IAAOS (I am an Orthopaedic Surgeon) and usually having overgrowth of bone(Heterotopic ossification) is not a problem. A quick visit to the radiation oncologist for some very low dose radiation usually will prevent any expected overgrowth (as long as you're not a child). Tobacco smoking also usually does a fair job with this too.
We have become very good at fixing broken bones, but when there is major bone loss we have no great solutions. Infections and trauma that result in substantial bone loss either require a tumor type prosthesis (replacement) or an amputation. Neither are great choices.
The current methods for stimulating bone growth (e.g. you want to make sure that your spinal fusion for arthritis will work, or that your bad tibia(shin bone) fracture will heal) usually involve either the use of BMPs (bone morphogenic proteins) at non physiologic concentrations (>1,000x found in the body) or by the use of electric/or ultrasonic stimulators. BMPs are very expensive $ - several thousand dollars for a few table spoons worth of material. The electric/ultrasonic stimulators by in large have not been found to be very useful.
Bone loss is still a significant problem in orthopaedics and oral surgery, and the discovery of anything that provides a significant means to renew bone stock will be a major advance for patients. Having said this - I'll wait and see if the UCBs make it to the marketplace. That should be about 10 years from now.
A little known fact is that his bitter ex-wife was personally responsible for downloading over 300,000 copies of the program, stating " I hope he frezzes his nubbins off!"
What about after 6 hours? 80 PPM of H2S shouldn't have much or any affect on anaerobic (non O2 requiring) bacteria, which are found in our gut and mouth. Will people start to "rot" after the six hours because those bacteria shouldn't stop growing.
Mice are also much smaller than humans (yes a statement of the obvious) and so their thermal mass is much slower - i.e. they cool down MUCH faster due to their increased surface area to mass ratio. I'll try to not become too enthusiastic until I see some larger animal studies - preferrably on cats (not dogs please - I like them) or also on a few of the weird looking guys who hang out at the gas station by my house.
Getting multimedia to work with Suse is still somewhat of a pain. Yes mplayer does a fairly good job, but there are still tons of files/formats that just don't play right off the bat. I'm a fairly advanced user and have been using Linux for six years now. I actually bought COdeweavers and have installed mplayer. I still get plenty of problems with various formats, but eventually get it to play.
This strategy will not "draw" in the crowds - most people give up before tinkering with the system. It has to work smoothly right out of the install (mostly).
I generally think Suse is one of the most polished distros out there, but it still has a way to go with multimedia, to get it to appeal to joe-computer user and Grandma who are scared of "breaking" things on the computer.
Linux is on the cusp from going from "hacker" OS to main-stream, but still has some catching up to Windows in certain things - mainly multimedia. Yes I know there are plenty of programs that work great - but the average user, I think, would not have the expertise to get it to work easily right off the DVD.
I imagine that the cable will be inherently light and that it would be more conveinent to have a solid, small counter-weight. A lot of extra cable hanging around might get in the way of stuff. Maybe the receiving staion will need to be radiation hardened, and thus willl provide a good location to hold the weight (as sheilding).
These RFID things have to be dirt cheap(a penny each?). Cheap enough so that I want to buy about 10,000 of them and put them in the trunk of my car to "overload" any automatic detectors.
A rebate is when a company offers to send you some money after you typically send them a copy of your receipt and the UPC (bar) code off of the box. Rebates often are for a large amount of money - say $30 off a $130 item. They are typically offered by the manufacturer.
The catch is that they often "lose" the paperwork, or require many "hoops" for you to do, so that you may get your money. They rely on the fact that many people do not fully complete all the steps necessary to acquire the refund, and thus the company never pays out. I've seen figures that state only about 10% of people wind up getting their money from these things, for a variety of reasons - forget to send the paperwork, lose the receipt, forget the deadline, etc.
That's a true story. I was living in NYC at the time (early 90's) and a bunch of NYU students did tear up a significant portion of several streets just north of the Village. I remember after a week of seeing the traffic wondering when the road dept. was going to fix it. As a side benefit - many people used those streets as an pedestrian zone and it was fun hanging out in the middle of the streets.
Yes, 15 years is the lifetime that we're seeing, on average, but remember that these were put in 15 years ago! The plastics (ultra high molec weight, highly cross linked poly) are supposedly much better now, and should last longer than the 15 years.
Hips and knees are diferent - knees are currently limited to metal on plastic, whereas hips can come in a variety of composites. Recently, metal -metal hips, and ceramic hips have been making a go around - they are supposed to have 10 times less wear than the plastic-metal hips.
TO be honest 15 years is very good. Most people really dont need a total joint arthroplasty (artificial joint) until they are over 50 years of age. One revision surgery should last them until they are around 80 - which is currently a little higher than the average lifespan of most people.
