EXPLORING THE HEART AND AETHER IN ENERGY MEDICINE

The heart is presented as the energetic center of the human subtle energy system that plays a coordinating role in human physiology beyond its accepted role as a cardiovascular pump. As the body’s most dynamic field integrator of life energy, the heart plays a formative role in the creation of the new paradigm of energy medicine. This paper explores the role of the heart in cardiovascular functioning, healing, cognition and subtle energy modulation. Water and blood are shown to play a central role in mediating consciousness and intention. A hypothesis is presented that the heart utilizes diverse subtle energy and electromagnetic regulatory processes to coordinate complex information flows within the body and the environment. A new model of a non-material higher-dimensional Planck aether developed by Klaus Volkamer is presented based on research of anomalous mass determinations with subtle energy detectors. The heart becomes a metaphor for the new synthesis between science and spirit that was the theme of the 2009 ISSSEEM conference

EXPLORING THE HEART AND AETHER IN ENERGY MEDICINE

The heart is presented as the energetic center of the human subtle energy system that plays a coordinating role in human physiology beyond its accepted role as a cardiovascular pump. As the body’s most dynamic field integrator of life energy, the heart plays a formative role in the creation of the new paradigm of energy medicine. This paper explores the role of the heart in cardiovascular functioning, healing, cognition and subtle energy modulation. Water and blood are shown to play a central role in mediating consciousness and intention. A hypothesis is presented that the heart utilizes diverse subtle energy and electromagnetic regulatory processes to coordinate complex information flows within the body and the environment. A new model of a non-material higher-dimensional Planck aether developed by Klaus Volkamer is presented based on research of anomalous mass determinations with subtle energy detectors. The heart becomes a metaphor for the new synthesis between science and spirit that was the theme of the 2009 ISSSEEM conference

Modelling of dental laser ablation

Tese de Doutoramento CiênciasO objectivo final do trabalho descrito nesta tese consiste na determinação dos melhores parâmetros de funcionamento de lasers de modo a ser possível escavar túneis compridos e estreitos através do esmalte e da dentina, um dos procedimentos necessários para se proceder a um tratamento minimamente invasivo da cárie dentária. Primeiramente é apresentada uma revisão da literatura onde são identificadas as gamas de valores dos parâmetros de funcionamento do laser para as quais são esperados os melhores resultados, e são identificados os problemas que necessitam de ser resolvidos. Os lasers que deverão produzir os melhores resultados com o mais baixo custo financeiro são os de CO2 e os de Er:YAG, com pulsos de duração na ordem dos microsegundos e com arrefecimento por água. Os problemas a resolver incluem os danos mecânicos infligidos ao material e a possibilidade da água de arrefecimento absorver grande parte da radiação incidente e deste modo impedir que sejam produzidos túneis compridos. Após uma breve introdução ao Método dos Elementos Finitos (a ferramenta de modelização utilizada neste trabalho), são apresentados os modelos produzidos para o estudo da interacção entre os lasers de CO2 e Er:YAG e o esmalte dentário e os resultados obtidos com esses modelos, para o regime sub-ablativo. Finalmente, são apresentadas as conclusões principais obtidas com este trabalho, sendo dada particular ênfase às linhas de acção práticas que estas sugerem para se obterem melhores resultados experimentais, e são delineados trabalhos futuros que interessa desenvolver nesta área.The ultimate aim of the work described in this Thesis is to determine the optimal laser operating parameters to drill long, narrow tunnels through enamel and dentine, necessary to treat dental caries in a way that minimizes the amount of material removed from the tooth. In order to do this, a review of the literature is first presented in which the ranges of laser parameter values for which the best results exist are narrowed down and the issues to be solved are identified. It is expected that CO2 and Er:YAG lasers with microsecond pulse duration and water cooling will produce the best results at a minimum financial cost. Issues to be addressed include the extent of mechanical damage caused by the lasers and whether the cooling water will absorb a large fraction of the incident radiation and thus prevent the material from being ablated. After a brief introduction to the Finite Element Method (the modelling tool used throughout this work), the models designed to investigate ablation of dental enamel by the CO2 and Er:YAG lasers are described and the results obtained for a sub-ablative regime are presented. Finally, the main conclusions obtained by this work are given and the practical guidelines to obtain better results when ablating dental enamel are presented. A brief indication of the work to be done in the future concludes this Thesis.Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT)under project no. POCTI/ESP/ 37944/2001 (supported by the European Community Fund FEDER) and by PhD. fellowship number SFRH/BD/4725/2001

Nuclear Fusion Programme: Annual Report of the Association Karlsruhe Institute of Technology/EURATOM ; January 2011 - December 2011 (KIT Scientific Reports ; 7621)

The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is working in the framework of the European Fusion Programme on key technologies in the areas of superconducting magnets, microwave heating systems (Electron-Cyclotron-Resonance-Heating, ECRH), the deuterium-tritium fuel cycle, He-cooled breeding blankets, a He-cooled divertor and structural materials, as well as refractory metals for high heat flux applications including a major participation in the preparation of the international IFMIF project

