...INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS PUBLISHING Bioinsp. Biomim. 1 (2006) P1–P12 BIOINSPIRATION & BIOMIMETICS doi:10.1088/1748-3182/1/1/P01 PERSPECTIVE Biomimetics—using nature to inspire human innovation Yoseph Bar-Cohen Jet Propulsion Lab, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109-8099, USA E-mail: yosi@jpl.nasa.gov Received 7 November 2005 Accepted for publication 7 March 2006 Published 27 April 2006 Online at stacks.iop.org/BB/1/P1 Abstract Evolution has resolved many of nature’s challenges leading to lasting solutions. Nature has always inspired human achievements and has led to effective materials, structures, tools, mechanisms, processes, algorithms, methods, systems, and many other benefits (Bar-Cohen Y (ed) 2005 Biomimetics—Biologically Inspired Technologies (Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press) pp 1–552). This field, which is known as biomimetics, offers enormous potential for inspiring new capabilities for exciting future technologies. There are numerous examples of biomimetic successes that involve making simple copies, such as the use of fins for swimming. Others examples involved greater mimicking complexity including the mastery of flying that became possible only after the principles of aerodynamics were better understood. Some commercial implementations of biomimetics, including robotic toys and movie subjects, are increasingly appearing and behaving like living creatures. More substantial benefits of biomimetics include the development of prosthetics...
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... What do I already know about technology in the health care? I know that technology is one of the fastest growing and leading within the health care industry. There have been several innovate ways that we were able to discover different methods to prevent diseases as well as ways to cure individuals. Technology has come so far since the early times and we now have types of x-ray machines, EKG readings, heart monitors, imaging of the body, blood pressure machines and so many other new advances in technology. We can know determine the oxygen concentration in blood, study the brain waves, understand the breathing rates and for the most part determine what makes each individual tick. Technology can now image parts of the body showing different signs and symptoms that can help doctor’s diagnosis early stages of diseases in patients. Remarkable technology has truly come along way. Even today scientists and doctors are still working together to help each other understand how we can be for more advanced in understanding the complexity of the human body. I am fascinated on how technology has improved over the course of years. In the mid 90’s the outbreak of HIV was very serious and many physicians where not even for sure if we would be able to find a vaccine that would help aid in slowing down the progression of the disease in and individual. Since then there have been several breakthrough medicine helping those with the disease. One study shows that a pregnant mother to be was infected...
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...Anthropometrics and Space Suit Customization 3D Body Scanning Applications in Space Suit Sizing Xiaomin Bao 11068748 Word Count: 1098 MSc International Fashion Marketing 2012/2013 Fashion Technology Contents 1. Introduction ...........................................................................................................2 2. Sizing and Fit ........................................................................................................3 2.1. Background ........................................................................................................3 2.2. Sizing System Analysis ......................................................................................4 3. 3D Scanning System ............................................................................................6 3.1. Shadow Scanning Systems ...............................................................................6 3.2. White Light Scanning Systems ..........................................................................7 3.3. Laser Scanning Systems ...................................................................................8 3.4. Past and New Systems ......................................................................................9 3.5. Selection and Application .................................................................................10 4. Future Development ....................
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...Restorative Care Training for the Certified Nursing Assistant Trainer Manual TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Making the Most of the Training Making the Most of the Lesson Plans Making the Most of the Activities Trainer Preparation Welcome Module Activity T1 Welcome to the training Activity T2 Common Rules to Follow Activity T3 Successful Completion Activity T4 You will learn Trainer Preparation Module one Module one Trainer Preparation Module two Module two Trainer Preparation Module three Module three Trainer Preparation Module four Module four Appendix A Feeding Assistance Appendix B Fall Prevention Page T3 Page T3 Page T3 Page T4 Page T5 Page T7 Page T7 Page T8 Page T8 Page 7a Page 8 Page 27a Page 28 Page 35a Page 37 Page 104a Page 105 Page 114 Page 123 T2 Restorative Care; Training for the Certified Nursing Assistant Introduction Welcome to the program Restorative Care. This is the trainer manual used by trainers to teach nurse assistants and home health aides about caring for the person with Restorative issues. This manual accompanies the student manual, Restorative Care. This training is activity based. Participants are encouraged to share in the training process, to talk about relevant experiences if they choose and to ask questions. Making the Most of the Training Program Use this training manual as a guide for training individually or in groups. If you train on an individual basis it will be more effective to brainstorm with them than to use the...