Several factors have an effect on the lifetim of these artificial joints - younger, heavier people wear theirs out faster , than older lighter people. However, being overweight probably was a MAJOR contributing factor for the reason that many people need these in the first place.
I should have taken time off after going to a very sheltered high school, instead I went into college, was not happy and did poorly. I worked for 4 years then got into grad school, then medical school and did very well.
I was more rounded, and knew what I wanted and this I know, helped me.
There's no point in going to college, when you're not happy, or too naive. It's best to go when you are ready and WANTING to go - you'll do much better. If you really want to go to university/college, then you will - just don't get caught up in the day to day stuff of living - keep the big picture in mind, and don't be afraid to start all over.
Oh, yeah - don't get married (if you're a guy) before the age of thirty.. MOst (all) of the Nobel prize winners did their important work before they got married.
I have never had anything "lost" in the mail...ever.
The problem usually lies in either end - before or after the USPS part - as inthe sender never sent it, or receiver lost it, etc.
The 13 years when I rented various houses, I mailed out the rent check every month and it always got there. That's 156/156 perfect deliveries. The USPS is awesome, and no I don't work for them:-P
Everyone always talks about sticking their comp inside a 'fridge, but I've never seen it done. Most refridges cant cool enough quickly to and it will just run constantly.
That's like having a newspaper and saying that you MUST always start reading on the first page - you may not start on the sports page, or in my case, at the comics.
I'm sorry - it's out theere in the public domain, supported by our tax dollars. I can look at it any damn way I'd like to.
I've played a fair amt of America's Army On-Line (AAOL) on my Linux box, and have NEVER had the game crash. This is decidedly diferent than the experience of most people on line who are using Windows. Every game/session someone is complaining that their box crashed/froze, etc. I get the same frame rates as they do too.
I haven't played it in a few months, so I don't know if the latest patch is available for Linux.
A lot of guys already do this - they pay to see ESPN -it's considered dominant males by those who watch it.
Personally, I think most sports fans are a little "gay". They'd rather watch a bunch of sweaty guys jumping all over eachother, than, say fashion TV - where hot models walk down the runway.
Some historians feel that most of societal changes are cused by this group. A lot of hot headed, act first people tend to promote change - for better otr for worse. Just look at the news at who is protesting in the Middle east. And better yet who jumps into the fray. They are the ones who are the "have nots" - societal change often serves to better their position in life.
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Go into academia if you really like to publish papers so much so that you won't be promoted unless you write tons of papers. Also go into academics if you really like to spend most of your time writing research grants in this ever tightening and extremely competitive environment. Oh yeah also do so if you don't want to make more than $100k.
Go into the private sector if you don't like any of the above reasons
I think I might get hurt if I had to change anything on the inside of this beast. I bet he had to make an entirely NEW computer, since this one is so troublesome looking. I, for one, don't feel like getting cut and shocked everytime I want to install some RAM or something
Our space shuttle does use H2 and O2 in it's main engine, and it's SRBs basically burn a type of rubber which generates nasty stuff. Nitrogen and other gasses from the atmosphere also get mixed in and various nitrogen compounds and ozone are produced.
However, the majority of other rocket launches contain componds other than just LOH and liq H2. See this list of commonly used rocket fuels.
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We have become very good at fixing broken bones, but when there is major bone loss we have no great solutions. Infections and trauma that result in substantial bone loss either require a tumor type prosthesis (replacement) or an amputation. Neither are great choices.
The current methods for stimulating bone growth (e.g. you want to make sure that your spinal fusion for arthritis will work, or that your bad tibia(shin bone) fracture will heal) usually involve either the use of BMPs (bone morphogenic proteins) at non physiologic concentrations (>1,000x found in the body) or by the use of electric/or ultrasonic stimulators. BMPs are very expensive $ - several thousand dollars for a few table spoons worth of material. The electric/ultrasonic stimulators by in large have not been found to be very useful.
Bone loss is still a significant problem in orthopaedics and oral surgery, and the discovery of anything that provides a significant means to renew bone stock will be a major advance for patients. Having said this - I'll wait and see if the UCBs make it to the marketplace. That should be about 10 years from now.
A little known fact is that his bitter ex-wife was personally responsible for downloading over 300,000 copies of the program, stating " I hope he frezzes his nubbins off!"
Mice are also much smaller than humans (yes a statement of the obvious) and so their thermal mass is much slower - i.e. they cool down MUCH faster due to their increased surface area to mass ratio. I'll try to not become too enthusiastic until I see some larger animal studies - preferrably on cats (not dogs please - I like them) or also on a few of the weird looking guys who hang out at the gas station by my house.
Get your facts straight before you jump all over some one.
This strategy will not "draw" in the crowds - most people give up before tinkering with the system. It has to work smoothly right out of the install (mostly).