NASA Tech Briefs, September 2007

Topics covered include; Rapid Fabrication of Carbide Matrix/Carbon Fiber Composites; Coating Thermoelectric Devices To Suppress Sublimation; Ultrahigh-Temperature Ceramics; Improved C/SiC Ceramic Composites Made Using PIP; Coating Carbon Fibers With Platinum; Two-Band, Low-Loss Microwave Window; MCM Polarimetric Radiometers for Planar Arrays; Aperture-Coupled Thin-Membrane L-Band Antenna; WGM-Based Photonic Local Oscillators and Modulators; Focal-Plane Arrays of Quantum-Dot Infrared Photodetectors; Laser Range and Bearing Finder With No Moving Parts; Microrectenna: A Terahertz Antenna and Rectifier on a Chip; Miniature L-Band Radar Transceiver; Robotic Vision-Based Localization in an Urban Environment; Programs for Testing an SSME-Monitoring System; Cathodoluminescent Source of Intense White Light; Displaying and Analyzing Antenna Radiation Patterns; Payload Operations Support Team Tools; Space-Shuttle Emulator Software; Soft Real-Time PID Control on a VME Computer; Analyzing Radio-Frequency Coverage for the ISS; Nanorod-Based Fast-Response Pressure-Sensitive Paints; Capacitors Would Help Protect Against Hypervelocity Impacts; Diaphragm Pump With Resonant Piezoelectric Drive; Improved Quick-Release Pin Mechanism; Designing Rolling-Element Bearings; Reverse-Tangent Injection in a Centrifugal Compressor; Inertial Measurements for Aero-assisted Navigation (IMAN); Analysis of Complex Valve and Feed Systems; Improved Path Planning Onboard the Mars Exploration Rovers; Robust, Flexible Motion Control for the Mars Explorer Rovers; Solar Sail Spaceflight Simulation; Fluorine-Based DRIE of Fused Silica; Mechanical Alloying for Making Thermoelectric Compounds; Process for High-Rate Fabrication of Alumina Nanotemplates; Electroform/Plasma-Spray Laminates for X-Ray Optics; An Automated Flying-Insect Detection System; Calligraphic Poling of Ferroelectric Material; Blackbody Cavity for Calibrations at 200 to 273 K; KML Super Overlay to WMS Translator; High-Performance Tiled WMS and KML Web Server; Modeling of Radiative Transfer in Protostellar Disks; Composite Pulse Tube; Photometric Calibration of Consumer Video Cameras; Criterion for Identifying Vortices in High- Pressure Flows; Amplified Thermionic Cooling Using Arrays of Nanowires; Delamination-Indicating Thermal Barrier Coatings; Preventing Raman Lasing in High-Q WGM Resonators; Procedures for Tuning a Multiresonator Photonic Filter; Robust Mapping of Incoherent Fiber-Optic Bundles; Extended-Range Ultrarefractive 1D Photonic Crystal Prisms; Rapid Analysis of Mass Distribution of Radiation Shielding; Modeling Magnetic Properties in EZTB; Deep Space Network Antenna Logic Controller; Modeling Carbon and Hydrocarbon Molecular Structures in EZTB; BigView Image Viewing on Tiled Displays; and Imaging Sensor Flight and Test Equipment Software

1-D broadside-radiating leaky-wave antenna based on a numerically synthesized impedance surface

A newly-developed deterministic numerical technique for the automated design of metasurface antennas is applied here for the first time to the design of a 1-D printed Leaky-Wave Antenna (LWA) for broadside radiation. The surface impedance synthesis process does not require any a priori knowledge on the impedance pattern, and starts from a mask constraint on the desired far-field and practical bounds on the unit cell impedance values. The designed reactance surface for broadside radiation exhibits a non conventional patterning; this highlights the merit of using an automated design process for a design well known to be challenging for analytical methods. The antenna is physically implemented with an array of metal strips with varying gap widths and simulation results show very good agreement with the predicted performance

Beam scanning by liquid-crystal biasing in a modified SIW structure

A fixed-frequency beam-scanning 1D antenna based on Liquid Crystals (LCs) is designed for application in 2D scanning with lateral alignment. The 2D array environment imposes full decoupling of adjacent 1D antennas, which often conflicts with the LC requirement of DC biasing: the proposed design accommodates both. The LC medium is placed inside a Substrate Integrated Waveguide (SIW) modified to work as a Groove Gap Waveguide, with radiating slots etched on the upper broad wall, that radiates as a Leaky-Wave Antenna (LWA). This allows effective application of the DC bias voltage needed for tuning the LCs. At the same time, the RF field remains laterally confined, enabling the possibility to lay several antennas in parallel and achieve 2D beam scanning. The design is validated by simulation employing the actual properties of a commercial LC medium

SELF-ORGANIZATION IN MICROWAVE FILAMENTARY DISCHARGES

We studied the self organising phenomena im filamntary microwave discharge at various pressures and excitation types