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Device to Check Surgeon's Gentleness
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An
Indian American doctor and his American
colleague have invented a device that will
help detect gentleness in the course of
a surgical procedure. The invention of Dr
Vijay Maker, a surgeon at Advocate Illinois
Masonic Medical Center in Chicago, and Dr
Joseph Talarico, a surgical resident at
the same institute, is now set to enter
its next stage of development. While the
original idea is Maker's, Talarico designed
the device. The device, according to a report
in the latest issue of the Indus Business
Journal newspaper, teaches medical students
gentleness in surgery by determining the
amount of force applied on tissue. The report
quoted Maker as saying that the current
prototype alerts the surgeon if his or her
touch is gentle, not very gentle, or bad
during surgery. Eventually, he wants to
have the device on a scale of one to 10
or one to 15. The device comprises a laptop
screen and an electronic push device, like
that of a doorbell. "Gentleness translates
directly into healing of tissues," Maker
told the newspaper. Stating that gentleness
in surgery had almost become a lost art,
he said that astute medical students could
now actually learn the art of gentleness.
A graduate of the Maulana Azad Medical College
in New Delhi, Maker left for the US in 1967
to work as an intern at the Edgewater Hospital
in Chicago. Talerico said that he took inspiration
from Thomas Alva Edison's 30,000 attempts
to get the light bulb to work. He credited
Maker for persistently supporting the team,
which had three other members apart from
Maker and Talarico, in finally getting the
device to work.
Courtesy:
The Times of India, May 20, 2006
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Lunar
Mission: India to Unveil Space Prowess Before
Nasa
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With
India and China exhibiting ambitious space
programmes, particularly lunar missions,
NASA chief Michael Griffin will formalise
two US payloads for the Indian moon mission
Chandrayaan 1 when he meets ISRO chief G
Madhavan Nair in Bangalore on Tuesday. It
will give NASA a first-hand view of the
advancements in India's space programme,
particularly its successful commercial forays
in the international space market - ISRO
plans to corner between 5-10 per cent of
the global space market. It will also be
the first NASA chief 's visit to India in
several decades, breaking through an invisible
barrier. For the 2007-08 mission, the US
will send a mini-synthetic aperture radar
(miniSAR), developed by the NASA's applied
physics laboratory and a moon mineralogy
mapper. While the two countries have worked
out the details of a technology safeguards
agreement, which protects US technology
from proliferation, a more mundane issue
- a commercial launch agreement - is still
out of reach. Meanwhile, India will push
for removal of sanctions on the remaining
ISRO entities that remain under US curbs.
This agreement is tied up in the labyrinths
of American bureaucracy, particularly the
USTR, which wants a deal outside the WTO,
something India is not particularly comfortable
with. Besides, the agreement is something
the US had with only a couple of closed
economies of the world like Ukraine, and
even with them the US had allowed these
commercial agreements to lapse. The US had
asked for an Indian astronaut on a US mission-which
formed a part of the July 18 joint statement.
But ISRO determined that it would entail
a cost for India, which it did not want
to pay for - instead wanted to concentrate
on unmanned missions.
Courtesy:
The Times of India, May 07, 2006
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India,
US ink Deal on first Green Thermal Plant
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Notwithstanding
hurdles in the Indo-US civil nuclear power
deal, India became the first country to
participate in the FutureGen project, when
it signed an agreement with the United States
on Monday to build and operate the world's
first coal-based power plant without any
carbon emissions. The 950 million dollar
project aims to produce electricity from
coal after removing and sequestering carbon
dioxide.The Framework Protocol, signed by
Power Secretary R.V. Shahi and US Assistant
Secretary of Energy Jeffrey D. Jarret, follows
the decision taken during the visit of President
George W. Bush last month.". The plant would
be built by FutureGen Industry Alliance
and the process was on to locate a site
for the project. "It makes us proud to say
that India is the first government member
in the prestigious project. The government
will contribute 10 million dollars in this,"
Power Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said.
The project, expected to be commissioned
by 2012, could also see participation by
Indian companies, Shahi said. It will be
the first plant in the world to simultaneously
produce both electricity and commercial-grade
hydrogen from coal. The project will emit
virtually no airborne pollutants, solid
wastes would be converted to commercially
valuable products and carbon gases would
be captured before they escape into atmosphere,
a release from the US embassy said.
Courtesy:
Hindustan Times, April 04,2006
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'India's
Nuclear Prowess Superior to Many'
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Describing
the Indo-US nuclear deal as a 'win-win situation'
for both the countries, Principal Scientific
Advisor to the Union government R Chidambaram
on Friday said India's technology prowess
in the nuclear domain was superior to the
stagnated ones of many other countries.
"The world needs us just like we need them.
It is a win-win situation," Chidambaram
said. India and the US had on March 2 this
year reached an understanding to implement
the landmark nuclear cooperation deal to
meet the growing energy requirements of
the country. "In many other countries, including
some developed ones, nuclear technology
has stagnated. But in India, it is growing
at tremendous pace. It is a good deal, considering
the global level of expertise we have,"
Chidambaram said. The agreement, which has
to be ratified by the US Congress, ensures
supply of nuclear fuel for India's nuclear
energy programmes in exchange for permitting
international inspections of its civilian
reactors. Under terms outlined by officials
of both governments, India can keep eight
of its 22 existing reactors under wraps
as military sites.
Courtesy:
www.financialexpress.com, April 01, 2006
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