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...Abstract The students design a new model car jack with pneumatic system. Pneumatic system is a power transmission system that uses the force of flowing gases to transmit power. A problem statement about car jack is a lot of people need an ergonomics design to reduce musculoskeletal disorders. Musculoskeletal disorders can affect the body’s muscles, joints, tendond, ligament, and nerves. Such as the discs in back bones. The scope of the project is the students have to design a car jack with the ergonomics design based on the human body. There are three main parts of the product. The first parts is spiral balloon. The second part is one way control valve. The third part is hose lock. iii. Keyword Carjack, ergonomics, design, pneumatic system, human body. iv. Background of Project The project is an assignment of the Industrial Design and Ergonomics. Based on the ergomics and human function, the student must design a car jack with ergonomics to help human. In this time, car jack help people to change tire. But a lot of the car jack, use a lot of energy from operator the car jack. So, we design a new model car jack with pneumatic system. Pneumatic system is a power transmission system that uses the force of flowing gases to transmit power. So, we don’t use a lot of energy to lift the car. There are three main parts of the product. The first parts is spiral balloon. It is a part to lift the car and then the operator can change the tire. The spiral balloon can expand can expand...
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...Ellsworth July 1, 2012 Water is virtually the most important thing we put into our body yet most of us don’t meet the daily requirements of water. Water keeps us hydrated healthy and alive, so why is it that so many people despise water. Water is full of minerals which depending on the minerals have different functions and sources. In addition to keeping us healthy and alive water plays several very important functions in our body, including regulating body temperature, aiding in food digestion, and flushing out sodium. It’s important to understand the effects of water on your body that way you can understand the signs, symptoms, and general effect that dehydration water has on the body. Every summer countless people end up in the hospital with signs of dehydration, most of those hospital visits could have been avoided with proper understanding of minerals and water. Minerals are important to the health and maintenance of our bodies and bodily functions. There are several different types and kinds of minerals each of these playing important roles in our body, there are trace elements and macro and micro minerals. For starters the macro minerals are calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorous, potassium, and sodium. Each of these macro minerals have important functions in the body ranging from helping aid in the transfer of oxygen between tissues in the body to helping bones and teeth form, as well as controlling the volume of fluid in the cells. Micro minerals...
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...TMA 1 1.1 Describe the four basic human body structure units and their functions. The four basic human structure units are : * Cells * Tissues * Organs * Systems Cells : These are the basic structural unit of the body that maintain life. Every person consists of billions of cells that perform a infinite number of tasks in order to maintain the continuation of life. These live independently and can reproduce themselves. A cell also comes in different shapes and sizes depending on their function within the stability of life, for example, a mature red blood cell is less than 1mm in diameter and their function is to transport oxygen around the body. Tissues : Tissue is a collection of cells, not identical but a similar function, specialised to perform a specific function. Tissue comes in many different forms including blood, muscle, glands and bone(such as cartilage). These can also form nerve tissue to which are cells that specially conduct electrochemical nerve impulses throughout the body. Organs : All organs are formed when tissue combines with other forms of cells. This then gives you a structural unit, for example, a heart, that perform a specific function. Other examples of organs include the eye, liver, stomach, testis, uterus and kidneys all with their own particular function in sustaining life. Systems : System are cells, tissues and organs all working together to get a final outcome. For example, your digestive system needs a mouth,...
