The use of surface electromyography (SEMG) has increased exponentially in the past four decades. SEMG is one of the most widespread measures employed today in psychophysiological assessment and one of three primary biofeedback modalities. This article briefly outlines three areas that the author believes are important for SEMG to address if it is to continue to flourish in the future: applicati...

Water is used in vast quantities in health-care premises. Many aquatic microorganisms can survive and flourish in water with minimal nutrients and can be transferred to vulnerable hospital patients in direct (e.g., inhalation, ingestion, surface absorption) and indirect ways (e.g., by instruments and utensils). Many outbreaks of infection or pseudoinfection occur through lack of prevention meas...

lie three iNew Medical Journals, whose promoters appear to believe that a future lies before them. The first of these is the British Journal of Children's Diseases, which appeared in January of this year. It appears that an Anglo-American journal of children's diseases was born in 1896, but the Anglican twin appears to have died of marasmus in early infancy while the American continues to flour...

Among 45 Bacillus subtilis strains isolated from non-salted types of fermented soybeans produced in several Southeast Asian countries, 20 had the insertion sequence IS4Bsu1 in the chromosome. In contrast, none of 49 B. subtilis strains of non-food origin contained IS4Bsu1. Frequent occurrence of this mobile DNA element in the soybean-fermenting B. subtilis would reflect the fact that few strain...

The shortage of frontline nursing staff and their managers in acute care organizations necessitates strategies to both use and recognize the unique knowledge and skills of these individuals. The authors describe one organization's successful implementation of a shared decision-making structure that promotes an empowering work environment in which professional fulfillment and personal satisfacti...

Medical ethics is that branch of applied philosophy which considers issues of values raised by medical practice, and should not be equated with 'principlism'. Clarification of facts/values distinctions is an important part of this work. The notion that medical philosophy can flourish in the hands of medical 'generalists' without specialist philosophers, is misguided. Both must work together to ...

Neurologists have professional, ethical, and social obligations to ensure that expert witness testimony is reliable, objective, and truthful. In the past, an absence of professional regulatory oversight combined with immunity from civil litigation allowed the partisan expert to flourish. This is no longer the case. The expert witness unquestionably faces an increasingly perilous liability clima...

In the south area of China, there covers thick soil and flourish vegetation on the top of the rocks, so there is little research on lithology analysis by remote sensing in the south area, and there is also no mature methods on this aspect. Three Gorges are the south area which is thickly covered by soil and flourish vegetation and the lithology analysis is very difficult. Three Gorges possess t...

Abstract – In this modern world everything is possible and fast. In this paper we propose a multifaceted online e-voting system. The proposed system is capable to manage through internet with multiple scopes and focus on using evidence for making access control decisions in present computing environments. To protect the election accuracy, it is necessary to have an accurate electoral roll of el...

Virtually all genomes contain transposable elements. In some organisms, especially plants, transposable elements or sequences derived from them can exceed 50 % of genomic DNA. Some people believe that these elements are simply parasitic entities that flourish because they can out-replicate their host, the genome of which provides numerous safe havens both within and between genes [1]. According...