The State Of Exoskeletons In 2022
Science fiction has for long fantasised about ways to augment fragile humans’ power and endurance through mechanical means. In Edge of Tomorrow, Tom Cruise’s abilities are enhanced via a combat jacket. Humans in Avatar board the AMP suit to tread the deadly environment on Pandora. Such depictions of exoskeletons – or wearable mechanical structures that attach to joints to assist and/or enhance strength and endurance for motion – have left the realm of science fiction and have become part of our reality.
Back in 2014, a paraplegic man suited in a robotic exoskeleton made the symbolic kick-off for the Worl...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 8, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Cyborgization Future of Medicine Robotics exoskeleton exoskeleton technology Source Type: blogs
Finding preprints discussed in news stories
I spied with my self isolating eyethis story in the Observer (the Sunday edition of the Guardian).I decided to try to track down the preprints. I have to say that tracking down published articles from details in a newspaper article has never, in my experience, been easy, but here goes.There are six:One from the Molecular Virology Research Group, University of Liverpool involving mice and with James Stewart as a possible author.One from the (Johan) Neyts lab at the University of Leuven, involving Syrian Hamsters.One submitted to Nature from the US, involving weight loss in mice.One from the University of Gla...
Source: Browsing - January 3, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: COVID-19 Source Type: blogs
Give the Gift of P. J. O ’Rourke
David BoazThe Cato Institute offers lots of greatChristmas gifts— Pocket Constitutions (also a good gift forBill of Rights Day!), books, even Cato ‐brandedLands ’ End merchandise. But I have my own holiday recommendations that I’ve made before.I decided one year to give a young colleague a post‐graduate course in political science and economics —P. J. O ’Rourke’s booksParliament of Whores andEat the Rich. So I went to my local Barnes& Noble to search for them. Not in Current Affairs. Not in Economics. No separate section called Politics. I decided to try Borders (RIP). But first — to ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 7, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: David Boaz Source Type: blogs
The Tariff Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves
Scott LincicomeAfter completing months ‐long “top‐to‐bottom” review of the United States’ trade policy toward China, United States Trade Representative Katherine Taiannounced yesterday that the Chinese government has failed to comply with the terms of the 2019 U.S.-China “Phase One” Agreement, but that the Biden administration will nevertheless maintain the U.S. tariffs intended to achieve changes in Chinese policy and to enforce the deal. The White House will instead seek talks with China in the coming days and reopen a process for U.S. importers to win an exc lusion from said tariffs.Although Ta...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 5, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Scott Lincicome Source Type: blogs
There ’s Surprisingly Little Evidence Behind Common Beliefs About The Best Way For Immigrants To Adapt
By Emma Young
The world is full of migrants — not only refugees from places like Afghanistan and Syria, but also people who have travelled to study, or to work in another country. In fact, 281 million people live outside their country of birth or citizenship. They face all kinds of challenges, and adapting well to life in a new culture is a critical one.
Current thinking holds that what an immigrant does is important for how well they adapt both psychologically and socially. A combination of maintaining one’s own culture while also engaging in the mainstream culture is widely held to be the best strategy. This i...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - September 28, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Social Source Type: blogs
U.S. and World Economic Freedom Heading in Different Directions
Ian V ásquezTheEconomic Freedom of the World: 2021 Annual Report, released today by the Fraser Institute and co ‐published in the United States by the Cato Institute, documents a slight rise in global economic freedom, continuing a notable, long‐term, though decelerating, trend over the past several decades. The study is based on data through 2019, the most recent year for which there is internati onally comparable data, so it does not account for the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.Although the United States maintained its rank at 6th in this year ’s index, it is worrisome that its long‐term declin...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 14, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Ian V ásquez Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
July 29, 2021 Edition ----- In Australia we are seeing a COVID outbreak being very hard to control in NSW while we are seeing SA and VIC doing much better. Talk of recession is now starting as NSW as the lockdown seems to have no end. In the US the fires in the Northwest have become truly Biblical in extent and intensity while people in Republican dominated states are dropping like flies as they don ’t want to be vaccinated. Massively stupid and deluded ratbags IMVHO. In the UK we await to see the consequences of Freedom day! It should be clear about the time this is available! Sadly in Asia the virus is rampant and deat...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - July 29, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Du h ọc Đài Loan vừa học vừa làm cần những gì? Nên hay Không
Với lợi thế là một quốc gia có nền kinh tế phát triển vượt bậc, được mệnh danh là 1 trong 4 con hổ Châu Á (Hàn Quốc, Singapore và Hong Kong) và đầu tư, chú trọng vào trong giáo dục, du học Đài Loan đã trở nên phổ biến không chỉ ở Việt Nam mà còn đối với cả sinh viên quốc tế. Bên cạnh đó, nhằm hỗ trợ chi phí du học thì hình thức du học Đài Loan vừa học vừa làm được nhiều sinh viên lựa chọn. Vậy du học Đài Loan vừa học vừa làm là gì? Có những ưu điểm và nhược điểm này? Hã...