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...The world we live in today is not like what it used to be, new generations are not as aware of what it is like outdoors. Most people spend most of their lives in a ‘concrete jungle’, which prevents people especially youth from seeing nature at its finest. There are a lot of youth who have never even seen a true forest ever, because their stuck in a city that contains nothing of that sort. The lack of outdoor activity within the world we live in today is actually affecting the health within youth, as well as creating improper judgement for certain situations; especially survival situations such as being lost in a forest or even ingesting as well as coming in contact with poisonous plants and animals that should not be touched. They are even unprepared for the mildest of survival situations. Also, without proper guidance and involvement outdoors, youth will not be able to discover why pollution is bad as well as why animals should not be disturbed or hurt on their own land. Today’s youth do not understand how the environment is important, and how everything we see around us plays an important role, from trees to microscopic bacteria, everything has a role in each other’s lives. There needs to be a solution to this problem, but not only do we need the cooperation of children and teens, we also need the cooperation of their parents as well. in order to jumpstart a solution, the education system should make outdoor’ed courses mandatory for all students, to help raise awareness of...
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...this complex environment, is the reason why we are egotistical creatures by always trying to make proof that our culture and where we come from is like no other and par to none. This observation was very evident when I visited the Saint Petersburg College’s art gallery located at the Clearwater, Florida campus. While I was glazing at the many wonderful art pieces our student body created I could foresee how advanced humanity has become as a whole. Then I see this astounding painting reaching for some type of swords that were more like levitating from a pair of hands pointing up and down from left to right and standing with one leg while the other was lifted and reaching across the other leg in a trance posture. As I got closer, I realized I was looking at Franklin Fraze’s ‘Shiva’ painting. The Hindu influenced painting is mesmerizing and reminds you of the powerful influence the Hindu culture inhibits. The painting itself is made of black and white colors contradicting the color from each side its on. Here, Shiva is seen standing on top of another sphere resembling the female and male human body. This magnificent view inspires to the creation of...
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...Task 1 (L.O-1: 1.1, 1.2 and M1, M2, D2). (1.1) List all the systems of the human body with their functions and major organs. (1.2) Identify how body systems interact to ensure proper functioning and growth of the human body. Deliverables: Learning Outcome 1 (to be met by assessment requirements 1.1 and 1.2) Merit criterion: To achieve M1 you need to research in depth on one major organ in any 3 functional systems. To achieve M2 you will have to mention appropriate references and valid academic sources for gaining information. Distinction Criteria: To achieve D2 you will have to explain any 2 examples of Feedback regulation in detail. Task 2 (L.O-2: 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 and M2, M3, D1). A 25 year old individual is working full time as a volunteer in a charity organization. His daily job is to distribute leaflets door to door and take part in charity events. He is now preparing for a marathon run organized by his charity foundation which will be held in 6 months’ time. (2.1) Explain how his body responds to his physical activities (particularly in relation to musculo-skeletal system, cardiovascular system and respiratory system). (2.2) Discuss how body responses are explained by cellular and tissue structure and physiology. (2.3)Further, identify how his body will coordinate its internal activities. Deliverables: Learning Outcome 2 (to be met through assessment requirements 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3) Merit criterion:...
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...Frankenstein - A Sudden Light Broke in Upon Me 1. What was Victor's attention attracted by? The structure of the human frame. (The human body) and generally living things such as animals. 2. What, according to Victor, had stopped people from understanding the mystery of life? Stupidity and carelessness 3. Which areas of study did Victor dedicate himself to? The science of anatomy (the structure of living things) philosophy 4. What made Victor persevere in studies which for most people would have been 'irksome and almost intolerable'? He describes himself as being "animated with an almost supernatural enthusiasm" 5. What childhood experience made Victor unafraid of supernatural horrors? His father had taken great precaution, through education, of him not being afraid of horrors. 6. Where did Victory carry out his research? In Vaults (basement like environment) and Charnel houses (storage place for dead people) 7. What did Victor Witness while carrying out his research? He is watching how the worms are decomposing the dead human bodies 8. Did Victor make his discovery without much effort? No, he worked for days examining, observing and analyzing 9. What did Victor discover? He creates life from lifeless matter The Accomplishment Of My Toils 1. How did Victor feel just before giving life to the monster? Just before giving life to the monster he felt with anxiety that almost amounted to agony After the creation of the monster he was filled with...
