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Alternative medicine includes a number of traditional medicinal and faith healing treatments where a disease is treated with organic products, natural methods, and faith healing. These are generally used in the treatment of chronic ailments and pains. Most prominent forms of these therapies in usage include application of ayurvedic medicine and naturopathic treatment, acupuncture, mind/body healing, yoga and magnetic intervention.

Modern world has witnessed a rise in geo-political tension and terrorism, which are some of the gravest threat to humankind. This has resulted into several armed conflicts around the world, such as, Indo-Pak conflict over Kashmir, the Syrian civil war, Yemen crisis, ISIS conflict, and the Lebanon conflict. All these threats are also driving the countries to deploy greater number of armed forces personnel, to gain control over these problems and help maintain law & order situation in these areas.

Renowned American poet Robert Frost’s spectacularly calming & self-assuring poem of 1914, known as ‘Mending Wall’, states very aptly that, “Good Fences Make Good Neighbors”. Ithighlights the importance that fences, boundaries and compounds have in society and how they play a vital role in enabling peaceful cohabitation.

It’s a well-known fact that heart defects have gripped a large proportion of the world population, as the harms of following unhealthy lifestyle habits have started to take a toll on people’s health. With surgeries related to structural heart diseases on the rise, structural heart devices have proved mightily helpful in medical scenarios.

In the earlier days of 1800s, Steel, as a product was very expensive to produce, therefore, could only find its way into smaller expensive objects like knives, swords and armors among others. However, Henry Bessemer's development of the Bessemer converter in 1857 changed it all. Steel began to be produced on a large scale.

You might have heard the word ‘tannin’. No? Well, it does sound very similar to ‘sun tanning’, terms which of course you might be much more familiar with. However, what we will be talking here about is the class of astringent, polyphenolic biomolecules, which bind to and precipitate protein along with other organic compounds such as amino acids and alkaloids. 

Picture this: it’s a very hot summer day, and the sweltering heat is taking its toll on office goers and residents alike. Worry not though, you have the utility companies to count on, when they provide a steady, continuous supply of energy to power the cooling of the building. Same would be the case for a cold winter day, when the utility companies provide energy to power the heating equipment, so that you are warm and cozy inside the buildings.

Climate awareness is growing among people with every passing day. Greta Thunberg, a Swedish 17-year-old school going girl showed the entire world the risks of climate change. This event also highlighted the rise in amount of awareness about climate in the world; proof of this can be seen from the popularity of Fridays For Future & massive support received by Greta from every nook and corner of the world. 

Just the name of the gruesome disease named “Cancer” is enough to send chills down the spine. Therefore, it has become imperative to develop and leverage technology to fight and someday find a cure for this disease, which affects 14 million new lives every year and was the single despicable reason for 9.8 million deaths in 2018, according to World Health Organization

The global population has become an easy target for a number of diseases, many of them being life-threatening. Cancer has been a major cause of mortality in the past many years, with 14 million new cases being observed in 2012 and 8.2 million cancer-related deaths. This number rose steadily to 17 million new cases in 2018, with 9.6 million deaths. Not only cancer, CVD, diabetes, and Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases have become very pronounced among the general population.

C-arms are imaging devices that are based on the conventional X-ray technology. The name is derived from the arm which connects the X-ray source to the X-ray detector, and is shaped like a C. These devices are basically fluoroscopy machines generally called as image intensifiers. The fluoroscopy technology helps in providing real-time, high resolution X-ray images to enable surgeons to make critical and time-intensive decisions during the procedure.

Have you ever caught a running bus or train, and felt completely out of breath? In such situations, our breathing mechanism adapts to match the pressure on the lungs and heart in a natural way. Even in this scenario, your lungs have a breathing reserve, which ensures that you never run out of air. However, not everybody is as lucky, and some people do have such shortness of breath (called dyspnea), which is a characteristic of respiratory disease.

Ever wondered what made LCD screen colors in laptops, tablets, phones, e-readers, and televisions so vivacious? Would you believe if you were told that these colors were being emitted by tiny dots, called quantum dots? Quantum dots first burst onto the technology scene in 2015, and the appeal, especially in the consumer electronics industry, has only grown since. One of the most common uses of Quantum Dot displays is in television sets, where it is referred to as QLED.

Ever been constantly irritated by the glare on your lenses, which makes it hard for you to see things clearly? Not only you, it also creates a poor impression on others if you are in the middle of a video conference, as your eyes are covered by the reflection on the screen. Wanting to take a perfect picture of yourself? You can say goodbye to those, as your wonderful eyes will be mostly covered by that icky reflection.

We know that natural gas is one of the most in-demand fuel across the globe, but in the general piped form, it is impossible to carry it with convenience. That is why for a long time, rural areas have been cut off from utilizing it in the most optimum way. Well, we have liquefied petroleum gas that solves this problem. Gone are the days when people toiled over cooking on open fires or burning wood or coal. Nowadays, all one needs is an LPG connection.

Many of us, when asked when we were young about what we wanted to be when we grew up, would have said ‘Pilot’, at one point or another. Even though only a miniscule percentage of that crowd go on to actually work towards that dream. Man has always had a fantasy of soaring through the skies, with his flight in his control. Admittedly, the technology has not become so evolved that man can fly whenever he wants, how he wants and wherever he wants, but a pilot manning a plane is also pretty close, wouldn’t you agree?

We all must have experienced, or at least seen commuters using some form of cards, or only their phones, to get access to mass transit vehicles, such as Metros. What exactly is that process, and how did the user avail the transport service without the hassle of buying tickets physically? That, friends, is the work of an Automated Fare Collection (AFC) system. The Automated Fare Collection system consists of automatic ticket vending, ticket checking, & gate machines. It is a smartcard-based contactless back-to-back solution for payments and fare collection.

Drugs are the first line therapy for almost every small or major illness. With the concept of drugs comes the term drug delivery systems, which can be said of as a device or a formulation that is be used to introduce a therapeutic substance within the body. The said device or formulation helps in optimizing effectiveness of the drug within the body. A common example can be taken of as nasal spray, which is most commonly used by people suffering from nasal congestion.

Oral diseases affect around 3.9 billion people across the globe, and untreated tooth decay affects around 45% of the world’s population. Rising forms of oral diseases such as gingivitis, periodontitis, thrush and cavities are noticeably prevalent among the general public. Gum diseases are painful and hamper overall appearance of any person.

Air core drilling is a method wherein hardened steels or blades are used to bore a hole in an unconsolidated formation. Air core drilling can reach a depth of 300 meters which is great for mineral mining. The air core drill bit has three blades which cut the soft rock formations, thereby removing the drill cuttings by injecting air into the hole through the annular area between the drill rod and inner tube. Basically, the technique is a part of shallow drilling requiring minimal site preparation.