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pThe development of adaptive equipment has come a long way from crutches and manually powered wheelchairs. Now, for example, if you lose a leg, a prosthetic replacement can be designed specifically for your body. There are also vehicles that can be altered to allow someone with a physical disability to drive again. Even more, there are many community access devices in place that enable individuals living with a disability to get around by themselves. The point is, with the advancement of assistive technology, individuals living with a disability can now obtain the independence they deserve./p
pProsthetics are not only for legs, they can be used to replace many different body parts that were lost or are missing from some kind of trauma, disease or defect. They are mechanical devices that functions with the human skeleton, muscle and nervous systems. These devices permit enhanced motor control. For some people this means walking again or having the ability to use a hand./p
pWhen it comes to driving, a title=adaptive equipment href=http://www.clockconversions.com/assistive-technologyadaptive equipment/a can be installed in a vehicle in order to allow someone with a disability to drive again. Some examples of this equipment include electronic steering devices, joystick controls, quadriplegic driving systems, touch-pad controls and power head rests. These different pieces of equipment bring mobility back to someone who thought they might never drive again./p
pOther types of assistive technology exist as well. They also help make life easier for those living with a disability. As earlier mentioned, we have come a long way in terms of wheelchair technology. Now there are powered wheelchairs. There are also powered scooters. If a manually operated device that helps with mobility is sought out, one could always choose a cane or walker. If one suffers from a speech impediment, there are devices available that generate speech. These are referred to as augmentative communication devices and some examples include voice amplifiers and speech recognition devices. On a more basic level, ramps, lifts, grab bars and flashing smoke detectors are all types of assistive equipment that make life easier for one living with a disability. There is even technology in existence that makes public transportation and use of ATMs easy. Also, yet another type of community access assistive devices are talking pedestrian signals./p
pThrough the development and use of assistive technology, life for your loved one who is living with a disability can be made much simpler. The above are numerous examples of how far we have come in terms of adaptive equipment. Living independently and having access to mobility are now easily obtainable for those living with disabilities. These simple luxuries enhance quality of life and provide your loved one with the safety and independence they deserve./p
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Before we go any further, let me set the stage. For purposes of this discussion, let?s assume that the same-sex couple lived together in a committed relationship for 25 years. They had a commitment ceremony with 125 guests at a banquet facility complete with a live band, a sit-down dinner and a wedding cake. They exchanged vows and commitment rings. They celebrated their union the same as an opposite-sex couple would have with the exception that the State wouldn?t allow them to obtain a marriage license. As the years went by, they pooled their finances to purchase a shared home. They own 2 cars which are titled in both names. They have always maintained joint checking and savings accounts. Both names appear on their certificates of deposit (CDs). Each person is named as beneficiary on the other?s life insurance policy and retirement plan. When Connecticut finally legalized civil union in 2005, they obtained a license and renewed their vows before a Justice of the Peace. When Connecticut legalized same-sex marriage in 2009, they once again stood before Justice of the Peace. Life changed and they now wish to dissolve the relationship, which means they must obtain a divorce.
Okay. Now consider the opposite-sex couple who have lived together for 20 years. They discussed the possibility of marriage more than once and each time, opted not to walk down the aisle. Every day of those 20 years, they had the right to marry, yet they chose not to exercise that option.
The central difference between the 2 hypothetical couples is that the opposite-sex couple had a choice to marry or simply live together for the entire relationship. The same-sex couple did not.
Under the law, the legal relationship of the same-sex couple began on the date they entered into civil union. Essentially, it ignores 15 of the 20 years they resided together in a committed relationship.
Should that couple?s relationship for the purposes of divorce be considered the date that the had the commitment ceremony or the date their home state legalized same-sex marriage?? I believe the former rather than the latter should apply.