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...The visitors of individuals is a international trend that represents all age categories and genders, but most of the individuals suggested as a factor in the visitors with individuals is females and kids. That is why the specific aspects of the individual's sex and kid's weeknesses should be regarded. The sufferers are trafficked through several indicates of coercion or techniques of hoaxing for plenty of aggressive and exploitation rifle scopes. It has been noticed that most the sufferers exchanged from Southern to Main and European European countries and also to Northern The united states and Japan, are females trafficked for pressured prostitution. Although due to the surreptitious personality of this criminal activity, any available figure or data does not signify the real condition of the things. The visitors in reasons other than prostitution, such as pressured weddings and pressured labor etc, does not entice enough attention of the law organs; therefore the potential of the sufferers to get help is restricted. The state policies and the rules of many nations have the propensity to decrease the chance of getting some complicated actions on the matter of the issue of visitors with purpose of pressured prostitution. Although, in the last several years, within the structure of worldwide controversy and especially in the material of UN records, has showed up a confidence that the reasons for which the individuals are trafficked and the methods in which it is done are different...
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...“The last shall be first and the first shall be last”, Matt. 20:16. By James Peterson Mason in “V.I.P.” asks the question “who is the most important in a church?”(pg34). His conclusion; it is the suffering that are the most important. This approach to suffering is a practical application of theology. Mason’s Theology of suffering is interconnected to Christian attitudes, church community, and the idea of who is the most important. It is one that involves the attitude of the Church needing to be one of servant-ship, the sufferers being surrounded by the Christian community, and the fact that they should be put first. His theology of Suffering is that it is very much the problem of the whole community of believers, not just the one going through the suffering. Mason tackles a difficult attitude he finds in the church, an attitude that at its worst is hypocrisy and neglect. People who are supposed to serve the forgotten and hurting but have forgotten to care. The book of Job is Mason’s main reference for this idea and turns to the story of job and his friends for an example. “In Job we see five men (counting Elihu) whose lives are inconvenienced by the suffering of Job. Four of these men are subconsciously, so deeply resentful of this problem that they cannot see that it is really theirs as much as it is Job’s. . . . Their behavior is like that of a stubborn man who insists on walking around on a broken foot” (Mason, 35). From Mason’s own penmanship as well as the...
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...Personal Responsibility David S Larsen March 27, 2013 Personal Responsibility Attending College can be difficult in the best of times but even more so today with all the external pressures associated with education including economics and sociological pressures. There are stresses all around students in college, everywhere they look. Students feel pressure to do well, to learn the material, to impress the teacher, to please their parents, to take care of themselves financially and sociologically. For many students, college will be the first step into adulthood and the first time that they really have to take responsibility for their own lives. A person finally breaks free from their parents or guardians and has to do for themselves. Therefore it is important to accept this responsibility and also to be accountable for choices and the actions that are perpetrated by the individual. One of the ways that a person can take responsibility for themselves is to reduce the stress and thereby do better in their scholastic endeavors. Researchers have determined the top ten most common hassles associated with attending college which contribute to stress. These include: fear about the future, lack of sleep, wasting time, smoking and its health effects from either first or second-hand smoke, their physical appearance, the feeling that they have too much to do, misplacing or losing important materials or personal property, not having enough time for the things...
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...Dirty Dozen Twelve of the most common human factors that are related to aircraft accidents or incidents are called the Dirty Dozen. These factors have been identified to affect people and make them to make the poor decisions. The concept of the Dirty Dozen was created in 1993 by Gordon Dupont, he was working for Transport Canada during this time, while he was creating a training program on human factors in aviation. It is now recognized as the foundation of the aviation industries human factor in aviation maintenance. (Adams, 2009) Lack of communication This is one of the more important parts of the Dirty Dozen. Communications are a two way street that has to do with the person who is giving the communications to the person receiving the communications. During verbal instruction it is common the as little as 30% of a message is received. It is safe practice to keep important messages written down so there is not a lack of communications. Some maintenance outfits use log books so that other shifts can refer back to what was done and by who. Verbal messages need to be relatively short with key things being emphasized on. As a person that is getting instructions it is very important no to assume anything and to have things clarified. (Adams, 2009) Distraction Distractions are anything that can take the attention of a person during a task. There are distraction during work that cannot be removed and heave to be worked with. Noises are a key...
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