INTRODUCTION Epidural analgesia provides an important synergistic method of pain control. In addition to reducing perioperative opioid consumption, the deliverance of analgesia into the epidural space, effectively creating a sympathetic blockade, has a multitude of additional potential benefits, from decreasing the incidence of postoperative delirium to reducing the development of persistent po...

Due to globalization and advances in network technology, the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) with edge computing has gained increasingly more attention over last few years. The technology provides a new paradigm design interconnected distributed nodes Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-assisted vehicle networks for communications between vehicles smart cities. process hierarchy current UAV-assisted is al...

that any sort of reference to it falls into delusive attachment to that reality itself, which is none other than its dogmatic substantialization. In this respect, our understanding of the bodhisattva’s compassion must be in itself non-substantialistic, and, moreover, we should not consider the compassion as if there were anything more ultimate or real behind and in addition to that bodhisattva’...

are settled in Goshen, a rich agricultural region in the northeastern delta (Ex 47:6). In the exodus story there is no longer any hint of such a pastoral life. When they finally escape from Egypt they are completely helpless in the wilderness and they constantly recall their prior settled agricultural life in Egypt. Coote and Ord understand the oppression in Exodus as Israelite bedouin forced t...

With reason, women at the beginning of the century were terrified by the pain and danger of childbirth until Twilight Sleep, introduced to America from Germany in 1914, promised deliverance. The aim of the method was amnesia, not anaesthesia. Mothers were supposed to "drift into motherhood lightly and imperceptibly.. .wiping the whole incident of birth-giving out of a woman's life." This state ...

Due to the emergence of innovative technologies over Internet, the traditional broadcasting of TV is changed to use IPTV for next generation networks. IPTV is the delivery of multimedia content to multiple subscribers through multicasting over well known IP. The IPTV depends on the Internet and telecommunications. Therefore, the inherent issues are to be identified and resolved for the success ...

Planners are central to the notion of complex autonomous systems. They provide the flexibility that autonomous systems need to be able to operate unattended in an unknown and dynamically-changing environment. However, they are notoriously hard to validate. This paper reports an investigation of how redundant, diversified models can be used as a complement to testing, in order to tolerate residu...

Introduction The new type of postmodern art can be interpreted from the point view self expression polarized between: - art-therapy, ludic, occupational therapy religion. computer becomes medium after impact television, and by integrating computers into network, their communication function has become more prevalent than that data processing. Contemporary visual arts bring together, in differen...