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This undated image made available by Science/AAAS shows one of the pottery fragments recovered from a layer dating approximately 20,000 years old in the Xianrendong cave in south China?s Jiangxi province. The discovery makes them the oldest known pottery in the world, archaeologists say. The findings, which will appear in the journal Science on Friday, June 29, 2012 add to recent efforts that have dated pottery piles in east Asia to more than 15,000 years ago, refuting conventional theories that the invention of pottery correlates to the period about 10,000 years ago when humans moved from being hunter/gathers to farming. (AP Photo/Science/AAAS)
This undated image made available by Science/AAAS shows one of the pottery fragments recovered from a layer dating approximately 20,000 years old in the Xianrendong cave in south China?s Jiangxi province. The discovery makes them the oldest known pottery in the world, archaeologists say. The findings, which will appear in the journal Science on Friday, June 29, 2012 add to recent efforts that have dated pottery piles in east Asia to more than 15,000 years ago, refuting conventional theories that the invention of pottery correlates to the period about 10,000 years ago when humans moved from being hunter/gathers to farming. (AP Photo/Science/AAAS)
BEIJING (AP) ? Pottery fragments found in a south China cave have been confirmed to be 20,000 years old, making them the oldest known pottery in the world, archaeologists say.
The findings, which will appear in the journal Science on Friday, add to recent efforts that have dated pottery piles in east Asia to more than 15,000 years ago, refuting conventional theories that the invention of pottery correlates to the period about 10,000 years ago when humans moved from being hunter-gathers to farmers.
The research by a team of Chinese and American scientists also pushes the emergence of pottery back to the last ice age, which might provide new explanations for the creation of pottery, said Gideon Shelach, chair of the Louis Frieberg Center for East Asian Studies at The Hebrew University in Israel.
"The focus of research has to change," Shelach, who is not involved in the research project in China, said by telephone.
In an accompanying Science article, Shelach wrote that such research efforts "are fundamental for a better understanding of socio-economic change (25,000 to 19,000 years ago) and the development that led to the emergency of sedentary agricultural societies."
He said the disconnection between pottery and agriculture as shown in east Asia might shed light on specifics of human development in the region.
Wu Xiaohong, professor of archaeology and museology at Peking University and the lead author of the Science article that details the radiocarbon dating efforts, told The Associated Press that her team was eager to build on the research.
"We are very excited about the findings. The paper is the result of efforts done by generations of scholars," Wu said. "Now we can explore why there was pottery in that particular time, what were the uses of the vessels, and what role they played in the survival of human beings."
The ancient fragments were discovered in the Xianrendong cave in south China's Jiangxi province, which was excavated in the 1960s and again in the 1990s, according to the journal article.
Wu, a chemist by training, said some researchers had estimated that the pieces could be 20,000 years old, but that there were doubts.
"We thought it would be impossible because the conventional theory was that pottery was invented after the transition to agriculture that allowed for human settlement."
But by 2009, the team ? which includes experts from Harvard and Boston universities ? was able to calculate the age of the pottery fragments with such precision that the scientists were comfortable with their findings, Wu said.
"The key was to ensure the samples we used to date were indeed from the same period of the pottery fragments," she said.
That became possible when the team was able to determine the sediments in the cave were accumulated gradually without disruption that might have altered the time sequence, she said.
Scientists took samples, such as bones and charcoal, from above and below the ancient fragments in the dating process, Wu said.
"This way, we can determine with precision the age of the fragments, and our results can be recognized by peers," Wu said.
Shelach said he found the process done by Wu's team to be meticulous and that the cave had been well protected throughout the research.
The same team in 2009 published an article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, in which they determined the pottery fragments found in south China's Hunan province to be 18,000 years old, Wu said.
"The difference of 2,000 years might not be significant in itself, but we always like to trace everything to its earliest possible time," Wu said. "The age and location of pottery fragments help us set up a framework to understand the dissemination of the artifacts and the development of human civilization."
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Microsoft is buying Internet startup Yammer for $1.2 billion in an attempt to bring Facebook-like sharing features to its widely used suite of business software applications.