I generally think Suse is one of the most polished distros out there, but it still has a way to go with multimedia, to get it to appeal to joe-computer user and Grandma who are scared of "breaking" things on the computer.
Linux is on the cusp from going from "hacker" OS to main-stream, but still has some catching up to Windows in certain things - mainly multimedia. Yes I know there are plenty of programs that work great - but the average user, I think, would not have the expertise to get it to work easily right off the DVD.
Well there was a mountain-load of screen shots.
I imagine that the cable will be inherently light and that it would be more conveinent to have a solid, small counter-weight. A lot of extra cable hanging around might get in the way of stuff. Maybe the receiving staion will need to be radiation hardened, and thus willl provide a good location to hold the weight (as sheilding).
Your idea does win on elegance points though.
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Man, talk about a misleading article.
These RFID things have to be dirt cheap(a penny each?). Cheap enough so that I want to buy about 10,000 of them and put them in the trunk of my car to "overload" any automatic detectors.
The catch is that they often "lose" the paperwork, or require many "hoops" for you to do, so that you may get your money. They rely on the fact that many people do not fully complete all the steps necessary to acquire the refund, and thus the company never pays out. I've seen figures that state only about 10% of people wind up getting their money from these things, for a variety of reasons - forget to send the paperwork, lose the receipt, forget the deadline, etc.
That's a true story. I was living in NYC at the time (early 90's) and a bunch of NYU students did tear up a significant portion of several streets just north of the Village. I remember after a week of seeing the traffic wondering when the road dept. was going to fix it. As a side benefit - many people used those streets as an pedestrian zone and it was fun hanging out in the middle of the streets.
Yes, 15 years is the lifetime that we're seeing, on average, but remember that these were put in 15 years ago! The plastics (ultra high molec weight, highly cross linked poly) are supposedly much better now, and should last longer than the 15 years.
Hips and knees are diferent - knees are currently limited to metal on plastic, whereas hips can come in a variety of composites. Recently, metal -metal hips, and ceramic hips have been making a go around - they are supposed to have 10 times less wear than the plastic-metal hips.
TO be honest 15 years is very good. Most people really dont need a total joint arthroplasty (artificial joint) until they are over 50 years of age. One revision surgery should last them until they are around 80 - which is currently a little higher than the average lifespan of most people.
Several factors have an effect on the lifetim of these artificial joints - younger, heavier people wear theirs out faster , than older lighter people. However, being overweight probably was a MAJOR contributing factor for the reason that many people need these in the first place.
I should have taken time off after going to a very sheltered high school, instead I went into college, was not happy and did poorly. I worked for 4 years then got into grad school, then medical school and did very well.
I was more rounded, and knew what I wanted and this I know, helped me.
There's no point in going to college, when you're not happy, or too naive. It's best to go when you are ready and WANTING to go - you'll do much better. If you really want to go to university/college, then you will - just don't get caught up in the day to day stuff of living - keep the big picture in mind, and don't be afraid to start all over.
Oh, yeah - don't get married (if you're a guy) before the age of thirty.. MOst (all) of the Nobel prize winners did their important work before they got married.
I have never had anything "lost" in the mail ...ever.
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The problem usually lies in either end - before or after the USPS part - as inthe sender never sent it, or receiver lost it, etc.
The 13 years when I rented various houses, I mailed out the rent check every month and it always got there. That's 156/156 perfect deliveries. The USPS is awesome, and no I don't work for them
Everyone always talks about sticking their comp inside a 'fridge, but I've never seen it done. Most refridges cant cool enough quickly to and it will just run constantly.
Somehow I seem to remember a Simpsons qoute about thermodynamics that's applicable to this situation. NASA should investigate this.
that's what I meant by that statement.
I'm sorry - it's out theere in the public domain, supported by our tax dollars. I can look at it any damn way I'd like to.
I haven't played it in a few months, so I don't know if the latest patch is available for Linux.
Personally, I think most sports fans are a little "gay". They'd rather watch a bunch of sweaty guys jumping all over eachother, than, say fashion TV - where hot models walk down the runway.
Some historians feel that most of societal changes are cused by this group. A lot of hot headed, act first people tend to promote change - for better otr for worse. Just look at the news at who is protesting in the Middle east. And better yet who jumps into the fray. They are the ones who are the "have nots" - societal change often serves to better their position in life.
Go into the private sector if you don't like any of the above reasons
Nasa should get funding from the NRA (National Rifle Assoc.) and Smith and Wesson. This will be the largest bullet ever made!
I think I might get hurt if I had to change anything on the inside of this beast. I bet he had to make an entirely NEW computer, since this one is so troublesome looking. I, for one, don't feel like getting cut and shocked everytime I want to install some RAM or something
However, the majority of other rocket launches contain componds other than just LOH and liq H2. See this list of commonly used rocket fuels.
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