Source: A Daring Adventure - July 27, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: admin Tags: Du học Đài Loan du học đài loan Source Type: blogs
Legal Capacity and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: An Alternative Framework to Promote Law Reform in Hong Kong and Beyond
Kelley Loper (The University of Hong Kong), Carole J. Petersen, (University of Hawaii at Manoa), Legal Capacity and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: An Alternative Framework to Promote Law Reform in Hong Kong and Beyond, 16... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - July 9, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Law vs. Liberty in Hong Kong: The National Security Act One Year Later
James A. DornIn the late hours of June 30, 2020, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC), China’s rubber-stamp parliament, passed“The Law of the People’s Republic of China on Safeguarding National Security in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.” The National Security Law (NSL) was enacted without consulting Hong Kong, and its details werekept secret until the official text was released.The Pretense of National SecurityChina justified the NSL—which criminalizes acts of secession, subversion, terrorism, and collusion with foreign forces—on the pretense of protecting nationa...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 30, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: James A. Dorn Source Type: blogs
Hong Kong Democracy Activists Discuss Beijing ’s Assault on Freedom
Ian V ásquezSince Beijing passed its draconian national security law on June 30, 2020, its assault on Hong Kong ’s freedoms has been alarming and rapid. The most recent abuse is the forced closure of the pro‐democracy newspaperApple Daily—whose publisher, Jimmy Lai, was convicted and imprisoned along with other leaders of the democracy movement under the new security law—and the arrest of newspaper’s top editors and executives.Prominent democracy activists Alex Chow and Samuel Chu of the Hong Kong Democracy Council joined Cato ’s Doug Bandow and me to discuss the city’s loss of freedom, its prospects, and...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 29, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Ian V ásquez Source Type: blogs
Should We Fear Stablecoins?
Lawrence H. WhiteA “stablecoin” is a cryptocurrency whose value is pegged to a fiat currency, gold, or another continuously traded asset. USD Tether (USDT) and USD Coin (USDC), the two stablecoins with the largest values in circulation, are each managed to maintain a price centered on and close to $1.00 (usually w ithin 1 cent). Both Tether and USDC claim to be fully backed by USD assets held in reserve, enabling their parent companies to buy back as many units as needed to maintain the peg. They differ in some other respects, as discussed below. Some other stablecoins are managed by “algorithmic central ba nk” mec...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 24, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Lawrence H. White Source Type: blogs
Better Broadband for Better Health Care
By KIM BELLARD
Here’s a question that we don’t often ask: which is the U.S. more likely to accomplish – getting everyone health insurance, or broadband? Hint: it’s probably not what you think.
The health insurance part of it is often debated. We passed ACA, but the number of uninsured stubbornly remains at nearly 30 million, almost 10% of the population. Still, except for residents of those 12 states that have refused to pass Medicaid expansion, everyone in the country has at least access to public or private health insurance, with subsidies available to many.
Broadband hasn’t bee...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 22, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Tech Health Technology broadband broadband access Kim Bellard Source Type: blogs
Artificial Skin Bruises Like The Real Thing
Researchers at the Chinese University of Hong Kong have developed an artificial skin that can effectively indicate if damage has occurred, in the same way that our skin bruises naturally. The new skin is made using an ionic hydrogel, and demonstrates changes in electrical signaling when it is deformed. It also produces a purple color change, providing a visual indicator. The technology could be useful in making prostheses more life-like and responsive, and alert users to possible damage.
Prostheses are becoming more advanced, with various technologies aiming to allow users to feel and respond to their environment more e...
Source: Medgadget - June 18, 2021 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Materials Rehab CUHK Source Type: blogs
The Bitcoin Law: Counterfeit Free Choice in Currency
George Selgin“Why should we not let people use freely what money they want to use? [They] ought to have the right to decide whether they want to buy or sell for francs, pounds, dollars, D-marks, or ounces of gold. I have no objection to governments issuing money, but I believe their claim to amonopoly, or their power tolimitthe kinds of money in which contracts may be concluded within their territory …to be wholly harmful.”—F.A. Hayek,Choice in Currency: A Way to Stop Inflation, p. 17.So, it has happened: a country —an honest to God,bona fide, country, complete with its own flag, coat of arms, seat at the U.N., a...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 17, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
