Octodrine: New Questions and Challenges in Sport Supplements

This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. (CC BY 4.0).Background: Octodrine is the trade name for Dimethylhexylamine (DMHA), a central nervous stimulant that increases the uptake of dopamine and noradrenaline. Originally developed as a nasal decongestant in the 1950’s, it has recently been re-introduced on the market as a pre-workout and ‘fat-burner’ product but its use remains unregulated. Our work provides the first observational cross-sectional analytic study on Octodrine as a new drug trend and its associated harms after a gap spanning seven decades. Methods: A comprehensive multilingual assessment of literature, websites, drug fora and other online resources was carried out with no time restriction in English, German, Russian and Arabic. Keywords included Octodrine’s synonyms and chemical isomers. Results: Only five relevant publications emerged from the literature search, with most of the available data on body building websites and fora. Since 2015, Octodrine has been advertised online as “the next big thing” and “the god of stimulants,” with captivating marketing strategies directed at athletes and a wider cohort of users. Reported side-effects include hypertension, dyspnoea and hyperthermia. Conclusions: The uncontrolled use of Octodrine, its physiological and psychoactive effects raise serious health implications with possible impact on athletes and doping practices. This new phenomenon needs to be thoroughly studied and monitored.Peer reviewe

Työnaikaisen viestinnän kehittäminen

Opinnäytetyön aiheena oli työnaikaisen viestinnän kehittäminen. Tavoitteena oli löytää erilaisia laitteita helpottamaan työmaalla tapahtuvaa kommunikointia. Tarkastelun kohteena olivat erityisesti laitteiden soveltuvuus meluisiin ympäristöihin, käytön vaivattomuus, sekä hankinta- ja käyttökustannukset. Työ tehtiin keräämällä tietoa erilaisten kommunikaatiovälineiden toiminnasta ja ominaisuuksista. Lisäksi kerättiin tietoa melun vaikutuksista ja työnaikaista melua koskevasta lainsäädännöstä. Tämän jälkeen tutkittiin mitä eri laitevaihtoehtoja on saatavilla. Samalla tutustuttiin niiden hankintakustannuksiin ja mahdollisiin käytöstä syntyviin kustannuksiin. Työn tuloksena on tämä opinnäytetyö ja sen sisältämä listaus meluisiin olosuhteisiin soveltuvista viestintävälineistä.The aim of this thesis was improving communication in construction work. The goal was to find different devices to ease communication on construction sites. The main point was that the devices are suitable for noisy environments and are easy to use. The cost of acquisition and running of the devices was also a big factor. The work was done by searching for information about how different communication devices function. Information was also searched about the effects of noise and legislation about noise in a working environment. The next thing was to search for different options of devices available. An analysis of acquisition and running costs was done at the same time. As a result, this thesis gives a summary of communication devices that are suitable for noisy environments

Wittgenstein and Communication Technology : A conversation between Richard Harper and Constantine Sandis

Special Issue: PROCEEDINGS OF THE BRITISH WITTGENSTEIN SOCIETY 10TH ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE: WITTGENSTEIN IN THE 21ST CENTURY © 2018 John Wiley & Sons LtdThis paper documents a conversation between a philosopher and a human computer interaction researcher whose research has been enormously influenced by Wittgenstein. In particular, the in vivo use of categories in the design of communications and AI technologies are discussed, and how this meaning needs to evolve to allow creative design to flourish. The paper will be of interest to anyone concerned with philosophical tools in everyday action.Non peer reviewe

The Cowl - Vol LNVII - n.4 - Oct 15, 1992

The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Volume LNVII - Number 4 - October 15, 1992. 24 pages

Transcript of keynote speech, "Don't Lecture Me"

Keynote speech given by Donald Clark at “Into something rich and strange” – making sense of the sea-change, the 2010 Association for Learning Technology Conference in Nottingham, England. In the chair, Vanessa Pittard, Bect

Spartan Daily, January 23, 2008

Volume 130, Issue 1https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/10427/thumbnail.jp

Micro search engine for IoT: an IoT search engine prototype for private networks

Background: The Internet of Things (IoT) has been heralded as the “next big thing” waiting to be realized. IoT revolves around increased machine-to-machine communication and it encompasses various embedded sensorsand actuators that assist users in monitoring and controlling objects remotely in many fields and applications. Methods: IoT's special characteristics introduce challenges in the field of retrieval technology. These challenges constitute of real-time data retrieval with the huge amount of data that can be produced from the sensors. This paper explains the design concepts used to develop a search engine for IoT to tackle these issues. The developed search engine appears to be promising. The performance of the network proved very powerful under normal conditions, however, it could not sustain heavy load under the stress test due to the restricted build of the Z1 motes. Results: The searching capability proved to be quite strong in terms of searching speed and acceptable results; however more tests need to be implemented especially in terms of parallel searching. The GUI is simple and produces multiple features, but lacks interactivity. The security aspect ensures the security of the database with the partial prevention of SQL injection attacks. Conclusion: However, more security measures are required to protect against eavesdropping and unauthentic clients

Enabling IoT ecosystems through platform interoperability

Today, the Internet of Things (IoT) comprises vertically oriented platforms for things. Developers who want to use them need to negotiate access individually and adapt to the platform-specific API and information models. Having to perform these actions for each platform often outweighs the possible gains from adapting applications to multiple platforms. This fragmentation of the IoT and the missing interoperability result in high entry barriers for developers and prevent the emergence of broadly accepted IoT ecosystems. The BIG IoT (Bridging the Interoperability Gap of the IoT) project aims to ignite an IoT ecosystem as part of the European Platforms Initiative. As part of the project, researchers have devised an IoT ecosystem architecture. It employs five interoperability patterns that enable cross-platform interoperability and can help establish successful IoT ecosystems.Peer ReviewedPostprint (author's final draft