative energy harvesting absorber to regenerate electricity from vibrations in the suspension system usually wasted as heat in oil shock absorbers.
In the present day scenario, the exhaust emission problem has reached its alarming condition because of the number of vehicles increasing every year and its effect on the developing countries are troublesome.
SOx, NOx, CO, UBHC(Unburnt hydrocarbons) and soot can enhance allergens, also long term exposure decreases lung functioning and risk of respiratory symptoms increases.
US Patent # 8,881,326, granted 3/31/2015
Hull speed is a fundamental limitation of conventional displacement mode hull forms which occurs due to the coupling of the bow wave with the vessel's waterline length. With the exception of long, narrow and light hull forms, which are commercially impractical,
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