Yammer specializes in creating private social networks so employees within the same company can keep tabs on what colleagues are working on. That's similar to how Facebook's online social network allows friends and families to track what's happening in each other's personal lives.The deal, announced Monday, comes nearly two weeks after word of Microsoft's negotiations with Yammer first leaked out in published reports.The acquisition represents Microsoft's latest attempt to adapt to a major shift in the technology industry, one that is fueling demand for more Internet-connected services and social-networking tools.The upheaval is threatening to marginalize Microsoft Corp., the world's largest software maker, and ultimately diminish the amount of money coming in from sales of its Windows operating system and a wide range of applications designed primarily for personal computers.As part of its effort to remain relevant, Microsoft paid $8.5 billion last year for Internet video chat service Skype in the largest acquisition in its history.In another bold move, Microsoft last week unveiled its own tablet computer, Surface, to compete with Apple Inc.'s iPad. Microsoft has designed Surface to run on the upcoming Windows 8, the biggest change to the company's operating system in nearly two decades.Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is counting on Yammer's sharing tools to ensure that long-established Microsoft applications, including its word processing and spreadsheet programs, remain vital components for getting work done. Google Inc. has emerged as a threat with a toolbox of similar programs that run primarily over the Internet rather than on individual machines."Think of Yammer as a fundamental part of our Office family," Ballmer said on a Monday conference call.Microsoft will have much of the same autonomy given to Skype since that deal closed eight months ago. Yammer will continue to be run from its San Francisco headquarters by its co-founder and CEO, David Sacks. It will also continue to provide its services separately from Microsoft's offerings.Microsoft did not give a time frame for when the deal should close.Gartner Inc. analyst Larry Cannell said Microsoft's latest acquisition was smart and reflected "a recognition that the social capabilities in Microsoft's products have been deficient."Investors couldn't muster much enthusiasm for the deal on another somber day for the stock market. Microsoft's stock fell 82 cents, or nearly 3 percent, to close at $29.88.Although other companies such as Jive Software Inc. and Salesforce.com Inc. are building social networks for businesses, Yammer shares the most DNA with Facebook Inc.When it started in 2008, Yammer raised its initial funding from Peter Thiel - Facebook's first major investor. Thiel formerly worked with Sacks while they were both executives at PayPal, an online payment service that eBay Inc. bought for $1.5 billion in 2002.Sean Parker, the former Facebook president depicted by Justin Timberlake in the 2010 movie "The Social Network," also sits on Yammer's board of directors. Parker still owns a 4.6 percent stake in Facebook currently worth about $2.2 billion.Microsoft has its own financial ties to Facebook, having invested $240 million in the social network in 2007. After selling $250 million in stock in Facebook's initial public offering last month, Microsoft still retains a 1.7 percent stake worth about $840 million.Yammer has relied largely on word of mouth to attract more than 5 million registered users at more than 200,000 companies worldwide.The service depends on employees to use its free tools to set up a private network within their company. Once the network is getting wide usage, Yammer then tries to sell more sophisticated features to the companies.As a privately held company, Yammer hasn't disclosed its revenue. In a Monday note about the Microsoft deal, Nomura Securites analyst Rick Sherlund estimated Yammer's revenue at $15 million to $20 million last year.The company has been expanding so rapidly that it had been considered a prime candidate to pursue an IPO by next year.The stock of Yammer rival Jive Software has gained 65 percent since it went public six months ago, though it fell 74 cents Monday to close at $19.75.The IPO market has gone into a deep freeze since Facebook flopped in its closely watching stock market debut last month. Instead of soaring as had been widely anticipated, Facebook shares plummeted during the first few weeks of trading. Although the stock has rallied recently, it remains 16 percent below the IPO price of $38, which had minted Facebook Inc. with a market value of $104 billion. Facebook shares dropped 99 cents, or 3 percent, Monday to close at $32.06.Sacks said the frosty conditions in the IPO market didn't influence Yammer's decision to sell to Microsoft. The negotiations between the two companies began before Facebook's IPO, according to Saks and Ballmer."Our thinking was based on the fit with Microsoft and the fact that we think Microsoft is a great partner for us in expanding the service and taking it to the next level," Sacks said.The sale will provide a hefty return for Yammer's early backers. The startup has raised about $142 million in venture capital.charles barkley beyonce troy polamalu james harrison james harrison falcons giants game
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ScienceDaily (June 26, 2012) ? A group of biomedical engineering researchers have cited recent advances in implantable sensor technology and cartilage scaffolding systems as major developments in the use of engineered cartilage for bone and joint repair.
These advances could mean help for the vast number of patients suffering from damaged joints and osteoarthritis -- the most common form of arthritis that affects millions of people worldwide.
Newer, smaller sensing devices that more accurately measure stress loads on joints are giving researchers testing newly grown engineered cartilage within a joint a better understanding of the healing process. Armed with these data, doctors could advise patients on safer, more beneficial levels of activity following joint surgery.
The sensors also transmit their measurements wirelessly, enabling patients undergoing cartilage growth therapy to monitor their own joint stress loads in real time. The advances appear this month in the Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.
The article appears in the June 2012 issue of the journal, which publishes research focused on improving the care of patients with musculoskeletal disorders. The article is a review that describes advances in the monitoring of implantable sensors for orthopaedic applications.
Accurately measuring the loads within a repaired joint helps determine smarter ways to get joints to heal, said article co-author John Szivek, professor in the department of orthopaedic surgery at the University of Arizona and director of the UA Orthopedic Research Laboratory in Tucson, Ariz. Szivek also chairs the UA Biomedical Engineering Graduate Interdisciplinary Program.
Szivek said he's been published with a very elite group of researchers in this particular area of biomedical engineering. "There are only a handful of research groups in the world doing this type of work, and my lab is the only one in the world collecting direct measurements from native tissues," he said.
The group is a collaboration of researchers from four universities. Co-authors Ledet and Wachs are from the department of biomedical engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. D'Lima is from the department of molecular and experimental medicine at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif., and Westerhoff and Bergmann are from the Julius Wolff Institut, Charit? University of Medicine, Berlin, Germany.
"It's a stroke of genius to combine tissue engineering and improved implant measurement technology," said Jennifer Barton, head of the UA biomedical engineering department. "No one really knew what the specific loads were on these joints before this," she said.
Monitoring and recording the pressures involved in different patient activities decreases rehabilitation time and allows patients to heal more consistently without damaging themselves during rehab or after they have healed. Szivek said the ultimate goal is to house the transmitters on a single small computer chip about one third the size of a dime. These new chip-based transmitters would wirelessly transmit patient activity, including reporting the recent history of various loads on a repaired joint. Patients could also monitor their own healing via the sensor's wireless reporting to a smartphone app.
"The idea of having a device that's designed specifically for a patient, tied to a system that provides dynamic feedback directly to that patient, has tremendous possibilities," Barton said.
Another advance in the ability of researchers to successfully use cartilage growth for joint repair is the use of computerized tomography, or CT, scans, which are computer-generated medical images used in the diagnosis of tumors and cancer. The 3-D images produced by CT scans are now being used to create patient-specific implantable scaffold systems that support joint cartilage while the tissue grows and gains strength.
Using a 3-D scan of a patient's joint to custom build an implantable scaffold to support new cartilage growth -- as well as an implanted sensor that provides real-time activity monitoring for the rehabilitated patient -- represent major milestones in cartilage tissue engineering.
"This group has developed a methodology for building an implant that's closer to the native tissue than anything that has been made before," Barton said.
The Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons article, "Implantable Sensor Technology: From Research to Clinical Practice," can be found here http://jaaos.org/content/20/6/383.full.pdf+html
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